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Instapundit: MICKEY KAUS WONDERS if the Mumbai attacks were originally intended as a Madrid-like election-changer…
A Blog For All: After Four Days, Mumbai Terrorist Siege Ends
Patterico's Pontifications: Mumbai Hotel Boss: You Wanted We Should Guard the Back Door Too?
MICKEY KAUS WONDERS if the Mumbai attacks were originally intended as a Madrid-like election-changer…
Instapundit —
... MICKEY KAUS WONDERS if the Mumbai attacks were originally intended as a Madrid-like election-changer that got postponed because of heightened security earlier in November. ...
After Four Days, Mumbai Terrorist Siege Ends
A Blog For All —
... , and it should worry everyone considering that India and Pakistan have fought three vicious wars and both now have nuclear arsenals, to say nothing of the fact that both India and Pakistan have regularly engaged in gun battles across the Line of Control for much less. Mickey Kaus wonders whether the attacks were meant to be a Madrid-bombing styled attack designed to affect the outcome of India's elections. However, increased security in November may have delayed or thwarted the attack from happening at that time. ...
Mumbai Hotel Boss: You Wanted We Should Guard the Back Door Too?
Patterico's Pontifications —
They did everything they could. Except put extra security at the back door:
The Taj Mahal hotel in Mumbai, India, temporarily increased security after being warned of a possible terrorist attack, the chairman of the company that owns the hotel said Saturday.
But Tata Group Chairman Ratan Tata said those measures, which were eased shortly before this week’s terror attacks, could not have prevented gunmen from entering the hotel.
. . . .
However, Tata said the attackers did not enter through the entrance that has a metal detector. Instead, they came in a back entrance, he said.
“They knew what they ...
MICKEY KAUS: “Holder’s Defense: ‘I was played for a sucker by a lobbyist!’” Plus, observations on …
Instapundit —
... MICKEY KAUS: “Holder’s Defense: ‘I was played for a sucker by a lobbyist!’” Plus, observations on the Mumbai coverage. ...
Instinctive Lout, Instinctive Hero
Chicago Boyz —
... Kaus critiques the Mumbai responses, but if the tragedy demonstrated failings in law enforcement, it also showed us what man could be. ...
The Holder Nomination
Political Punch —
... in which Holder's attorney Reid Weingarten offers what Mickey Kaus calls "Holder's Defense: 'I was played for a sucker by a lobbyist!'" Weingarten, writes the Times, "said that Mr. Holder had done nothing improper in his handling of the Rich matter and that conversations about it were routine and largely insignificant, in part because he assumed that Mr. Rich’s lawyer, Jack Quinn, was going through normal pardon channels. 'Mr. Holder assumed that this was all being handled in the normal course,' Mr. Weingarten said, adding, 'There’s no question that Quinn played him and it ...
Parting Shot Or Crime Prevention?
Discriminations —
... Someone else who made the connection, at least implicitly, is Mickey Kaus. Commenting on the fact, mentioned by many bloggers linking to this story from the ...
