The attack on the Indian city of Mumbai is an outrage by any definition. What purpose or justification could there be for the random shooting of civilians at a railway station, in a restaurant, in streets and in hotels? Who could possibly benefit from the indiscriminate murder of civilians – Hindus, Muslims, Christians, Jews, atheists and God knows who else?
No one knows yet the identity or motivation of the attackers. There is no shortage of suspects, from Al-Qaeda-inspired groups, to Kashmiri militants, to home-grown, discontented Indians.
Perhaps we will never know, but one thing is quite predictable: British and American politicians and media will do their utmost to decouple the attacks from their own dirty deeds in occupied Palestine, Iraq and Afghanistan. They will regurgitate the same old jaded arguments about Islamic extremists envious of Western "civilisation".
Unfortunately for these hypocrites, the assailants have already provided us with a clue that firmly links their attacks with the craven Anglo-American foreign policies. According to eyewitness reports from the hotels that were attacked in Mumbai, the gunmen singled out British and American passport holders. Not German, French, Italian or Spanish passport holders, but British and American ones.
It doesn't take a genius to work out why.
