Ghastly terrorist attack in Mumbai - more than a hundred dead, hundreds wounded

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This must be India's 9/11. Terrorists stormed Mumbai's two top tourist and traveller hotels, a restaurant, attacked two hospitals and a police station:

But read yourself.

There appears to be hand of Al Qaeda in this: Intel chiefs were expecting an 'Al Qaeda spectacular'.

 

I think I heard about this. They're asking the westerners to provide passports and singling out US and UK citizens. I'm guessing not good things happen to those singled out.

 

Mumbai looks like a war zone at the moment

 

Unfortunately, in this case the terrorists have achieved their goals, at least as far as I'm concerned. I will likely never go to the Middle East, India, or Southeast Asia. I'm too scared to travel to these places now thanks to what appears to be (but probably statistically isn't) a lot of terrorist activity. Granted, I was never likely to have the money to go to those places in the first place, but nevertheless, the odds have dropped even further into the nether regions.

I do not think I am alone in this, but I also think there are a lot of Westerners who will not be cowed by such attacks.

I feel sorry for everyone affected by this tragedy -- except the terrorists themselves, who should be publicly disemboweled and left to die slowly. They are cowards and bullies of the worst sort.

 

hmm, how long do you suppose before reprisals happen at home? I tell you what, I find myself becoming racist and its a scary thing, I wont shop at my corner shop because its owned by pakistanies, I give muslims in the street a wide bearth, and if I can avoid them altogether I will. How many others do you suppose are becoming like me, but may be prepared to do more then just avoid them?

 

I won't say it's justified, but hasn't there been a decent amount of Muslim violence in the UK's past, too? I know here in the US there hasn't been anything big from the locals, but I seem to recall hearing about some Muslims rioting somewhere in the UK a few years back. Or was that Sweden? My memory's not too good on this stuff, so please correct me if I'm wrong.

 

It's a beautiful world.

Apparently this incident is remarkable only in its audacity. At least that's what I take from wiki's articles on terrorism in India.

 

Took me by surprise that one.

There was "only" a bombing incident in India way back in the 90's but never something big. This was really an organised assault.

I'm trying to catch up with the New ATM, but so far it seems LKD is right. They really seem to have achieved their goal!

Brits and Yanks (westerner in general) seem a popular target these days.

Feeling helpless in such a situation is worse than death.
Bah, just thinking about the poor unsuspecting sods makes my blood boil!
Those Jihad type of people are getting really out of hand.

Things are getting scary. I just read a account that somewhere a group of Muslim were cheering as the news were broadcasting the chaos in Mumbai.

A 9mm is a man's best friend!

 

huh?

 

Just like they reported how palestinians were celebrating and passing out cake after 9/11. It should be no surprise that some extremist muslims rejoice in non-muslim's misery, so why do you let yourself get so worked up over it.

Recently I was walking by the Dam Square in Amsterdam, and they had an open-air anti-war exhibition. It showed every casualty of the Iraq and Afghanistan wars, by placing a single shoe on the ground for every death. They probably ran out of room in the square, because it was choq-full of shoes.

So how do you choose to relate to all this death? Do you indulge in your hatred, when the media spoon-feeds you a story about a hundred deaths, and some images of stupid, disrespectful people cheering? Are they more important because many of the deaths are brits & americans (i.e. 'your' people), or maybe it's because you know about how unjust their deaths were. The silent, uncountable amount of deaths in Afhghanistan and Iraq, I'd say that this pisses muslims off.

Now I won't speculate yet about the real culprits behind the attack, but I will say that you must look to those who benefit. Muslims don't benefit from this.

 

WHere is chuck norris when you need him?

 

T's a tad more complicated than that.

I have enough imagination to understand how they must feel- Being run over when you don't suspect anything and- feeling helpless.
Everyone with enough sympathy would feel this way.

The media doesn't feed me anything, since I'm old enough to know that the media is just that; a medium to spread whatever opinion or truths they (owners, networks and so on) believe in spreading.

What angers me is simply (although there is no such "simple" thing here) the fact that it always gets the unsuspecting and uninvolved people fist. One day it will be you or me...or someone else here.

Just as it angers me to see a Marine throwing a puppy, or waving a bottle of water in the faces of the thirsty people over there.
Or that once more people of a religion use said belief to give themselves moral absolution for their actions.
Or that the lack of Oil is a reason to invade a country.
..and so on.

What angers me is that men will go this far.

Ta for the link, AMaster.
I never knew they had such a rocky history. I was only aware of a few bombings in the 90's.

 

I love how the papers loved reporting that 2 "brits" were involved in the attacks, theyre not brits, there's nothing british about these men, recieving a 5 year work visa is not becoming british, marrying a british woman is not becoming british, they care nothing for britain and never have.

 

A friend just yesterday told me that she was in Mumbai on business and stayed in the Taj hotel, six days before the attack.

 

There was a former co-worker of mine doing some international business in Mumbai when the attack occurred. Luckily he was far away from the action.

 

Physically unhurt? Not to be sarcastic, but how can one be unphysically unhurt?

 

Now I'm even more confused. You're saying the could or could not have been mentally hurt?