News Terrorism in Mumbai | Last Post by Omcheeto

[Reshma]

I found the blog pointed to by the above article interesting:
If a taxi driver in Mumbai has to live on the street, can the lives of the people in Pakistan be any better? I do not know the answer. But when life becomes so miserable, that people no longer care if people around them are murdered, something is very wrong.

Why only taxi drivers? More than 65% of the population of my city (Mumbai) live in the slums. Even the police force and other security personnel live in shoddy dwellings. A few days before the anniversary of the attacks the security personnel posted were made to live on the pavements of the luxury hotels they were guarding.
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/...ent-night-on-pavement/articleshow/5251239.cms

The reason this attack got such international publicity is because for the first time in the city's 15 year terror history, the city's elite was targeted. Not so long ago, in July 2006 when the city's local trains were attacked which killed more people, (luckily my mom just missed the train which got attacked) the incidents were not well documented and even today the city's most important modes of transport - buses and trains, used by millions everyday continue to remain vulnerable.

There are so many other terrorist attacks and cross border infiltration taking place in the country which are not covered even by the national media...because somehow the lives of the not-so-elite Indians are not as important.

Personally, my anger is not a least bit directed towards the terrorists but more towards the government who have only routinely failed to provide public security.

 

[Reshma]

After 911 true enough, but pick another time frame and the US doesn't look so good: '93 first WTC bombing, US embassy bombings in Africa in the 90's, Saudi Arabian attack killing several US citizens, USS Cole bombing. With all that going on US policy raised, not lowered, the bar between the intelligence operations of the CIA and law enforcement actions of the FBI, making it much more difficult for the two to talk to each other.

On a humorous note, two very attractive people managed to gatecrash into a White House State dinner...
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/world/us/Gatecrashers-met-Obama-US-Secret-Service-embarrassed/articleshow/5278647.cms