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The Riddle of Mumbai

By Abdollah Shahbazi

Written: 29th November 2008

Translated: 11th December 2008

I was very busy Wednesday night and Thursday morning and consequently away from news. On Thursday evening I was awaken by a call from one of my friends. He told me about massive explosions and terror in Mumbai. Since then I have been following this strange event closely.

Details of the event can be studied in news websites. It can be summarized as such:

Around 21:30, Wednesday 26th of November, a number of men armed with automatic weapons landed from boats in front of the Gateway of India, located at the beach of Mumbai and in front of the Taj Mahal Hotel, as reported by CNN and the police. These people, as if following a Hollywood action movie style, separated into different groups. They start shooting and killing people and take possession of a number of cars, including a police van. They then go to the Taj Mahal Hotel, Hotel Oberoi Trident and Café Leopold; all three being centers of tourist’s residence and gathering. Their other targets included the CST train station (Victoria station), Cama & Albless Hospital and the synagogue of a Jewish sect called CHABAD. They kill people and take hostages.

Reports mention around 200 killed and 300 wounded and rising. The most notable of the victims is the former rabbi of CHABAD of New York’s Brooklyn and his wife. This event has particularly affected the New York Jews of all sects and has turned Rabbi Gavriel Holtzberg and his wife, Rivka, into symbols of victims of terrorism. Zionists and the government of Israel have also become the hosts of mourning and are using the blood of Rabbi Holtzberg and his wife and other Jews killed in the CHABAD synagogue of Mumbai to gain sympathy and advertise in favor of Zionism.

Who were the attackers? This is the question that The Christian Science Monitor has asked in its edition of Friday 28th of November.

Street fighting was still going on and the event was not yet over that Indian officials accused “foreign elements”, meaning the government of Pakistan. Naturally, Pakistani officials immediately denied the allegations. The Hindu, apparently craving a new war between India and Pakistan, followed the same and again in the middle of an ongoing event and without any proper evidence announced that the terrorists are members of the “Lashkar-e-Taiba” (The Pure Army), a militant group based in Pakistan.

The Washington Post, quoting “US counterterrorism experts” wrotethe attacks appear to be well coordinated, indicating that the attackers received foreign terrorist training and support.”

These “experts” had “hidden knowledge” as well and called the attackers “Muslim” and called their act “Jihad”. This newspaper, the most circulated in Washington, D.C., has been owned since 1933 by the Jew plutocrat family of Meyer- Graham. They are the descendants of Eugene Meyer, the first head of The World Bank. This newspaper added, quoting Bruce Riedel, a former South Asia analyst for the CIA and National Security Council and author of The Search for Al Qaeda, This is a new, horrific milestone in the global jihad.” Roger W. Cressey, a former White House counterterrorism official in the Clinton and Bush administrations also said: This group had to receive some training or support from professionals in the terrorism business.

The New York Times, The largest metropolitan newspaper in the United States, owned since 1935 by the Jew plutocrat family of Sulzberger, made things much simpler for us and without any evidence or reason suggested that the “gunmen could easily be members of India's Muslim minority”. Adding “There are a lot of very, very angry Muslims.”

The Guardian reported that “the gunmen were more likely to be homegrown Indian terrorists, rather than foreigners.” and laid its suspicion on an unknown group called the “Deccan Mujahideen” and certain others; who all happen to be Muslims. Their reason was certain emails sent to the media signed by this group.

3-What is the result of my research?

Counterterrorism expert’s ideas are correct. The attackers were definitely professionals and there is definitely a “foreign hand” in the event. It was fully organized to the last detail. Even the target locations were chosen in detail and with particular objectives. Those choices needed specialized historical and political knowledge.

4- Choosing the Taj Mahal Hotel as the main target is worth some thought. Millions of people worldwide watched the historic and majestic view of the Taj Mahal Hotel burn for two days. This was in effect very similar to the fate of the Twin Towers of New York on September 11th 2001. Both were important symbols of the two cities: the Twin Towers were symbols of New York as the commercial and financial centre of the western world. The Taj Mahal Hotel was the best known symbol of Mumbai, a city which until the first half of the twentieth century was the commercial and financial centre of the East.

This hotel was opened in 1903. It coincided with the reign of Mozaffar Al Din Shah of Qajar of Iran and shortly before the beginning of the Constitutional revolution in Iran. Once opened, it was the grandest eastern hotel. In our time it was one of the most beautiful historical buildings of Mumbai and India. I have seen this hotel. Though very grand and beautiful, it was aged and in need of repair and restoration. This restoration can and will take place now; quite possibly from the pocket of the Indian government.

