Mumbai

[Captain Picard's Hair]

No comments on the big Indian city getting blown up?

[Nutso]

I don't know what to say. It's pretty numbing really. Such a massive attack by another set of extremists, and for what? I don't know. Does anybody?

[Tsukiyumi]

They were specifically targeting Americans and Britons, and they're Islamists, so I'd say the reason is pretty self-evident.

[Sionnach Glic]

I was just about to post this thread, actually.

Last I heard (and that was this morning, so expect the numbers to have gone up), there's 100+ dead, 300+ wounded and 100-200 taken hostage in various hotels. They're apparently Islamic, and began searching tourists for British or American passports. I've also heard that they attacked a bar that's popular among Jews in the city, and 6 high-ranking police officials, including the head of the Anti-Terror Squad, were killed early in the attack. A little-known Muslim terrorist organisation has claimed responsibility, and have demanded that Islamic militants being held in prison be released.

It sounds like complete chaos over there.

[Graham Kennedy]

Usual reasons I expect. Spread fear and panic. Try to damage or destroy the tourism industry in that country. Grab headlines, generate publicity for their cause.

[Teaos]

Impessive in its scope. Apparently some high ranking officials are dead/missing.

[Captain Picard's Hair]

Impessive in its scope. Apparently some high ranking officials are dead/missing.

Yeah. As grim and gruesome as acts like these are, the scale - and the coordination and execution of a plot of this scale by this mystery organization - were quite impressive. As disgusted as you are at these people, you have to have some grudging respect for how well they pulled this off.

[Mikey]

a bar that's popular among Jews in the city

We, as a people, don't frequent bars much. I, of course, endeavor to be an iconoclast...

you have to have some grudging respect for how well they pulled this off.

No I don't. I've always been keen to point out the difference between killing and murder... and this is murder. On a grand scale, no less. Murder executed in an organized and well-planned manner is still murder. I don't care if they targeted Jews, Americans, Brits, Cypriots, Lapps, or Mongolian yak-herders.

[Tsukiyumi]

...I've always been keen to point out the difference between killing and murder...

It is a hell of a large distinction.

[Teaos]

No I don't. I've always been keen to point out the difference between killing and murder... and this is murder. On a grand scale, no less. Murder executed in an organized and well-planned manner is still murder. I don't care if they targeted Jews, Americans, Brits, Cypriots, Lapps, or Mongolian yak-herders.

He and I werent at all saying it was right or at all good. Just the fact that the scale of it is impressive.

[Mikey]

I understand. I'm just saying that things of that nature don't impress me.

[Sionnach Glic]

We, as a people, don't frequent bars much

Ah, right. I may have misheard.

[Mikey]

No, it's just that the few of us who do try to make up for the lack.

[Nutso]

I just will never understand how these mass murderers can justify their actions before a God who brought forth life into the world.

[Sionnach Glic]

Update:
The incident is now over. Indian troops stormed the Taj Mahal Hotel this morning and took down the rest of the terrorists. The current count is 9 dead, 1 captured.
Death toll is now at 195 and expected to rise.