"Terror attack kills 21, wounds 141 in India; Three blasts rock Mumbai; recalls 2008 assault in city" by J. David Goodman and Vikas Bajaj, New York Times / July 14, 2011
MUMBAI — Three bomb explosions shook the city of Mumbai at the height of the evening rush hour yesterday, killing at least 21 people in what Indian officials called a coordinated terror attack on the country’s economic capital....
No group claimed responsibility for the bombings yesterday....
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"Mumbai investigators comb triple bombing site for clues" July 15, 2011|By Lydia Polgreen and Vikas Bajaj, New York Times
NEW DELHI - As of late yesterday, no group had claimed responsibility....
At a news conference in Mumbai, India’s top security official, Home Minister Palaniappan Chidambaram, would not speculate about who might have carried out the bombings. “We are not pointing a finger at this stage,’’ he said. “We have to look at every possible hostile group.’’
Related: Indian leader suspects Mossad-CIA handiwork in Mumbai blasts
I always suspect them at some level now.
Intelligence officials had picked up no warnings that an attack was imminent, Chidambaram said.
“Whoever has perpetrated this attack has worked in a very, very clandestine manner,’’ he said.
And that REEKS of INTELLIGENCE AGENCY INVOLVEMENT!
The home secretary, R.K. Singh, said that ammonium nitrate, a fertilizer component, had been used in the bombs, and that the early evidence pointed to the use of timers rather than remote triggers as the detonators. The explosions took place within minutes of one another in crowded areas of the city.
“They were not crude bombs but sophisticated devices,’’ Singh said in New Delhi. “Only somebody who has training can assemble those devices.’’
The chief of Mumbai’s antiterrorism squad, Rakesh Maria, said heavy rain was hampering forensics investigators.
A senior US law enforcement official said early indications pointed to India-based militants, not to Lashkar-e-Taiba, a militant group in Pakistan that is suspected of being behind the 2008 assault on Mumbai. But the official, who spoke on the condition of anonymity because of the delicacy of the matter, cautioned that the investigation was still in its early stages and that it was premature to make any firm conclusions. The police described the bombs as improvised explosive devices.
Determining whether the attacks were carried out by a domestic group such as India’s mujahedeen or a foreign group such as Lashkar-e-Taiba was essential to understand what the political impact might be, analysts said.
India and Pakistan have only recently restarted formal talks that had been suspended in the aftermath of the 2008 attacks, gingerly discussing issues such as the status of the disputed region of Kashmir.
Where?
Pakistan’s foreign minister is scheduled to visit India this month, and a Foreign Ministry spokesman in India said the visit would go ahead as planned.
The deteriorating relationship between the United States and Pakistan after the killing of Osama bin Laden, as well as the death of Ahmed Wali Karzai, the Afghan president’s half-brother who controlled southern Afghanistan, have made an already complex regional atmosphere even more volatile.
To keep repeating that bin Laden lie and citing the CIA killing of Karzai's brother lets you know there is an agenda at work. Certainly keeping India split from Pakistan on false pretenses is part of the globe-kickers WWIII map. The front lines are right there for you to see. India sure would serve as a terrific block and buffer to China as well as base of attack on Iran.
Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton was expected to visit India next week to discuss regional security and other issues.
What did I just type?
The Indian mujahedeen is a shadowy domestic group that has claimed responsibility for a number of attacks beginning in 2006, but its ability to carry out attacks has waned since the government arrested many of its top members in 2008. Officials said that two people suspected of being members of the group were arrested this week before the attacks and were being interrogated.
In AmeriKan newspeak that means a western intelligence agency front.
Some analysts praised Indian officials for their handling of the explosions, saying that the response was far more swift and controlled than the reaction in 2008.
Chidambaram, appointed after the 2008 attacks, denied that there had been an intelligence failure. Nonetheless, the government has faced criticism as many wonder why the perpetrators went undetected despite the millions spent to improve the country’s counterterrorism capabilities....
Hey, when it is your "friends" that are behind it that makes it a bit more difficult.
With monsoon rains falling and the investigation blocking parts of the city, Mumbai was tense but quiet yesterday....
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"Blasts won’t derail Pakistan talks; India advances peace dialogue despite violence" July 16, 2011|By Ravi Nessman, Associated Press
NEW DELHI - India brushed off speculation tying this week’s Mumbai bombings to Pakistan and said yesterday that it remained committed to recently renewed peace talks with its rival neighbor.
