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Mumbai: At least 15 people have been injured in gunfights between two groups in at least three places in Mumbai on Thursday night. Details are sketchy but it is believed that two gangs fired at each other at outside CST Railway Terminus, Hotel Oberoi and the popular Café Leopold restaurant in Mumbai. The first shooting took place near the CST police station

Reminiscent of Students for a Democratic Society and their terrorist offshoot, The Weather Underground. "While multiple outlets have reported that a group called the Deccan Mujahideen have claimed responsibility for the attacks, Rediff.com reports that police and the Intelligence Bureau are not ruling out the involvement by the Indian Mujahideen, an offshoot of the Students Islamic Movement of India [SIMI]."http://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/asiapcf/11/26/mumbai.log/ __________________________________________________________ "the most likely groups that may be behind these attacks are the Lashkar e Toiba/SIMI (they now call themselves Indian Mujaheedin)."http://foxforum.blogs.foxnews.com/2008/11/26/phares_mumbai_11262/ __________________________________________________________ Students Islamic Movement of India (SIMI) The Students Islamic Movement of India (SIMI), proscribed under the Unlawful...

How The West Was Won The rapid and unexpected decline of the Sunni insurgency in Iraq was officially recognized this week, when Maj. Gen. John Kelly, commanding the Marine Expeditionary Force, turned operational control of Anbar Province over to the Iraqi army and police. Anbar, a vast expanse of desert the size of North Carolina, had been the stronghold of the Sunni insurgency. For years, foreign fighters loyal to al-Qaida had sneaked across Iraq's northwestern border with Syria, into Anbar and down a "rat line" of safe houses in Haditha, Ramadi and Hit. From Fallujah, the arch terrorist Zarqawi...

There won't be room for the public at the May 3 GOP presidential debate at the Reagan Library — a landmark political event for Ventura County. Nine presidential candidates have confirmed that they will participate in the event, which originally was billed as open to the public but with limited seating. But because of a change in location and for security reasons, Reagan Library officials now say seating is limited to about 400 people, with no room for the public. "We've always wanted the public to be able to attend the debate, but with (nine) candidates, we needed a larger...

Simi Valley Freedom Walk to Thank TroopsBy Samantha L. QuigleyAmerican Forces Press Service WASHINGTON, Aug. 31, 2006 – Simi Valley, Calif. -- home of the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library -- is planning a Freedom Walk to commemorate the fifth anniversary of the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks and to show the community’s support for the nation’s servicemembers. “Simi Valley is a very patriotic city,” said Debbie Gregory, one of the event’s planners. “We respect our troops, and we want to show our support, and what a wonderful way to be able to do it.” Gregory is president of Military...

President Ronald Reagan loved to rail against Congress' pork-barrel spending. But critics say that didn't stop Congress from earmarking $2.3 million for landscaping on the freeway that bears his name, one item among the $24 billion worth of special projects tacked onto the transportation bill signed Wednesday by President Bush. Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., who opposed the bill with four other senators, said the amount directed to special projects was "egregious." And he singled out Simi Valley's long-awaited landscaping project along Highway 118. "I wonder what Ronald Reagan would say?" McCain asked about the fiscally conservative president. In the city...

SIMI VALLEY, Calif. (AP) An Indiana man with a troubled past went on a two-day crime spree that left three people dead and five hospitalized before he killed himself inside a Wal-Mart store, police said. Authorities are still trying to determine what set off 38-year-old Toby Whelchel but connections between at least one of the victims and Whelchel began to emerge Wednesday as family members tried to make sense of their loss. Attorney Steve Mazin, 52, was granted a restraining order against Whelchel three years ago after telling a judge the former Air Force captain was dating his estranged wife...

The United States cannot stand idly by when faced with potential overseas threats, retired four-star Gen. Tommy Franks told a packed house Friday at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library and Museum in Simi Valley. "Terrorists look at weakness and they read it like weakness," Franks said. "If you want to stand up to terrorists, you'd better stand up to terrorists." Franks spoke to more than 400 supporters and later signed copies of his memoir, "American Soldier." The book recounts Franks' life, his experiences as a soldier and his thoughts on the war on terrorism. In 2000, Franks was assigned as...

WITHOUT A PRAYER According to a John Kerry campaign staffer, the candidate, who made much of his visit to the Reagan Library in Simi, California, on Tuesday afternoon, had to ask aides what behavior they felt would look appropriate. "It was like, 'Should I kneel? Should I greet people in line? Should I say a prayer? What?'" Kerry ultimately was given VIP access to the area where the former President lay in repose, going beyond the rope line to stand alone with Reagan's coffin. Kerry made much of the making the sign of the cross, then visibly moving his lips...