Garden State Patriot

It seems the election of Barack Obama must not have reached the terrorists that stormed Mumbai. They must not have gotten the message to be nicer killers now that America will soon have a President who gleefully pledges to shut down Gitmo and not to torture Jihadists who want to end America. Otherwise, how else does one explain why they brutally tortured their Jewish victims before killing them in cold blood?

From the UK Telegraph:

Doctors expressed horror at the condition of the bodies recovered from the Nariman Building, which housed the Orthodox Chabad-Lubavitch retreat.

“I have seen so many dead bodies in my life, and was traumatised,” a mortician said. “It was apparent that most of the dead were tortured. What shocked me were the telltale signs showing clearly how the hostages were executed in cold blood.”

The group that stormed Bombay’s most famous institutions displayed unrestrained brutality throughout the mission. The captain of a fishing trawler hijacked by the group in Arabian Sea was found with his throat cut.

Police said 17 victims were pushed against a wall in the corridor of the Oberoi hotel and executed in a line.

One man who served a glass of water to a terrorist at Bombay’s main railway station was shot in the forehead.

Honestly, Obama hasn’t even taken the oath yet but somehow I already feel less safe. The apt phrase being ‘letting our guard down.’ Unfortunately, I’m afraid that’s what we are in for — hopefully not to our own peril.

One of the terrorists involved in the Mumbai attacks has been captured. In this story from My Way News, one Indian official says:

These guys could do it next week again in Mumbai and our responses would be exactly the same.

The terrorist himself, one Azam Amir Kasab, apparently has said the attacks were intended to kill 5,000 people.

Over at Fausta’s Blog, Fausta wonders if this was merely a ‘probing attack’ in advance of a much worse, larger-scale operation.

So, my question to my liberal friends is this: if this happened in an American city like New York wouldn’t you want our government to do anything possible to stop another attack? Even if – heaven forbid – it meant dunking the poor terrorist’s head upside down under water?