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Old 11-29-2008, 05:53 PM   #1 (permalink)
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The terrorist mayhem in Mumbai had barely subsided when I received the first e-mail suggesting the attacks had been carried out by agents of Mossad — Israel’s foreign intelligence agency — masquerading as Islamic terrorists to give Muslims a bad name.

Alex James of Toronto forwarded a news item claiming, “India’s Internal Security Police are now holding and questioning an identified Israeli Mossad agent, who had been in communication with some of the alleged terrorists in India two weeks before the black-op attacks took place.”

As ridiculous as this may sound, chances are that countless Muslims are deluding themselves into believing that it is not their co-religionists who are responsible for the savagery let loose on India, but some hidden U.S.-Zionist conspiracy against Islam.

If at all there was an intelligence agency whose fingerprints can be spotted at the crime scene, it appears to be Islamist rogue elements from Pakistan’s Inter Services Intelligence (ISI), which is hell-bent on disrupting India’s (recently improving) relations with neighbouring Pakistan.

For two decades, the ISI has been the de-facto government in Pakistan, toppling regimes, aiding the Taliban, giving cover to al-Qaeda fugitives and running a business empire worth billions of dollars.
In July, the new democratically elected government in Islamabad, led by Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gilani, attempted to bring the ISI under civilian control. Under threat of a military coup, it had to perform a humiliating about-face within 24 hours.

Then last Sunday, Pakistan’s Foreign Minister announced that the political wing of the ISI, which is responsible for rigging elections and blackmailing politicians, had been disbanded, saying, “The ISI is a precious national institution and wants to focus on counterterrorism activities.”

It seems the Foreign Minister had spoken too soon. Within hours of his announcement, the BBC reported that an unnamed senior security official had contradicted the statement.

While this tussle for control of the country’s intelligence network was going on behind the scenes, on Tuesday, the president of Pakistan, Asif Zardari, threw a bombshell that caught the Pakistan military establishment off-guard. Speaking to an Indian TV audience via a satellite link, President Zardari announced a strategic shift in Pakistan’s military doctrine. He told a cheering Indian audience that Pakistan had adopted a “no first-strike” nuclear policy.

This apparently did not go down well within Pakistan’s military establishment, which has ruled the country for decades using the Indian bogeyman to justify the maintenance of a huge military machine on a permanent war footing.
Immediately, military commentators denounced Zardari, with one saying he believed the President was “not fully informed or completely aware of” Pakistan’s policy on the issue.

To further alarm Pakistan’s own military-industrial complex, Zardari borrowed a quote from his late wife, Benazir Bhutto, who once said that there’s a “little bit of India in every Pakistani and a little bit of Pakistan” in every Indian.
“I do not know whether it is the Indian or the Pakistani in me that is talking to you today,” Zardari said, amid applause from his high-profile audience, which included diplomats, politicians and industrialists.

While most Pakistanis welcomed the new air of peace and friendship between Indian and Pakistan, the country’s religious right was upset.

Just a month ago, the founder of one of Pakistan’s most feared armed Islamist groups had accused Zardari of being too dovish toward India, and criticized him for referring to militants in Indian-held Kashmir as “terrorists.

Then, this week, the so-called Deccan Mujahideen struck against India with the clear aim of triggering a Hindu backlash against the country’s minority Muslims — with the obvious attendant danger to Pakistan-India relations.

Most security commentators agree that the Deccan Mujahideen is merely a tag of convenience, and that behind this well-planned terror attack lies Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT), a major militant group fighting in Indian Kashmir — the same group that has recently warned Zardari to desist from warming up to India.

Time will tell whether these Islamists succeed or whether the people of India — Hindus and Muslims alike — can see through this provocation and embrace the hand of friendship extended by President Zardari.

In the meantime, Muslims around the world will also have to decide whether to enter the 21st century and distance themselves from the doctrine of armed jihad, or embrace these murderous haters of joy and peace.

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Old 11-29-2008, 05:57 PM   #2 (permalink)
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Could you do us all a favour and post articles from "Conventional" sources?
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Old 11-29-2008, 05:58 PM   #3 (permalink)
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The terrorist mayhem in Mumbai had barely subsided when I received the first e-mail a suggesting the attacks had been carried out by agents of Mossad — Israel’s foreign intelligence agency — masquerading as Islamic terrorists to give Muslims a bad name.

i hope it is right news and as far as im is conserned israel and americans are involved in every bomb blast in the world so that they can give bad name to muslims and terrorists
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Is this article blaming MOSSAD or the ISI?

