U.S. Fears Pakistan Role In India Attacks
6 Americans Among 195 Killed In Mumbai Terror Siege
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Americans killed in Mumbai attacks, from left: Rabbi Gavriel Noach Holtzberg,13-year-old Naomi Scherr, and her 58-year-old father Alan Scherr. (AP/Synchronicity)
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A Chabad-Lubavitch movement spokesman says Rabbi Gavriel Noach Holtzberg and his Israeli wife, Rivka, have been killed in Mumbai. They ran the movement's local headquarters, which was one of 10 sites attacked. (AP)
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FBI agents were preparing to fly to India to investigate the bloody attacks in the Indian financial capital as the State Department warned U.S. citizens still in the city that their lives remain at risk.
A U.S. counterterrorism official said some "signatures of the attack" were consistent with the work of Pakistani militant groups known as Lashkar-e-Taiba and Jaish-e-Mohammed that have fought Indian troops in the disputed Himalayan region of Kashmir and also are reported to be linked to al Qaeda.
But the official emphasized it was premature to pinpoint who was responsible for the attacks. Another official, specializing in counterintelligence, also cautioned against rushing to judgment on the origins of the gunmen who waged a two-and-a-half-day rampage through India's leading commercial center before being killed.
The U.S. officials spoke on condition of anonymity due to the sensitivity of the situation.
The U.S. Embassy in New Delhi on Saturday raised the death toll among Americans from five to six including at least three a Jewish outreach center and a man and his 13-year-old daughter killed when gunfire erupted at a hotel restaurant. Embassy officials gave no details on the identity of the sixth victim.
Will Geddes, an international risk assessment specialist, told The Saturday Early Show that the attacks were the worst nightmare about how terrorists go about an attack.
By hitting hotels, the terrorists hit everyone that they could possibly want to. They hit the international community and they hit Indians, Geddes said. For al Qaeda, hotels are a favored target as they do just that - hitting everyone at the same time. Hotels in India are used not fore foreign travelers to stay in but also as offices by travelling staff.
India and Pakistan have fought two of their three wars over Kashmir. U.S. officials are concerned about a flare-up in animosity similar to one that occurred after Pakistani militants attacked the Indian parliament in December 2001, the officials said.
Underscoring those fears, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice has called the foreign minister of India twice, along with Pakistani President Asif Ali Zardari, since the crisis began.
"There were very worrying tensions in the region," said Gordon Duguid, a State Department spokesman. "She was calling the president of Pakistan to get his read on how those tensions might be affected."
As U.S. officials worked to ease hard feelings between India and Pakistan, a tentative rapprochement between the two nuclear-armed rivals could hang in the balance.
Pakistan's ambassador to the U.S., Husain Haqqani, said in a statement that his country is "confronting the menace of terrorism with great vigor." Haqqani insisted "it is unfair to blame Pakistan or Pakistanis for these acts of terrorism even before an investigation is undertaken."
President George W. Bush pledged cooperation with Indian authorities and mourned the deaths of at least 195 people at the hands of gunmen.
"My administration has been working with the Indian government and the international community as Indian authorities work to ensure the safety of those still under threat," Bush said in statement Friday.
Bush was receiving regular updates, White House press secretary Dana Perino said Friday night. Senior administration officials were focused on ensuring that Americans were being helped in every way possible, she said.
Duguid, the State Department spokesman, cautioned that "Americans are still at risk on the ground," and repeated calls for U.S. citizens not to travel to the stricken city at least through the weekend.
Officials were working out the final details with Indian diplomats Friday for the departure of an FBI team, said U.S. authorities, who also spoke on condition of anonymity because of the delicate nature of the operation. A second group of investigators was on alert to join the first team if necessary.
U.S. officials were checking with Indian authorities and hospitals to learn more about the extent of casualties.
Among the dead were:
Rabbi Gavriel Noach Holtzberg, 29, and his wife, Rivkah, 28. They were killed in an attack on the ultra-Orthodox Chabad-Lubavitch movement's center in Mumbai, Rabbi Zalman Shmotkin said in New York. Officials could not confirm whether Rivkah Holtzberg was, like her husband, an American citizen, or whether she was the sixth American fatality the embassy in New Delhi alluded to on Saturday.
Bentzion Chroman, an Israeli with dual U.S. citizenship who was visiting the center.
Rabbi Leibish Teitlebaum of Brooklyn, N.Y., who was visiting the center.
