Tariq Ali: The Assault on Mumbai

cricketplaya · November 29, 2008, 3:51am

Indians it’s time to accept the fact!

http://www.counterpunch.org/tariq11272008.html:

The terrorist assault on Mumbai’s five-star hotels was well planned, but did not require a great deal of logistic intelligence: all the targets were soft. The aim was to create mayhem by shining the spotlight on India and its problems and in that the terrorists were successful. The identity of the black-hooded group remains a mystery.

The Deccan Mujahedeen, which claimed the outrage in an e-mail press release, is certainly a new name probably chosen for this single act. But speculation is rife. A senior Indian naval officer has claimed that the attackers (who arrived in a ship, the M V Alpha) were linked to Somali pirates, implying that this was a revenge attack for the Indian Navy’s successful if bloody action against pirates in the Arabian Gulf that led to heavy casualties some weeks ago.

The Indian Prime Minister, Manmohan Singh, has insisted that the terrorists were based outside the country. The Indian media has echoed this line of argument with Pakistan (via the Lashkar-e-Taiba) and al-Qaeda listed as the usual suspects.

But this is a meditated edifice of official India’s political imagination. Its function is to deny that the terrorists could be a homegrown variety, a product of the radicalization of young Indian Muslims who have finally given up on the indigenous political system. To accept this view would imply that the country’s political physicians need to heal themselves.

Al Qaeda, as the CIA recently made clear, is a group on the decline. It has never come close to repeating anything vaguely resembling the hits of 9/11.

Its principal leader Osama bin Laden may well be dead (he certainly did not make his trademark video intervention in this year’s Presidential election in the United States) and his deputy has fallen back on threats and bravado.

What of Pakistan? The country’s military is heavily involved in actions on its Northwest frontier where the spillage from the Afghan war has destabilized the region. The politicians currently in power are making repeated overtures to India. The Lashkar-e-Taiba, not usually shy of claiming its hits, has strongly denied any involvement with the Mumbai attacks.

**Why should it be such a surprise if the perpetrators are themselves Indian Muslims? Its hardly a secret that there has been much anger within the poorest sections of the Muslim community against the systematic discrimination and acts of violence carried out against them of which the 2002 anti-Muslim pogrom in shining Gujarat was only the most blatant and the most investigated episode, supported by the Chief Minister of the State and the local state apparatuses.

Add to this the continuing sore of Kashmir which has for decades been treated as a colony by Indian troops with random arrests, torture and rape of Kashmiris an everyday occurrence. Conditions have been much worse than in Tibet, but have aroused little sympathy in the West where the defense of human rights is heavily instrumentalised.**

Indian intelligence outfits are well aware of all this and they should not encourage the fantasies of their political leaders. Its best to come out and accept that there are severe problems inside the country. A billion Indians: 80 percent Hindus and 14 percent Muslims. A very large minority that cannot be ethnically cleansed without provoking a wider conflict.

None of this justifies terrorism, but it should, at the very least, force India’s rulers to direct their gaze on their own country and the conditions that prevail. Economic disparities are profound. The absurd notion that the trickle-down effects of global capitalism would solve most problems can now be seen for what it always was: a fig leaf to conceal new modes of exploitation.

Pareezay · November 29, 2008, 4:03am

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Yeah but we know what they are going to do- stay in denial and blame it on Pakistan.

cricketplaya · November 29, 2008, 4:21am

Sounds like an Indian with Punjabi accent - uses hindi words like shanti, parivaar..etc but I don’t believe these India media outlets. They are more of a joke than Fox news.

and has anyone seen Dog Day Afternoon where Al Pacino talks to the media from the bank. lol, do people really think intelligence will let the media talk to these people? people are really naive that the intelligence will not cut off phone lines and all communication from there. oh wait, it’s the indian intelligence. LOL

Pareezay · November 29, 2008, 4:28am

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^haha.
i heard them speaking to two of the terrorists.. one sounded indian while the other was claiming to be from hyderabad. i wonder if they arrested any of those two.

