Terror in Mumbai – Local Indian matter or Global Terror?

Terror in Mumbai

Article - by Tom Gross & Call for Letter-writing - Take-A-Pen!* - 2008 Dec 4 

If this isn't terrorism, what is?

Last week in Mumbai we witnessed a clear case of carefully planned mass terrorism, a meticulously organized operation aimed exclusively at civilian targets, coordinated in a highly sophisticated way. They wanted to murder as many Hindus, Christians, Jews, atheists and other "infidels" as they could, and in as spectacular a manner as possible. After almost 200 people killed and a thousand maimed simultaneously in seven locations, why so many prominent Western media, like the NYT, the British Channel 4 and the Times of London, the French state TV and more, say it was a random attack, are reluctant  to call the perpetrators as ‘terrorists' and ignore the careful selection of the targets and victims?  Read more...