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Terrorists struck in Maharashtra on Friday, killing at least 37 people and injuring over 100 in three blasts including one in a mosque in the communally sensitive Muslim-dominated town of Malegaon [source].
If some of you are thinking (wrongly so, I might add), why would “terrorists” kill “their own”, you’ll be missing the point. The objective of terrorists is almost always to spread terror; nothing more, nothing less. If Mumbai was “resilient” after the blasts couple of months back, they are trying to incite the ‘other community’ by hitting a sensitive place where history of communal riots exists. I refuse to believe that the government does not have intelligence on who exactly is behind these almost-periodic acts of terror. And if we do, how many lives do we have to lose - from any community - before we take proactive measures to curb such acts? I feel it is all a matter of political will or as someone from Mumbai would say, akal-bakal theek hai, g*** mein dum hona chaiyye.
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by Patrix | on Friday, September 8th, 2006 at 3:07 pm | 
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September 8th, 2006 at 11:43 pm
Well said Patrix. GMD hona hi chahiye.
September 9th, 2006 at 8:05 am
Yo Parix,
Indian Govt is going to spend millions of Dollars trying to find the criminals behind it - a fact you ALREADY SEEMS TO KNOW BROTHER.
:)
Hang on……not that fast.
Shahid
September 10th, 2006 at 7:17 pm
Shahid,
Indian Government has been spending millions of dollars for years but seems no wise. That is the real problem, If Patrix is smarter than Indian government, dont blame him for it! And I say it with all seriousness.
September 11th, 2006 at 4:04 am
I’d call this is an oversimplification of the problem. Terror is the means; not the end.
First, what makes you think the government has this intel? This sort of information is not easy to come by.
Second, these proactive measures you speak of are not so easy to implement. Even if we do know who’s responsible (and how to find them), what can we do about it? You can’t kill all the terrorists in the world. As long as the political environment makes terrorism an effective political tool, these attacks will continue.