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Guns and Mumbai
The Agitator —
... India’s government not only failed to protect its citizens from terrorism, it wouldn’t allow them to protect themselves. Check out this paragraph from the Wall Street Journal: ...
Kudos to the Wall Street Journal on India Terror Attack Reporting
The Corner on National Review Online —
... ] Best account I've seen, here . Most remarkable contrast: Hapless Indian police and security forces, without weapons because of stringent Indian regulations, overmatched by well-armed and -trained Pakistani terrorists who had plainly studied their target and moved efficiently, even in darkness seeming to know the terrain better than the home team. And there's this: On the 20th floor, the gunmen shoved the group out of the stairwell. They lined up the 13 men and three women and lifted their weapons. "Why are you doing this to us?" a man called out. "We haven't done ...
MSNBC anchor surprised to find terrorism still exists post-Obama
Hot Air » Top Picks —
... security official told reporters. “We will not leave a single troop on the western border if we are threatened by India.” If true, it’s a replay of Al Qaeda’s strategy in Iraq: Attack the Shiites to provoke reprisals against the Sunnis, thus radicalizing both sides and making Anbar safer for jihadists. I’m not sure why that theory’s any more likely than the sort of simple fanatic irredentism over Kashmir that’s traditionally motivated terror in India, though. In fact, according to this sterling report in the Journal of how the attack played out, when someone in a group of ...
After Action
JustOneMinute —
After Action The WSJ has a detailed account of the terrorist attack in Mumbai. Posted by Tom Maguire on December 01, 2008 | Permalink
Caught on tape: Stick time for captured Mumbai jihadist
Hot Air » Top Picks —
... says he and another jihadi were trying to escape in a stolen car when the tires were blown out while the Journal claims they stopped voluntarily when they encountered a police roadblock. The turd seen being stomped here jumped out, shot at least one cop dead, and was set upon either by the remaining police, the crowd, or some combo thereof. Watch, then read on. Why didn’t that happen elsewhere? The only detail more amazing than how few gunmen there were — 10 by most accounts, although Indian security thinks there could be ...
Hugh Hewitt: Terror in Mumbai
Townhall.com Blog's TownHall Blog —
... | Issues | Get Magazine | Finance [image] [image] Hugh Hewitt | Mike Gallagher | Michael Medved | Mary Katharine Ham | Kevin McCullough | Matt Lewis | Radio Blogger | Your Blogs Directory [image] Townhall.com The Blogspot for Political, Conservative and Republican Blogs and Bloggers Tuesday, December 02, 2008 Terror in Mumbai Posted by: Hugh Hewitt at 2:30 PM The Wall Street Journal has a detailed reconstruction of the attacks. [image] ...
Video: Hide and seek in the Mumbai railway station
Hot Air » Top Picks —
... between them, but the shooting had clearly already been on for some time already at the point the clip picks up and there’s no back-up in sight. At least one witness told the Journal that he saw cops running away; that might be what’s happening at the beginning here, although under the circumstances, with no way to retaliate, who can blame them? The two jihadis ended up leaving the station, barging into a hospital and shooting the place up, then exiting and stumbling upon a police SUV containing the province’s chief of counterterrorism. They shot that to pieces too, killing ...
Microblog 2008-12-04
Overlawyered —
... ] Security at Mumbai’s Oberoi hotel couldn’t get gun permits from gov’t [WSJ] Tunku Varadarajan: What India must do now [ ...
Parting Shot Or Crime Prevention?
Discriminations —
... Meanwhile, according to the hotel company’s chairman, P.R.S. Oberoi, security at “the hotel had metal detectors, but none of its security personnel carried weapons because of the difficulties in obtaining gun permits from the Indian government.” ...