SyedAbduallah · November 29, 2008, 4:45am

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Yes, it is clear it is a false flag operation, even the hindus themselves are saying it

GAUTAM ADHIKARI SPEAK UP… DO SOMETHING…SAY OPENLY THAT THE RSS-MOSSAD ARE RESPONSIBLE–OTHERWISE BE DAMNED AND CONSIDER THE NATION DOOMED. THEY KILLED KARKARE TO SEND A MESSAGE THAT YOU CANNOT INVESTIGATE THE MOSSAD-RSS ANGLE. Ghul

Mossad-RSS are one entity now for all intents and purposes, its sahme tht ignorants will throw blame at innocent muslims and pakistanis. Lets hope that no gujgrat genocide follows this false flag operation and muslims are provided top securtity

chintu_bhopali · November 29, 2008, 9:02am

the terrorist who is catched alive will open the pandora box . Dont worry truth will be out soon. There is no doubt they were from pakistan.

PaRtyGuyz · November 29, 2008, 10:40am

And you are making this statement from ur Hole in Boston...i dont understand when indians will start making sense!

P.S r u high on RSS sponsored milk?

vigoratus · November 29, 2008, 11:41am

The terrorist who is catched could very well be a strong supporter of RSS outfit and hence a FBI (Fully Blooded Indian). Learn to accept the reality, or did you forget already that Hindu link was found in the previous bomb blast in which many pakistanis died too?

Shamraz_Khan · November 29, 2008, 11:47am

And you concluded that based on what? Or, as I suspect, you just pulled that out of your rear. In any case, who knows the terrorist caught may very well be an Indian army officers.

ADAMANSKA · November 29, 2008, 12:25pm

I guess all the real detectives and smart people are here on GS...avoid drunken posting, remove the black cloth tied over your eye sockets and save your words for the posts which you will make after truth comes out because after that you will be like ...... , uhh, ahemmm...hmmm.

Caught terrorist has already stated in interrogation going that he was trained by ISI and Paki Navy for a period of 12 to 18 months. Now if you can believe what you heard on India TV (that hyderabadi stuff), you got to believe this as well.

ADAMANSKA · November 29, 2008, 12:29pm

Yeah they may be aliens from mars too.

Indian Army doesn't get involved in this gay stuff though we saw that gay stuff in opposition during Kargil War.

vigoratus · November 29, 2008, 12:33pm

No one is interested in the kinda gay stuff Indian Army gets involved in. This is not that kinda forum.

I should post the link to that report which said so many Indian soldiers have aids guess due to what...But nawh, why derail the topic.

Carry on! :biggthumb

junaid001 · November 29, 2008, 12:34pm

that is funny and forgery..
it is deliberate to sound him punjabi accent, and it was not a punjabi accent as well.
he was not one of the terrorists because they way he was saying the words as if reading something also there was no hardness in his voice he was too calm as if controlling his tone.

other one i heard on a different channel seemed to be indian and his urdu was either lucknow or hyderabad

vroom · November 29, 2008, 1:00pm

this guy is on a purely indian agenda

Shamraz_Khan · November 29, 2008, 2:01pm

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^^^ that guy sounds like Mushrraf's impersonator. It can't get anymore phony than this.

Ambassador1 · November 29, 2008, 4:38pm

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The time is near. Soon, very soon the people of the world will see the 'terrorist' face of this state which lives wearing a mask of 'secularism' and 'peace'.

Near is the time when this hypocrite state is declared by the world's human rights organizations and influencial academies to be the most dangerous terrorist state in the world. A state where the terrorist walk around openly in UNIFORMS and kill civilians while their 'secular' government supports the act.

A hypocrite terror state living under the over-hyped but fake label of 'secularism' killing innocent women, children and men with state order - The soon-to-be-declared-terrorist-and-dangerous-state-to-live-in-for-all-humans- The hypocrite state of INDIA

Insha-Allah

teggy · November 29, 2008, 4:48pm

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There may be elements within India who are radical, but just as well there are some peace loving people in that nation.

Everyone's got a few bad apples to deal with. Thus, i encourage India to not be blinded by ego and clean itself from within.

Shamraz_Khan · November 30, 2008, 8:18am

Nuh, I think in India the entire apple cart is rotten. Sadly, we have live with them....:(

samara_khan · November 30, 2008, 1:30pm

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i wish for a united pakistan n india....lol

simplyme · December 1, 2008, 4:37am

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How long can you guys be in a state of denial. The world over, people have realised that Pakistan is the hotbed of terrorism and many governments have started putting pressure on the Government of Pakistan to do the right thing before it is too late.