MUMBAI ATTACK LOOKS LIKE AQ MODUS OPERANDI

The attack in Mumbai looks like some of those AQ plots that never quite made it into operation, at least in terms of having so many moving parts. Of course 911 was "successful" but other plots involving even more airplanes never made it into implementation.

Of course it looks like attackers, at least some from abroad, came ashore and proceeded to attack ten or more targets. They were suicidal and seemed interested in killing civilians at their various targets. Of course this maya be related to Jammu and Kashmir. In India there are a lot of attacks by insurgents and terrorists. This was on a larger scale, and obviously meant to be a spectacle.

It sounds a lot like a military operation because of the story that the group came in on a dingey after being left ten nautical miles beyond Indian waters. That requires some discipline. The terrorists reportedly
impressed the Indian forces fighting them with their professionalism with grenades and the AK.

If there is a Deccan Mujahadeen, which is the group we are told takes credit for this then we can wonder if they want to create a Hyderabad emirate. Of course the danger of communal violence after this attack by
people claiming to be doing it for the sake of Islam is heightened. Hopefully moderation and good sense prevail.

We must remember that there may be elements in Pakistan or elements in Islam that have carried out these attacks or supported them in some essential manner. This involvement of a few does not make all Pakistanis or Islamic people guilty of this assault. That is a very irrational idea and I address this admonition to Americans who are likely to need such reminders.

I don't think that the Pakistani government supported this attack although some may want it to look that way, like AQ in particular.

PEACE IN PALESTINE WILL BE EVEN MORE DIFFICULT IF AQ ENTERS THE CONTEST

I hope that Israel and the Palestinians will rapidly deescalate the military struggle against each other and establish the practical peace that will serve the short and long term interests of all parties.

If AQ is able to establish a front in Palestine or Israel this opportunity may be lost. The time for peace and prosperity is now and yes, the main burden is on Israel but the Palestinians must also seek to act before the political equation is changed.

Of course Palestine has long been the least religiously extreme part of the Arab world. Israel's efforts to social engineer the demographics of the Palestinian people has already led to one failure after another.

It is time for Israel, in particular, to reign in its extremists and make peace within its own constituencies so it can come to peace with the Palestinians. An endless game of warfare and war crimes will serve neither side nor the cause of world peace. Otherwise there is one state and can be only one state Israel/Palestine, with one people, the Palestinians confined to bantustan-like nations and subjugated by an Israeli military dictatorship supplemented with widespread Klan-like setter instigated terrorism.

The greatest pillar of peace for Israel is peace with Palestine and Palestinians. That can be accomplished if only Israel can make peace with itself and choose the humanistic side of its heritage even if the struggle is difficult and increasingly urgent for all parties and the peoples of the world.

IS BIN LADEN DECEASED?

I guess a lot of folks believe that the infamous Osama Bin Laden is dead. If this is true it would explain why there have been no communiques from him and the more recent ones seem sort of fake. Could an effort be made by AQ or its opponents to fake OBL communiques on video or otherwise?

Of course the whole construct of AQ is sort of loose and we always hear about how this or that organization is "connected" to Al Qaeda, whatever the word "connected" means.