Pictures of the Mumbai terrorists.

[girl gone mad]

They look so young.

[AllieB]

1. They look like teenagers.

[HiFructosePronSyrup]

2. Any word on motive?

Are these revolutionaries?

[burythehatchet]

5. Islamic militants. Likely home grown, with ties to Kashmiri groups. I pray

Pakistan is not involved.

[girl gone mad]

6. Speculation based on e-mails says...

they are likely Deccan Mujahideen, a faction of the Indian Mujahideen, potentially with ties to Pakistan.

[HiFructosePronSyrup]

7. Yes, I know.

I'm wondering if there's any word on what they're trying to accomplish.

[and-justice-for-all]

3. What were their motives?

Was it just to terrorize or was there something else?

[rockymountaindem]

4. Terrorists usually are

Once you figure you've got something to live for the appeal of dying on a suicide mission loses a lot of appeal.

[Ian David]

8. I didn't know Versace was a terrorist organization. n/t

[physioex]

9. This is going off subject....

But those are obvious knock-offs. In places like India and China, you can get brands like "Nike", "Polo", and "Versace" for a couple of dollars and they definitely aren't real.

[SoCalDem]

10. Young angry (usually male)"dead-enders".. the bane of us all

:(

I have a suspicion that in the radical Islamic cultures, there are millions of these pathetic creatures.. they are often uneducated (the ringleaders may well be middle class & educated though)..In cultures like that women are a commodity, to be bought and sold by their fathers.. MOST young men have "urges", and if they are poor, careerless, and horny as hell..and there is NO way they will ever amass enough to "buy" a woman for their wife, it's a pretty short step to the next rung on the ladder.. These people are ripe for the picking, when it comes to joining associations, and for being brainwashed into believing that they are at least "doing Allah's work"..

These cultures also have a history of very large families, and often the first son is the chosen one, and the others have little hope.. add to that the act that many of these sects have internecine wars within their own religion..

It's a dastardly mess, and no amount of money seems to be all that effective..

I often wish there was a way to remove all the females for their society and let them just all kill each other :evilgrin:

[JI7]

11. CNN showed the top pic more close up

and i think they described it as him having a crazed look on the face. you can kind of see it in this one also. but you can really see it on the close up.