At least 174 killed in Indian train blasts...

[koolbabs2000]

A series of seven explosions killed at least 174 people on crowded commuter trains and stations Tuesday evening in the Indian financial capital of Mumbai, police said.


http://www.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/asiapc...sts/index.html

Cant we stop these cowards from attacking innocent people?

[mr_malee]

If you can prove that no God exists and convice these people of that, then yes.

[gerbick]

From my understanding - and I'm not disregarding what happened by no means - there's been no claim of who's done this; am I correct?

Outside of the Pakistan-India-Kashmere issue, I don't see how India was targeted at all.

Still a very sad issue nonetheless

[koolbabs2000]

there's been no claim of who's done this; am I correct?

- Pakistani terrorists.

Outside of the Pakistan-India-Kashmere issue, I don't see how India was targeted at all.

- India has been targetted for a long time now. A terrorist is terrorist be it Pakistan, Afganistan or elsewhere.

India has been shouting for donkey's years that Pakistan has been a breeding ground for terrorism - but sadly to the outside world its all projected as a Kashmir issue until the Madrid and London blasts found that the terrorists were trained in Pakistan.

Look how the terrorists have widened their horizon now. No city is safe.

Heartfelt condolonces to all those who lost their near and dear and ones in the Mumbai Blasts. Peace !

[Frets]

mr_malee

Proving and convincing are two entirely different things.
When all is said and done people choose to believe not out of logic or reason but out of convenience.

[Ask The Geezer]

At least 174 killed in Indian train blasts... while another 28,000 in a country of over a billion died of starvation and disease.

Guess which one get's the headlines.

[adit_ya_sharma]

I travel by these local trains in Bombay everyday. I was ten minutes away from the Bandra station (going towards it) when all these blasts started to happen, and that also in first class compartments, in which I commute. Close call....thank god i found a guy who told me that he had got the news and I took the taxi instead.

Sad part is, everyone is starting to get numb about the situation as if its a monthly affair.
BTW gerbick, India has been a target of terrorists long long back before they started targeting the western countries.

[gerbick]

I know about past incidents in India. It's just... well, I'll claim ignorance before I state this... I just haven't heard of any foreign policies that seemed to have ticked off anybody since the nuclear bomb escalation(s) with Pakistan.

[Ask The Geezer]

They are saying well over 200 dead now, and over 700 injured.

But I don't think terrorists need any kind of rational excuse to blow people up. If this is over kashmir, which they are speculating now, then it's more of the same, radical muslims against everyone else.

[adit_ya_sharma]

Originally Posted by Ask The Geezer

But I don't think terrorists need any kind of rational excuse to blow people up.

Exactly what i was typing: foolishness+ignorance+brainwash cannot equal reason.

ed: another minor thing that i realised that the date that day was 11/7, as in some relation with 7/11 ?

Originally Posted by article

Indian Home Minister Shivraj Patil said the government had some advance knowledge that such an attack might take place. "What we didn't have was the place and the time," Patil said.

Thanks...???

[koolbabs2000]

"What we didn't have was the place and the time," Patil said.

- I felt like laughing on this statement. If we know the place and time - why do you need the Intelligence wing ?

well, I'll claim ignorance before I state this... I just haven't heard of any foreign policies that seemed to have ticked off anybody since the nuclear bomb escalation(s) with Pakistan.

- You dont need any foreign policies to tick off terrorists Im afraid. What will these ignorant brainwashed people know about any policies. They are just out to kill and spread mayhem; bloody cowards.