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Militants Planned Attack On Indian Software Firms

Posted by timothy on from the sensitive-target dept.

Alien54 writes "Militants killed in an encounter in New Delhi on Saturday night planned to attack leading software companies in Bangalore in addition to the Indian Military Academy in Dehra Dun, Delhi police said on Sunday Indian police claim the men were members of Lashkar-e-Toiba - a Wahabi militant group fighting for an independent Kashmir. Apart from maps of call centers police also recovered 100 kilos of dynamite, 10.5 kilos of RDX explosive, 450 detonators, three AK-56 rifles and a satellite phone."

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  1. Re:I bet... by 0x461FAB0BD7D2 · · Score: 5, Insightful

    For the same reason that Al Qaeda attacked the WTC and Pentagon - to make themselves heard.

    Terrorism is not about sense or economic benefits.

    I'd like to thank the New Delhi police for a job excellently done.

  2. Re:I bet... by ArsenneLupin · · Score: 5, Insightful
    Attacking companies that brings prosperity to the region hardly seems a way to inspire support from the locals or anybody else.

    That was the point. Those were Kashmere terrorists blowing up Indian call centers. Al Qaeda was not overly concerned that 911 might be harming NYC's prosperity either, on the contrary!

  3. ... I disagree with the tactics used here but ... by Truth_Quark · · Score: 5, Insightful
    Surely an independent Kashmir is a damn fine solution to the bloody tug-of-war that India and Pakistan have been playing for the last 57 years.

    Just do it. It's got to be cheaper than the fisticuffs.

    Another brilliant post by Truth Quark! 60 years of conflict suddenly resolved!
    Now, about Palestine ...

  4. ...wow by Tethys_was_taken · · Score: 5, Insightful

    11 of 25 posts so far have been about Call centres and outsourcing.

    I know most of it is humour (of some sort), but don't you think this is being just a bit insensitive? Mod me down if you must, but there must be a limit to self-centredness, even for Americans.

    </karma-suicide>

    --
    StrayByte.Net
  5. Re:Can't get my schadenfreude on. by rathehun · · Score: 5, Insightful
    What!

    I do not like the idea of people dying, even if they are in worldwide competition with us for jobs.

    (emphasis is mine)

    What has the world come too, where we have to qualify that we don't like the idea of people dying - EVEN IF THEY ARE IN COMPETITION WITH US FOR JOBS!

    I'm hardly a peace-loving, tree-huggin vegan. But this kind of stuff really makes me think that capitalism has really made a wrong turn somewhere. That and our values of course, but, I'm on slightly more shaky ground there.