[ April 20, 2024 ]
Perhaps Obama is hoping to divert attention from the “shellacking” he took last Tuesday, a stunning rebuke to his agenda. So off he goes on this nonsensical trip, Nero spending hundreds of millions (at a time when the country is in dire straits), and what does he get for it? Carmen Miranda.
Screenshot from this news report (minute 9:55). The world knows what a schmuck he is.
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The Bharatiya Janata Party on Saturday criticised United States President Barack Obama’s speech at the 26/11 memorial at the Taj Mahal hotel in Mumbai, for not mentioning Pakistan as the perpetrator of the terror attacks in 2008, which had targeted the luxurious hotel.
BJP’s national spokesperson Rajiv Pratap Rudy had termed Obama’s speech a disappointment, claiming that by omitting to name Pakistan, he had missed an opportunity to strike a chord with the people of India.
Some political spectators and commentators saw BJP’s stance on the speech as a publicity stunt, others felt that Pakistan’s role in the terror attacks, which has been clearly established, should have been mentioned by Obama when he stated that the “perpetrators should be brought to justice”.
Has Obama seen the transcripts of the Muslim terrorists of 11/26 and their jihadist handlers in Pakistan?
The Jewish House was the first and primary target. Islamic antisemitism.
Shoot Jews, save Muslims
The handlers told another team of gunmen who had seized a Jewish center to shoot hostages if necessary. “If you are still threatened, then don’t saddle yourself with the burden of the hostages. Immediately kill them,” he said.
“Keep your phone switched on,” a handler said in the midst of the siege, “so that we can hear the gunfire.”
He then added, “If the hostages are killed, it will spoil relations between India and Israel.”
“So be it, God willing,” the gunman replied.
Six Jewish foreigners, including a rabbi and his wife, were killed inside the Jewish center.
Later in the night, nearly 24 hours after the attacks began, the handlers urged the gunmen to “be strong in the name of Allah”
Information on commando operation was reported directly to attackers (Photo: Reuters)
“Brother, you have to fight. This is a matter of prestige of Islam,” the handler said. “You may feel tired or sleepy, but the commandos of Islam have left everything behind, their mothers, their fathers.” The gunmen were told several times not to kill any Muslim hostages.
The attackers used several different mobile phones, including those belonging to the hostages. Shortly after the siege began, Indian authorities say they began intercepting calls from inside the hotel. They were also able to pick up calls carried over the Internet, which the handlers used to route some calls, according to the dossier.
The siege lasted nearly three days, far longer than security experts said it should have, and, apparently, far longer than the terrorists expected as well. The handlers told the gunmen on Nov. 27 that “the operation has to be concluded tomorrow morning.” But it was 36 more hours before it finished.
Not acting alone
Much of the dialogue has a teacher-student dynamic, and indeed, the surviving gunman has said he and the rest of the group were trained by Lashkar in Pakistani Kashmir.
“We made a big mistake,” one of the gunman says into the phone in the early hours of the siege.
“What big mistake?”
“When we were getting into the boat … another boat came. Everyone jumped quickly. In this confusion, the satellite phone of Ismail got left behind.” The investigation shows the gunmen entered Mumbai, which sits on the Arabian sea, by a rubber dinghy.
Handlers didn’t expect siege to last as long as it did (Photo: Reuters)
The attacks against iconic Mumbai targets were covered nonstop by news channels around the world, which the handlers used TV reports to guide the gunmen, the dossier says. The handlers warned when commandos roped down to the Jewish center from helicopters.
The dossier included photographs of dozens of items recovered in the attacks, including GPS units, mobile phones, guns, and explosives, as well as data gleaned from satellite phones, and details from the interrogation of the lone surviving gunman. It also had pictures of more mundane items India calls incriminating because they were made in Pakistan, including pickles, detergent, a match box, tissue paper, a Mountain Dew bottle, shaving cream and a towel. But the strongest — and most chilling — evidence that the gunmen were not acting alone came from the phone transcripts.
UPDATE: Because you asked:
“….the Rabbi and his wife at Nariman House were sexually assaulted and their genitalia mutilated,” said a senior officer of the investigating team, not wishing to be quoted.
Part I
Part II
Part III
The other day I ran some of the telephone intercepts between the Muslim terrorists in Mumbai and their Islamic masters in Pakistan. Motivation and encouragement to murder and bomb for the sake of Allah.
It wasn’t a couple of hours later that the Daily Mail took the article down. Why? Perhaps it would interfere with their outreach to the ummah. I don’t know but I have it all — go here: The
chilling words of the Muslim Mumbai killers recorded during their
murder spree: “Keep killing, keep killing, the dogs.’ “Insh’Allah” ‘The
manner of your death will instill fear in the unbelievers. This is a
battle between Islam and the unbelievers”
It was all about Allah, jihad and Islamic Jew hatred.
.
Moshe Holtzberg was snatched to safety by his Indian nanny from under
the noses of the gunmen who brought carnage to India last November. His Rabbi father and mother were
killed the day before his second birthday when Muslims took
over the Chabad House they ran in Mumbai, one of several targets they
laid siege to in the city during the devastating terrorist raid in
which more than 170 people died.
Telephone intercept:
‘Do you want them to keep the hostages or kill them?’ asks Brother Wasi of
someone else in the control room.
The person replies with a casual grunt, barely audible through the background
babble of the news channels playing on a nearby television.
At the other end of the line, 500 miles away, Akasha, a 25-year-old
Pakistani, is squatting on the floor inside a besieged building in the centre of
Mumbai with a murdered rabbi’s mobile phone in one hand and a Kalashnikov in the
other.
He knows with complete certainty that this will be his last night on Earth.
For his mission to be a success, he must be killed.
The two women hostages are on a bed nearby, trussed up and blindfolded.
Another gunman, Umer, is dozing.
Now Wasi comes back on the phone. His manner is warm and paternal – the kind
of calm, commanding voice you instinctively trust.
