HONG KONG: The men came wearing black hoods, firing automatic weapons and throwing grenades, taking hostages, attacking two hotels, a cinema, a café, a train station and other popular and undefended “soft targets.”
An e-mail message to Indian media outlets that claimed responsibility for the bloody attacks in Mumbai on Wednesday night said the militants were from the Deccan Mujahideen.
Global terrorism experts said Thursday they had never heard of the group. And based on its tactics, they said, it was probably not a cell or group linked to Al Qaeda.
“It’s even unclear whether it’s a real group or not,” said Bruce Hoffman, a professor at the School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University and the author of the book “Inside Terrorism.” “It could be a cover name for another group, or a name adopted just for this particular incident.”
Christine Fair, senior political scientist and a South Asia expert at the RAND Corporation, was careful to say that the identity of the terrorists could not yet be known. But she insisted the style of the attacks and the targets in Mumbai suggested that the militants were likely to be Indian Muslims – and not linked to Al Qaeda or the violent South Asian terrorist group Lashkar-e-Taiba.
“There’s absolutely nothing Al Qaeda-like about it,” she said of the attack. “Did you see any suicide bombers? And there are no fingerprints of Lashkar. They don’t do hostage taking, and they don’t do grenades.”
Hoffman agreed that the assault was “not exactly Al Qaeda’s modus operandi, which is suicide attacks.”
But he said the timed attacks, which he called “tactical, sophisticated and coordinated,” perhaps pointed to a broader organization behind the perpetrators. Fair also noted that the fact the group had not proclaimed its ideology in a manifesto was “not at all unusual.”
“You don’t see these types of terrorist operations very often, if at all,” Hoffman said. “These aren’t just a bunch of radical guys coming together to cause mayhem.
“This takes a different skill set. It doesn’t take much skill to make a bomb. This is not just pressing a button as a suicide bomber and dying. You don’t learn this over the Internet.”
The word Deccan describes the middle and south of India, which is dominated by the Deccan Plateau. Mujahideen, of course, is the commonly used Arabic word for holy fighters. The very name – if it is a real group – suggests a domestic islamist agenda.
“It’s maybe not so much a group as a cell that will take on a name for a specific operation,” said Fair. “In India you hear these unusual names.”
Fair did not agree that the attacks on Wednesday necessarily required deep planning and training.
“This wasn’t something that required a logistical mastermind,” she said. “These were not hardened targets. A huge train station with zero security. Two hotels with no security, both owned by Indians. Leopold’s Café. How hard is it, really? It’s not rocket science.”
Fair believes the attacks could be “yet another manifestation of domestic terrorism” that has its genesis in a longstanding institutional discrimination against Muslims.
“There are a lot of very, very angry Muslims in India,” she said, “The economic disparities are startling, and India has been very slow to publicly embrace its rising Muslim problem. You cannot put lipstick on this pig. This is a major domestic political challenge for India.”
The CIA puts the population of India at 1.15 billion, with Hindus making up about 80 percent of the total and Muslims 13.4 percent.
Fair said one incident – “a watershed event” – that continues to anger Muslims were the riots that swept nearby Gujarat State in 2002. The violence killed between 1,000 and 2,000 people, most of them Muslims.
“The public political face of India says, ‘Our Muslims have not been radicalized.’ But the Indian intelligence apparatus knows that’s not true. India’s Muslim communities are being sucked into the global landscape of Islamist jihad.
“Indians will have a strong incentive to link this to Al Qaeda. ‘Al Qaeda’s in your toilet!’ But this is a domestic issue. This is not India’s 9/11.”
For Hoffman, who has studied terrorism for more than 30 years, the Mumbai attacks are “alarming on a number of levels.”
“It’s not often that things in terrorism alarm me. So much is a repeat of what we see almost every day, like suicide bombings. There’s no real innovation in terrorism, which is why 9/11 was so terrifying, because it was so innovative and heinously clever.
“But these attacks show how a handful of men, basically using weapons off the shelf, can paralyze a city and frustrate highly trained security forces. These attacks were calculated to spread alarm and anxiety – to put it quite frankly, to unhinge things – and that’s exactly what they’ve done.”
International Herald Tribune | Mark McDonald | Thursday, November 27, 2008
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Any person who still mentions AL-CIA-DUH in this information age, loses all credibilty. They are either Govt. shills, or ignorant `expert`pretenders.