The Taj Mahal Hotel belongs to the Tata family. They are a family of the Parsis of India; native Zoroastrians of Indian origin claiming an ancient Persian origin. They are considered one of the richest families of the world. This family, like other plutocrat Parsis of India, gained its initial wealth from the Opium trade of the 19th century. The 6th Volume of my Jew and Parsi Plutocrats, which is still to be published, deals with the “Parsi oligarchy of India” and their partnership with Jew, American and English plutocrats. This was a relationship that made history. The Tata family, like the rest of the Parsi plutocrats, has deep Masonic and Zionist connections and old partnership and relations with Jew plutocrats. An important portion of India’s industry and trade belongs to this oligarchy.

 

Me in front of the Gateway of India (1993)

This monument, similar to the triumphal arches of Europe, was constructed between 1911 to 1924 in commemoration of The King of Britain and Emperor of India, George the Fifth’s, visit to India

 

Me in front of the Hotel Taj Mahal (1993)

5- Can such an attack on the synagogue of the Jewish CHABAD sect in Mumbai, exactly when the former Rabbi of Brooklyn and his family were there, be considered a coincidence? If the attackers were “anti-Jewish”, shouldn’t they have occupied the great synagogue of Mumbai Jews, the Keneseth Eliyahoo Synagogue, which has 150 years of history, and taken its residents hostage? This is the synagogue that Sir Jacob Sassoon built in 1886 and named it after his father, Elijah Sassoon. Elijah Sassoon was the second son of David Sassoon, a famous Jew plutocrat and founder of the “Sassoon Empire” in the East, and brother of Sir Albert (Abdullah) Sassoon. I have written extensively about the Sassoon family, their connections with the Rothschilds and their role in the formation of new Imperialism. Therefore my detailed research about this family, and their great role in India and Iran, will be published in the later volumes of my book.

Isn’t the important and historical Eliyahoo Synagogue, the most important synagogue of Mumbai Jews, located near the Apollo port, Hotel Taj Mahal and the Museum of Prince of Wales? Why should the small and unknown building of the CHABAD sect, with its small number of members, have been occupied? This building is located further away from the “centre of operation” (Hotel Taj Mahal and Apollo port) and is harder to find. In satellite pictures, you can easily see that the Eliyahoo Synagogue (The main synagogue of Mumbai) is quite close to the Hotel while the “Nariman Building”, the location of the small synagogue of the CHABAD sect, is quite far. These pictures make it clear that occupying the CHABAD sect’s synagogue, killing Rabbi Holtzberg, one of the main leaders of CHABAD, together with his wife and other CHABAD members present in the mentioned synagogue was one of the main objectives of the operation. This was not an accidental and random hate killing of Jews.

 

 

 

The main old synagogue of Mumbai, the Eliyahoo (Sassoon) Synagogue, near Hotel Taj Mahal and Cafe Leopold.
 It was not attacked
.

 

 

The far off and little known building of the CHABAD sect, which was attacked

1- Hotel Taj Mahal (The main target of the terrorist operation)
2- Cafe Leopold (Attacked)
3- Hotel Oberoi Trident (Attacked)
4- The grand and historic Victoria train station (Attacked)
5- The Kama hospital (Attacked)
6- The small and far off synagogue of CHABAD sect (Attacked)
7-The Eliyahoo (Sassoon) synagogue near Hotel Taj Mahal, Cafe Leopold and on the way from Hotel Taj Mahal to the Victoria station. This is the main synagogue of Mumbai Jews. It is run by supporters of Zionism and the State of Israel
 (
Not attacked)

 

The very close distance between Hotel Taj Mahal and the main synagogue of Mumbai (The Eliyahoo Synagogue) is evident in this picture. If the terrorists were truly anti Zionists or anti Jewish, why didn’t they occupy this synagogue, which was on their way? Why did they take the long way to occupy the small and little known building of the synagogue of the CHABAD sect? Would it be far fetched to assume that the planners of the Mumbai tragedy removed the historical building of the Eliyahoo synagogue from their operation, perhaps due to personal affection or some debt to that place?

1- Hotel Taj Mahal
2- The Prince of Wales
Museum and the Natural History Museum
3- The Eliyahoo synagogue (the main and historical synagogue of Mumbai)

6- The attackers did not take “Zionist Jews” or even “ordinary Jews” hostage and they did not brutally kill their known Rabbi. They chose distinguished members of CHABAD.

