The news is going from bad to worse as word is coming in from the terrorist attacks that are still ongoing in Mumbai, India. At least 10 different places have been attacked, all across the city, including a hospital, a railway station, a popular cafe, a police station, and two of the most prestigious hotels in the city. There are hostage situations in both the Taj Hotel and the Trident. More than 900 innocent civilians have been injured and 80 killed and those numbers will certainly rise.
The terrorists fired automatic weapons indiscriminately into crowds of people. In many of the places attacked, they also lobbed grenades. They have indiscriminately maimed and killed so many men, women, and children. It is simply horrifying. We have words like evil and depraved but we really don’t have a vocabulary to describe the depths of depravity for acts like this where just soulless terrorists seek to kill as many innocent civilians as they can. We, who have experienced so many suicide bombings and terrorist attacks against our civilians, grieve with the family and friends of the victims. We grieve with the people of India and share your horror at these heinous acts. My heart is with the people of Mumbai tonight.
The latest reports state that the terrorists were killing anyone that they could, but that they systematically tried to target British and American people. This is terrible and will get a lot worse before it is over. A senseless, terrible crime against innocent people.
[...] blogger Yael says the news has developed from “bad to worse” as the size of the calamity [...]
There are a bunch of Israeli citizens held hostage at Trident hotel.
http://www.ndtv.com/convergence/ndtv/video/video_live.aspx?id=0
Oh yes, it will get much worse. But there are still people around who think Islam is a peaceful religion.
Treppenwitz only left about a week ago - thank goodness he didn’t get caught up in it.
I have been frantically trying to get hold of my former neighbour in the city (I worked there for 4 months in 1993). Terrible, just terrible, the whole situation.
I just read that a Jewish center has been targeted and reports are that there are people being held hostage or already dead there. I could not find any other information regarding this situation.
This is the time for Israel to send over their crack commandos, like they did at Entebbe, and get those poor Jews out of the terrorists’ hands and while they are at it, I hope they kill every terrorist they can get their hands on. While we are having Thanksgiving over here, those nutjobs are doing their usual disgusting antics, and when will this stop? Where are the voices of their clergy saying STOP THIS or you will be thrown out of the faith? It is just so crazy.
By nutjobs I was meaning the terrorists of course, not the army people. I am not overfond of armies but there have to be some for just such occasions.
I hope your operation went well. I been real sick and missed your blog for a while. Happy Thanksgiving to you. My cats got a lot of turkey today!!! ANd the dogs, too.
Reader, are you feeling better? I hope that you are soon well. It seems that India was very poorly prepared to handle this situation, and that it was more than NINE HOURS before they sent in a SWAT type team to deal with the situation. Perhaps Israel can offer them training as part of the assistance for these terrorists attacks that are occurring with greater frequency in India.
Reader –HUG, I hope you are feeling better!!!!