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| Booms in Bombay |
| 2003-08-25 |
| At least two powerful explosions have struck the Indian city of Bombay, also known as Mumbai, police say. At least 10 people have been killed and dozens injured. Other reports put the death toll higher — the Reuters news agency quoted a police official as saying 25 people had been killed. One of the blasts occurred in a car park near the historic Gateway of India monument in the south of the city, according to police. At least one other took place near the Mumba Devi temple in central Bombay. Rajendra Darda, home minister of Maharashtra state, told AFP: "Both the blasts occurred in the back seats of parked taxis." Star Television reported that another bomb had exploded in the upmarket Marine Lines district. Other reports claim a fourth explosion at the Mumba Devi site. A number of vehicles parked around the Gateway of India were destroyed by the impact there. The force of the blast threw a number of people into the sea, said the BBC’s Sanjeev Srivastava at the scene. He said police had told him at least 40 people were injured by this blast. "The building we were in shook and we heard a loud noise," Ingrid Alva, a public relations consultant, told AP. "I rushed out and saw the crowds at the Gateway of India... We saw some body parts lying around, before we were told to move away by police." Police official PC Satam told Reuters news agency that the cause of the explosions was unclear at this stage. The city has been prey to a string of deadly bomb attacks since December last year, with the most recent, on a bus, killing three in July. Police blamed that attack on Pakistan’s Lashkar-e-Taiba Islamic militant group. Lashkar-e-Taiba is one of the two Pakistani rebel groups that Delhi blames for the December 2001 militant attack on its parliament which left 15 people dead, including five attackers. The latest attacks also coincided with the release of a report on the controversial religious site at Ayodhya. The dispute has been blamed for previous explosions in Bombay. |
| Posted by:Bulldog |
| #9 Dawood. Paging Dawood. |
| Posted by: Anonymous 2003-8-25 10:21:13 PM |
| #8 Lucky's post promted the thought on Ye Olde Follow the Money Principle™. Pakistan gets its money from the US and Saudi, otherwise it's a basket case. I do not know how many strings we can put on the purse here, but we are fighting the WOT in Pakistan against people who are receiving some of our money. This is a very difficult problem, and there are no simple answers. We had to make a deal with the devil, so to speak in order to get to Afghanistan. The Saudis are the next major providers of funds to the fundos and nutjobs in Pakland and to the Paleos. That source needs to be dried up. The third major player is Iran, who needs to have its tubes tied. Syria and the Norks are clients that produce goods and services to Iran, Pakistan, and indirectly Saudi. They can be squeezed and blockaded, so to speak. So it seems to me that the long range solution is to dry up Iranian and Saudi money to terrorist ends by any way possible. |
| Posted by: Alaska Paul 2003-8-25 3:59:42 PM |
| #7 Another 9-11 may be the Pearl Harbor that ultimately ends with a couple of mushroom clouds. We only need to threaten four places: Mecca, Medina, Damascus, and Aswan. There won't be enough left of "Arab Civilization" (an oxymoron) to ride a two-man bicycle. |
| Posted by: Old Patriot 2003-8-25 1:59:53 PM |
| #6 The road to victory in this war goes through Saudi Arabia. There is no government there, it's a kingdom with many little fiefdoms of power. Attack those people, kill them and take the oil fields. That would be like capturing your opponents Queen and forking the Rook and King. All that is left is rabble. Do it and we win this war, screw around and it's like the west bank. Those two things, taking the oil fields and killing those who have funded this shithead mentality would do more to free mankind then taking down Iraq, Iran and NK. Yes they are a big problem, yes they need to be addressed. But damn, I want to win this war NOW, not when hundreds of more bombs go off, and I get your point Brian, But the snake sits, coiled, right before our eyes. |
| Posted by: Lucky 2003-8-25 1:30:44 PM |
| #5 It would be best for all if the Muslim world comes to appreciate that their radicals are ultimately endangering and impoverishing them all (physically and spiritually) -- and rein them in. Another 9-11 may be the Pearl Harbor that ultimately ends with a couple of mushroom clouds. I don't think the West has infinite patience for this crap, even if Israel does. |
| Posted by: Tom 2003-8-25 1:06:05 PM |
| #4 We recognize it, but the problem is that logistics is an issue. Without Gwadar and Karachi, we can't conduct resupply. Ultimately, we can't even go against bin Laden because of the fecklessness of Rawalpindi and Islamabad. |
| Posted by: Brian 2003-8-25 12:50:02 PM |
| #3 Good. Let a hundred bombs bloom, not only in India but in all the countries of the West too. Let Al Quaida crash their hijacked planes into British monuments. Not that I want innocent people to die, G-d forbid. But it lookes like the West and the world has not sufficiently woken up yet, sad to say. Until there is a confrontation between ALL the non-muslim countries and about 90% of the Muslim ones, there will never be any peace. Until all Muslims are rounded up and expelled from the West and other non-muslim countries, there will never be any peace. 'Terrorism' is not the problem, Islam is; their entire societies and their attitudes and their education systems are the problem, and no terrorist body count will ever be high enough to satiate the thirst that these jihadi fever swamp societies represent. Will this problem be solved without a worldwide cataclysm befalling us all? I hope not, but I am becoming more pessimistic every week. |
| Posted by: Anonymous 2003-8-25 12:29:04 PM |
| #2 It's time US foriegn policy recognizes that India is an ally in the war on terror; Pakistan is the enemy. |
| Posted by: Scooter McGruder 2003-8-25 9:19:50 AM |
| #1 Latest At least 42 people have been feared killed and over 150 injured in two blasts in south Mumbai -- one near the Gateway and the other near Zaveri Bazaar in busy Kalbadevi area -- Minister of State for Home Rajendra Darda said. Police blamed that attack on Pakistan's Lashkar-e-Toiba Islamic militant group. |
| Posted by: Paul Moloney 2003-8-25 6:54:18 AM |