Wasi: ‘Listen up…’
Akasha: ‘Yes sir.’
Akasha speaks in a gentle, dopey murmur. He
sounds exhausted.
Wasi: ‘Just shoot them now. Get rid of
them. Because you could come under fire at any time and you’ll only end up
leaving them behind.’
Akasha: ‘Everything’s quiet here for
now.’
Wasi: ‘Shoot them in the back of the
head.’
Akasha: ‘Sure. Just as soon as we come
under fire.’
Wasi: ‘No. Don’t wait any longer. You
never know when you might come under attack.’
Akasha: ‘Insh’Allah’ (God
willing).
Wasi: ‘I’ll stay on the line.’
There’s silence for 15 seconds. No
gunshots.
Akasha: ‘Hello?’
Wasi: ‘Do it. Do it. I’m listening. Do
it.’
Akasha: ‘What, shoot them?’
Wasi: ‘Yes, do it. Sit them up and
shoot them in the back of the head.’
Akasha: ‘Umer is asleep. He hasn’t
been feeling too well.’
Wasi consults his associates in the control room,
then comes back on the line.
Wasi: ‘I’ll call you back in half an
hour. You can do it then.’
The
Taj Palace Hotel during the raid in November 2008
This conversation, remarkable for its off-hand cruelty, was intercepted by
India’s intelligence agencies at 8.40pm on Thursday, November 27 last year, two
days into the three-day terrorist attack on Mumbai.
I first became aware of these wiretaps in January, when the Indian government
released a dossier of evidence about the massacre. The dossier pointed an
accusatory finger at Pakistan and included a few paragraphs of transcribed
wiretaps as evidence.
At the time the thought of getting hold of the audio recordings themselves
seemed fanciful. This was classified material, perhaps some of the most
important wiretaps ever recorded by the Indian secret services.
Yet one morning four months later I returned to my hotel room in Mumbai
looking over my shoulder and clutching an almost complete set of recordings.
Soon the long-dead voices were playing through my headphones.
Gunmen
caught on CCTV at the Taj Hotel – behind the double doors, 300 guests are
sitting silently in a function room
Despite the difficulties we had in obtaining the tapes, I immediately
questioned whether they were genuine, as it’s well known that the Indian
government was keen to pin blame for the attack on Pakistan. I recognised in the
recordings the voices of people I’d spoken to at length – a surviving hostage
and an interpreter.
I also came across telephone interviews the terrorists had made with TV
stations, which had been aired live during the seige, and the preceding off-air
discussions with presenters and studio staff. This, combined with the sheer
volume and complexity of the recordings – which include firefights,
conversations with hostages, and hours of banal discussion about the
practicalities of the terrorist operation, convinced me that the recordings were
absolutely authentic.
Akasha and Umer had been under siege for nearly 24 hours on the upper floors
of Nariman House, a Jewish study centre run by the orthodox Chabad-Lubavitch
organisation in New York. The bodies of rabbi Gavriel Holzberg, who ran the
centre, and his pregnant wife Rivka lay downstairs, next to those of two
visiting Israeli rabbis. The hostages whose fate was being so casually discussed
over the phone were an Israeli and a Mexican.
No one knows the true identity of the man known as Wasi – the puppetmaster.
He is heard deferring to more senior figures in the control room, but it was he
who cajoled, reassured and inspired the young gunmen forward minute by minute
until they were killed. He is presumed to be a senior officer of Lashkar-e-Taiba
(‘Army Of The Righteous’), a militant group now considered to be a global threat
on a par with Al-Qaeda.
When Wasi calls Akasha back at 9.20pm, his chief concern is ricochets. He
reminds his neighbours in the control room that Ali, Soheb and Fahadullah – half
the members of a six-man squad who’ve seized two hotels – have already been hit
by their own bullets while executing hostages. He has a tip for Akasha.
Wasi: ‘Stand the women up in a doorway
so that when the bullet goes through their heads it then goes outside, instead
of ricocheting back into your room.’
Akasha: ‘OK.’
Wasi: ‘Do one of them now, in the name
of God. You’ve tied them up, right?’
Akasha: ‘Yeah. I’ll untie their
feet.’
Wasi: ‘Just stand them up. If they’re
tied up, leave them tied up.’
Akasha then raises another objection. He
doesn’t want to kill the two women in the room where he and Umer are
sitting.
Wasi: ‘It’ll only take two shots. Do
it in the room where you are now.’
Akasha: ‘All right, yes.’
Wasi: ‘Do it. Shoot them and shove
them over to one side of the room.’
Akasha shuffles off somewhere but leaves the
line open. Wasi holds the line for a full seven minutes. He calls Akasha’s name
a few times, then hangs up. In the next call, ten minutes later, Akasha seems
more upbeat.
Akasha: ‘Please don’t be angry. I’ve
rejigged things a bit and now…’
Wasi: ‘Have you done the job yet or
not?’
Akasha: ‘We were just waiting for you
to call back, so we could do it while you’re on the phone.’
Wasi: ‘Do it, in God’s name.’
Akasha: ‘Just a sec… hold the
line…’
Akasha places the phone in his pocket. There
is a lot of rustling (presumably Akasha crawling over to the hostages) followed
by silence. Then a loud burst of gunfire. And then silence. More rustling, then
Akasha is back. His voice has changed markedly. It’s now a deep, eerie
rasp.
Wasi: ‘That was one of them,
right?’
Akasha: ‘Both.’
A
policeman helps an elderly man across Mumbai railway station, where 52 people
were killed
At 9pm on Wednesday, November 26 last year, ten gunmen arrived in Mumbai by
boat, having sailed from Pakistan in a hijacked Indian trawler. As they came
close to the city they switched into a dinghy and landed on a small beach close
to the middle of south Mumbai, the wealthy downtown area, home to the city’s
tourist hotels, banks and government offices.
The gunmen split into pairs and headed for their targets. All of them carried
heavy backpacks and were dressed in western-style clothes.
