Mumbai was a trial run

It is time to connect the dots.The attacks in Mumbai were a suicide mission, obviously. But what was their purpose? If they were a purely terrorist attack, there would be no reason to take hostages. If they were a hostage-taking attack, there would be demands of a specific nature, rather than some rant about injustice to Muslims. I most respectfully suggest that you and your advisors should consider the possibility that this attack may have had three very specific goals, none of which have yet been analyzed: 1.) muscle flexing to show the West what Islamo-fascist terrorsits can do, in order to intimidate western governments and lubricate the process whereby governments are induced to chose the path of appeasement when confronted with Islamo-fascist demands 2.) sparking a confrontation between India and Pakistan, such that the current USA-friendly civilian government will be toppled by anti-India and anti-American forces led by the Islamo-fascist forces in Pakistan 3.) generating a trial run, for the next bigger one. Re #3, consider what harm such attackers could do in any major western city. Worse, what could 50 such units do to the economy and defensive abilities of a western country? What could 500 such units do in the USA if they all struck at once, and their targets were not tourist sites but government offices, electrical power stations, military bases, police stations, major transportation hubs, radio/TV stations, the sites where cell-phones and world-wide-web electronic signals are beamed to and from satelites? Think of the paralysis, the panic, the difficulty of police and army to coordinate. And if such attacks were coordinated with a dirty bomb in Washington, or a full-blown nuclear device sailing in to NY harbor in an oil tanker....how effective would our defensive responses be? And if you are thinking that 500 is a big number, consider that various terror-watch groups estimate that Syria alone hosts close to 70,000 wannabee terrorists in training, and that over 5000 Arab and Iranian terrorists have entered our country surreptitiously via Mexico duringt he past five years. David Meir-Levi

<p>It is time to connect the dots.The attacks in Mumbai were a suicide mission, obviously. But what was their purpose? If they were a purely terrorist attack, there would be no reason to take hostages. If they were a hostage-taking attack, there would be demands of a specific nature, rather than some rant about injustice to Muslims. I most respectfully suggest that you and your advisors should consider the possibility that this attack may have had three very specific goals, none of which have yet been analyzed: 1.) muscle flexing to show the West what Islamo-fascist terrorsits can do, in order to intimidate western governments and lubricate the process whereby governments are induced to chose the path of appeasement when confronted with Islamo-fascist demands 2.) sparking a confrontation between India and Pakistan, such that the current USA-friendly civilian government will be toppled by anti-India and anti-American forces led by the Islamo-fascist forces in Pakistan 3.) generating a trial run, for the next bigger one. Re #3, consider what harm such attackers could do in any major western city. Worse, what could 50 such units do to the economy and defensive abilities of a western country? What could 500 such units do in the USA if they all struck at once, and their targets were not tourist sites but government offices, electrical power stations, military bases, police stations, major transportation hubs, radio/TV stations, the sites where cell-phones and world-wide-web electronic signals are beamed to and from satelites? Think of the paralysis, the panic, the difficulty of police and army to coordinate. And if such attacks were coordinated with a dirty bomb in Washington, or a full-blown nuclear device sailing in to NY harbor in an oil tanker....how effective would our defensive responses be? And if you are thinking that 500 is a big number, consider that various terror-watch groups estimate that Syria alone hosts close to 70,000 wannabee terrorists in training, and that over 5000 Arab and Iranian terrorists have entered our country surreptitiously via Mexico duringt he past five years. </p> <p>David Meir-Levi</p>