Alan Scherr, 58, and daughter Naomi, 13, of Virginia, who died in a cafe Wednesday night. They lived at the Synchronicity Foundation sanctuary about 15 miles southwest of Charlottesville, Va., and were among 25 foundation participants in a spiritual program in Mumbai, said Bobbie Garvey, a spokeswoman for the foundation, which promotes a form of meditation.
Duguid said consular staff would continue to work with Indian police until all missing Americans were accounted for.
U.S. officials have activated a phone tree to contact American citizens who registered with the U.S. consulate in Mumbai, State Department spokesman Robert McInturff said.
President-elect Barack Obama has spoken by telephone with Rice about the attacks and received several intelligence briefings, State Department officials said. They said Rice spoke again Friday with Indian Foreign Minister Pranab Mukherjee.
"These terrorists who targeted innocent civilians will not defeat India's great democracy, nor shake the will of a global coalition to defeat them," Obama said in a statement. "The United States must stand with India and all nations and people who are committed to destroying terrorist networks, and defeating their hate-filled ideology."
The State Department set up a call center for Americans concerned about family members who may be in Mumbai. The number is 1-888-407-4747.
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See all 170 CommentsSo far as I can tell the only links are that they come from the same general part of the world and have some common religious beliefs. This is not much commonality.
It is sloppy thinking and tends to push people to stupidly identify Muslims with al Qaeda rather than the other way around.
We should be smarter than that.
-Barack must keep repeating this statement for some of his supporters who still have their heads up GW''s b utt (Bush Derangement Syndrome) and refuse to believe there is a "war on terror".
Yes we can
This is by no means an exhaustive list. Of course, had John McCain become president, being a member of the CFR himself, his administration would have been replete with CFR representatives also. Max Boot, Lawrence Eagleburger and Henry Kissinger, to name but a few, are all CFR members and were all advisors to the McCain campaign.
Please do your own research and add more names in the comments section of this report. It is important to document how these people are a part of the engine of global elitism and do not represent change. Only with this understanding will others wake up to the false left-right paradigm and be able to create the environment for real political change.
Bruce Reidel - CFR, Brookings - Former CIA analyst who wishes to expand the war on terror to fight Al Qaeda across the globe. Considered to be the reason behind Barack Obama%u2019s Hawkish views on Pakistan and his Pro India leanings on Kashmir.
Stephen Flynn - CFR - Has been attributed with the idea for Obama%u2019s much vaunted "Civilian Security Force". Flynn has written: "The United States should roughly replicate the Federal Reserve model by creating a Federal Security Reserve System (FSRS) with a national board of governors, 10 regional Homeland Security Districts, and 92 local branches called Metropolitan Anti-Terrorism Committees. The objective of this system would be to develop self-funding mechanisms to more fully engage a broad cross-section of American society to protect the country%u2019s critical foundations from the widespread disruption that would arise from a terrorist attack."
Zbigniew Brzezinski - CFR, Trilateral Commission - Brzezinski is widely seen as the man who created Al Qaeda, and was involved in the Carter Administration plan to give arms, funding and training to the mujahideen in Afghanistan.
Richard Clarke - CFR - Former chief counter-terrorism adviser on the U.S. National Security Council under Bush. Notoriously turned against the Bush administration after 9/11 and the invasion of Iraq. Also advised Madeleine Albright during the Genocide in Rwanda.
Ivo Daalder - CFR, Brookings, PNAC - Co-authored a Washington Post op-ed with neocon Robert Kagan arguing that interventionism is a bipartisan affair that should be undertaken with the approval of our democratic allies.
Dennis Ross - CFR, Trilateral Commission, PNAC - Served as the director for policy planning in the State Department under President George H. W. Bush and special Middle East coordinator under President Bill Clinton. A noted supporter of the Iraq war, Ross is also a Foreign Affairs Analyst for the Fox News Channel.
Will these people bring about "change" or will they continue to hold up the same entrenched system forged by the corporate elite for decades?
Susan E. Rice - Council on Foreign Relations, The Brookings Institution - Served as Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs under Clinton from 1997 to 2001. Former Secretary of State Madeline Albright is a longtime mentor and family friend to Rice. Critics charge that she is is ill disposed towards Europe, has little understanding of the Middle East and would essentially follow the same policies of Condoleeza Rice if appointed the next Secretary of State or the National Security Adviser.
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Posted by downsteamjim at 10:37 AM
Go speak to yourself about convicted felons since the republicans have quite a few, and now Cheney and Gonzalez are under indictement in Texas for their own greed.
perhaps we need to just mind our own *** business, for once,like we eventually did in vietnam. then we will see them welcoming us back..........ON THEIR OWN TERMS, not ours!!