The first pair of gunmen stopped at the Leopold Cafe, a popular hangout for
Western tourists. They chatted outside for a while, then embraced. They were
still smiling as they tossed hand grenades and mowed down everyone in the
cafe.
A
map showing the location of the Mumbai attacks
At the same time down the road at the Taj Palace and Tower, Mumbai’s grandest
hotel, the CCTV footage shows two backpackers strolling casually into the lobby.
Each of them is weighed down with 8kg of high explosives, a Kalashnikov, a
pistol, eight hand grenades, hundreds of bullets and enough dried fruit and nuts
to last a couple of days.
After rubbing shoulders with the well-heeled guests for a few minutes, they
go to work, gunning down guests and staff in the hotel hallways, before linking
up with the gunmen from the Leopold Cafe, who had smashed their way in through a
hotel side door.
By 1am on Thursday, the Indian intelligence services had locked on to the
terrorists’ mobile phones. The first few traces led them to VOIP internet
numbers used by the handlers in Pakistan, which can’t be traced in the same way
a mobile or landline can.
From this point on, the Indian police listened in to the hours of
conversation between the gunmen and their handlers. The recordings provide a
picture of total control. The gunmen were not battle-hardened mujahideen
fighters but vulnerable youngsters, groomed over a period of months to foster
obedience and a lust for death, which the controllers were able continuously to
reinforce by mobile phone calls.
The gunmen at the Taj, young Pakistanis from villages in the Punjab, had
never set foot in a modern hotel before, let alone the vast suites on the upper
floors of the Taj. By 1.04am on the Thursday, police had recorded their very
first intercept…
Ali: ‘There are so many lights, so
many buttons… and lots of computers with 22in and 30in screens.’
Wasi: ‘Computers? Haven’t you burned
them yet?’
Ali: ‘We’re just doing it. You’ll be
able to see the fire sometime soon.’
Wasi: ‘We’d be able to see the fire if
there were any flames. Where are the flames?
Ali: ‘The entrance to this room is
fantastic. The mirrors are really grand. The doors are massive too.’
Wasi urges him to throw grenades at the police and
prepare a bucket of water and towels to use against tear gas. But the gunman
keeps talking about the hotel.
Ali: ‘It’s fabulous. The windows are
huge, but it feels very safe. There’s a double kitchen at the front, a bathroom
and a small shop. And mirrors everywhere.’
About 20 minutes later Wasi is concerned the
gunmen have still not taken proper control of the hotel. He calls to ask what
they have done and speaks to Ali.
Wasi: ‘We told you to find an axe, did
you not find one?’
Ali: ‘No, we couldn’t find an
axe.’
Wasi: My brother, there will be an axe
hanging next to each fire extinguisher in the hotel. On every floor in every
corridor. Now you must start the fire. Nothing will happen until you start the
fire. When people see the flames, it will cause fear outside.’
Ali: ‘OK, we’ll start the fire. The
other brothers are nearly here now.’
Wasi: ‘Throw grenades my brother.
There’s no harm in throwing a few grenades.’
Thirty minutes later the gunmen confirm that they
have got the hotel under control.
Ali: ‘They’re massive rooms. Some of
them are amazing. We burned some and cleared a few more.’
Wasi: ‘Did you start a fire in the
ones you cleared out?’
Ali: ‘No, they’re right next to each
other. We’ll set the fire on our way out. We don’t want the fire to spread too
quickly in case we can’t get out.’
Wasi: ‘No, burn everything as you go
along. The bigger the fire, the more pressure you will bring to bear. We’re
watching it on TV. If you start the fire it will put pressure on the security
forces. They won’t come up.’
Ali: ‘Listen. We don’t even walk
around our own houses as freely as we do here. We own the third, fourth and
fifth floors, thanks be to God.’
While the Taj came under attack, a mile away a third pair of gunmen ran into
the lobby of the Oberoi Trident, another famous five-star hotel, slaughtering
diners in the restaurants and herding hostages towards the upper floors. A few
minutes later a taxi pulled up outside Mumbai’s main railway station, Victoria
Terminus.
The car contained two more gunmen: Mohammed Ajmal Amir Kasab and Ismail Khan.
They slaughtered 52 people before melting into the backstreets, murdering as
they went.
Then, as they sped o in a hijacked Skoda, Mumbai police got their first
break. Kasab and Ismail drove straight into a police road block. Ismail was shot
dead but 20-year-old Kasab survived thanks to the heroism of Assistant Sub
Inspector Tukaram Omble, 48.
He grabbed the barrel of Kasab’s Kalashnikov and hung on to it as bullets
tore into his chest. The manoeuvre, which cost Omble his life, bought the other
policemen at the road block enough time to jump on Kasab and take him prisoner.
It was a Lashkar gunman’s worst nightmare: being taken alive (see box, previous
page).
It caused concern among the controllers. The gunmen were supposed to die. To
ensure no others were taken alive, the controllers started to impress on the
gunmen the importance of dying. First, Wasi spoke to Fahadullah at the Oberoi
hotel, who was sitting with his partner Abdul Rehman in a room on the 18th
floor, watching the news coverage on TV. The intercept is timed at shortly after
1pm on Thursday.
Wasi: ‘The manner of your death will
instill fear in the unbelievers. This is a battle between Islam and the
unbelievers. Keep looking for a place to die. Keep moving.’
Fahadullah: ‘Insh’Allah.’
Wasi: ‘You’re very close to heaven
now. One way or another we’ve all got to go there. You will be remembered for
what you’ve done here. Fight till the end. Stretch it out as long as
possible.’
In the evening, Fahadullah and his partner,
at Wasi’s insistence, leave the room and are ambushed by Indian commandos. The
next intercept is timed at 8.13pm. The whooshing sound of the hotel fire
sprinklers can be heard.
Wasi: ‘How are you my
brother?’
Fahadullah (sounds weak): ‘Praise God.
