“..why didn’t they just pull something off in Britain? Why travel all the way to India?”
This was just a dry run before a bigger raid elsewhere. You can bet that, among the bystanders, there were many terrorists taking notes of what went wrong and what did go right. All this data will be used for planning purposes at the next raid.
sheesh... You give them credit for intelligence that doesn't exist. These are foaming at the mouth lunatics with barely the intelligence to dress themselves in the morning. If these guys were actually intelligent, instead of emotional basket cases, they would realize that killing innocent people damages the cause of Islam instead of helping it. In short, if they were intelligent, they wouldn't be terrorists. Islamic terrorists are the stupidest Muslims in the world.