In late November of last year, 10 Pakistani members of Lashkar e Toiyba (the army of the “righteous”) launched a terrorist attack on the Indian city of Mumbai. When the smoke had cleared after four days of horror, nearly two hundred people had been killed and over 300 wounded.
This video shows not only the depth of the hatred and stupidity that enables such attacks, but also the human cost for those left behind.
It’s a tough thing to watch, but also a good reminder: Evil abides.
Anyone who does not understand the bad guys believe it is their holy right to kill infidels is sadly mistaken.
The Islamic religious leaders who are teaching the muslim youth that they are destined for greatness if they kill infidels are supported by nation states. Unfortunately, many Islamic rulers and thier state government look the other way and behind closed dooors, support the “western civilization and any non-believer is an infidel and therefore a target for removal from this earth. On one side of their mouth these states say they reject extremism, on the other side they fund the madrassa schools that teach this vile form of hatred.
Dick Cheney is right, these bad guys are out to destroy western civilization and our way of life.
We have only one choice and that is to stop these radical islamic extremist groups. It is us or them!
Wow, powerful video. So sad the toll these brainwashed “kids” extracted on the Indian people.
This is the kind of video that should be shown in college – to educate the “masses” to the real story.
Did notice the IV in the neck of the terrorist spilling the beans…
Dunno about y’all, but to me one of the most disturbing things in the video was the images at the rail station of all the policemen either cowering or running away while the two young terrorists strolled with impunity through that crowded station. WTF?
Dave,
No ammo for the guns they carried. Never fired the guns they carried. You see that a lot with TCNs who carry guns. At least with the TCN’s they clued to the fact that a magazine inserted in the weapon gives the illusion that it will fire but the USN routinely carried weapons sans magazines for decades. It took gentle hints like, “sand gets in the damned mechanism if there is nothing there to block it” kind of arguments and then we were permitted the great honor of carrying empty magazines loaded in the weapons, sometimes. You should read about DFAC policies as they applied in the early days of the war and long before the war. The whole condition 1, condition 4 and weapons that fire on an open bolt….all mysterious to most/99% of navy personnel who insisted on telling people armed with SAWS how to carry safe weapons.
Decades ago, after some experience with the damned things, I advised the Gunnery Officer who planned to let the tigers fire the M60s that he should very very carefully vet the PMS on the weapons. Still got the usual damned navy result. All three of them proved to be single shot weapons because the gunners mates got the gas cylinder dicked up. Hey kids, step up and fire a single shot machine gun!
I don’t think the Army and Marines have a clue just how totally completely clueless the other services (and naval aviation types) are about small arms and crew served weapons.
If you’re AD you can call up on NKO the web site for Involuntary watchamacallits and see that a number of the mandatory pass courses are specifically about individual weapons. Not sure they cover M240s or not but they do cover M9, M16, M4, etc.
Curtiss/
As bad as the Navy might be, rest assured the Air Force is infinitely worse. Except for the AP and their base defense units (whatever they’re called now) almost NO ONE ELSE knows ANYTHING. Aircrews receive minimal tng, and other non-rated types (99% of the force) only qualify “one-time once” on the range with an M-16 if they have orders to the combat zone–otherwise “never ever.” And the amount of formal tng the non-rated types get once in the combat zone is also pretty much zero.
At least in the Navy the secondary duties on naval vessels require (at least in theory) many of the staff types and the technical ratings to become at least semi-proficient with small arms and crew-served wpns. The AF doesn’t even have such a thing as a secondary duty involving wpns for non-rated, non-AP types (we’re all out on the links.)
I guess the proficiency levels of most of the Navy and AF with such wpns is about on a par with our combined ability to march in massed formation without the whole thing looking like a sagging accordion, i.e., less than zero.
Air Force SP? Never heard of AP. USAF weapons training is extremely minimal. When I was in, even the M-16 “training” was one afternoon in class and a morning on the range firing 60 .22 LR rounds, not even 5.56mm. Drop the magazine and chunks of carbon fell out. I had 16 misfires on mine before I fired my 60 rounds. The sergeant said, “Don’t worry about it. In the field with 5.56mm ammo, you’d see a lot fewer misfires, probably only 1 or 2.” With AF weapons, he might be right, which didn’t reassure me *at all*.
The Indian cops running away was pretty pathetic, but several Indians at work told me that that wasn’t at all surprising. Most of them seem to think the police are little better than criminals themselves. I was actually a little surprised to see that not all did run away or hide. The one officer with his finger wrapped around the trigger seemed pretty typical of their level of training. I wonder how many victims were accidently shot by the police?
The Turkish businessman and his wife seemed awfully revealing. About to be executed with others by terrorists, she screams that they’re Muslims, don’t shoot. As if, “Well, of course mass murdering terrorists must be fellow Muslims.”
Larry/
Do they call them “Security Police” (SP) in the USAF now? In my day (before Fossilization set in) they were called “Air Police.” Of course odds are if that IS the name change, it was done because the “AP” got sick and tired of themselves constantly being referred to as “Apes.” LOL! (And ‘twern’t no compliment, either)
Uggh, I’m out of date. I googled for when the name change happened (in late ’60s) and discovered that they changed it yet again, to SF (Security Forces) in ‘97.
Now let me ask the question: did LeT succeed? Did they get the global publicity they wanted? Did they knock The Won off the headlines for even a day? And while it was an unusually large attack for India, that nation has been on the front lines of the jihad for a thousand years, and attacks from Pakistan are nearly a monthly occurrence.
You all may remember a series of arrests in early 2008 in Barcelona, Spain. A truckload of veterans of LeT camps. Which suddenly woke Europe’s security services up to what they knew but wouldn’t admit–that LeT has a huge and deep infrastructure all throughout Europe and North America. Thousands of veterans of LeT camps, funded and ran in part by the Government of Pakistan as part of its jihad against India over Kashmir. But Kashmir isn’t their only target, or even their main target anymore.
Their target is Us, the kuffar. And just as 9/11 was a tremendously successful “proof of concept” for using stolen jetliners as missiles, so the Mumbai attack was a tremendously successful “proof of concept” for what a small number of well-armed men can do in an urban environment. A lot of other Islamic groups paid close attention to this attack.
Between this and Beslan, one of these attacks will be coming to the West soon. No matter how many “no knock” drug raids our over-armed SWAT teams make in the middle of the night, we are not ready, no more than those untrained, unarmed Indian policemen were.