Train Blasts in India’s Financial Capital
By Denise Best | Related entries in In The News, The WorldLate Breaking News …
Train blasts in Indian financial capital of Mumbai.
U.S. officials said the blasts followed a pattern of initiated by two Islamic terrorist groups — Lashkar-e-Tayyiba and Jaish-e-Mohammed — who focus on the territory of Kashmir, whose control is disputed by India and Pakistan.
Kashmiri separatists were blamed for twin car-bombings that killed 53 people in Mumbai in August 2003 as well as an attack on the Indian parliament in Delhi in 2001.
In March 1993, more than 250 people were killed when at least 13 bombs were detonated around Mumbai. That attack followed a wave of fighting between India’s Hindu and Muslim communities.
Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf strongly condemned the attacks, and a statement released by his country’s Foreign Ministry called them a “despicable act of terrorism.”
“Terrorism is the bane of our times and it must be condemned, rejected and countered effectively and comprehensively,” the statement said.
Earlier Tuesday, a grenade attack in Indian-controlled Kashmir killed at least four people. Authorities suspect militants are responsible for that attack on a minibus in Srinagar. There was no immediate indication of a connection to the Mumbai blasts.
Indian Home Minister Shivraj Patil said the government had some advance knowledge that such an attack might take place. “What we didn’t have was the place and the time,” Patil said.
The only constant in the world appears to be unrest and acts of desperation … or is it yet another case of “out of chaos comes order?”
Gaining timely, accurate information regarding terrorist activities would seem to be a key in breaking this cycle.
So, before the next financial capital is threatened with a terrorist attack, what deterrents can (should) be pursued?
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July 11th, 2006 at 10:41 pm
Sir,
I want to share with you my opinion. There should be proper security arrangements for city like Mumbai such as CCTV’s, strict patrolling of police, military deployment in certain areas.. Well when a city is handling such huge capacity of crowds they should atleast have proper monitoring of what’s happening.
Of course the people with evil minds succeed first and then later we realise. But however we can trace out what’s happened in the first incident and later immediately there could have been information sent to other stations to avoid the trains.
I feel that there should be capital punishment given to these evil people. find themm.
Let ’s pray mumbai settles back from this shock.
bye
July 11th, 2006 at 10:52 pm
My prayers are with the Indian people on this. Radha, given your hypothesis we should have cameras watching every large metro in the world–I don’t disagree, but I don’t think we’re there yet.
Great, a new front on the “war” on terror..
July 12th, 2006 at 8:22 am
Not quite a new front, Jp. India has been dealing with islamic terror way longer than we have here in the U.S. Essentially since Mahmud of Ghazni perpetrated the largest genocide of the ancient world 1000 years ago.
July 15th, 2006 at 5:44 pm
I am reading a lot of tripe in the newspapers about the “resilient Mumbai spirit�.
Of course Mumbai will recover. So did NYC. So did London. So did Jerusalem. So did Madrid. So will any city.
In fact the cockroach is one of nature’s most resilient creatures and can survive even a nuclear blast. (Though I have never heard a cockroach going around saying, “Mera Gutter Mahaan.�)
Are we cockroaches?
As my dear friend and doctor extraordinaire Aashish puts it:
“I think we are so good at ‘handling’ anything thrown at us, just because we’re much better prepared than others. Years of travelling in the local train ( Kumar Ketkar of Loksatta, correctly called them mobile concentration camps) will condition a person to adapt under any circumstances.â€Â?
Our PM and CM appealed for calm; we are calm.
Even though 200 innocent Mumbaikars lost their lives and 700 lie injured in hospitals.
Now we would like to know what are they doing?
Last week our city went down under after heavy showers and after the initial outrage at the lack of proper drainage systems, everything was back to normal.
If you saw the movie, Munich, Golda Meir immediately responds to the assassination of the Israeli athletes with Operation Wrath of God.
Operation Wrath of God, also called Operation Bayonet, was a covert operation directed by Israel and the Mossad to assassinate the terrorists who directly or indirectly perpetrated the 1972 Munich Massacre. Authorized to begin by Israeli Prime Minister Golda Meir in the fall of 1972, it may have continued for more than 20 years.
We would like to know when will the government initiate our Operation Wrath of God?
Our self respect, honour, and most importantly, lives are at stake.
Your thoughts are most welcome and thank you for your time.