Posted on 07/11/2006 7:20:46 PM PDT by jamesm113
MUMBAI (Reuters) - Police stepped up security across India on Wednesday after bombs killed more than 160 people and wounded hundreds in packed commuter trains and stations in the financial hub, Mumbai.
"I urge people to remain calm, not to believe rumors and carry on their activity normally," Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh said, calling the seven explosions that took place during the evening rush hour on Tuesday a "shameful act".
There was no immediate claim of responsibility for the attacks but suspicion was likely to center on Muslim militants fighting New Delhi's rule in disputed Kashmir, who have been blamed for several bomb attacks in India in the past.
Pakistan, which denies Indian charges of tacit support for the militants, condemned what it labeled a "terrorist attack".
Extra security was brought in across India both to prevent any further attacks and to guard against any possible backlash against the minority Muslim community.
The blasts brought worldwide expressions of outrage.
"We condemn thoroughly this terrible terrorist incident," U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice told reporters in Washington. "We will stand with India in the war on terror."
Police inspector Ashok Jadhav told Reuters the bomb blasts had killed 163 people and wounded around 460.
That guy in the first picture looks like he could be the older brother of Apolo Ohno.
The 'Religion of Peace' strikes again.
Murder after murder, beheading after beheading;
Islamic murderers have become:
* Assailants - National Public Radio.
* Attackers - the Economist.
* Bombers - the Guardian.
* Captors - the Associated Press.
* Commandos - Agence France-Presse refers to the terrorists both as "membres du commando" and "commando."
* Criminals - the Times (London).
* Extremists - United Press International.
* Fighters - the Washington Post.
* Group - the Australian.
* Guerrillas - New York Post editorial.
* Gunmen - Reuters.
* Hostage-takers - the Los Angeles Times.
* Insurgents - in a New York Times headline.
* Kidnappers - the Observer (London).
* Militants - the Chicago Tribune.
* Perpetrators - the New York Times.
* Radicals - the BBC.
* Rebels - in a Sydney Morning Herald headline.
* Separatists - the Christian Science Monitor.
* Activists - the Pakistan Times.
* The Clintonoids in the US State Dept call them .... "allies".
* The Clintonoids in the CIA, including Scheuer, call them ..... "patriots".
[ partially based on Daniel Pipes]
Indian guys at work assured me that the Mumbai police are unlikely to act effectively. According to them, the police there are primarily concerned with soliciting bribes from motorists, and are not famous for detective work.
May be sour grapes, of course.
My God. :*(
My husband is from India.
I've ridden on the trains in India, and visited Mumbai/Bombay--this is just awful!! :*(
The Indians pack those trains like sardines. They were sitting ducks for the terrorists/murderers/killers/demon-possessed.
:*(
Prayers for the families of the dead and wounded, and praise that none of my husband's relatives were involved (that we know of right now, there's kinfolk all over India!).
Religion of peace, BS!! >:-(
Unfortunately, that seems to be the case for all non-civilized nations. This widespread corruption and lack of morality is the global cause of much of the misery in our world. Sad, but true. And how is this reversed??? The ACLU mocks Christianity, but it seems to be the basis for all rationale and moral civilization.
How many more will be murdered in the name of allah? The libs still think the gitmo animals need special rights!
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