Bombay Tragedy: Beware of Innuendo on Pakistan
The Indian government at the highest level needs to control casual remarks by senior officials suggesting a connection between the Bombay horror and the government and people of Pakistan.
The Indian government at the highest level needs to control casual remarks by senior officials suggesting a connection between the Bombay horror and the government and people of Pakistan.
For Obama, the Mumbai attacks mean that we are on the verge of another major geopolitical crisis, with enormous implications for our already deeply troubled programs in Pakistan and Afghanistan.
As long as Indian troops are patrolling lands where Muslim insurgents exist and elicit government responses that ostracize the Muslim public and moderates, there will continue to be attacks on Indian soil. Period.
The attacks in Mumbai have produced scores of deaths, though what is scarier is the possibility that this incident may spell danger for India-Pakistan relations at a time when a much-needed thaw seems to be emerging.
Two of my wife's constituents had been holed up in their hotel room at the Taj Hotel in Mumbai. They had been there for over a day avoiding the terrorist gunmen that still stalked its corridors.
As a Muslim, as a Kashmiri-American, as a human being, I am outraged at the actions of the terrorists who have killed more than a 150 innocent people and injured hundreds.
This follow-the-leader effect may prove most horrific in the case of India. Believing neighboring Pakistan to be behind the Mumbai attacks, India is edging closer to its own war on terror.
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not a happy scene---
shocking, a bunch of islamo-fasciists kil-led a bunch of people?
one day we'll all wake up and see the threat for what it is.
SO obama was elected to end the wa r but instead wants 30 000 more troops in afgan wont leave ir aq and will inva de pakistan??? great first start
campaign promises.
Reality is something different.
you didn't know that?
WAKE UP PEOPLE!
THIS ATTACK WAS A SMOKE SCREEN!
WHILE WE WERE CONSUMED WITH WATCHING THIS...
BIN LADEN WAS BEING MOVED TO HIS NEW LOCATION...
(POSSIBLY ALTOGETHER OUTSIDE THE REGION)