By Stephen Brown
It was reality television at its most horrific. For three days last week, a spellbound world watched as a handful of heavily armed and well-trained Islamic terrorists paralyzed Mumbai, turning India’s financial center of 20 million inhabitants into a war zone. When the guns fell silent, the carefully planned and brutally efficient series of attacks had claimed the lives of about 200 people, including five Americans; injured as many as 300; and thrown the world’s largest democracy into turmoil.
According to Indian officials, ten men took part in the attack, targeting a Jewish center (the Nariman House) and two luxury hotels (the Taj Mahal and Oberon-Trident). Though the killers searched out American and British citizens, they often murdered indiscriminately. Among the victims were 26 foreign nationals, including an American rabbi and his wife, and 20 Indian commandos and policemen.A total of six Americans were killed.
Jews were a clear target. One terrorist, Azam Amir Kasab, reportedly a member of the Pakistani-supported terrorist group Lashkar-e-Taiba (Army of the Righteous), which has targeted India in the past, and the group has battled Americans in concert with the group with which it is affiliated, al-Qaeda. Kasab, a Pakistani citizen from Kashmir, told police after his capture that Israelis were targeted in order "to avenge atrocities on Palestinians"; hence, the attack on Nariman House. The Times of India reported that some of the terrorists even slept in the Jewish complex on an earlier reconnaissance mission in the city, passing themselves off as Malaysian students. Read more ...
It was reality television at its most horrific. For three days last week, a spellbound world watched as a handful of heavily armed and well-trained Islamic terrorists paralyzed Mumbai, turning India’s financial center of 20 million inhabitants into a war zone. When the guns fell silent, the carefully planned and brutally efficient series of attacks had claimed the lives of about 200 people, including five Americans; injured as many as 300; and thrown the world’s largest democracy into turmoil.
According to Indian officials, ten men took part in the attack, targeting a Jewish center (the Nariman House) and two luxury hotels (the Taj Mahal and Oberon-Trident). Though the killers searched out American and British citizens, they often murdered indiscriminately. Among the victims were 26 foreign nationals, including an American rabbi and his wife, and 20 Indian commandos and policemen.A total of six Americans were killed.
Jews were a clear target. One terrorist, Azam Amir Kasab, reportedly a member of the Pakistani-supported terrorist group Lashkar-e-Taiba (Army of the Righteous), which has targeted India in the past, and the group has battled Americans in concert with the group with which it is affiliated, al-Qaeda. Kasab, a Pakistani citizen from Kashmir, told police after his capture that Israelis were targeted in order "to avenge atrocities on Palestinians"; hence, the attack on Nariman House. The Times of India reported that some of the terrorists even slept in the Jewish complex on an earlier reconnaissance mission in the city, passing themselves off as Malaysian students. Read more ...
Source: FrontPage Magazine
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