December has arrived and the second day of summer feels more like Winter. It has been very windy here with frequent rain squalls.
It is frightening to read that there were ten to a dozen gunmen who caused so much grief and anguish in Mumbai (Bombay) last week. Almost 200 people were killed in this terrorist outrage which lasted for three days. The aim apparently was to trigger an all-out war between India and Pakistan. One report said that there were also casualties caught in the crossfire between the terrorists and the various security forces. It also has emerged that the terrorists did not hold any hostages but immediately killed them. One report in an Indian press report claims that the terrorists aim was to inflict 5,000 casualties. It certainly looks as if Al Qaeda was involved, probably through a proxy outfit.
As I remarked in my last post, we did briefly stopover in Bombay as it was then called in 1979. This was on our way to and from Europe and all we saw was the very dingy and unkempt transit lounge. I realise that Bombay has changed since then but it is sad hundreds of innocent people had to needlessly suffer from the actions of of a band of terrorists with the aim of pushing the region into all-out nuclear war.
Robin
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What about in JOS, Nigeria — Iki Atsen told the women in his family to flee and grabbed an ax as a man with a bullhorn urged 100 Muslim men to storm Atsen's Christian homestead and kill all nonbelievers.
The region's first election in over a decade sparked fighting that degraded into ethnic and religious violence in area where Nigeria's Christians and Muslims live uneasily side by side.
Now there were more dead than in the Indian incident. Jos was made out to be over a simple election problem in Nigeria. How boringly mundane our Tassie politics seem by comparison. However, there is no guessing where you and I prefer to live.
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