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| India-Pakistan |
| Combined Kashmir-Mumbai death toll tops 174 |
| 2006-07-12 |
| (KUNA) -- Terror on Tuesday struck Indian cities Mumbai and Srinagar, situated 1,600 km apart in Western and Northern India respectively, killing at least 174 people, the majority of them in the country's financial capital. The blasts began in downtown Srinagar, the summer capital of Indian-administered Jammu and Kashmir, Tuesday morning, killing eight people and injuring 40 in five blasts. Most of the killed were tourists from Eastern Indian city of Kolkata, news agency Indo-Asian News Service reported. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #2 Lileks is right, of course; he always is. :( |
| Posted by: Seafarious 2006-07-12 12:17 |
| #1 James Lileks has thoughts on the bombing: Death in India. It’ll be interesting to see how much this atrocity registers in the West. Not much, I fear, and I doubt it’ll be added to the string of 21st century attacks - New York, Madrid, London. It’ll be seen as mad people doing daft things in a strange crowded place in a part of the world where the trains always have nine thousand people hanging off the sides, and they’re like all totally about cows being holy. The idea that this was an assault on a highly developed democratic civilization - which had the effrontery to prosper without the guidance of Sharia – will probably be lost in a blur of oddly-named factions and Kashmiri hairsplitting. When someone blows up the Tokyo or Moscow subway, there’ll be a thumbsucker on the front page: Coordinated bombings of Mass Transit systems: Is There A Pattern? The article will probably reassure everyone that while the bombings appear similar, the motives differed. And should the next attack fall here, it’ll probably be blamed on Iraq, since the intelligentsia seems to have concluded that the Iraq Theater has as much to do with fighting Islamic terror as invading Peru to root out Branch Davidians. |
| Posted by: Steve 2006-07-12 12:01 |