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December 1, 2008 | 5:00 pm

Was the Mumbai Chabad targeted in terror attacks?

Posted by Brad A. Greenberg

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I’ve yet to hear any official report and statement claiming that the Chabad house in Mumbai was specifically targeted because it was a beacon of Jewish life in a country with all of 10,000 Jews. But the motive behind why the terrorists attacks that building, among many frequented by Westerners, is no mystery:

“A young family, doing work for Klal Yisroel—and they were killed because they were Jewish. There wasn’t any other reason,” an L.A. Jewish woman told me yesterday at the Chabad memorial service.

Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmer concurred yesterday, saying the attacks unquestionably targeted the Jewish center:

In a statement released after the attacks, Olmert also said that symbols of Israeli and Jews motivate murder worldwide. “The hatred of Jews, the State of Israel and Jewish symbols are still a factor that spurs and encourages such murderous acts.”

Olmert said the images from the Mumbai Chabad House, including pictures of the murdered victims wrapped in prayer shawls “are shocking and take us back to events that we pray never recur.”

Footage of Rabbi Marvin Hier, dean of the Simon Wiesenthal Center, speaking at the Chabad memorial is after the jump:

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Let me see, duh. From the non-Jewish/israeli/Zionist Times of India

Azam Amir Kasab, the only Pakistani terrorist nabbed alive… told police that they were sent with a specific mission of targeting Israelis to avenge atrocities on Palestinians. This was why they targetted Nariman House, a complex meant for Israelis.

Now, what is the source of the confusion?

From Israelinsider http://israelinsider.ning.com/profiles/blogs/mumbai-terrorist-confirms

But then again, The New York Times was not sure whether the killers had just stumbled into Chabad to drink some kosher Darjeeling tea and lay tefillin: “It is not known if the Jewish center was strategically chosen, or if it was an accidental hostage scene,” the paper asserted, calling into question the claim that it was deliberately targeted that was made by Israel’s foreign minister, Tzipi Livni, whom it quoted immediately after its own cowardly disclaimer.

The Times, like many other media, was also wrong on another count: It was not a “hostage scene” at all: the terrorists had no intention of bargaining for the release of their Jewish victims. The terrorists just wanted to kill Jews, and apparently preferred to do so after beating and perhaps torturing them, killing the women in front of the men.

Israeli media reported that some of the victims were found wrapped in prayer shawls, in accordance with Jewish burial traditions, apparently by one or more of the Jews who remained alive after the women were killed after being beaten and bound, hand and foot. Jewish male victims were founded dead and bloodied, collapsed over open books of Talmud.

Gee, maybe we ought to meet with them and talk about it.

Comment by Ben Plonie on 12/01/08 at 7:12 pm

Hmmm, Was the Mumbai Chabad targeted in terror attacks?

From Rediff India Abroad

Doctors working in a hospital where all the bodies, including that of the terrorists, were taken said they had not seen anything like this in their lives.

“Bombay has a long history of terror. I have seen bodies of riot victims, gang war and previous terror attacks like bomb blasts. But this was entirely different. It was shocking and disturbing,” a doctor said.

Asked what was different about the victims of the incident, another doctor said: “It was very strange. I have seen so many dead bodies in my life, and was yet traumatised. A bomb blast victim’s body might have been torn apart and could be a very disturbing sight. But the bodies of the victims in this attack bore such signs about the kind of violence of urban warfare that I am still unable to put my thoughts to words,” he said.

Asked specifically if he was talking of torture marks, he said: “It was apparent that most of the dead were tortured. What shocked me were the telltale signs showing clearly how the hostages were executed in cold blood,” one doctor said.

The other doctor, who had also conducted the post-mortem of the victims, said: “Of all the bodies, the Israeli victims bore the maximum torture marks. It was clear that they were killed on the 26th itself. It was obvious that they were tied up and tortured before they were killed. It was so bad that I do not want to go over the details even in my head again,” he said.

Corroborating the doctors’ claims about torture was the information that the Intelligence Bureau had about the terror plan. “During his interrogation, Ajmal Kamal said they were specifically asked to target the foreigners, especially the Israelis,” an IB source said.

It is also said that the Israeli hostages were killed on the first day as keeping them hostage for too long would have focused too much international attention. “They also might have feared the chances of Israeli security agencies taking over the operations at the Nariman House,” he reasoned.

People like those terrorists have lost their humanity. Somebody will sshow up here and call me a hater for not transcending the facts. In my opinion, Jesus, Buddha and Gandhi would mow them all down, BA-BA-BA-BA-BA-BA-BAMM!

Comment by Ben Plonie on 12/01/08 at 10:11 pm

The newly revealed fact that the 28 year old rebbetzin Rivka was in her sixth month of pregancy gives new meaning to the doctor’s statement “It was so bad that I do not want to go over the details even in my head again,“ he said.

Comment by Ben Plonie on 12/02/08 at 10:10 pm

The question is why she was pregnant at all, having lost one child to Tay-Sachs Another of their children is hospitalized with the (fatal) disease even now.  No child has been born in Israel with Tay Sachs since 2003.  Did Chabad not get the memo?

Comment by The Web Guy on 12/02/08 at 10:36 pm

Well, you certainly never disappoint. The first answer is that it is irrelevant. The second answer is that it is none of your business. The third answer is that maybe they didn’t. The fourth answer is that the day that you or yours are humbled by overwhelming circumstances may you have some bigmouth ready to pop up with irrelevant and hurtful comments about things that are none of his business.

Comment by Ben Plonie on 12/03/08 at 4:24 am

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