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 Mumbai, India |
The Islamist terrorist attacks in the Indian city of Mumbai, which to this point are estimated to have cost some 150 lives, may be the beginning of a counter-attack to ongoing U.S. and British military action against Islamist targets in Pakistan, according to a report from Joseph Farah’s G2 Bulletin.
Security officials are beginning to believe that such a conclusion is supported by the terrorists’ search for people with British and U.S. passports in attacks at the Taj Mahal and Trident-Oberoi hotels. Terrorists also attacked a Jewish center, the rail station and a hospital.
There also are unconfirmed reports that British nationals of Pakistani origin may have been among the terrorists in Mumbai. The British government is said to be investigating.
Terrorists also were heard to refer to Kashmir, where three wars have been fought over the Muslim-majority, Indian-controlled Jammu-Kashmir state in the northwestern part of the Indian subcontinent that borders both countries.
Because of the terrorists’ targeting of U.S. and British nationals, South Asian security experts have expressed increasing concern over the Pakistani population’s reaction to ongoing U.S. drone attacks inside Pakistan against terrorist strongholds.
The experts believe certain controlling elements within Pakistan’s Inter-Service Intelligence organization, or ISI, that have ties to the Taliban and al-Qaida and other affiliated groups are involved.
Some of the al-Qaida-affiliated terrorist groups include the Lashkar-e-Taiba, or LeT, a Pakistan-based militant group that operates in Kashmir.
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The LeT also is known to operate cells in India and was responsible for the July 2006 train bombing in Mumbai and a similar bombing in February 2007 on a train traveling from New Delhi to Lahore.
Associated with the LeT is the Student Islamic Movement of India, or SIMI.
According to security experts, the SIMI and LeT have formed an amalgam called the Indian Mujahideen, or IM, which has claimed responsibility for recent attacks against civilians in India.
Security experts remain concerned that the Mumbai terrorist attack could rupture the relationship between India’s Hindu and Muslim populations, leading to a possible civil war.
It also could set up a confrontation between the two nuclear powers of India and Pakistan.
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