Posted by usadvisor101 at 10:01 AM : Nov 29, 2008
This is great post, you''re better than Obama and McCain
h e l l!!!
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Posted by william908
If the muslims had the technology they would use it, they just use stupid followers of their perversion of the muslim faith as suicide bombs.
Posted by william908 at 12:08 PM : Nov 29, 2008
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that is a good idea..the problem is..they have this nast habit of coming here, where we live in peace and serenity, and mess it up with 747''s a c4..
you really need to tell them that..or else IT IS A LOOSING BATTLE.......for us
Posted by william908 at 12:16 PM : Nov 29, 2008
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thats a good idea..we can have a plane full of osama bin ladens in a 747 heading for new york but it is alllll okay because the cockpit doors are kept lock..
Posted by william908 at 12:16 PM : Nov 29, 2008
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so what are you going to do when they start bombing american schools, shopping centers and govt building within the borders of the US???
lock your house doors?? good idea
Posted by william908 at 12:18 PM : Nov 29, 2008
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and what do you want an FAA agent who is on the ground thousands of miles away to do about a terrorist sitting next to you ready to ram it againt a building??
give you comforting words???
how about we prevent these people from even boarding the plane..do you like that idea better?
Posted by william908 at 12:19 PM : Nov 29, 2008
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i prefer to be proactive than reactive to an attack..and btw bush is out in a month..
do you think terrorism ends then?? they will be going to a secret obama ranch *wink*
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so you plan to sit in an office and WAIT FOR THE NEXT ATTACK..brilliant..well it will all end when there is NOTHING to protect because we are all dead
Posted by william908 at 12:27 PM : Nov 29, 2008
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fu ckking exellent..you know the definition..now do you know how to use it in a sentence..better yet do you know a good example of being proactive..
or better yet..use it in a sentence about terrorism
Posted by william908 at 12:30 PM : Nov 29, 2008
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so saddam spent billions of cotton candy?? and ronald reagan gave saddam nothing but science sets for his people??
Posted by william908 at 12:32 PM : Nov 29, 2008
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and what do you call the people who saw the wtc go down and said "hey just act normal".."they might just go away"
Posted by william908 at 12:34 PM : Nov 29, 2008
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one thing i know how you can tell the bad guys from the good guys..
the bad guys are the ones who are trying to kill you..
Posted by william908 at 12:36 PM : Nov 29, 2008
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JESUS H CHRIST ON RUBBER CRUTCHES..you cannot be serious!!!
i think the constant televised rantings from osama bin laden was a dead giveaway..and perhaps maybe those years and years of terrorist attacks from muslim insurgents MIGHT also be a dead giveaway..
so what kind of proof do you wan.."a dr evil kinda coming on the tv screen demandin a gajillion dollars" kinda proof??
Posted by william908 at 12:37 PM : Nov 29, 2008
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it already happened junior!! several times..and newsweek and time magazine ALREADY PUBLISHED ARTICLEs on what drives these people..
and this country is MY country..mofo
Posted by demswin08 at 12:41 PM : Nov 29, 2008
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yeah we are..the liberals are protecting them..that is the disadvantage..
but now that we have a liberal in office..lets see them in action..
Everything.
Posted by william908 at 12:44 PM : Nov 29, 2008
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dont worry oliver stone might feel patriotic one of these days and $$ell you the truth
Posted by william908 at 12:46 PM : Nov 29, 2008
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todays world is a small world..what happens in that armpit part of the planet..IT AFFECTS our economy..and what affects our economy..affects me..and if affects me..its my business..
things will get really ugly my friend..you best start digging your bomb shelter..
Posted by william908 at 12:49 PM : Nov 29, 2008
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that loser kept the entire DNC at bay for 8 years..feared by pretty much every muslim dicator..
Hollywood even made a movie about him..THIS GUY IS A SUPERSTART..
Posted by william908 at 12:50 PM : Nov 29, 2008
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you talk like you dont participate in economy..
what you live in a cave..grow your own food..make your own cloths and furntiure,,dont use legal tender????
you know what you are..you are like a person ******** about how the cook butchered the cow after he served you a steak
Posted by william908 at 12:53 PM : Nov 29, 2008
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HAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAH
make sure you have a very strong lock on that cockpit door..
HAHAHAHAHAHAH
You are American idol for sure, I vote for you.
Posted by william908 at 12:54 PM : Nov 29, 2008
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you standing in wal mart..JUST JUSTIFIED A WAR
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