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Mumbai: coordinated terrorist attacks, westerners targetted

Did someone say tinderbox?

India: Hindu supremacist terror network had ties to military

The police investigation into the synchronised September 29 bombing attacks in Malegaon, a city in the west Indian state of Maharashtra, and Madosa, in the neighbouring state of Gujarat, has rattled India’s political establishment.

The police have thus far arrested 11 people, while indicating that others, potentially many others, may yet be implicated in what they have termed an “extensive” Hindu-extremist terror network.

The arrested include a lieutenant colonel attached to the Indian Army’s Military Intelligence Corps and a retired army major. Two of the suspects, a Hindu sadhu (holy man) and a sadhvi (holy woman), have long-standing and extensive contacts with prominent politicians and businessmen. All of the alleged principals in the bombing plot have ties to one or more of India’s major “Hindu-nationalist” organisations: the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), the official opposition in India’s parliament, the Vishwa Hindu Parishad (VHP, World Hindu Council), and the Rashtriya Swayamsewak Sangh or RSS.
 
Go on then, find me a pic.

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Yeah, its a long way further south. The others will be going on to Gujerat afterwards but I'm just doing the Kerala leg this time. Cant be more dangerous than living in London!
Yeah, Kerala's a lovely tropical paradise.

I really worry that this will spark a wave of inter-communal unrest and / or lead to extreme right-wing groups taking power in the forthcoming elections.
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I do hope you are right. However meatheads aint exactly known for their ability to make rational decisions and the paediatrician / paedophile case comes to mind.

Well there were not a lot of reprisal attacks against UK citizens of pakistani descent after various UK honegrown terror attacks, so I dont think there is a very high risk of attacks against Indians in Britain as a result of this terror.

The implications are more to do with international business, economic & tourism sentiment towards India in future.

Meanwhile there are reports that the Indian authorities are looking at a ship of Pakistani origin in connection with the attacks:

1100 The Indian navy says its forces have boarded a cargo vessel they believe to be linked to the attacks, the Associated Press news agency reports. Navy spokesman Capt Manohar Nambiar says the MV Alpha had recently come to Mumbai from Karachi, Pakistan.

Also:

1108 Indian government asks for live Twitter updates from Mumbai to cease immediately. "ALL LIVE UPDATES - PLEASE STOP TWEETING about #Mumbai police and military operations," a tweet says.
 
given that these are nuclear powers were talking about, it is very worrying

Indeed but the Pakistan government is in such a mess at the moment it's hard to believe they could have any involvement, I just can't see them being organized enough. :confused:
 
Well there were not a lot of reprisal attacks against UK citizens of pakistani descent after various UK honegrown terror attacks, so I dont think there is a very high risk of attacks against Indians in Britain as a result of this terror.

I do hope you are right and you are correct there was much less of a backlash against UK Muslims after the 7/7 murders than could have been expected.
The implications are more to do with international business, economic & tourism sentiment towards India in future.

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Agreed. It may be if there is a possible PK involvement in this lead to disinvestment and arms embargos on PK. Which will anger the Pakistani govt especially if sales of arms are continued to India. At present arms sales to each country is balanced so that they don't advantage one side or the other (although that is the EU sales I can't speak for the policies of other nations)
 
Indeed but the Pakistan government is in such a mess at the moment it's hard to believe they could have any involvement, I just can't see them being organized enough. :confused:

I'm sure their are factions and groups organised enough to do it, even if the government overall is not cohesive enough to plan such an atrocity.

still, idle speculation. I don't know the politics of the region well enough to make an educated guess
 
There won't be any backlashes cos meatheads who do that sort of thing don't read the papers - hardly any of the fuckers will know or care about what's going on in India
 
Somebody was certainly organised enough to make this go down. And it stinks of a military manouvre. maybe they're ex military,or at least trained. I mean,they arrived by boat,had assault weapons and large ammounts of explosives. Who knows,maybe AlQ have figured out that if they don't blow themselves up,they can come back and do it again.
 
Indeed but the Pakistan government is in such a mess at the moment it's hard to believe they could have any involvement, I just can't see them being organized enough. :confused:

I'd be very surprised if the Pakistani Government had anyhting to do with this. Elements in their military and intelligence are always a possibility.
 
this post from another forum,brings up a good point

Let us evaluate logically. You take 100s of people of hostage, issue no demands and basically sit tight for over 20 hours. Question: What are you waiting for?
 
this post from another forum,brings up a good point

Let us evaluate logically. You take 100s of people of hostage, issue no demands and basically sit tight for over 20 hours. Question: What are you waiting for?

:hmm: News coverage, fame, hightlight your cause.....:hmm:
 
I'd be very surprised if the Pakistani Government had anyhting to do with this. Elements in their military and intelligence are always a possibility.

That IS the Pakistani govenment...lol

(where have you been for the past 60 years???)
 
this post from another forum,brings up a good point

Let us evaluate logically. You take 100s of people of hostage, issue no demands and basically sit tight for over 20 hours. Question: What are you waiting for?



orders?
 
That IS the Pakistani govenment...lol

(where have you been for the past 60 years???)

I'm aware of the 'Army with a State attached' nature of Pakistan, but I simply dont agree that they're all just Islamists - the situation is much more complicated than that.
 
I'm aware of the 'Army with a State attached' nature of Pakistan, but I simply dont agree that they're all just Islamists - the situation is much more complicated than that.

That's why you cant dislocate the Pakistani "government" (lol) and its military establishment.

Pakistan and its formation is predicated on Islamic principles, therefore by it's very nature it's "Islamist"
 
That's why you cant dislocate the Pakistani "government" (lol) and its military establishment.

Pakistan and its formation is predicated on Islamic principles, therefore by it's very nature it's "Islamist"

Not really, Islamic and Islamist are not synonyms.
 
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