Friday, November 28, 2008

what scares me the most

I think we're all realizing how fucking scary what's happening in Mumbai really is. The images of spattered puddles of blood, flaming buildings, charred chunks of vehicles, weeping people, injuries, dead bodies, shattered glass are one thing. The details of how the attacks were precisely executed, brutal, spread across a dozen or more locations, and sinister in their disregard for human individuality are the next chilling fact.

But for me, the details that freak me out the most are these: 1. The initial antiterrorism squads who rushed to fight these guys, according to the stories I'm reading, got fucking killed. 2. At least some of the people involved in this attack got away. 3. This picture:

What. the. fuck.

I'm sure you've got your own sources, and this story is evolving rapidly anyway, but here is what I've read in the past hour: New York Times. NBC News. London Times.