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Fire breaks out at the Taj Mahal Palace Hotel in Mumbai during terrorist attacks this week.
The set of coordinated attacks on 10 strategic sites in India's financial capital left more than 150 people dead and hundreds wounded. The terrorists struck luxury hotels, hospitals, a rail station, a well-known restaurant and a Jewish center. Those targets were selected to maximize civilian casualties, and -- much like the Sept. 11 attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon -- to send a sharp message about the vulnerability of high-profile, symbolic locations.
While planning and training for such attacks require considerable resources, security analysts warn that many nations and cities are at risk of similar atrocities committed by Islamic extremists.
While Spain, Russia, Great Britain and now India have been hit, the U.S. has avoided an attack on the homeland for more than seven years, a mark not achieved by mere good luck but through tough-minded pursuit of terrorist organizations.
It's extraordinarily difficult for on-site security to stop the kind of low grade but deadly assaults that devastated Mumbai. It falls then on strong intelligence gathering to prevent such attacks before they reach the staging point.
The assault on Mumbai is the latest in a long series of outrages committed by barbaric and resourceful killers. It would be foolish to think it will be the last, or that this nation isn't vulnerable.
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Nov 30, 2008 at 12:59 PM Anonymous Says:
new world order
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Nov 30, 2008 at 01:52 PM yep Says:
Im Hashem Loy Yishmor Ir ..............................
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Nov 30, 2008 at 05:45 PM Anonymous Says:
muzlim extremists are about to take control over the world. and there is no cure . or idea to counter react against suicidels . this is a weapon of mass destruction . with no weapon to overcome it .no real solution to it . and yet pakistan seria lebenon have numerous training camps .and they literetly train hundreds if not thousands to join in into this horrific act of not going to hell before taking along masses . and no one can help against it only hashem . if death is no bad for them what worth can life have?
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Nov 30, 2008 at 06:59 PM Jewish Princess Says:
My older sister (now 67) often relates that our father, OBM, used to have an expression he used frequently: "A greater madness is yet on the way." She found it odd and annoying. For the last few years she has come to see that our father seemed to have an uncanny sense that in some way, our "meshugene velt" was to become even more lawless and unsettled. She now acknowledges the truth of his predictions. Let us now pray that "a greater good is now on the way," with the coming of Moshiach and healing for the world. Our father would like that!
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Dec 01, 2008 at 09:57 AM Anonymous Says:
It has become apparent that the paths of appeasement and negotiation with terrorists are useless. In fact, the record suggests that the terror organizations find this civil treatment as reinforcement to continue their evil and destructive ways. This has been proven repeatedly in the Middle East, where there has never been a single concession to the entities of terror that has resulted in anything besides additional atrocities and barbaric terror and torture. The only thing we learn from all this is that terror needs to be fought with equal and opposite challenge. Never negotiate, discuss, or award any measure of civility to any terrorists.
I’m not a politician, but my gut tells me that the reaction to these acts of terror should be coordinating the efforts to eradicate those who perpetrate them. If I were the Indian government, I would order that all those left in this terror gang, including those who are incarcerated, but slaughtered immediately. Not one should be left alive. There is no other antidote to terror besides its complete elimination. Perhaps this lacks a bit of bitachon, but that is the only rational hishtadlus. The same goes for the murderous terror gangs of Hamas and their ilk. We should forget about the badmouthing that we will get from the UN – a rogue collection of anti-Jewish and anti-Israel representatives. They will condemn Israel anyway. Let it be with many fewer terrorists left. And we need to adopt a policy that anyone guilty of terror is put to death immediately. It is not civil to allow them to live in captivity where they become the bargaining chip for more terror. They know of no consequences to their behavior. Let them suffer and die. The other options do not work. I’m not being cruel, just efficient. Any other ideas?
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Dec 01, 2008 at 11:09 AM Anonymous Says:
THE POSUK WE SAY "HINEI LO YONUM VLO YISHON SHOMER YISROEL"
IS AS APPLICABLE NOW
AS WHEN IT WAS FIRST WRITTEN BY DOVID HAMELELCH IN THILLIM
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Dec 01, 2008 at 11:31 AM Big Masmid Says:
Mumbai A Sad Warning that U.S. Remains Vulnerable, true, but, we know Hashem will continue watching over his children, repent and be in good hands.