The age of suicide fighters
The clean-shaven, lithe young men ravaging Mumbai are suicide fighters — planned, armed and committed for long battles — not the shadowy hit-and-run suicide bombers with which India is so familiar.
The detonation of a taxi on Wednesday seemed a diversion: the real teeth of the attack lay in small teams of highly trained commando-like fighters capturing buildings, taking hostages and preparing for a siege.
The Mumbai terror strikes fit neatly into the paradigm of jihad international. For the first time, the targets are no longer random markets or innocent Indians, but westerners.
Mumbai 26/11, said an Indian intelligence official, was executed by Pakistan-based Lashkar-e-Tayyeba. Luxury hotels where westerners stay have become a popular target — assuring deeper fear and global publicity.
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The detonation of a taxi on Wednesday seemed a diversion: the real teeth of the attack lay in small teams of highly trained commando-like fighters capturing buildings, taking hostages and preparing for a siege.
The Mumbai terror strikes fit neatly into the paradigm of jihad international. For the first time, the targets are no longer random markets or innocent Indians, but westerners.
Mumbai 26/11, said an Indian intelligence official, was executed by Pakistan-based Lashkar-e-Tayyeba. Luxury hotels where westerners stay have become a popular target — assuring deeper fear and global publicity.
To read the full article, click here..
To read the ePaper, visit: http://epaper.hindustantimes.com
Labels: fighters capturing buildings, global publicity, Mumbai 26/11, Pakistan-based Lashkar-e-Tayyeba, suicide bombers, suicide fighters, trained commando
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