More terrorists attacks Mumbai India

2 people in my office where in Mumbai last month.
they are wiping their brow right now.....

I'm not surprised Americans and Westerners are being targeted by gunmen, since they're reportedly taking over hotels , driving down the road in police cars shooting people on the streets , and taking hostages .

One of the main tactics of terrorists in Iraq was to try to incite violence between groups that already had tense relationships - to attack Shiite holy places in the hope that the Shiites would attack Sunnis, and so on. In this case, India and Pakistan have long standing tension over the Kashmir area, and an attack from Pakistan on India might be an effort to start a shooting war between them. I'm not sure what the strategy would be - maybe get something going to take the heat off the Pakistan tribal areas. Who knows? Those people are raving lunatics.

what the fuck. that is some crazy shit. traveling abroad for an american might not be a great idea anymore. damn religious pricks!! now you know why it is so hard for me to get on board a religion...any religion

Why did Team USA have a fence around their pits again?

Yeah, Cheney says there are no good targets in India or Pakistan.

Yeah anybody that has too many i's, k's,h's and aa's in their language has to be on board with the AL Queda types. Blast em back to the stone age.

My wife was there last year, that's a really scary place. There were bombings while she was there. It's no place for a blond white woman, that's for sure.

Thoughts and prayers for the innocent.

It never was a good idea you dumbfuck.

12 miles offshore and you are at war. Always have been, always will be.

If you think I'm wrong, ask some old ex military guy.

Traveling abroad is great you just have to be mindful and aware.

Damn good movie. I cried when Gary came back to the team. HAR!

Bunch of 20yr old Islamist crazy fuks hitting soft targets....wonder if Pakistan muslims are sponsoring them. Seem India's intelligence was bad, reminds me of that line in Team America.

One reason I dont feel good staying in high profile, luxury hotels.

bad shit going on there right now, yesterday was just the start.

If Pakistan is involved in any way, this will be very bad.

Also notice, even though they keep saying they separated the American and UK citizens, there's no reports (at this time) of any of them being dead. Makes you think they were separated out not to kill them, but just the opposite. The attack may be against the Indian people/government only, and if that's the case, it may very well be a Pakistani / Indian issue...and that'd be bad

That's a good point, I never considered that they may have tried to EXCLUDE US and UK people. But who knows? If they'd wanted to attack Indian citizens only, it's odd that they'd include luxury hotels as targets.

As reporting has gone on, this doesn't look like an Al Qaida style attack - Al Qaida doesn't normally round up hostages or take control of a location, and they are almost NEVER captured alive like some of these people have been (they're sometimes captured through police work like the Saudis did, but they're not usually captured in the course of an attack).

It's a big worry, though, when people use this kind of coordinated terrorist attack as a tool to achieve some kind of political objective. The more things like this happen, the less obscene they become. The more they happen, the more "legitimate" that becomes as a tactic. I know there's a danger that an Al Qaida type group could get a nuclear bomb and set it off in a US city, but I think there's a much higher danger that some kind of splinter group like this one could just get a few hundred operatives in the country and simultaneously attack shopping malls, schools, or office buildings with easily-obtained weapons.

Just guessing here, but if they had attacked an Indian only neighborhood, it would never get the attention this is generating.
This is much higher profile

IMO, this is a domestic/local issue, not an anti-Western issue

Kalisch?...

At least one Australian is among the dead, two others have been shot and another is unaccounted for after the deadly series of grenade and shooting attacks that has left India's financial capital under siege

One British guest at the Taj, Rakesh Patel, was among a dozen people herded together by two heavily-armed men and taken to the hotel's upper floors.

"They were very young, like boys really, wearing jeans and T-shirts," he said.

"They said they wanted anyone with British and American passports and then they took us up the stairs. I think they wanted to take us to the roof," he said, adding that he and another hostage managed to escape on the 18th floor.

More than 100 people were killed and 300 injured when suspected Islamic militants attacked 10 sites in Mumbai.

Navy spokesman Captain Manohar Nambiar said that the ship being boarded is the MV Alpha, which had recently come to Mumbai from Karachi, Pakistan.

Nambiar says the navy has "located the ship and now we are in the process of boarding it and searching it".

He gave no other details on the ship.