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Title: How Many Guys Attacked Mumbai?
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URL Source: http://exiledonline.com/how-many-guys-attacked-mumbai/#more-2515
Published: Dec 9, 2008
Author: Gary Brecher
Post Date: 2008-12-09 19:13:40 by Ada
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Views: 163
Comments: 10
Click for Full Text! Every day this week I’ve gone to the computer and googled the same question: “How many attackers Mumbai?” And I still haven’t gotten anything like a straight answer. Of course the official Indian story is “ten.” Right. Ten guys, kids by the look of them in the closed-circuit tv pictures, did all that? Well…that’s not actually impossible. I’m not one of these people that underestimate the bloodlust and craziness of ten teenagers with some basic training, a good plan, AKs with plenty of ammo, and heads full of cocaine’n’Quran. That’s a powerful cocktail, that cocaine/Quran mix. They’ll have to come up with a good street name for it, something like Mecca-chino. Keeps you awake and firing for two days straight. Some parts of the story have been pretty well confirmed, like the guess that these guys were Kashmiris from Lashkar-e-Tayyiba. I suspected that’s what these Mumbaikar eyewitnesses were hinting at when they described the attackers as “pale” and “foreign-looking.” If you’ve seen their pictures, you’ll see they weren’t exactly pale by, say, Scottish standards, but to Mumbaikars they did look pale, like Kashmiris from up there where you have to wear a sweater a few weeks a year. Then there was the fact that the attackers carried almonds to munch. Almonds are the “State Tree” of Kashmir, believe it or not. But as for numbers, that’s where the official story wears kind of thin. Ten guys did all that? Excuse me if I snicker. Of course the Mumbai police and Indian government would like to stick to that number because they only have nine bodies and one live prisoner. So if there were only ten guys, total, then they’re all accounted for, it’s a wrap, and we can all go on with our lives and drop embarrassing questions about where the rest went. Not to mention how come it took so long for the anti-terrorist Black Cats (Dudes, change that name!) to arrive, etc. Unfortunately for the Delhi bureaucrats, there’s a very good source, this ex-CIA analyst lady named Farhana Ali, who says she has definite info that there were at least 23 attackers. That sounds like a more reasonable number to me. And the evidence keeps piling up for a big attacking force, like the fact that they’ve discovered a second dinghy used to ferry the attackers into the city from their hijacked trawler. And then of course there’s the fact that they did so much damage in so many different locations. That’s what made me guess, in the column I wrote while the attacks were in progress, that there were probably about 70 attackers. When I wrote that, I took the news reports of ten different sites that had been attacked to mean that there were ten separate sieges taking place in different locations in Mumbai. It turns out that, because the cops turned and ran like rabbits at the first shots, the attackers were able to walk down the middle of the damn street from one attack to the next, throwing grenades and shooting everyone in sight, like the two cokehead jihadis who walked into Leopold’s café, killed everyone they could, then strolled over to the Taj Mahal Hotel complex. But were those two the only attackers in the Taj Mahal? If you were watching the news, you’ll remember that this is one of those incredibly gigantic old stone hotels that take up a whole city block. The place is solid and huge; no matter how many grenades went off in there, no matter how many fires started, it held up through days of fighting. It’s hard to imagine that two kids who strolled over from the café held it by themselves, especially since there’s also a story going around that the attackers had an inside confederate who was working in the Taj’s kitchen. (I can’t find the link for that story. Anybody got one?) It’ll take a while for us to get a really solid number for the attackers. Too many people in authority in Mumbai and Delhi and Islamabad have reasons to keep the picture blurry for now. One thing that’s clear is that for all this talk about hi-tech “force multipliers,” these guys gave the whole world a lesson in how to multiply a miserable force, half a platoon of half-trained kids, into something with the power of a tactical nuke. Ten village kids from Kashmir gave a whole huge city a stroke it’ll take years to recover from, with a simple set of tactics. You may not like these tactics, but we’d better notice them. This habit of “It’s not moral so I’ll pretend it isn’t happening” really gets me down. So like it or not, listen up: the attacks showed what a lot of hostage-taking urban sieges have shown already: if you’re going to do one of these sieges, you have to kill ruthlessly, kill everyone in the enemy city from the moment you jam your clip in to the moment you die. Don’t ask questions, don’t ask who’s a Muslim (at least 40 Muslims were killed in Mumbai; these dudes weren’t counting turbans); kill everyone. Then hole up in the highest-value target you can find, because by doing that you, the half-trained guerrilla kid, go from a low-value military asset to a very high-value one. You take on the value of the target, because they’ll have to destroy it to get you. If you think that’s an exaggeration or something, here’s a quote from the instructions the Mumbai attackers were given: “…open random fire, kill as many people as you can, take hostages, then go to a vantage location and stay put.”
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#1. To: Ada (#0)
I kept feeling there were more than the number specified, that they caught some more alive.........
Conversely, maybe some blended into the crowd and escaped.
There would be enough safe enclaves for them in predominantly Muslim neighborhoods with a strong proclivity to Jihad.