The Indian media is also dragging the HuJi into this which in a previous thread I had suggested had been taken over by MOSSAD. This had caused great annoyance in RAW and a dispute arose between the agencies which appeared on many websites.
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Old 11-29-2008, 06:22 PM   #5 (permalink)
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I received this email from another anonymous source. Could someone please verify who the people are in the email and whether this is a hoax -



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Subject: Re: Possible Geopolitical Consequences of the Mumbai Attacks
following is what we've received from historian amresh misra (it's all very puzzling)!!

Ashish Gupta,

I condole your colleague’s death. I also share your perspective about the larger picture concerning the state of the Indian Police.

But I want to tell everyone from SJC--we have enjoyed great moments together. And I would have loved to be at the reunion. But people like me (writers) are wanderers; and we have the knack (the wrong kind according to some people) of feeling the pain of people and our nation. Ashish Gupta made us all proud--he is part of that section of the Indian Police which is secular, nationalist and pro-people.

But Ashish and friends of the SJC (you can say that I am crazy but after all I wrote a 2 volume 2000 page book on 1857, the first war of Indian Independence!) I want to ask one question: why are we so blind to the kind of terror attack Mumbai is facing? Why are we not directly blaming the RSS and the Mossad? Why were Karkare and the ATS team, investigating the Malegaon blast and the involvement of Praggya Singh and a whole lot of the saffron brigade killed, almost wiped out?

Please read all I have written below carefully--as I send this mail, Oberoi Hotel is being burned down, Taj is going slowly and a lot more hotels are coming under terrorist attack. Ashish you have to answer this--to history or to God--you very well know that Karkare, Salaskar and Kaamte belonged to the anti-Chota Rajan group. And that Pradeep Sharma, dismissed recently by AN Roy, the Mumbai DGP has in a written affidavit blamed Sharma, the encounter specialist as a perverted individual who committed unspeakable acts of terror and worked for the underworld.

Read again--why was Karkare killed? The whole point of the current terror operation was to kill Karkare and his team who had committed the daring act of exposing the saffron brigade. Karkare was close to exposing the names of Praveen Togadia and Chota Rajan in the Malegaon blasts.

I am in Mumbai, fighting anti-national forces--I have all the memories of masti, song and dance and haramipan I enjoyed with you guys.

Please help if possible...and cry for the school and the nation that once was...

Mumbai and India Under Attack


It is 4AM in India right now. I am in Mumbai reporting from the ground. I have not slept a wink. Mumbai is under attack. People and forces who killed Mahatama Gandhi, who demolished the Babari Mosque have triumphed. More than 16 groups of terrorists have taken over Taj, Oberai and several hotels. Hundreds of people are dead. For the first time no one is blaming Muslim organizations. The Mumbai ATS chief Hemant Karkare and other officers of the ATS have been killed. These were the same people who were investigating the Malegaon Blasts--in which Praggya Singh, an army officer and several other noted personalities of the BJP-RSS-Bajrang Dal-VHP were arrested. Karkare was the man to arrest them. Karkare was receiving threats from several quarters. LK Advani, the BJP chief and several other prominent20leaders of the so-called Hindu terrorism squad were gunning for his head. And the first casualty in the terrorist attack was Karkare! He is dead--gone--the firing by terrorists began from Nariman House--which is the only building in Mumbai inhabited by Jews. Some Hindu Gujaratis of the Nariman area spoke live on several TV channels--they openly said that the firing by terrorists began from Nariman house. And that for two years suspicious activities were going on in this house. But no one took notice.

Our worst fears have come true. It is clear that Mossad is involved in the whole affair. An entire city has been attacked by Mossad and probably units of mercenaries. It is not possible for one single organization to plan and execute such a sophisticated operation. It is clear that this operation was backed by communal forces from within the Indian State. The Home Minister Shivraj Patil should resign. The RSS-BJP-VHP-Bajrang Dal should be banned. Advani and others ought to be arrested. Today is a day of shame for all Indians and all Hindus. Muslims and secular Hindus have been proven right. RSS type forces and Israel are all involved in not only destabilizing but finishing India. India should immediately snap all relations with Israel. We owe this much to Karkare and the brave ATS men who had shown the courage to arrest Praggya Singh, Raj Kumar Purohit, the army officer20and several others.

