Last week's tragic and deadly terrorist attacks in Mumbai, India, serve, sadly, as just the most recent reminder of the impact global terrorism has had on every continent and nation around the world. While the face of terror often carries a different banner and agenda, the symbolic, emotional and fatal impact it can have on a civilian population is undeniable.Those selected:
Over seven years removed from the terror attacks of September 11, 2001, the incident in Mumbai increasingly resembles a bookend of sorts in the chronology of global terrorism. Much like the cosmopolitan city of Mumbai, New York City represented not only a logistically ideal, civilian-dense target right on America's coastline, but a symbolic strike against American capitalism and finance. Much like New York City, Mumbai stands as a symbol of diversity and freedom in a country often plagued by sectarian divisions and strife. Crown jewels in two of the world's largest and most prosperous democracies.
There have been far too many terrorist attacks since 9/11, and to limit such a list to only five was no easy task. Many lives have been lost; relics, buildings and temples of worship left in rubble. Our goal at RealClearWorld was to avoid a list exclusively based on casualties, and instead accounted for other important factors in these attacks: Symbolism, strategic significance and domestic political impact were also considered alongside the carnage and bloodshed produced by these attacks.
No. 5 Mumbai 2006 (previous attack on India's financial capital), No. 4 Bali 2002, No. 3 Moscow 2002, No. 2 London 2005, No. 1 Madrid 2004.
Video Above: "7/7 London Bomb Terrorist Attack on Bus."
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It's has to be up to Muslims themselves, Philippe. The West can't force them to repudiate the Koran. They have to do it themselves.
If we cannot say that this is war, then we will be doomed to lose it! These news organizations are not doing anyone any justice, either the victims, any potential new victims, or any Muslims who do not follow the extremist's views. Yet they (NYT esp) persist in behaving like the liberal leftists they are, covering up or downplaying the truth, in favor of blaming the West and all it's ills. As though anything at all were just cause for what occurred in the terrorists attacks worldwide over the decades. There is no just cause for it. And so it is a war! Against the very people who commit the crimes, and they are Muslims.
Stephen Cozen, the attorney suing the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia on behalf of 9/11 families will be my guest on News Talk Online on Paltalk.com at 5 PM New York time Wednesday December 17.
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