Brother Abdul Rehman has passed away.
Wasi: ‘Really? Is he near
you?’
Fahadullah: ‘Yeah, he’s near
me.
Wasi: ‘May God accept his
martyrdom.’
Fahadullah: ‘The room is on fire, it’s
being shown on the TV. I’m sitting in the bathroom.’
Next time Wasi calls, he urges Fahadullah to
go out and fight.
Wasi: ‘Don’t let them arrest you.
Don’t let them knock you out with a stun grenade. That would be very damaging.
Fire one of your magazines, then grab the other one and move out. The success of
your mission depends on your getting shot.’
Fahadullah: ‘Yes, I know.’
Wasi: ‘God is waiting for you. Stay on
the line and keep the phone in your pocket. We like to know what’s going
on.’
These are the last words Wasi says to Fahadullah, who left the room and was
eventually killed at dawn on Friday, just before Indian commandos staged a show
of force with a helicopter landing on the roof of Nariman House.
There, too, Wasi had been trying to persuade Akasha to run outside and be
shot dead.
Wasi: ‘A stronghold can only last for
as long as you can handle it. And now we’re crossing that limit. What do you
think?’
Akasha: ‘Please God.’
Wasi: ‘It’s Friday today, so it’s a
good day to finish it.’ Once the helicopter lands on the roof, Akasha and Umer
suddenly find themselves under fire.
Wasi: ‘Put the phone in your pocket
and fire back.’
Two hours later, at 8.47am on Friday, Wasi finally
gets the news he’s been waiting for.
Akasha: ‘I’ve been shot.’
Wasi: ‘Sorry?’
Akasha: ‘Pray for me.’
Wasi: ‘Oh God. Where have you been
hit?’
Akasha: ‘My arm. And one in my
leg.’
Wasi: ‘May God protect you. Did you
hit any of theirs?’
Akasha: ‘Yeah, we shot a commando.
Pray that God will accept my martyrdom.’
Wasi: ‘Praise God, praise
God.’
Akasha: ‘Bye.’
CCTV
footage taken from a camera located on the fifth floor of the Taj Hotel shows a
gunman (left) and five hostages – a hotel guest and four members of the Taj’s
staff. When the fire took hold at the hotel, the gunman panicked and ran,
leaving the hostages alive. They were able to escape and all five survived
By Saturday morning, 60 hours after the first shots at the Leopold Cafe, the
operation was over and nine gunmen lay dead. Only Kasab survived – he is
currently on trial and faces the death penalty if found guilty. Across Mumbai
166 victims lay dead and 308 injured.
Lashkar-e-Taiba remains one of the most active terrorist organisations in
South Asia. It has tens of thousands of recruits. The Pakistani government has
yet to find its leaders and put them on trial. It is only a matter of time
before the Lashkar handlers get back in their chairs at the control room.
There’s a passage in the phone transcripts that is grimly prophetic. At
Nariman House, Akasha was being briefed by his handler for an interview he was
to give over the phone to an Indian TV channel.
‘Give the government an ultimatum,’ says a handler named Jindul, who was
clearly the media consultant in the control room.
‘Tell them that this is just the trailer. Just wait till you see the rest of
the movie.’
Akasha takes notes for his interview.
‘Let the government know…’ he mutters as he writes, ‘this is just the
trailer.’ But he doesn’t seem to understand. Jindul explains
impatiently:
‘It’s a small example. A preview.’ Akasha eventually gets the metaphor: ‘The
rest of the film remains to be seen. Should I write that?’
‘Tell them this is a small drop,’ says Jindul, warming to his theme.
‘Let them sit and watch what we do next.’
Dan Reed’s ‘Dispatches Special’ on the terror
attacks in Mumbai is on Channel 4, Tuesday at 9pm
THE POLICE INTERROGATION
Mohammed Ajmal Amir Kasab was the
only terrorist to survive the Mumbai attack. His shocking confession to police
reveals what drove him to commit mass murder
During my investigation into the attacks I also obtained the video of
Mohammed Ajmal Amir Kasab’s confession. It’s another remarkable piece of
evidence, taken just after 1am on Thursday November 27. Three hours previously,
the 21-year-old on the hospital bed was gunning down women and children.
As Kasab begins to speak, it’s hard to see the mass murderer in him. There’s
no sign of the fanatic, the zealot. He curses his Pakistani handlers, calling
them ‘dogs’ and immediately blames his father, and the Lashkar-e-Taiba
‘uncles’.
Kasab
talks to the police in the Nair Hospital, Mumbai, after his capture
Kasab: ‘He made me do it,’ he
moans.
Police interrogator: ‘Who made
you?’
Kasab: ‘Uncle.’
Interrogator: ‘Which Uncle?’
Kasab: ‘The one from Lashkar. They
told me you’d beat me up, so before you do that I’m telling you the
truth.’
Interrogator: ‘What’s your gang
called?’
Kasab seems not to understand. Some of the
other officers present chime in: ‘Your organisation, your gang, your
team?’
Kasab: ‘Oh… It’s
Lashkar-e-Taiba.’
When asked about the massacre at the railway
station, Kasab is equally direct.
Kasab: ‘They told us we had to do this
job.’
Interrogator: ‘What do you mean by
job?’
Kasab: ‘I was supposed to kill
people.’
Interrogator: ‘Which people?’
Kasab: ‘Whoever was there.’
Interrogator: ‘What kind of people did
they tell you to kill?’
Kasab: ‘Just ordinary people, no one
in particular.’ Next, the policeman tries to figure out the terrorists’ exit
strategy.
Interrogator: ‘After completing your
job today, where were you going to go?’
Kasab: ‘We were all going to
die.’
Interrogator: ‘How’s that?’
Kasab: ‘He told us we’d be going to
heaven.’
Interrogator: ‘How many people did you
kill?’
Kasab: ‘I don’t know.’
Interrogator: ‘OK, how many rounds did
you fire?’