A photograph published in Urdu Times, Mumbai, clearly shows that Mossad and ex-Mossad men came to India and met Sadhus and other pro-Hindutva elements recently. A conspiracy was clearly hatched.

This is a moment of reckoning especially for Hindus of India. The killers of Gandhi have struck again. If we are true Sanatanis and true Hindus and true nationalists and true patriots we have to see this act as a clear attack by anti-national deshdrohi forces. Praggya Singh, Advani and the entire brand is anti-national. They ought to be shot. Any Hindu siding with them is hereafter warned of serious consequences.

This is a question of nationalism. If no one else, the Indian army will not take this lying down. Communal, anti-national forces have attacked the very foundation of the Indian constitution and the nation. We will fight a civil war if need be against the pro-Hindutva, communal forces and their Israeli backers.

Amaresh Misra

Mumbai Terror attacks: The latest

By Amaresh Misra


This is a follow up to my earlier mail. It is nearly 3.45 PM in India right now. The terror attacks on Mumbai, orches trated by the RSS-Mossad combine are not in anyone's control now. The entire Mumbai ATS team investigating the Malegaon Blasts and the ring of Hindutva terrorism has been wiped out.

RSS sympathisizers are cheering Karkare's death. They say that he fell victim to the `paap' (sin) committed by him in arresting Sadhus etc.

Why did Advani meet Man Mohan Singh some days back? What transpired in the meet? How is it that MK Narayanan, the national Security Advisor and the Prime Minister issued an unprecedented defensive statement just days before assuring that there will be no `torture' on the Saadhvi?

There is obviously a nexus between Advani and Singh. Is Sonia in the knowhow? Another angle: some days back, Pradeep Sharma, the celebrity ex-encounter specialist of the Mumbai Police, was dismissed by AN Roy, the Mumbai DGP and Hasan Ghaffor, the Mumbai Police Commissioner. Official charges against Sharma include working for the Chota Rajan gang, eliminating Muslims at will and "committing unspeakable acts of torture on Muslims".

Karkare, Salaskar and Ashok Kaamte, the three Police officers of the ATS killed in the terror attacks, were part of the anti-Pradee p Sharma group. Now the Indian media is talking about the underworld role. It is odd that all three Police ATS officers killed should belong to the anti-Pradeep Sharma, anti-Chota Ranjan group.

It seems that there is a nexus between RSS-Mossad and Chota Rajan. Now it must be remembered that in the 1990s, certain elements in the Mumbai Crime Branch had projected Chota Rajan as a `Hindu Don' to counteract Dawood. Rajan was close to the Home Ministry under Advani during NDA years of power between 1999 and 2004.

Firing from the Nariman House, the traditional place of Jews in Mumbai is still on; no one from inside Nariman House has been hurt--for some reason the police are not assaulting Nariman House. Now an incredible thing has happened--CROWDS OF HINDUS AND MUSLIMS HAVE COME TOGETHER IN A UNITED BID AGAINST WHAT THEY SEE AS A MOSSAD PLOT. THESE CROWDS ARE SAYING THAT IF THE POLICE IS NOT ASSAULTING NARIMAN HOUSE--THEY WILL DO SO.

KARKARE WAS AN INCH AWAY FROM IMPLICATING PRAVEEN TOGADIA AND CHOTA RAJAN IN THE MALEGAON BLAST CASE!

THOSE WHO DOUBT WHAT I AM SAYING--WHAT DO THEY HAVE TO SAY NOW? COME ON SPEAK UP--
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Hmm so Mumbai story is getting more complex very day

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The terrorist mayhem in Mumbai had barely subsided when I received the first e-mail a suggesting the attacks had been carried out by agents of Mossad — Israel’s foreign intelligence agency — masquerading as Islamic terrorists to give Muslims a bad name.

i hope it is right news and as far as im is conserned israel and americans are involved in every bomb blast in the world so that they can give bad name to muslims and terrorists
The terrorist mayhem in Mumbai had barely been reported by most western Media before they started blaming Pakistan and the ISI. I guess there was plenty of evidence and investigation conducted at this point?

whats your point?

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Rumors please do not fan those.

