India pays homage to 26/11 victims

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The untold story of 2008's terrorist attack on the Indian city of Mumbai. The story is told in the words of its victims and the gunmen.Terror in Mumbai tells the story of what happened when 10 terrorists held one of the world's busiest cities hostage; killing and wounding hundreds of people.

A HBO Documentary in this link.

http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=1e4_1246490858

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I watch a documentary on this. Those Islamic terrorists sure did a lot of damage.

Never forget the victims.

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The Newshour recently did a piece on the 2 year anniversary of the attacks.

The mastermind of the operation, a Pakistani leader of the Lashkar-e-Taiba known as Sajid Mir, is still at large in Pakistan.

So little is known about Mir, his real age can't even be determined. But authorities do know that, during the siege of Mumbai, Mir was overseeing almost every detail over the phone from a base in Pakistan, calling his teams of 10 gunmen on the ground to tell them what to do, whom to kill, when to kill them, and how to die themselves.

Hopefully he is brought to justice swiftly, but it's clear that the ISI in Pakistan is in no great hurry to disband Lashkar-e-Taiba

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The Newshour recently did a piece on the 2 year anniversary of the attacks.

The mastermind of the operation, a Pakistani leader of the Lashkar-e-Taiba known as Sajid Mir, is still at large in Pakistan.

Hopefully he is brought to justice swiftly, but it's clear that the ISI in Pakistan is in no great hurry to disband Lashkar-e-Taiba

The ISI and the Pakistani military are the terror groups. Yes, they will work under cute little names like lashkar to fool the western media but reality is the Pakistanis can't disband terror with our disbanding their own military.

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The ISI and the Pakistani military are the terror groups. Yes, they will work under cute little names like lashkar to fool the western media but reality is the Pakistanis can't disband terror with our disbanding their own military.

I suspect you may very well be right.

But we've been operating since 9/11, and really for many years longer than that, on the assumption that cooperating with the Pakistani leadership and military is a better choice than the alternative. Pakistan is a nuclear nation. Is it better for the US, India, and other interested powers for a radical Islamic regime to usurp control, or for the current highly-flawed and corrupt leadership that is openly sympathetic to Taliban and Lashkar and the like? Apparently the view is to make do with what is and encourage change from within.

It's a pretty miserable world out there. With Kashmir as a flashpoint between nuclear India/Pakistan, and with nuclear North Korea going on a war footing, and Iran just around the corner from joining the club, what's a liberal democracy to do?

I recall during the Primary campaign when Hillary evoked the "3AM phone call" in her criticism that Obama was not ready for office, yet she was. I think the Korean bombing episode was Obama's first real 3AM phone call test, but almost certainly not his last.