Kasab: ‘Er… dunno. Two-and-a-half
magazines.’
Interrogator: ‘And how many people did
you kill?’
Kasab: ‘I don’t know. I just kept
firing and firing.’
Interrogator: ‘And this job. What time
was it supposed to finish?’
Kasab: ‘They said as long as you’re
alive, keep killing, keep killing, the dogs.’
Kasab then starts to weep – or pretends to. It’s
hard to tell from the recording.
Kasab: ‘I mean, those were human
beings, man…’
Later, the policeman asks Kasab whether he had
ever questioned his handler’s instructions.
Kasab: ‘I did ask… but he said,
“These things have to be done if you’re going to be a big man and get rewards.”
So I asked him if he’d done these things too, and he said yes, he had. So then I
thought, well if he has done it, then I should do it too.’
Kasab recounts to the policeman his father’s words
when he took him to the Lashkar office.
Kasab: ‘Look son, these people have a
good life, they eat well, now you can too. These people earn lots of money and
so will you. Then we won’t be poor any more.’
Interrogator: ‘Your father said
that?’
Kasab: ‘Yes, so I said, “All right
then, fine, whatever.”‘
Somehow Kasab seems too quickthinking, too much of a live wire, to agree to
die in order to earn his father a couple of thousand dollars. Yet the fact is,
as he freely admits, and as we know from the phone intercepts, the Mumbai gunmen
were ordered deliberately to go to their deaths. There was to be no other
possible reward than heaven.
At one point during the interview, Kasab describes how the recruits are
filtered down into a small group.
‘The proper training – the one where they say, “Now this boy is ready to go”
– that takes three months,’ he says. ‘After that, he’s ready. He waits. Then
they get him ready and say to him, “Off you go and die.”‘
Rakesh Maria, Mumbai’s legendary police investigator, questioned Kasab later
that day. Kasab told Maria that his handlers had seen how, once a fighter was
martyred, his face would glow like the moon and a smell of roses would emanate
from his dead body.
So once he had squeezed every drop of information out of him, Maria had Kasab
taken to the morgue, where he was shown the bodies of his nine associates,
charred by fire and mangled by bullets.
Kasab, says Maria, broke down and wept.
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62 Comments
13 years ago
He’s got a major meeting with China. They are plenty peeved over the announcement of further monetization of the dollar during QE2 2011. Probably going to offer some of that black golden from Iraq.
13 years ago
Well, that picture is a keeper…….LOL!
You know, he didn’t want to be seen in India with anything on his head for fear we’d all think he’s a Muslim. Gotta love the person in India who made that graphic!
I’m hoping to see footage of his super-duper, bomb proof, air conditioned tunnel that his motorcade will be driving through.
13 years ago
this worm is spending
$200,000,000 a day…A DAY!!!
read it people…again and again and
again.
13 years ago
It’s such a buzz-kill to think that even after Tuesday night’s “shellacking” that we have 2 more years of this America hating POS…Ughhhh….
13 years ago
Two videos which provide some rational explanation for Obama’s trip to Asia:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BjyD8K-xELM&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PuvOekZACPw&NR=1
13 years ago
At least Obama is in a Hindu country. Hinduism is the national religion of India.
I asked a Hindu help me to define what Hindu meant, and he said “it’s an elusive definition, it means “the way.”
I like loose definitions with “religion.”
The problem with Muslims is that they treat Islamic beliefs (the Qu’ran is the exact dictated word of Gd-LOL) as if they are facts. That’s why they have so many hairy-eyeball creeps with hats and costumes raving about Allah.
The “religion” is demented, absurd. However, the long term problem of Islam is the police state and security-surveillance that is required to keep normal people safe. This is the real consequence of this absurd belief system.
Orwell would find it ironic that it would be Islam that brought about “Big Brother” or “Big Sis.” In either case, it’s a bad result.
Islam has no Universal Golden Rule-so it’s not even of any value as the basis of ethics for the human race. Only “believers” matter. It’s an absurd “religion.”
13 years ago
Obama should have been carmenmirandized a long time ago.
He’s traipsing through India during the big Hindu festival of Diwali, and the Hindus know how to have a pretty good time at a festival, so no doubt ths clown and his entourage just add to the fun.
Frank, I was a kid after WWII in the duck-and-cover Cold War nuclear threat era, but we felt safer then because the people in our government who were supposed to know what was going on and keep us safe were doing their job. (Plus the adults had already seen them do that during the war.) This is much scarier. And it is outrageous that they are not doing their jobs primarily because this threat involves a religion, more importantly a “third-world minority” (hah — it’s what, 1.5 billion now?) religion, so we aren’t supposed to even recognize who the enemy is.
Feeling compelled to check every day on what is going on and what the world-wide jihadists are up to now is just incredibly intrusive on normal life. Only good thing about it is the friends who are with us doing the same thing.
13 years ago
That’s a gross misconception. The war in Afghanistan costs $190 million a day. I doubt the president could spend as much as a WAR in a day. It’s probably closer to $10 or $20 million a day.
13 years ago
islam gives religion a bad name. yes,in history much has been done in the name of Gd or religion to make one skeptical. however, much more good has been done than bad, in truth! it’s time for all the world’s people, to stand up to this ‘religion’ and shine the light of truth on the dark, stank, slime that is masquerading as ‘the way’.
13 years ago
i think this whole mess is supposed to strengthen those of us who support or fight the good fight. it sucks, in many ways. but how else can we look at it? we are called upon to fight and defeat an enemy determined to destroy us. the battle is both internal and external and everyone has their own way to best engage it. some people pray more, some people fight outwardly more. but the key is that we all engage it as best we can….it certainly appears that we are called upon to do this far and above even our own expectations of ourselves and others.
this is one reason why pamels’s work is valuable: she is an example of one great way to fight this. and she shows us many reasons for redoubling our own efforts. also, she shows us that we are not at all alone. that good people exist, are aware and are not giving up. ever.