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It was India that started the rumor mongering by pointing finger at Pakistan and Bangladesh. Still looking for feedback on post #6.
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I did not read further once it was clear that you were posting from mails, stop quoting from mails.

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Since the situation is turning ugly we should try to follow up all leads before this turns into a war type situation provoked from outside the region. All possibilities must be raised and analysed. If they turn out to be false then at least we can say we didn't leave any stone unturned to find the real culprits.

So please feedback on post #6.
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Since the situation is turning ugly we should try to follow up all leads before this turns into a war type situation provoked from outside the region. All possibilities must be raised and analysed. If they turn out to be false then at least we can say we didn't leave any stone unturned to find the real culprits.

So please feedback on post #6.
Please give credibility to your post first. I get hundreds of such mails every day. Lot of them mange to bypass my filter.

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This is what two Jewish owned newspapers are saying. Does it not appear they are provoking more serious tensions -

India's Antiterror Blunders

Years of appeasing militants has made the problem worse.

As the story of the carnage in Mumbai unfolds, it is tempting to dismiss it as merely another sorry episode in India's flailing effort to combat terrorism. Over the past four years, Islamist groups have struck in New Delhi, Jaipur, Bangalore and Ahmedabad, among other places. The death toll from terrorism -- not counting at least 119 killed in Mumbai on Wednesday and Thursday -- stands at over 4,000, which gives India the dubious distinction of suffering more casualties since 2004 than any country except Iraq.

The attacks highlight India's particular vulnerability to terrorist violence. But they are also a warning to any country that values what Mumbai symbolizes for Indians: pluralism, enterprise and an open society. Put simply, India's failure to protect its premier city offers a textbook example for fellow democracies on how not to deal with militant Islam.

The litany of errors is long. Unlike their counterparts in the West, or in East Asia, India's perpetually squabbling leaders have failed to put national security above partisan politics. The country's antiterrorism effort is reactive and episodic rather than proactive and sustained. Its public discourse on Islam oscillates between crude, anti-Muslim bigotry and mindless sympathy for largely unjustified Muslim grievance-mongering. Its failure to either charm or cow its Islamist-friendly neighbors -- Pakistan and Bangladesh -- reveals a limited grasp of statecraft.

Finally, India's inability to modernize its 150-million strong Muslim population, the second largest after Indonesia's, has spawned a community that is ill-equipped to seize new economic opportunities and susceptible to militant Islam's faith-based appeal.

To be sure, not all of India's problems are of its own making. In Pakistan, it has a neighbor founded on the basis of religion, whose government -- along with those of Iran and Saudi Arabia -- has long been one of the world's principal exporters of militant Islamic fervor.

Bangladesh also hosts a panoply of jihadist groups. As in Pakistan, public sympathy with the militant Islamic worldview forestalls any meaningful effort against those who regularly use the country as a sanctuary to plan mayhem in India. America's unsuccessful Pakistan policy -- too many carrots and too few sticks -- has also contributed to a fundamentally unstable neighborhood.

Nonetheless, the reflexive Indian response to most every act of terrorism is to apportion blame rather than to seek a solution that will prevent, or at least minimize, its recurrence. Even Indonesia -- a still-poor Muslim-majority nation where sympathy for militants runs deeper than it does in India -- has done an infinitely better job of recognizing that the protection of citizens' lives is any government's first responsibility. A superbly trained, federal antiterrorism force called Detachment 88 has ensured that country has not suffered a terrorist attack in more than three years.

By contrast, India's leaders -- who invariably swan around with armed guards paid for by the taxpayer -- can't even agree on a legal framework to keep the country safe. On taking office in 2004, one of the first acts of the ruling Congress Party was to scrap a federal antiterrorism law that strengthened witness protection and enhanced police powers.

The Congress Party has stalled similar state-level legislation in Gujarat, which is ruled by the opposition Hindu-nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party. And it was a Congress government that kowtowed to fundamentalist pressure and made India the first country to ban Mumbai-born Salman Rushdie's "Satanic Verses" in 1988.

The BJP hasn't exactly distinguished itself either. In 1999, the hijacking of an Indian aircraft to then Taliban-ruled Afghanistan led a BJP government to release three hardened militants, including Omar Sheikh Saeed, the former London School of Economics student who would go on to murder Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl.

