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It is Mumbai once again! Heavily armed young men dressed in black shirts and jeans, fire and bomb innocents in Mumbai, last night, killing more than 104 and wounding at least 300, at the last minute news reports! As is usual with news people and others who are supposed to know, there are as mny views as to "WHODUNIT" or who has done it?
1. First of all, most take it as a foregone conclusion that the perpetrators were Muslim, because a Muslim fringe group sent an email to a newspaper in September saying that they are going to attack Mumbai!
Maybe the arrogance of the Dehli government is required to keep its "chicken under its wings," or to dominate the Provinces under its control, but there is an anti-North campaign going on in Maharastra. It is possible that an ultra-nationalist, but non-Muslim group tried to take revenge for such feelings! Eight of the terrorists are also dead. Have they been identified as Muslims? The religious affiliation of the criminals is still an open question!
2. Indian Prime Minister said that there is a "foreign hand" in this incident. Some say that this carnage was done by the Al-Qaida, or by Lashkar-e-Tayiba (assummed to be backed by Pakistan , in Kashmir), while others say that this incident does not bear the "signature" of these organisations. But many believe that it may be remotely controlled by Al-Qaeda, but executed by native Indian elements.
As far as Pakistan is concerned, this does not appear to be an official act, but "Islamic Jihadist" and radicalised criminal element's hand has yet to be ruled out. Pakistan itself is constant victim of such incidents. a ship which sailed from Karachi and is apprehended near Mumbai, with "dingies" on the shores of Mumbai, seem to be smuggler's tools! Since mostly American and British citizens have been taken as hostages, this definately is work of anti-Western highly organised group, with an international outreach!
Who has done it, must be found out as soon as possible, before the trail runs cold, and such groups and their patrons should be awarded exemplary punishment. In conclusion, this incident is hereby condemned and rejected in strongest possible terms!!!
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