13 years ago
i, for one, am very thankful to know that pamela geller exists, thank Gd, and is doing what she’s doing. and that people like a col allen west also exists and will fight, fight, fight! and win!!!
13 years ago
why is he in india? do you think he’ll say anything about the massacre? the jews who were slaughtered?
i bet there’s some serious money thing going on here…maybe drug/poppy money, or something.
13 years ago
Who’s Who at Obama’s Mumbai Profitpalooza
By Eric Bellman
The Wall Street Journal
“Representatives from around 250 U.S. companies are part of Mr. Obama’s extended entourage during his visit to India which starts Saturday. Much of his first day here will be focused on America’s business bonds with India.
The corporate chiefs will attend the U.S.-India Business Council’s Business and Entrepreneurship Summit at the Oberoi Hotel in South Mumbai that Mr. Obama will also attend.”
http://blogs.wsj.com/indiarealtime/2010/11/04/who%E2%80%99s-who-at-obama%E2%80%99s-mumbai-profitpalooza/
FACTBOX – Corporate America’s wish-list for Obama’s India trip
REUTERS – Corporate America will turn up in force for U.S. President Barack Obama’s first visit to India, with more than 200 companies expected to attend a conference in Mumbai that will be headlined by the president.
The U.S.-India Business Council will be the host for the Nov. 6 event and says the U.S. corporate presence will mark “the largest business delegation to leave U.S. shores in history.”
It has high hopes Obama’s visit and his speech to business leaders will spur trade between the United States and this potentially lucrative Indian market of 1.2 billion people.
http://in.mobile.reuters.com/article/idINIndia-52651120101103?ca=rdt
Now Fox News is reporting on The Wonce’s Mumbai Profitpalooza.
Obama Brings Home the Bacon From India
by Anne McGinn | November 06, 2010
http://politics.blogs.foxnews.com/2010/11/06/obama-brings-home-bacon-india
13 years ago
Has anybody else noticed how Obama’s hair turned completely white?
Search google images for Obama in the election day and Obama 2010
13 years ago
In case you’ve forgotten that NBC, GE, Immelt and The Wonce go way back and start thinking that he’s finally trying to do some work for those of us who pay his salary (and travel expenses!):
Obamagate – The tangled web of Obama, GE, Immelt, Cap & Trade, GE Healthcare and Daschle part I
http://www.examiner.com/conservative-independent-in-boston/obamagate-the-tangled-web-of-obama-ge-immelt-cap-trade-ge-healthcare-and-daschle-part-i
Obamagate – The tangled web of Obama, GE, Immelt, Cap & Trade, GE Healthcare and Daschle part II
http://www.examiner.com/conservative-independent-in-boston/obamagate-the-tangled-web-of-obama-ge-immelt-cap-trade-ge-healthcare-and-daschle-part-ii
Obamagate – The tangled web of Obama, GE, Immelt, Cap & Trade, GE Healthcare and Daschle part III
http://www.examiner.com/conservative-independent-in-boston/obamagate-the-tangled-web-of-obama-ge-immelt-cap-trade-ge-healthcare-and-daschle-part-iii
Obamagate part IV -The ’3 Congressional stooges’ of Healthymagination – Daschle, Gingrich and Frist
http://www.examiner.com/conservative-independent-in-boston/obamagate-part-iv-the-3congressional-stooges-of-healthymagination-daschle-gingrich-
and-frist
13 years ago
I still wonder if there’s any truth to the story below. Is he doing UN business while there on our time and our dime?
The Interpol Red Warrent Game
Posted on October 8, 2010 by The Editors
The BBC report the Interpol Red Corner Notice were issued against Illyas Kashmiri, Major Sameer Ali, Major Iqbal, Abdur Rehman Hashim alias “Pasha” and Sajid Majid alias Sajid Mir.
All this is drama being prepared for Obama’s visit in “Early November”. that trip has been billed the “Kashmir trip” where Obama will pull out all the stops and try to resolve Kashmir. He is expected to offer Delhi the permanent seat on the UNSC if Bharat solves Kashmir.
Delhi is trying to build up a case to trip Obama and take the discussion into areas which are more profitable for Bharat.
http://rupeenews.com/2010/10/08/the-interpol-red-warrent-game/
13 years ago
The $200 million a day has been verified, the White House denies it but other sources agree it is the amount, his trip will cost the US 1 billion dollars. He is doing everything he can to bankrupt the US and has decided this is a good way.
13 years ago
If he is spending our money trying to end the war in Kashmir he is not going to achieve anything, he refuses to accept that Israel has any rights, just as he refuses to accept that India has any rights to Kashmir. His early Moslem training is showing, along with his hatred for any nation that practices any form of capitalism.
13 years ago
According to news reports from India, Obama is spending $200 million dollars a day there. He is accompanied by 3000 people and 40 jets (Really? Even U2 doesn’t need that many to transport their stage show).
Mumbai: The US would be spending a whopping $200 million (Rs. 900 crore approx) per day on President Barack Obama’s visit to the city.
“The huge amount of around $200 million would be spent on security, stay and other aspects of the Presidential visit,” a top official of the Maharashtra Government privy to the arrangements for the high-profile visit said.
About 3,000 people including Secret Service agents, US government officials and journalists would accompany the President. Several officials from the White House and US security agencies are already here for the past one week with helicopters, a ship and high-end security instruments.
“Except for personnel providing immediate security to the President, the US officials may not be allowed to carry weapons. The state police is competent to take care of the security measures and they would be piloting the Presidential convoy,” the official said on condition of anonymity.
Read more at: “>http://www.ndtv.com/article/india/us-to-spend-200-mn-a-day-on-obama-s-mumbai-visit-64106?cp&cp&cp
Also, he wants to see the Gandhi museum, so (wait for it…) his security people are building him a 1 kilometer air conditioned tunnel to drive through.
