Does the coverage of the Mumbai attack seem surreal to anyone else?

[underpants]

First of all at least two officials have stepped down as a result of this horrific attack. Whether they could have prevented it or not their resignations , someone's resignation, is to be expected.

I haven't heard any suggestion of blaming predecessors or anyone else other than the attackers of course.

Now we hear that their was information in the pipeline-this could have been prevented or at least partially thwarted.

The media that I am watching seems to be completely disconnected to how the Bush administration handled the attacks of 9/11 both prior to and immediately after. Remember Bush still takes credit for 9/11. And, not one person lost their job (at least) relating to 9/11 OR the War in Iraq.

Just amazing.

[arcadian]

1. Links to Al Qaeda

Yeah right. Everybody is connected, 6 degrees of Kevin Bacon proves that.

[madokie]

2. I have to wonder what did the bush cabal have to do with it

I have a feeling that there is a whole lot more to the story than we'll know. Same as with our 9/11. What does the bfee know and when did they know it is my question.

[Citizen Number 9]

3. Bush and Co.?

You're giving them w-a-a-a-y-y too much credit.

[madokie]

4. I think not

[blm]

10. Depends who 'them' are...GHWBush and his cronies have been pulling shit off for more decades than

most DUrs have been alive.

[blm]

5. Petraeus believed the way to handle problem of Pakistan was THROUGH India. BushInc absolutely was

involved. Like PNAC desired another 'Pearl Harbor' BushInc desired a major terrorist attack in India.

See this link to UK article:
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=389&topic_id=4562107&mesg_id=4562166

Bombay: fragile truce in danger of being blown apart
Richard Beeston, Foreign Editor

We still do not know the identities of Bombay’s attackers, nor which group they belonged to, not even what their demands were. But in one significant measure they have already achieved a major objective by their three-day reign of terror against Indian civilians, foreign tourists and Orthodox Jews in a city better known for culture, trade and entertainment.

After seven years of painstaking rapprochement between India and Pakistan, relations between the two dominant, nuclear-armed states of South Asia are once again seriously at risk. This not only threatens to destabilise the entire region but could also set back the West’s fight against al-Qaeda, the Taleban and other Islamic militants operating in Pakistan and Afghanistan.

The Pentagon began to look afresh this year at the war in Afghanistan, where USled forces are struggling to contain a growing insurgency by the Taleban. One conclusion was that the war could not be viewed exclusively as an Afghan problem. It also involves the Pashto-speaking areas across the border in Pakistan’s lawless tribal territories, where various groups linked to al-Qaeda are operating under constant attack by US drones.

General David Petraeus, the former US commander in Iraq and now in overall charge of US forces in the region, is convinced that the best way to succeed in Pakistan lies through India. If the ruling establishment in Islamabad and the Pakistani people in general conclude that the main threat to their fragile country comes from militant Islam, rather than their traditional enemy India, then the war is close to being won.

Somebody else came to the same conclusion this week when they ordered the attack on Bombay. Plunge India and Pakistan back into a state of war and millions of young Muslims in the region could be mobilised in a new jihad. Kashmir could once again become a flashpoint. Pakistan might be forced to reduce or withdraw its forces fighting in the tribal areas and turn its attention to India.

There is still no evidence that the commandos in Bombay, also known as Mumbai, had this goal in mind. But it came as little surprise that the young men leading the attack had orders to capture and kill as many citizens of America and Britain as possible, the two countries at the forefront of the military mission in Afghanistan.

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[madokie]

6. our government has been involved in a lot of mischief back throughout the years

in lots of places. Its always long after when we find out about some of them and I suspect that will be the case here. I put nothing past the bfee. The attempted coup of '34 comes readily to mind

[blm]

7. I am always surprised that so many DUers still believe Bushes AREN'T capable of doing this

and other events that have benefited them and their powerful cronies in the past.

[madokie]

8. You and me both

its enough to boggle the mind.

These suns-sa-bitches, the bfee, are in a very precarious position right now so I expect to see more of the same type of incidences in the next couple months.

[blm]

11. After some of these cabinet picks, I'm not so sure of that.

The protection of CLINTON legacy looks like it will be a priority, and that means keeping Poppy Bush's secrets.

[deaniac21]

9. I suspect that if this were investigated more closely, a few NY

Giants would turn up.