More recently, the BJP, driven by tribal religious solidarity and a penchant for conspiracy theories, has failed to demand the same tough treatment for alleged Hindu terrorists as it does for Muslims. Minor parties, especially those dependent on the Muslim vote, compete to earn fundamentalists' favor.

In sum, the Indian approach to terrorism has been consistently haphazard and weak-kneed. When faced with fundamentalist demands, India's democratically elected leaders have regularly preferred caving to confrontation on a point of principle. The country's institutions and culture have abetted a widespread sense of Muslim separateness from the national mainstream. The country's diplomats and soldiers have failed to stabilize the neighborhood. The ongoing drama in Mumbai underscores the price both Indians and non-Indians caught unawares must now pay.

India's Antiterror Blunders - WSJ.com

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India cannot pin all the blame on outsiders


Radical Islamist terrorism has flourished among the sub-continent's seething mixture of racial and religious rivalries

Images of that great Bombay monument, the Taj Mahal Palace hotel, engulfed in flames and thick billowing smoke cannot help but recall the collapsing twin towers of 9/11. The attack seems to bear all the hallmarks of an al-Qaeda operation.

The terrorists chose Bombay (Mumbai), the New York of India; they targeted iconic buildings - the Taj and the Chhatrapati Shivaji railway station, the flamboyant mini-St Pancras that is redolent of the Raj-era glory days. The terrorists are reported to have been daring in their approach - they arrived by sea not far from the Raj's 1911 monument to itself, the basalt Gateway of India.

The Bombay outrage is a reminder of how crucial South Asia is in the creation of radical Islamist terrorism. Although the US often points the finger at Europe as its main incubator, it is in the sub-continent and the surrounding arc of states, simmering with ethnic and religious rivalries, that Islamist extremism thrives.

India has been plagued by more run-of-the-mill domestic terrorism in recent years, but this was the first full-scale anti-Western attack and Manmohan Singh, the Prime Minister, was quick to assert that it was the work of outsiders.

There is evidence to support his claim. The targeting of British and US citizens as hostages in the two hotels is a novel development. So too is the use of AK47s and commando tactics. In style and execution it was closest to attacks in the Saudi city of Khobar in May, 2004, when oil installations were targeted by apparently well-trained, Sten-gun-wielding paramilitaries who seized Western workers as hostages.

The timing of the attack, likely to derail efforts by the incoming Obama Administration to pursue a more constructive approach to the War on Terror, also seems too convenient to be mere coincidence.

But unlike 9/11 there is evidence of an entirely domestic element at play. In recent months there has been a spate of bombings in Indian cities. Responsibility has been claimed by the Indian Mujahadin - one of several fronts for the Students Islamic Movement of India (Simi). It is through Simi, Indian officials fear, that international terrorist networks have begun to penetrate more deeply into India - often through links with the Gulf.

Founded in the late 1970s as a study group, Simi became involved in violence after the Hindu nationalist destruction of the Ayodhya mosque in 1992 and the Bombay riots of 1993. Banned after 9/11, it developed an underground network throughout India and Bangladesh. In the past 18 months there have been signs of a new international element in its activities. After the Jaipur bombings this summer, the Indian Mujahadin threatened foreign tourists. There is speculation of links with Gulf-based jihadist organisations.

However, terrorism in India is by no means an exclusively Muslim practice. Terrorist violence is, sadly, endemic. In the past four years India has suffered the highest rate of civilian death by political violence after Iraq. It is at present experiencing a form of politics more akin to Italy's violent “Years of Lead” in the 1970s than Gandhi's Golden Age of Ahimsa (non-violence).

In its interiors, far-left Naxalites have waged an intermittent guerrilla war for more than 30 years; in the 1980s the Khalistan-Punjab crisis claimed 40,000 lives, and the insurgency in Kashmir another 90,000. And in the late 1980s and early 1990s Hindu nationalist extremists used terrorism as an electoral strategy - and appear to be doing so again in this election year with attacks on Indian Christians in eastern and southern India.

But despite the multi-religious and multi-ethnic origins of terrorist violence the Indian authorities have, until recently, tended to treat only Muslims as terrorists. So while Muslim “terrorists” have been subject to extraordinary laws of detention and trial in special courts, Hindu nationalist “rioters” have been tried in regular courts, or, more usually, not been punished at all.