The moves showed how little appetite New Delhi has for escalating tensions in the region while it focuses on maintaining economic growth in the nation of 1.2 billion people.
And that THE WHOLE WORLD is now IN on the "game" of FALSE FLAG TERROR by WESTERN INTELLIGENCE AGENCIES and their assets!
While future revelations about the culprits in the blasts that killed 17 people Wednesday could still sabotage relations between the countries, the Indian government so far has rejected opposition demands for a heavy response against Pakistan....
Yeah, but the Zionist propaganda just isn't cutting it anymore.
Intelligence analysts say the attack bore the hallmarks of the Indian Mujahideen, a shadowy Islamic militant group.
Once again, we get CORPORATE MEDIA CODE CONFIRMING an INTELLIGENCE OPERATION!
Home Minister Palaniappan Chidambaram said Thursday that investigators were not ruling out the possibility the attacks were aimed at scuttling the talks.
Yeah, and WHO WOULD WANT to do THAT, cui bono?
The talks, though unlikely to produce concrete results because of political weakness on both sides, at least will lower the temperature between the nations, said Ashok Mehta, a retired Indian Army general and leading strategic analyst....
That sounds like sabotage before they even begin!
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Also see: Rescue effort ends for Indian train crash
Related: Train Tracking in India
I'd say take a car, but....
"Pace of India’s urban boom poses challenges for municipal services" July 17, 2011|By Rama Lakshmi, Washington Post
HUBLI, India - Over the past two decades, this old trading town in southern India has transformed into a bustling business city as software companies, call centers, and factories set up here. Dozens of colleges, air-conditioned shopping malls, and international gyms dot its leafy lanes.
They used to be yours, Americans.
But like many emerging Indian cities, Hubli is ill-equipped to cope with the growth. Piles of garbage lie uncollected on street corners, and vehicles clog the narrow roads.
Related: Tied Up in an Indian Traffic Jam
That seems to come with the car wherever you are.
Most residents have access to clean water for just a few hours a week....
Isn't the poverty amongst such economic growth an indictment of India?
What would Gandhi say?
India must invest more than $860 billion in urban infrastructure over the next 20 years, officials say....
One of Hubli’s most dramatic projects focuses on overhauling the city’s water supply model to keep up with its residents’ growing aspirations. With a $39 million grant from the World Bank, the water department began a pioneering experiment in 2008 to deliver water to five neighborhoods 24 hours a day.
Not a loan?
The project’s success has triggered a clamor for similar programs not only in other neighborhoods across Hubli but also other Indian cities.
Until recently, Hubli residents used to skip work and school to line up for water, delivered by the city every eight days.
I like the first part.
“Sometimes they supplied water in the middle of the night, and everybody would run to the taps. Fights would break out. It was like living in a village, not in a city,’’ said Saleema Sattar, 41, an accountant who lives in a low-income neighborhood.
At first, round-the-clock water supply was unimaginable for the residents here.
We are in the 21st-century, right?
Then the globalists have failed.
They thought the city would quickly run out and feared that their bills would be too high. The city council’s waterworks employees thought that the French company called in to manage the water supply would fire them.
Oh, so THIS IS REALLY ABOUT the PRIVATIZATION of WATER!!
I KNEW there was an agenda in here somewhere when I saw World Bank doing it for the good.
But now, residents pay for their water, and officials say there is less waste and fewer cases of waterborne diseases.
“This has been a miracle. We can turn the tap on any time of the day and there is water,’’ said Girija Manjunath, 31, who lives in a blue-collar area that now receives 24-hour water supply. “It has freed me from water worries. My children are cleaner and go to school. Others in the city envy my destiny now.’’
Hey, if the PEOPLE are HAPPY who am I to pee in the water?
The success of the 24-hour water supply program in Hubli has fueled other aspirations as well - for better public parks, wider roads, traffic management, and street lights.
Have to be careful there or they will be out in the streets protesting.
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Took a picture while I was stuck in traffic:
"CLINTON STOPS IN INDIA -- Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton listened as S.M. Krishna, India's foreign minister, spoke during a press conference in New Delhi. Clinton, who is on a 12-country tour, pledged US support in fighting terrorism but said disputes over trade and nuclear contracts must be worked out between the two countries, "so that we can reap the rewards of the extraordinary work that both of our governments have done." (Boston Globe July 20 2011)."
It would be nice if we were not sending agents like David Headley there then.
