Mumbai blasts prompt further questions over Indian intelligence

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Source: The Guardian

Government tries to fight accusations it is clueless over terrorism after co-ordinated explosions in city leave 18 dead

Maseeh Rahman in New Delhi | Thursday July 14 2011 12.16 BST

Cities across India are on high alert as the government came under mounting criticism for its repeated failures to detect terrorist attacks, following the blitz on Mumbai in which 18 people were killed.

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Despite the IM being active for the last nine years following the February 2002 anti-Muslim violence in the state of Gujarat, both intelligence agencies and local police are struggling to eliminate the threat.

Defending the security agencies, Chidambaram told reporters that "if there was no intelligence on a particular incident it doesn't mean a failure of intelligence".

He also insisted that CCTV cameras had been installed in Mumbai, even though the state home department has still to clear a January 2009 city police proposal for a 5,000-camera electronic surveillance network. Only the traffic police have CCTV cameras at road junctions.

Read more: http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/jul/14/mumbai-blasts-questions-indian-intelligence

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2. There is no "Indian Mujaheddin"

That is the name Pakistani terrorists blame their terrorism on. The November 2008 attack on Mumbai was also blamed on "Indian Mujaheddin" but after trials in the US and India, the world knows that it was the Pakistani ISI that did it.

Stupid pundits and Pakistan-sympathizing media are again recreating the fantasy that these blasts somehow didn't come from Pakistan. What most Indians know is that terrorism in Mumbai is caused by Pakistan unless proven otherwise.

Mumbai is targeted because Pakistan is jealous of India's meteoric rise which, to them, in the "two nation doctrine", means the Hindu state triumphed over the Muslim and so they try to destroy the financial center of India. Pakistanis, when they come to India for the first time, are shocked to see free, non-fanatical and prosperous Muslims in the entire fabric of society, educating, enterprising and living well in a secular and multicultural India.

Most people don't know that just one company on the Mumbai stock exchange (Reliance) is worth more than the ENTIRE Karachi exchange.

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3. Interesting....

Thanks for posting.