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Ex-Pakistani Army Officers Trained Mumbai Terrorists-- LeT Leader Named as Mastermind
Gateway Pundit —
... by the terrorists. His mother was 6 months pregnant. Moshe Holtzberg's cries while being carried by domestic help during a condolence prayer meeting in a synagogue, for those killed by armed militants at a Jewish centre in 'Nariman House' in Mumbai December 1, 2008. Moshe's parents Gavriel and Rivka Holtzberg, were among the five hostages killed at the centre in 'Nariman House. (Reuters) India named the mastermind behind the Mumbai attacks today. The Wall Street Journal reported: India has ...
Reading Round Up: India and Pakistan
Argghhh! The Home Of Two Of Jonah's Military Guys.. —
... that this attack was in the works. Now the Indian agencies play "pass the buck". RAW (Research and Analysis Wing; Indian Intel) says they passed the info on to the Navy. The Navy says they never received "actionable intel". However, there are two problems. First, p revious attackers apparently used a similar route (via the sea) and safe houses for a suicide attack. Second, India's intel agency is apparently ...
The Meaning of Mumbai
Antiwar.com Original —
... of al-Qaeda. The War Party has its terrorist genealogy down to an exact science, but its precision comes into serious doubt when we look a little closer at this alleged " ...
The Latest On The Mumbai Attack
Flopping Aces —
The WSJ reports that the leader of the terrorist group Lashkar-e-Taiba is behind the attacks in Mumbai:
India has accused a senior leader of the Pakistani militant group Lashkar-e-Taiba of orchestrating last week’s terror attacks that killed at least 172 people here, and demanded the Pakistani government turn him over and take action against the group.
Just two days before hitting the city, the group of 10 terrorists who ravaged India’s financial capital communicated with Yusuf Muzammil and four other Lashkar leaders via a satellite phone ...
India ready to inject surviving Mumbai jihadi with truth serum
Hot Air » Top Picks —
... could be on the lam and headed to New Delhi for a follow-up attack, but read all the way down for an amazing detail. The training for Mumbai might have begun a year ago or even earlier, a detail corroborated by the Journal’s account of two jihadis arrested by Indian police who confessed they were part of a gang that entered Mumbai and then split up into pairs … after arriving by sea. The date of that arrest? March 2007.
Mumbai and Obama
Antiwar.com Original —
I n international politics, events can precipitate crises few had expected, although the elements of crisis may have been lying apparently dormant. Just a few weeks ago, Newsweek 's John Barry could write a piece suggesting that whatever domestic economic problems he faced on Inauguration Day, his "foreign policy and national-security inbox shows that, even on pressing issues, Obama has the luxury of time." He noted that Iraq, Afghanistan , Iran, Korea, and other lingering problems were in a condition of relative quiescence and could be approached gradually. That situation changed with the horrendous terrorist attacks Nov. 26 on Mumbai ...