Anybody with a brain knows all of these ‘terror’ attacks’ are orchestrated inside jobs. The real test for anyone is 911. It was clearly an inside job. Anybody still denying that is either a paid shill – or unable to think clearly, and therefore anything else they say is worthless. The RAND corp is black ops central, so whenever there is astatement from someone at Rand, it’s not based on facts, rather PR or what sounds good. They work with ET tech and and adapt it for the gov’ts dark purposes.
First: The attackers were seen as being white! The Mossad and or CIA were involved to disrupt the pipeline plans to go through Pakistan to China. India and and Pakistans relations are again in extreme turmoil. The US and Israel both do not want to see the pipeline occur because this would damage their economies even more while bringing Pakistan and India closer. This IS A CIA MOSSAD EVENT!
The talking heads in the news rooms across the globe have more responsibility to mankind TO START TELLING THE TRUTH or you and everyone you know will no longer exist because you are effectively lying yourselves and everyone else into Armageddon.
First it was Afganistan, then Iraq, now India being set up as another base of operations for the New World Order.
This looks like some kind of chessboard move. There are two countries between the three mentioned at the beginning of this message. If any of you want to know, read the book the Grand chessboard by Zbignew Bryzinski.
It lays out a scenario just like this for the NWO to conquer all the southern flank of Euraisia. The NWO need to subdue this area and bring it onboard of thier sphere of control, in order that ALL nations of planet earth are subjects to thier neo-fuedal system.
Bryzinski is one of Pres. elect Obama’s NWO handlers. Bryzinski wrote another book where he outlines plans to control the nations of earth through an Orwellian society,after they are subdued!
( note: The spelling of Bryzinski may be different than I have here).
The world is run by 3 city states, each with their own obelisk. They are Washington DC(military), inner city of London(financial), and the Vatican(religion/all religions including secular humanism, atheism, and satanism.) All religions are like freemasonry, they have 2 parts, invisible and visible. Those in the invisible part worship Lucyfer and know it, while those in the visible part worship Lucyfer without knowing it.
Zionism, Mossad, Al Qaeda, terrorism, “politics”, “nations” “leaders” fighting each other, etc. are all made up labels by the crown(3 city states) to keep the masses fighting each other.
The 3 city states are run by the descendants of Cain(Gen. 3:16), Ham(Naamah), Canaanites(Ham & Naamah), Esau(married into Canaanites, Hivites, Hittites, Ishmael’s(daughter), Spanish(Sephardic), Khazars(Ashkenazi)was “forced” by the Maccabees(John Hyrcanus) to “become” a “Jew”, other middle eastern nations and the tribe of Dan(serpent symbol).
The 3 city states own the “east” and “west”. Any “fighting that the “leaders” do is only for show, the only ones fighting are the masses and they are fighting each other. One of the bloodline families is Chinese(Li family), so this is a global problem. There is only one group at the top, they are semite and non-semite, they are Lucyferians.
Esau(Gen 27:40) wants his birthright back and will do anything to get it back. These people are sociopaths and consider killing as important as eating.
Who really cares the Machiavellian machinations behind the scenes. All you need to know is the Global Elite(terrorists) will stop at nothing to control all the earths resources so when the sheep demand a ‘New World Order’(Old World Order) to unite against the ‘terrorists’ they can gloat in all that Tesla free energy they’ve strived so hard to deny us. Remember Project Venus?? and then BANG!!!!
Terrorism cannot be prevented or directed, its allowed to happen as in all cases. The Indian govt is no different. It stood down and allowed the CIA/Mossad cabal to do its job with 100% consent whist the sheep argue over ‘better security’, eventually a one world army!
Satan, fake Jews, Lucifer, Edomites, Illuminati, CFR, Jesuit Order, Freemasons, Mossad, Priory of Sion. Man the list goes on and its so NOT important. I call them SCUM! Yeah from now on refer to these wannabes as SCUM.
The good people of earth who are not mind controlled robots must unite against the SCUM and take back our inheritance and we will succeed brothers and sisters because Satanism is an historically failed concept with a proven track record of disaster. Its absolute power corrupting absolutely. This is Invasion Of the Bodysnatchers. Those who propose peace are in on the plot!
As an Indian my msg to India is PLEASE WAKE THE FUCK UP!
Cheney, Ehud Barack, Bush, Clintons, BO, Brezinski, Giuliani, Queen of England, globalists , fed, cfr, central bank, EU, Blackwater, mercs, mainstream media, Hollywood, fund and promote terrorism and their councils against innocent jews, whites, people, soldiers, and anyone not with the nwo, as eugenists to cull the world’s population and end the world 2011 as these hating, greedy, power war mongering, luciferian, masonic, government nazi goons are threatened by the free world of g-d.