2008-11-27

Cause and Effect

Is there at all a connection to this story...

A group calling itself the Deccan Mujahideen has claimed responsibility for the attacks but little is known of it.

The men were of South Asian appearance and reportedly spoke Hindi, indicating they originated in India.

Attacks over recent years have seen a variety of different groups named, particularly the Indian Mujahideen who had apparently threatened to attack Mumbai in September, claiming that Muslims had been harassed.
And this story?
For the second time in a week, an Indian navy frigate assigned to protect shipping in the Gulf of Aden has clashed with pirates operating out of Somalia.

Reports from New Delhi say the frigate Tabar -- a modern semi-stealth warship -- which is serving with a nine-country international naval task force, destroyed a heavily armed pirate mothership with its machineguns after coming under fire from it on Tuesday evening. It is believed the pirate crew escaped in two speedboats.

(I say this even with the recent news that one of the attacked motherships claims to be a fishing trawler, though no way to say for sure if it wasn't in fact both)

After all, this story turned out to have a lot to do with this story (which happened to feature the same region).