CHABAD is a sect of Hasidic Judaism. Hasidim are orthodox Jews who consider themselves pious and that is the reason they have chosen this name. Hasid means piety and Hasidim means the pious. CHABAD is a 250 years old sect that originated in the town of Lubavitch, a small town in Tsarist Russia. Therefore it was named “CHABAD-Lubavitch”. Today, this sect is known as one of the largest sect of Orthodox Jews and has about two hundred thousand followers. The name of this sect is made from the three Hebrew words of “Chochmah” (Wisdom), “Binah” (Understanding) and “Da’at” (Knowledge). Actually the name should be pronounced “HABAD”. The CHABAD is a sect of pious Jews who neither have anything in common with “Political Judaism” nor accept religious and political Zionism. They do not recognize the State of Israel.

One website displayed a letter from the fifth leader of the CHABAD and wrote this about them:

CHABAD leaders in recent years have shown sympathy to cooperation with Putin and the Russian government. This has caused worry among the Zionists leaders and Israel.

The policy of Putin’s government is similar to that of the Tsarist Russia’s, which empowered Karaite Judaism against Talmudic ones (Rabbinical Oligarchy). Now they empower CHABAD against Zionist Jews. An example of following this policy was Putin’s giving of a golden medal to Mendel Pewzner, a CHABAD Rabbi, in 2003. In 2005, the great Rabbi of Russian Jews, Pinkhas Goldschmidt, was prevented from entering Russia after his trip to Israel and was replaced by Berel Lazar as the new Chief Rabbi of Russia. Zionists called this act of Putin “Stalinist”.

 

 

Meeting of Berel Lazar, the Rabbi of CHABAD, with Vladimir Putin

7- The attack on the small synagogue of CHABAD Jews in the “Nariman building” of Mumbai, taking the 29 year old CHABAD rabbi and his wife and children hostage and their brutal killing and the consequent cry the blues of the Israeli official and Zionists, reminds me of the massacre of the Karaites of Al Qods (Jerusalem) during the Crusades at the hands of the Crusaders; Those bloodthirsty knights who Zionists today generously keep their memory alive in their Hollywood blockbusters, and their corrupt leader, Jacques de Molay, who occupies a saintly place in Freemasonry. In the second half of the Eleventh Century, a group of crusader knights, led by Godfrey of Bouillon, were influenced by Rabbinical Oligarchy to imprison Karaites in their synagogue and burn the building down. In the official history of Jews, this event is portrayed as another oppression of the “Jews”. It is hardly ever mentioned who influenced the crusader knights, who were partners with opportunist Jew Oligarchs, to create this horrendous tragedy.


Notes:

Karaites in Persian Qarai’un, in English Qara’ism; meaning Readers [of Scripture]): In the Second century Hijri/ Eight century AD, the authoritarian rule of Rabbinic- Talmudic oligarchy (Hakhamim, Hakhams) caused opposition amongst Jews and led to the creation of a powerful movement against them. Leading this movement was Annan ibn Davoud (Anan ben David). Annan lived around 135- 159 Hijri (754- 775 AD) in Baghdad, during the time of the Abbasid Caliph Al Mansur. His followers were initially known as “Annan’ie” and later were named “Karaites”. Other Jews called them “Bani Mikra” or “Beile Mikra” (The tribe of Mikra). “Mikra” (מקרא) means “reading” or “that which is read”. This was because they recognized the original and early scriptures as the only valid source of religious wisdom and denied the oral tradition that the Rabbinical- Talmudic Jewish had spread in recent centuries. As written in Karaite documents, Hakhams first tried to gain support of Annan, but were unsuccessful. Annan was later imprisoned on orders of Caliph Al Mansur (Quite possibly due to the conspiracy of Jewish leaders). Abu Hanifa, one of the great Muslim Scholars, advised him in prison to talk about similarity of his views with Islamic ones in front of the Caliph and he was forgiven by doing so. Annan took some of his ideas from Islam and was influenced by Abu Hanifa. He was especially against the closed society of Jews and the forbiddance of relation with non-Jews. In the second half of the Ninth century AD, the ideas of Annan ibn Davoud were taken by Benyamin ibn Moosa (Benjamin ben Moses) Nahawandi and were formulated into an influential sect. (Nahavand is a city in Persia/ Iran.) His role in the sect was to such an extent that Arabic sources mention the sect as the “followers of Annan and Benjamin”. Between Eight to Eleventh century AD, the Karaites centre of activity was in the Arabian Peninsula and was later spread further among the Jews of Asia Minor. Among the Jews, Karaites were the most serious threat to the Hakhams (Hakhamim) and Rabbinical Oligarchy up until the coming of the European movement of Haskalah (enlightenment) in the late 18 century. The Encyclopaedia Judaica (1971, vol. 10, p. 764) mentions “the tremendous religious, political, and economic fermentation in the entire East, resulting from... the collision of Islam with world religions; and the social and economic grievances of the poorer classes of Jewry” as the main reason for founding of the Karaite sect. From the Fourth century Hijri/ Tenth century AD, a group of distinguished scholars came to being amongst the Karaites who wrote in Arabic and this sect became a powerful force among the Jews, seriously challenging the Rabbinical- Talmudic version of Judaism. At this time, the main centers of Karaites were in Persia (Iran), Mesopotamia, Al Qods (Palestine), Egypt and North Africa. It was at this time that Jewish Hakhams started writing books against Annan and Karaism. It is interesting to know that both the writings of the Karaites and those written against them by the Hakhamim were in Arabic. At the time of the Crusader oligarchy of Europe’s attack on Al Qods (second half of the 11th century AD), Crusader knights destroyed the centre of Karaites in Al Qods (Jerusalem) in the horrible fashion that was mentioned earlier. This was a heavy blow against the Karaites. From then until the 15th century AD Egypt became their main refuge. In the 14th to 16th centuries some of the Karaites were in the Asia Minor. In the 17 and 18 centuries their main centre was moved to Crimea and Lithuania. At the end of the 18 century these lands were added to the Russian Empire. At first, Russian rulers did not distinguish between Karaites and Talmudic Jews and treated both in the same fashion. It was from the time of Catherine the Second (The Great) that the difference between the Karaites and other Jews was discovered. Thereafter more attention was given to them and they received special treatments. At the time of Nicolai the First, Karaite leaders went to the Tsarist officials and announced that they are different from Rabbanites; that they are good citizens, industrious and politically loyal. Russian officials understood their distinguished position more and in 1863 gave them full Russian citizenship and rights. In 1932 their number was reported as ten thousand and they lived mostly in Crimea. At this time around 2000 Karaites lived outside of Russia in Poland, Constantinople, Al Qods (Palestine), Egypt and Mesopotamia (Iraq). In January of 1932 the government of Germany announced that it does not consider the Karaites Jewish. Therefore they were not harmed from Germany’s attacks during World War II. In 1970 the number of Karaites residing in Israel was reported as seven thousand, who mostly lived in Ramleh, Ashdod and Beer- Sheva.

Knights Templar: The Order of the Poor Knights of Christ and of the Temple of Solomon was at first name of a group of French knights which was formed in Al Qods (Jerusalem) in 1118 AD by the Crusaders. This group was gradually expanded and was formed into a mercenary military force that sold its services to the Crusader rulers. They rose greatly in military power and took charge of the transport of gold and other looted treasures from the East to Europe. After the end of the Crusades in 1291 they returned to Europe. Having got used to years of killing, caravan raiding and piracy, they naturally felt restless in their new surroundings. Therefore they kept their organization, chose for themselves a leader with the title of “The Grand Master” and continued their operations in a secret fashion. Their continued operation was considered a threat to the security of France and in 1304, Philip the 4th, King of France, ordered their arrest. Many of them were imprisoned and were tried in Papal and French courts. In 1312, Pope ordered the order to be closed down and King Philip publicly executed a number of the leaders of the group, including Jacques De Molay, the last “Grand Master” who was from the nobility. The remaining Templars fled to Portugal and created a new order called the “Knights of Christ”. This group had the main role in Portugal’s colonial activity in North Africa and the East and the later founding of Portugal’s colonial Empire. The flag of this group was the same as the one of the Knights Templar: a red cross on a white background, which today happens to be the flag of International Red Cross. In our time, the Knights Templar are an important branch of Freemasonry with their own special orders and conducts. For example, the Grand Master is called “The Grand commander”. In all Masonic sects, the name and memory of Jacques De Molay is greatly venerated and Philip the 4th is extremely hated.

Abdollah Shahbazi (b. 1955) is author of The Jew and Parsi Plutocrats: British Imperialism and Iran, 7 vol. in Persian:

Vol. 1 in two parts: 1- Overseas Plunder and the new Western Civilization, 2- Jews and the Jewish Oligarchy (543 pp.)

Vol. 2: The Jewish Oligarchy and the Formation of Global Plutocracy (625 pp.)

Vol. 3: Aristocracy and the new West (553 pp.)

Vol. 4: Early History of Freemasonry (586 pp.)

Vol. 5: Financial Aristocracy and the collapse of the Traditional Order (448 pp.)

Vol. 6 and 7 are about the Parsi sect, Parsi Oligarchy of India and the role of Global Plutocracy in the contemporary history of Iran (to be published).


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