One of the principal complaints of Indian Muslim groups is the failure to bring to trial any of the Hindu ringleaders responsible for pogroms in Bombay in 1993 and Gujarat in 2002 in which more than 4,000 Muslims died.

While the Pakistani intelligence agency, the ISI, and international jihadist groups have undoubtedly trained and funded Indian Muslim terrorists, the chief recruiting officer is often the Indian State.

This is especially true at regional and state level where the police and judiciary are often “captured” by Hindu political interests that have used anti-terrorist laws to pursue political vendettas. The extreme poverty of many Muslims in India, whose status, according to a recent report, was below that of the “Untouchable” caste of Hindus, has increased frustration.

While “Untouchable” and other low-caste groups are actively promoted into universities and prestigious state jobs, India's 150 million Muslims, who make up 13 per cent of the population, hold only 3 per cent of state posts. They are even less well represented in the police.

There are signs that the present Congress-led coalition recognises these problems. On taking office in 2004, Dr Singh's Government abolished the controversial Prevention of Terrorism Act (Pota), which, the Prime Minister argued, was propagating rather than preventing terrorism.

Another positive sign was the recent arrest of Hindu nationalist terrorist cells in Maharashtra. After the Delhi bombs in September the Government announced the creation of a central intelligence agency to monitor Islamist terror. Given the intelligence failures emerging in the wake of the Bombay catastrophe, this can only be welcomed

The immediate effect of the Bombay attacks will probably be to fuel the recovery of the Hindu nationalist BJP and its supporters, who are demanding the reimposition of the Pota laws. We can only hope that better counsel prevails and India does not lapse into a new cycle of violence and revenge.

Maria Misra is the author of Vishnu's Crowded Temple: India and the Great Rebellion (Penguin) and a Fellow of Keble College, Oxford

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Now you posted your links in wrong thread expect no more replies from me here.

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Terrorism does not arise out of desperation or frustration, it arises out of the terrorists own lack of belief and arrogance, a wish to be victimised by those who love to control. Terrorists are criminals and no one should justify their actions. Unjust Indian legal system is not an excuse.

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ADL Statement on Mumbai Terrorist Attacks

Big Lie Blaming Jews Circulating

NEW YORK, Nov 28, 2008 /PRNewswire-USNewswire via COMTEX/ -- The Anti-Defamation League (ADL) today expressed outrage at the Mumbai terrorist attacks that targeted innocent victims because they were Americans, Britons, Westerners and Jews. In a statement ADL said that, "this brutal attack once again shows that terrorists single out Jews, be it in Buenos Aires, Bali, Tel Aviv, and now Mumbai."

Abraham H. Foxman, ADL National Director issued the following statement:
We are outraged at these horrific attacks targeting Americans and other Westerners and Jews. The devastating assault on a number of high visibility targets known to be frequented by thousands of visitors to Mumbai and residents of the city is a tragic reminder that the world must stand up against all terrorism, because in the end no one is safe until terrorism itself is rejected and combated in all its manifestations.

The Chabad headquarters in Nariman House appears to have been picked by the terrorists because of its clearly Jewish character, indicating that Rabbi Gavriel and Rivka Holtzberg were murdered simply because they were Jews. The brutal attack once again shows that terrorists single out Jews, be it in Buenos Aires, Bali, Tel Aviv, and now Mumbai. We send our condolences to the family of the Rabbi and his wife and the entire Chabad community.
Not surprisingly, as we saw immediately after the 9/11 attacks, the "big lie" is being disseminated in an ugly rumor that the Israeli security agency, Mossad is responsible for the Mumbai attacks. "Our worst fears have come true. It is clear that Mossad is involved in the whole affair. An entire city has been attacked by Mossad and probably units of mercenaries," wrote Amaresh Misra on the blog, Axis of Evil ( Arm Yourself With The Weapons of Mass Education: Mumbai The Mossad Angle). Since its appearance the article has been reposted on scores of right-wing and anti- Israel blogs, forums and Websites.

The Anti-Defamation League, founded in 1913, is the world's leading organization fighting anti-Semitism through programs and services that counteract hatred, prejudice and bigotry.

SOURCE Anti-Defamation League

http://www.marketwatch.com/news/story/ADL-Statement-Mumbai-Terrorist-Attacks/story.aspx?guid={7828061C-DD96-4789-B737-12E77291D6FA}
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