Police Find Large, Unexploded Bomb at Mumbai Train Station; Remnant of Terror Attacks

[bigworld]

Source: ABC NEWS

Police say that they have found explosives hidden in a bag in Mumbai's main train station which they said was left over from last week's attacks.

Senior police official Rakesh Maria said the bag was found Wednesday evening when police officials were going through abandoned luggage.

He offered no further details.

Read more: http://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory?id=6379999

[juno jones]

1. Methinks we should be thankful

that something in their plan went awry. I remember explosives being found elsewhere as well. I think the captured gunmen held outa hope of escape, because the plan was somewhat different originally. Perhaps a failure like this might put some dampers on footsoldiers and recruits.

[rasputin1952]

3. The first tenet of warfare..."Know your enemy"...in this case, as in

many others from the POV of the individuals perpetrating such acts is the simple notion that these people do not respect the lives of their victims, and have little cause to save their own lives in the name of their "movement". Just as many in Japanese society in the 1940's and previously, the act of dying was far superior to some of the other options.

Until the mindset changes within the a society that glorifies the death of some, there will always be those willing to sacrifice their lives for a "cause". From what I have gleaned, if an individual is caught and imprisoned, they lose the "superior status" and fall into disgrace. The way to combat this is to prosecute and imprison those that not only perpetrate said crimes, but those that press for such things as well. The questions are "who" and "how".

[The Stranger]

5. But every society "glorifies the death of some."

Do you know how your society does it?

To answer that question requires a paradigm shift.

[rasputin1952]

6. Yes indeed, but some societies is actually

require death for some of it's individuals, otherwise, they cannot reach "esteemed" status.

All societies "glorify" death to some degree, some factions have moved the bar a little higher and can get some individuals to become murder/suicide practitioners when they are convinced it will somehow increase their chances of getting something better, usually through some notion they will gain in a way they cannot be sure they will gain.

There is a vast chasm between jumping on a grenade as a sacrifice for your fellow soldiers and premeditated murder/suicide of innocent civilians. Much of this is coming out of the Islamic sphere of influence, but others are certainly not immune from such influences.

When I was looking into societal situations in the Middle-East, a number of things became apparent. The vast majority of Muslims deplore such tactics, but there are a few who think this is the way to deal with things. The Japanese had a close ideology with it Bushido Code. Other societies are also close to this ideology, but the threat has to be more concrete than religious ideology for a sacrifice of such magnitude.

Zealots, regardless of ideology or stripe, are dangerous people.

[The Stranger]

7. These types have been around a long time, apparently.

And Samson said, Let me die with the Philistines. And he bowed himself with all his might; and the house fell upon the lords, and upon all the people that were therein. So the dead which he slew at his death were more than they which he slew in his life.

Then his brethren and all the house of his father came down, and took him, and brought him up, and buried him between Zorah and Eshtaol in the buryingplace of Manoah his father. And he judged Israel twenty years.

[LibertyLover]

2. I also read on CNN

that Indian experts had to remove grenades from the bodies of the Israeli couple killed at Chabad House before they could be transported to Israel for burial. Sad and sick.

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