It could give a sense of superior American organisation, or be an indicator of a deep-set persecution complex. It could also be a manifestation of Uncle Sam’s penchant for a show of strength.
The matter pertains to US president Barack Obama’s planned visit to Mani Bhavan —the Gandhi museum — on November 6, soon after he reaches Mumbai. On Monday, US secret agents visited the museum to plan Obama’s security detail.
They were accompanied by officers of Mumbai Police and civic officials of the D ward (where Mani Bhavan is located). While inspecting the route and the buildings lining up the route to the museum, the Americans detected a skyscraper near Peddar road and also found the area to be highly populated.
Since it is difficult to monitor such a congested area, they came up with a quick solution which left the Indians accompanying them amazed: A bomb-proof over-ground tunnel — to be installed by US military engineers in just an hour.
The tunnel would be a kilometre long and measure 12ft by 12ft — enough to let Obama’s cavalcade pass through. The tunnel would be centrally air-conditioned, fitted with close-circuit television cameras, and will be heavily guarded at every point, including, of course, its entry and exit.
Details about when exactly the tunnel would be made were not forthcoming. But officials said that the structure would be dismantled immediately after Obama leaves the area.
LINK
Really? I guess it can’t be seen as self-aggrandizement because it’s not a four-lane…
13 years ago
I’d say they were puttin’ on the dog for The Wonce in India but…
Obama visit to Delhi: Special vigil against monkeys and dogs
http://www.dnaindia.com/india/report_obama-visit-to-delhi-special-vigil-against-monkeys-and-dogs_1463063
Delhi’s ITC Maurya all set to welcome Obama
http://www.dnaindia.com/india/report_delhi-s-itc-maurya-all-set-to-welcome-obama_1463067
13 years ago
What sources say this? And I’ve heard plenty of debunking to this rumor that Bachmann started. If Obama is trying to bankrupt the US, why would he be trying to let the tax cuts expire for those making over $250,000. This is some doublethink that just doesn’t add up.
Here is source that claims it is false. Source. http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2010/nov/04/michele-bachmann/rep-michele-bachmann-claims-obamas-trip-india-will/
13 years ago
The whole trip seems nefarious to me. If it were as simple as him going to a business conference, at which a couple hundred US business leaders are meeting with leaders of India to discuss commerce between our countries, the why was none of this reported in the US until today? And why stay there so long and take the First Wookie and the kids? Why stay in the hotel, causing the city to shut down and incurring such huge expense, instead of on one of the US ships off India’s shore as POTUS before have done? Most of all, why all the secrecy?
13 years ago
That’s a gross misconception. The war in Afghanistan costs $190 million a day. I doubt the president could spend as much as a WAR in a day. It’s probably closer to $10 or $20 million a day.
Source: http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2010/nov/04/michele-bachmann/rep-michele-bachmann-claims-obamas-trip-india-will/
13 years ago
Yes, his hair is white in one pic or video clip and then Grecian Formula black in the next, like here: http://gatewaypundit.firstthings.com/2010/11/obama-i-take-credit-for-voter-frustration-but-im-not-changing/
Has me thinking of the movie “Dave.” http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0106673/
13 years ago
Well, I’d say that until Gibbs et al disclose to the public the cost of this trip to taxpayers, the $200,000 per day as reported by Press Trust of India and The Economic Times India is as good as their “amount is grossly exaggerated.” How much is that, exactly?
http://www.ndtv.com/article/india/us-to-spend-200-mn-a-day-on-obama-s-mumbai-visit-64106
http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/news-by-industry/et-cetera/Forty-planes-six-armoured-cars-to-join-Obama-on-India-trip/articleshow/6845435.cms
13 years ago
Is there no way you guys Can question the spendthrift ways of the
Federal govt ? Americans need to specifically demand it. Till then
this blowing up of billions will go on …and on ….like a sicker
version of the titanic.
13 years ago
“So off he goes on this nonsensical trip, Nero spending hundreds of millions (at a time when the country is in dire straits).”
But that’s how fleeing African dictators are expected to behave.
13 years ago
Once again, Alex, you’re full of shit. The $200,000 per day for this trip didn’t start with Bachmann. Get your facts straight. The figure of $200,000 per day was reported by Press Trust of India and The Economic India Times. Notice the date of the piece at Economic India Times is OCTOBER 31, several days before Cooper interviewed Bachmann. The Press Trust of India’s report was published online on Nov 2, the day before (or two days before?) Bachmann’s interview. Idiot.
http://www.ndtv.com/article/india/us-to-spend-200-mn-a-day-on-obama-s-mumbai-visit-64106
http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/news-by-industry/et-cetera/Forty-planes-six-armoured-cars-to-join-Obama-on-India-trip/articleshow/6845435.cms
13 years ago
Those don’t really cite anything. They are just articles on the internet. Anyone can put articles on the internet. And its just one source, and the other is more or less just saying the same without the 200 million amount.
And I wish this trip only cost $200,000 per day. Are you missing a couple zeros?
How can you possibly think that a president is spending as much as the Afghanistan war in a single day?
13 years ago
Hmm, but I wouldn’t put my trust in Politifact or Factcheck, both well known left-wing organizations, and not the unbiased sources they claim to be.
13 years ago
Why not? They put far more effort into fact checking this than Bachmann ever did. But as Colbert has said, “[R]eality has a well-known liberal bias.”
13 years ago
You’re right; I did miss a few zeros.
Those don’t really cite anything.
What the fuck does that mean? What sources do they need to cite to meet your approval?
They put far more effort into fact checking this than Bachmann ever did.
And what the fuck does THAT mean? Her information came from those two source I CITED above. The same story that was picked up by news distrubutors all over the US. And I guaran-fucking-tee you that they’re are every bit as reliable as politifact and factcheck, both of which have been caught twisting facts to suit their leftarded political agenda…pretty much like you’re doing now.
When YOUR president’s administration puts up some actual numbers for the cost of this latest little boondoggle of his, we’ll compare them to the sources in India. Until then, you’re spinning your wheels and wasting my time.