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Change will not come if we wait for some other person or some other time. I am the one we've been waiting for. I am the change that we seek. Barack Obama
Indians got their own 911 (inside job) to spark war on terrah!
http://top-secret-at.blogspot.com/2008/11/mumbai-mossad-angle.html Thursday, 27 November 2008 Mumbai The Mossad Angle GAUTAM ADHIKARI SPEAK UP… DO SOMETHING…SAY OPENLY THAT THE RSS-MOSSAD ARE RESPONSIBLE–OTHERWISE BE DAMNED AND CONSIDER THE NATION DOOMED. THEY KILLED KARKARE TO SEND A MESSAGE THAT YOU CANNOT INVESTIGATE THE MOSSAD-RSS ANGLE. Mumbai and India Under Attack It is 4AM in India right now. I am in Mumbai reporting from the ground. I have not slept a wink. Mumbai is under attack. People and forces who killed Mahatama Gandhi, who demolished the Babari Mosque have triumphed. More than 16 groups of terrorists have taken over Taj, Oberai and several hotels. Hundreds of people are dead. For the first time no one is blaming Muslim organizations. The Mumbai ATS chief Hemant Karkare and other officers of the ATS have been killed. These were the same people who were investigating the Malegaon Blasts–in which Praggya Singh, an army officer and several other noted personalities of the BJP-RSS-Bajrang Dal-VHP were arrested. Karkare was the man to arrest them. Karkare was receiving threats from several quarters. LK Advani, the BJP chief and several other prominent leaders of the so-called Hindu terrorism squad were gunning for his head. And the first casualty in the terrorist attack was Karkare! He is dead–gone–the firing by terrorists began from Nariman House–which is the only building in Mumbai inhabited by Jews. Some Hindu Gujaratis of the Nariman area spoke live on several TV channels–they openly said that the firing by terrorists began from Nariman house. And that for two years suspicious activities were going on in this house. But no one took notice. Our worst fears have come true. It is clear that Mossad is involved in the whole affair. An entire city has been attacked by Mossad and probably units of mercenaries. It is not possible for one single organization to plan and execute such a sophisticated operation. It is clear that this operation was backed by communal forces from within the Indian State. The Home Minister Shivraj Patil should resign. The RSS-BJP-VHP-Bajrang Dal should be banned. Advani and others ought to be arrested. Today is a day of shame for all Indians and all Hindus. Muslims and secular Hindus have been proven right. RSS type forces and Israel are all involved in not only destabilizing but finishing India. India should immediately snap all relations with Israel. We owe this much to Karkare and the brave ATS men who had shown the courage to arrest Praggya Singh, Raj Kumar Purohit, the army officer and several others. A photograph publushed in Urdu Times, Mumbai, clearly shows that Mossad and ex-Mossad men came to India and met Sadhus and other pro-Hindutva elements recently. A conspiracy was clearly hatched. This is a moment of reckoning especially for Hindus of India. The killers of Gandhi have struck again. If we are true Sanatanis and true Hindus and true nationalists and true patriots we have to see this act as a clear attack by anti-national deshdrohi forces. Praggya Singh, Advani and the entire brand is anti-national. They ought to be shot. Any Hindu siding with them is hereafter warned of serious consequences. This is a question of nationalism. If no one else, the Indian army will not take this lying down. Communal, anti-national forces have attacked the very foundation of the Indian constitution and the nation. We will fight a civil war if need be against the pro-Hindutva, communal forces and their Israeli backers. Amaresh Misra 91-9250305699
Change will not come if we wait for some other person or some other time. I am the one we've been waiting for. I am the change that we seek. Barack Obama
Ex-ISI Chief Gul Exposes 9/11 Inside Job
20 shekels and some gefilte fish in a jar that mossad trains tamil tigers too. They all look alike to the masses. And the "red string" on their hand was caballa. I saw that and other crap by rivero on WRH. God, he is a slimmey joo who redacted "jewish" from "zionists". There still exits people who think that jews who don't like zionism are not still filthy jews!LOL!
Change will not come if we wait for some other person or some other time. I am the one we've been waiting for. I am the change that we seek. Barack Obama
I do agree this entire Mumbai Operation smells worse than a tub of Gefilte Fish mixed with Ludefisk with a barrel of fish guts aging on the dock for 3 days thrown in.
"The difference between an honorable man and a moral man is that an honorable man regrets a discreditable act even when it has worked and he is in no danger of being caught." ~ H. L. Mencken
#2. To: swarthyguy (#1)
#3. To: Ada (#2)
#4. To: Ada (#0)
“…open random fire, kill as many people as you can, take hostages, then go to a vantage location and stay put.”
#5. To: Obama4America, Ada, Original_Intent, wudidiz (#4)
Ha!
#6. To: TwentyTwelve (#5)
#7. To: Obama4America, Ada, Original_Intent, wudidiz (#4)
#8. To: Obama4America (#6)
Our worst fears have come true. It is clear that Mossad is involved in the whole affair
#9. To: TwentyTwelve (#8)
#10. To: TwentyTwelve (#7)
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