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Daily Pundit — My Way News - India claims Mumbai gunman tied to Pakistani group In the first wave of the attacks, two young gunmen armed with assault rifles blithely ignored more than 60 police officers patrolling the city’s main train station and sprayed bullets into the crowd. Bapu Thombre, assistant commissioner with the Mumbai railway police, said the police were armed mainly with batons or World War I-era rifles and spread out across the station. Those “World War I-era rifles” were perfectly capable of taking down ...

Carol Platt Liebau: A Timely Reminder
Townhall.com Blog's TownHall Blog — The accounts of the terrorist attacks in India reveal the existence of sadly underprepared Indian security forces . It's comforting to hope and believe that American forces would be better equipped to confront the kind of situation that unfolded in Mumbai. But these events are also a reminder that America still has enemies who, no doubt, would gladly have pulled the same stunt at, say, the ...

A Culture of Weakness
Power Line — ... We may never fully understand how ten armed men were able to terrorize a city of 19 million, but this is at least part of the explanation: ...

Reflections of India’s “9/11″
GayPatriot — ... countered with something equally effective and decisive. Fear cripples communities and economies. Those perpetrating these attacks seem to have no fear, but that is a relative concept. The human condition imbibes fear in the same way as it inhales oxygen. Only the most highly advanced and evolved step beyond fear, and by definition they would not take life in the name of their belief. Now we will watch as the psychological war steps up. RELATED:  Updated news on investigation of India terror attacks - My Way News ...

BECAUSE THE AUTHORITIES WERE UNPREPARED, THAT'S WHY MUMBAI SUFFERED
THE ASTUTE BLOGGERS — Here's an explanation why India has been victimized only so many times by terrorist attacks (Hat tip: Power Line): In the first wave of the attacks, two young gunmen armed with assault rifles blithely ignored more than 60 police officers patrolling the city's main train station and sprayed bullets into the crowd. Bapu Thombre, assistant commissioner with the Mumbai railway police, said the police were armed mainly with batons or World War I-era rifles and spread out across the station. "They are not trained to respond to major ...

"It's Not a Bug, It's a Feature": Mumbai policemen armed with..."WW1-era Rifles"?
Ace of Spades HQ — "It's Not a Bug, It's a Feature": Mumbai policemen armed with..."WW1-era Rifles"? I was surfing the Power Line blog this morning, and they had a link to an AP article regarding the response of the Mumbai police to the terrorist attack . This sentence caught my eye: Bapu Thombre, assistant commissioner with the Mumbai railway police, said the police were armed mainly with batons or World War I-era rifles and spread out across the station. Yes, I do realize that the thrust of the article is that the police were ill-prepared to deal with this sort of attack due to a lack of ...