theatlantic.com - 11/28/2008
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Heavily armed, hooded gunmen have killed more than 100 people and wounded more than 300 in Mumbai in coordinated attacks against two five-star hotels, the city’s largest train station, a movie theater, a hospital, and a Jewish center. Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh said in a televised ...
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haaretz.com - 11/28/2008
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haaretz.com —
A previously little-known group calling itself the Deccan
Mujahideen claimed responsibility for the series of attacks that
rocked Mumbai over the last two days. The organization is named for Hyderabad, a mainly Muslim southern Indian city. It ...
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ANALYSIS / Is Al-Qaida behind the Mumbai ...
kashmirwatch.com - 11/28/2008
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Cross-LoC trade to be sorted out Iftikhar Gilani
NEW DELHI, Nov 26: India and Pakistan resolved to
address "teething problems" cropped up in the way of continuing the cross-LoC trade. Addressing a joint press interaction after a two-hour long meeting ...
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Hugh Hewitt: "Is Al-Qaida behind the Mumbai terror attacks?"
Townhall.com Blog's TownHall Blog —
... Israeli media, as usual, is far ahead of the American MSM in gathering the details and key background for the story. UPDATE : The Atlantic's Robert Kaplan, as usual, has more key background. Two in-depth interviews with Kaplan are included in ...
India's Internal Reckoning
The Daily Dish | By Andrew Sullivan —
Bob Kaplan explains the Hindu-Muslim divide that helps frame the Mumbai terror attacks: The immediate result of the Mumbai terror attacks will be a further
hardening of inter-communal relations within India. The latest attacks
will also increase the likelihood that in national elections slated for
early 2009, the result will be a BJP-led government, as Hindus, who
comprise the overwhelming majority of Indian voters, take on another
layer of insecurity.
Internationally, this event will further aggravate Indian-Pakistani
relations, making it harder ...
Getting up to Speed on Mumbai Attacks
PoliBlog: A Rough Draft of my Thoughts —
If you are trying to get up to speed on the Mumbai situation, here are some recommendations:
The BBC has a useful timeline: Mumbai under attack and CNN has a map of the sites that were attacked.
The NYT has a summary of events here: 5 Hostages Die as Mumbai Siege Persists - Mumbai Hotel Is Last Scene of Conflict.
Robert Kaplan has a good overview of the relevant domestic political context over at The Atlantic: Behind Mumbai.
Mumbai and India's Homegrown Insurgency
Newshoggers.com —
... back in 2006 when the LeK really was to blame for bombings in Mumbai but ex-BFF dictator Musharraf had to be protected. However there's a deeper story which America's new regional BFF doesn't want told, one of Hindu-Muslim antipathy fuelled as much by Hindu supremacism as by Muslim extremism. The consequences in a nation that is 80% Hindu and where the Hindu supremacist party is one of the two largest, have been ...
Mumbai and India's Homegrown Insurgency
At-Largely —
... back in 2006 when the LeK really was to blame for bombings in Mumbai but ex-BFF dictator Musharraf had to be protected. However there's a deeper story which America's new regional BFF doesn't want told, one of Hindu-Muslim antipathy fuelled as much by Hindu supremacism as by Muslim extremism. The consequences in a nation that is 80% Hindu and where the Hindu supremacist party is one of the two largest, have been ...
Hugh Hewitt: The Atlantic's Robert Kaplan on India-Pakistan Conflict
Townhall.com Blog's TownHall Blog —
... Posted by: Hugh Hewitt at 5:22 PM The Atlantic's Robert Kaplan joins me on today's program to discuss his recent trip to India, touched on here. More ...
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The Mumbai Strategy
city-journal.org 12/4/2008 — The terrorist atrocities in India point to a larger goal.
Lessons from Mumbai
powerlineblog.com 12/2/2008 — Arthur Herman , the distinguished historian, argues that two illusions (along with scores of innocent people) died as a result of the 60-hour terrorist rampage in Mumbai, India. The first illusion is that "formal agreements between peoples and ...
Mumbai Attacks
revolution.muslimpad.com 11/28/2008 — Here are a few points regarding the Mumbai battle:
Nobody can really confirm who is exactly behind the attacks. All that is gathered so far from the Kuffaar and Fusaaq media sources is that there's a group called "Deccan Mujahideen." Deccan refers ...
India
corner.nationalreview.com 11/28/2008 — To add for a moment to the sobering observations of VDH and Jonathan Foreman, I took a look this morning at "Renewing American Leadership," then-candidate Barack Obama's essay in the July/August 2007 issue of Foreign Affairs, outlining his anticipated ...
Pakistani intelligence chief to visit India
iht.com 11/28/2008 — The move is being seen as an attempt by Pakistan's civilian government to allay Indian concerns after accusations of Pakistani involvement in the attacks surfaced almost immediately.
The attacks in Mumbai
washingtonmonthly.com 11/27/2008 — THE ATTACKS IN MUMBAI.... Terrorist attacks are not, tragically, entirely uncommon in India, especially this year, but the events in Mumbai have been on another level of magnitude. Indian police commandos rescued some hostages on Thursday as standoffs ...
All Around the World
yglesias.thinkprogress.org 11/29/2008 — Of course, when you see a spectacular terrorist attack in India, it’s natural for some eyes to start looking across the border to Pakistan, and then one starts to worry that the subcontinent’s cold war might turn hot:
Counterterrorism ...
Indian forces kill last gunmen in Mumbai
huffingtonpost.com 11/29/2008 — MUMBAI, India — Indian commandos killed the last remaining gunmen holed up at a luxury Mumbai hotel Saturday, ending a 60-hour rampage through India's financial capital by suspected Islamic militants that killed 195 people and rocked the ...
Herman: Lost Illusions
article.nationalreview.com 12/2/2008 — Illusions about fighting a culturally sensitive war on terror were among the first casualties on November 28.
POLITICAL HOT TOPICS: Friday Nov. 28th, 2008 —
CNN Political Ticker 11/28/2008
CNN: Commentary: What I'm thankful for
Let's rejoice today and get ready to work hard to rebuild our country's future.
Thanksgiving has always been one of my favorite holidays.
USA TODAY: Bush consoles Indian leader on terrorist attacks
The White ...