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2008-11-28 India-Pakistan

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Posted by Fred 2008-11-28 11:43|| || Front Page|| [7 views ] Top

#1 India is now part of the global terrorist battleground

Welcome aboard. Sorry its under this circumstance, lets talk about your neighbors...

Gotta wonder if the terrs are really cognizant of the FACT that they are branding their "religion" as a cancerous, destructive and suicidal ideology on par with National Socialism and Communism? They are definitely not realizing that their every act hastens the day where the civilized world will be forced to be eradicate Muhammidism along with its centers of power and its most serious adherents...

And the less fighting-back "normal" Muslims do, the more they advance that day.

Posted by OldSpook 2008-11-28 11:58|| 2008-11-28 11:58|| Front Page Top

#2 "The Bombay attacks prove that we have the worst intelligence service of any major power in the world. These attacks were meticulously planned, involved two dozen attackers...
Yet, our intelligence services had no idea that such an attack was being planned. Clearly, intelligence is the last quality that we should associate with our spymasters.

These attacks also demonstrate the hollow nature of the many claims made by various police forces to have 'broken the backs' of terrorist cells and arrested various 'terror masterminds'.
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We've had enough excuses. Heads must roll. You would have thought that by now at least one of the country's spymasters would have offered to resign.

The article's excessively negative. The USA failed to stop 9/11, the UK 7/7, Israel any number, yet all have successfully stopped many other attacks. We have to be lucky every time, the terrorists only have to get lucky once and suddenly our security forces are deemed worse than useless.

Posted by Bulldog 2008-11-28 12:21|| 2008-11-28 12:21|| Front Page Top

#3 Bulldog, there were a lot in the US asking the same thing on 9/12. And Bush followed it up in dimwitted fashion by giving DCI Tenet a medal instead of firing his ass on the spot.

Posted by OldSpook 2008-11-28 12:29|| 2008-11-28 12:29|| Front Page Top

#4 There are many problems with this article.

1) Intelligence is always imperfect at best. Only in Tom Clancy novels do the spies know and see all.

2) It's too early to be yelling for heads to roll. See what happened and then apply the lessons learned. If there are reasons for heads to roll than go to it. But, scapegoating is not productive.

3) In a democracy the "good guys" are fighting with at least one hand tied behind their back by the political situation. (See Jamie Gorelick and "the Wall")

Posted by AlanC 2008-11-28 13:02|| 2008-11-28 13:02|| Front Page Top

#5 I have always said a small arms attack was the next best chance at a mass casualty attack anywhere in the world except Euroland.

Weapons and recruit are both incredibly easy to obtain and the damage is nothing compared to the fear instilled in the populace, the whole reason to be for terrorism.

Posted by badanov 2008-11-28 13:11|| http://www.freefirezone.org]">[http://www.freefirezone.org] 2008-11-28 13:11|| Front Page Top

#6 Far too pessimestic, in my opinion. Just another skirmish on the front lines against terrorists. Indians are talking about this being a 911 type wakeup call for their nation. Set aside differences and recognize that terrorists threaten everyone, not just the nominal targets of the day. Pakistan's ISI chief has gone to India to help 'interview' the illegal combatents. These appear to be changing times. What will be next?

Posted by Richard of Oregon 2008-11-28 13:14|| 2008-11-28 13:14|| Front Page Top

#7 What will be next?
Posted by Richard of Oregon

Osiraq-II any morning now.

Posted by Besoeker 2008-11-28 13:17|| 2008-11-28 13:17|| Front Page Top

#8 "India is now part of the global terrorist battleground"

It has already have been. Check past terror attacks. Bush "Warmonger" in leftist parlance had to stop a serious almost quasi war between Pak and India in 2002. I wonder if it shouldn't have been better that Pakistan took a beating.

Posted by Uleck Ghibelline9225 2008-11-28 15:42|| 2008-11-28 15:42|| Front Page Top

#9 small arms attack was the next best chance at a mass casualty attack anywhere in the world except Euroland

Bad, I don't think such an attack would work too well in US malls in 'flyover country' like Dallas or New Orleans. And it might be one of those Pyrrhic things in places like Boston or San Francisco.

Posted by Glenmore">Glenmore 2008-11-28 16:21|| 2008-11-28 16:21|| Front Page Top

#10 Apparently, Indian Army Intelligence warned this specific attack was imminent.

Posted by phil_b 2008-11-28 17:08|| 2008-11-28 17:08|| Front Page Top

#11 ...the civilized world will be forced to be eradicate Muhammidism...

Any time now would be great. Islam is a pestilence that should have been eradicated centuries ago.

Posted by Gromoth Dingle7358 2008-11-28 17:33|| 2008-11-28 17:33|| Front Page Top

#12 "The aim of the Bombay terrorists was to continue the global jihad on Indian soil" > IMB the posternal Asian Jihad focii, however imperfectly, IS THE GENER DESTABILIZATION AND BREAKUP OF ASIA'S STATUS QUO AND GEOPOL ORDER. INDIA IS JUST ONE STRATEGIC FRONT OF SEVERAL IN MAINLAND ASIA.

IIRC PAKISTANI DEFENCE FORUM PERT OP-ED > MUMBAI, INDIA = ASIA = ISLAMIST-DESIRED NEXUS OF EXTREMIST TERROR + NUCLEAR WEAPONS/TECHNOLOGIES.

Posted by JosephMendiola 2008-11-28 19:29|| 2008-11-28 19:29|| Front Page Top

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