Sunday, November 30, 2008
The Mumbai attack and the British connection
There are reports that the Mumbai jihadis were funded by cash raised in mosques in the United Kingdom. If true, then it would seem to be yet another strategic shift in the war between Islamist jihadis and, well, everybody else. The war began with attacks on Western interests in the Muslim world (Mogadishu, Khobar, the African embassies, the USS Cole, and Bali) launched and financed from the Muslim world. Then it spread, in the networked way that ideological insurgencies metastesize, to attacks against Western homelands, at first planned and financed from Afghanistan (New York, and Washington), and then within the West (Madrid and London). Now, in Mumbai, there is an attack in the center of Asia financed from London. Wherever there are radical Muslims preaching hatred, there are jihadis raising money and planning attacks.
Is there any doubt that it is a global war?
3 Comments:
By 
SR, at
Sun Nov 30, 08:29:00 PM:
Nah. Just a criminal conspiracy that needs vigogous prosecution. I give you..............Eric Holder.
By 
, at
Sun Nov 30, 10:49:00 PM:
No doubt after 4 to 8 years of that nonsenese, the problem will become so large that nuking the whole middle east will look like a viable option.
By Anthony, at
Mon Dec 01, 10:34:00 AM:
Is there any doubt that it is a global war?
Depends on how willfully blind one is. I was at a function in Hollywood the night after election night at which the guest speaker (a left-liberal Democrat, naturally) went off on a rant about the Bush Administration and 9-11, including insisting that the organizers of 9-11 were criminals who should be arrested and tried, not treated as enemy forces. And everyone in the room aside from me and my companion nodded and amened at his sage words.
It really felt as if I had fallen down the rabbit hole and wound up at the Hatter's tea party.
