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Abstract
On November 26, 2008, terrorists belonging to the Pakistan-based Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) conducted coordinated terrorist attacks against multiple targets in Mumbai. The three-day carnage in India’s financial and economic centre, principal port city and second-most populous urban area in the country led to the killing of around 165 people and wounding of over 300 additional victims – in one of the most significant acts of international terrorism since 9/11. According to former intelligence officer and senior analyst Bruce Riedel, the Mumbai attacks (also known as 26/11) became ‘a milestone in global Jihad’, setting the ‘gold standard’ for terrorists assaults for the following decade. The 2013 Westgate-Mall attacks in the Kenyan capital Nairobi and the 2015 Paris massacre are just two horrific examples ‘modelled on Mumbai’. […]
| Document type: | Article |
|---|---|
| Publisher: | South Asia Democratic Forum (SADF) |
| Place of Publication: | Brussels |
| Date: | 2021 |
| Version: | Secondary publication |
| Date Deposited: | 13 Dec 2021 10:13 |
| Faculties / Institutes: | Miscellaneous > Individual person |
| DDC-classification: | Religion Political science Military science |
| Controlled Keywords: | Indien, Pakistan, Afghanistan, Terrorismus, Mumbai, Attentat |
| Uncontrolled Keywords: | Indien, Pakistan, Afghanistan, Terrorismus, Jihad, Globalität, Unterstützung, Finanzierung, Netzwerke / India, Pakistan, Afghanistan, terrorism, jihad, globalism, support, funding, networks |
| Subject (classification): | Politics Religion and Philosophy |
| Countries/Regions: | India Pakistan other countries |
| Series: | Themen > SADF Comment |
| Volume: | 222 |
| Additional Information: | DOI: 10.48251/SADF.ISSN.2406-5617.C222 (der Erstausgabe) |
