-Henry Kissinger, 1992, Evian, France [alleged]

Problem: The Mumbai Massacre is finally declared over, after attacks at multiple locations, including a nearly 60 hour siege at a hotel, took at least 195 lives and wounded hundreds in another tragic event blamed on a ‘militant Islamic group’ – which one yet, remains to be seen.

Reaction: The media are already busy analyzing and throwing around the language to set the tone and state the “real” issue. India’s PM called the coordinated attacks “well-planned and well-orchestrated” with likely “external links.” Maharashtra Director General of Police A.N. Roy said they were “very well planned and very well executed”, an “operation done with great precision and training.” Major General RK Hooda, the senior Indian commander said, “It’s a motivated, well planned terrorist attack.”

From the International Herald Tribune, “Indian commandos involved in the fighting in the hotels said the attackers were well-trained and remorseless, with one attacker carrying a backpack packed with hundreds of rounds of ammunition, and they seemed to know the hotel layout better than the security forces, indicating a high degree of preparation and sophistication.”

The mainstream media made sure the world was good and horrified by this sophisticated, well-orchestrated, coordinated attack, which involved multiple targets, was highly planned with military precision, by people who know what they’re doing…which “they” certainly did, to the loss of too many innocent lives. In the less mainstream, I read things like Mumbai Attacks Look Like A Western Intel Operation.

Solution: The media has already quickly pointed out that the Indian counter-terrorism capabilities are inadequate, understaffed, lack resources and coordination, are unprepared, India being a weak target, totally unable to handle simultaneous attacks in multiple locations – and on some networks, it is suggested India needs the equivalent of our Patriot Act to handle these types of situations. Indian papers flail intelligence failures in Mumbai attacks. Already, an “unprecedented intelligence cooperation” between India, the US, the UK and Israel have converged there to investigate.

India is managing a fine balancing act, with economic and industrial ties to the western world increasing at the same time they are buying arms from Israel and being wooed by China and Russia on the world stage. Perhaps they are being forced to choose sides. Or maybe they are playing the scapegoat for the new world police order, just in time to join its brother, the new world financial order.

The bad guys allegedly arrived in the coastal city by boat. I have heard some media questioning the safety of the world’s seas. Certainly the recent bold pirate news doesn’t bode well for that subject. “Something must be done.”

At the moment rumors are flying about a-Q being involved again, or perhaps the “external links” to this well-crafted plan must have involved Pakistan, giving the next administration reason to…well, let’s not go there yet. Remember, India and Pakistan already suffer strained relations, and both have nuclear weapons. Wars, and rumors of wars.

Is this what all those recent warnings from our world leaders have been about? I wrote these paragraphs last week but never posted them:

Joe Biden and Colin Powell were both noted to have publicly discussed some unknown future trouble on its way, in terms of Obama’s incoming administration. Biden said, “…Watch. We’re going to have an international crisis, a generated crisis, to test the mettle of this guy.” A generated crisis? Like when Kissinger said “promulgated”? The Council of Foreign Relations president predicts coups, genocide and terrorism to test Obama. Here’s another article warning Obama to expect a ‘huge threat’ from a-Q. From News from Jerusalem, warnings from six world leaders all within 72 hours, including Biden, Madeleine Albright, the UK PM Brown’s adviser Lord West, French Foreign Minister Bernard Kouchner, and Australian PM Kevin Rudd, who warned, “The devastation that could be wreaked by one major nuclear weapons incident alone puts 9/11 and almost everything else [in] to the category of the insignificant.” Great. Recently Reuters reported that a-Q has voiced more threats along with a racial slur.

Our favorite baddie, Zbigniew Brzezinski, said in a recent interview with Deutsche Welle that Obama was likely to be tested by terrorists early in his presidency, as both Clinton and GW were. A big ‘hm’ on that loosely veiled threat.

Is Mumbai it? Or could there be more? Security Stepped Up on New York Subways After FBI Warning of Possible Terror Plot. Would they really do something as devastating as a nuclear bomb? Are we scared enough already to grovel for “protection”? Maybe the earth will stand still one day, and “UFOs” will land on the White House lawn to “teach” us unenlightened masses about “peace” and the “true religion”.

Sorry for the sarcasm. I have a bad taste in my mouth.

Those who try to control,

who use force to protect their power,

Go against the direction of the Tao.

-Tao Te Ching #77