And for the last fucking time, Bachmann didn’t make this shit up (although, because of idiots like you who never let facts get in the way of smearing someone, I’m sure she regrets mentioning it at all). She read it from the many local news sources who carried it for DAYS before YOUR president’s henchmen came out and “debunked” it with by way of leftarded accounting: they said the figure is “grossly exaggerated” and we’re all supposed to take the fucking liars at their word.
13 years ago
And for the last fucking time, Bachmann didn’t make this shit up (although, because of idiots like you who never let facts get in the way of smearing someone, I’m sure she regrets mentioning it at all). She read it from the many local news sources who carried it for DAYS before YOUR president’s henchmen came out and “debunked” it with by way of leftarded accounting: they said the figure is “grossly exaggerated” and we’re all supposed to take the fucking liars at their word.
13 years ago
It was in several columns in Town Hall and on Newmax, I don’t remember exactly which columns, and the Daily Telegraph is saying that their sources say the amount of money spent is $200 million a day. Check for more then one source before you start believing things.
13 years ago
I don’t know if Orwell would be surprised on not, he was a district policeman in India for a while so he had a lot of experience with Moslems.
13 years ago
Unfortunately, it is a commonly accepted practice in India to exaggerate, so as a matter of national pride it wouldn’t surprise me that the media there would inflate the amount of money spent there by the President of the United States.
13 years ago
Good points, I wish I could answer them but I can’t, all I can say is that he is up to something that will probably fail and in failing cost the US a lot of money. He was elected by people who wanted to brag they voted for the first black to make a serious run at the Presidency, and since then he has proven all of his political enemies right, he is not qualified to be President, and he is a Marxist who has an agenda of turning us into a socialist economy. How his trip to India ties in I don’t know, but it does.
13 years ago
This happens to most Presidents.
13 years ago
The tunnel is also reported to be bomb proof, since nothing is really bomb proof I wonder just what they are talking about.
13 years ago
Several people have mentioned how much this resembles a government in exile.
13 years ago
Richard, I appreciate how polite you are being. 🙂 Let me make my case. Here is that Townhall article: http://townhall.com/news/senate-election/2010/11/02/obama_to_see_india_on_$200_million_a_day It links to this: http://michellemalkin.com/2010/11/02/india/ Which cites the article that Auntie Madder keeps citing. That is just one source. Then the Newsmax article is here: http://www.newsmax.com/InsideCover/RepBachmann-Blasts-Obama-Asia/2010/11/04/id/376053 It only cites Bachmann’s interview with Anderson Cooper. Which she doesn’t cite her data at all. Politifact then goes on to use 12 cited sources to debunk her word here: http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2010/nov/04/michele-bachmann/rep-michele-bachmann-claims-obamas-trip-india-will/
I think we both see the other as being stubborn. I read through all the articles I just posted, along with Auntie Madder’s articles. I did it without bias. I politely ask you to do the same with the politifact article. Thanks!
13 years ago
the irony of spending so much money…and the special ‘tunnel’ to the gandhi museum… a man who embodied simplicity and the virtue of poverty.
but, it makes sense when you look at obummer’s megalomaniacl narcissicistic power ego-power complex.
13 years ago
Hi Pam,
You are missing the silver lining in Obamas trip. The more this socialistic disgrace is out of OUR country, the less damage he can cause here!!! I say, he is welcome back in Jan. 2012.
13 years ago
“Not since the Pharaohs or the Roman Emperors has a head of state travelled in such pomp”…
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1326962/Obamas-India-visit-security-erect-bomb-proof-tunnel-Gandhi-museum.html
(on drudge – and this is how someone blows $200,000,000 a day. this PIG spits on you and your families 24/7!!!)
13 years ago
Pamela you mentioned what happened at the Jewish centre but you didnt give much detail. l read a report, l will look for the link later. The jihadis at the centre were in constant communication with their ‘handlers’ who were imploring them to kill everyone. l think the handlers were concerned the jihadis would be overpowered by lndian security before they could accomplish their task. What went on in the centre was horrific. l dont want to describe the details here but the rabbi and his wife were tortured before they were killed. There were photos hosted by an lndian newspaper l think, they have been removed they are no longer on public display, but l saw them. Very few people are aware of what happened inside the centre. People should know what happened. These Jewish people werent just killed.
l dont really want to say any more but describing them as ‘killed’ makes it sound quick and final. That isnt what happened.
13 years ago
3000 people?
Robert Clive’s military campaigns for the East India Company in the 18th century generally involved fewer than that. He established control over Bengal with about 1000 European and 2000 Indian troops at the Battle of Plassey, with not much fighting but plenty of treachery.
13 years ago
Man mohan singh govt is good at treachery. But people may revolt.
He claims to be a economist but the bozo has not managed to bring
inflation below 16% since last 3 years now.
Its lack of educated people in india and equally incompetent opposition
that this govt got re-elected with some manupilation of voting machines
in 2 congress govt states….they got more seats than what exit polls
indicated.
13 years ago
The cost can’t be divulged due to security concerns.
That a fact, or a WH hope-and-change fact?
Do they hope that a statement like that will be a show stopper, closing the debate as effectively as calling someone a bigot?
White House spokesman Tommy Vietor:
“The numbers reported in this article have no basis in reality. Due to security concerns, we are unable to outline details associated with security procedures and costs, but it’s safe to say these numbers are wildly inflated”.
13 years ago
Well, you can’t buy a water-proof watch any more, only a water-resistant watch. It’s a lawyer thing.
13 years ago
Titanic? They spent a lot of money on that, with plenty of space, opulent fittings and lots of staff (a bit like big government). Turns out they did trim costs a bit, but in the wrong place – they saved some money on the rivets. BIG mistake. Oh, and in the event of the ship going down, there weren’t enough lifeboats for the “ordinary” folk – now that sounds like an Obama recovery plan.
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