bloomberg.com - 12/3/2008
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Rice Urges Pakistan to Act With Urgency on Terror (Update4) By Viola Gienger and Bibhudatta Pradhan Dec. 3 (Bloomberg) -- Pakistan must act to help catch the perpetrators of last week’s terrorist attacks in Mumbai that bore the hallmarks of an al-Qaeda-style operation, Secretary of State ...
voices.washingtonpost.com - 12/2/2008
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By Michael Abramowitz and Al Kamen President -elect
Barack Obama is seriously considering appointing former ambassador Richard...
Holbrooke as his special envoy for south Asia, a move that would put one of America's most prominent diplomatic ...
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Holbrooke Under Consideration for South Asia Envoy
online.wsj.com - 12/3/2008
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Getty Images STANDING WATCH: Police on Tuesday guard
Mumbai's main rail station, a target of last week's...
terror attack -- plotted, India says, by a Pakistani militant.
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India Names Mumbai Mastermind
thenation.com - 12/2/2008
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Obama's New Team at State, Defense, NSC By
Robert Dreyfuss The Wall Street Journal , evidently keen...
readers of this blog, devoted an editorial on Friday to my criticism of Barack Obama's foreign policy team. Its November 28 editorial , entitled ...
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The Dreyfuss Report
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Defusing the Mumbai Situation
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... an effort to defuse escalating regional tensions in the wake of last week's three-day terrorist attack that killed 171 people in India's financial capital. Why did it take so long for emergency crews to check through all those bags left behind? You would think that the first thing that law enforcement should have done is sweep the entire area for additional bombs and weapons to prevent them from potentially going off while the investigation proceeded. Sec. State Rice is trying to walk a delicate line between India and Pakistan, cajoling and pushing Pakistan to release more ...
Today in The Nation: Holbrooke Returns
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... that the region poses perhaps the biggest foreign policy challenge for his incoming administration. The report adds: "The move would also represent another example of Obama's willingness to look beyond his circle of supporters to fill key posts." But it doesn't represent that at all. It means, instead, that Obama is giving members of his War Cabinet -- as the Wall Street Journal called it -- free rein to pick their friends, and not Obama's friends, for their staff. Bloomberg throws a few drops of cold water on the Holbrooke story: Obama's chief spokeswoman for national ...
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pd.miami.com 12/6/2008 — India demands Pakistan hand over fugitives, testing pledge of cooperation Tue Dec 2, 2008 India demanded Tuesday that Islamabad hand over 20 fugitives it says have taken refuge in Pakistan, in an escalation of the confrontation between the... more... ...
Talk of India-Pakistan war
agonist.org 12/2/2008 — There are feverish talks happening here in India about going out for a war with Pakistan due to last week's terrorist attacks in Bombay.
Here is my analysis (first 3 paras' content are also repeated in one of my comments in the Bombay post on ...
Pakistani Taliban vows to battle India
longwarjournal.org 12/23/2008 —
Baitullah Mehsud from a recent Taliban video.
The Pakistani Taliban has vowed to back the government in the event of war with India, the leader of the group said yesterday.
In an interview with The News , Baitullah Mehsud said ...
Indian demands Pakistan turn over most wanted
longwarjournal.org 12/2/2008 —
Lashkar-e-Taiba leader Hafiz Saeed.
Indian has demanded the Pakistani government turn over about 20 most wanted terrorists to demonstrate its seriousness about fighting terrorism in the wake of last week's terror siege of ...
Both ends and the middle
pajamasmedia.com 11/29/2008 — The New York Times notes the inconvenient truth. Barack Obama’s plan to enlist Pakistan in the fight against al-Qaeda in exchange for improving its relations with India has become one of the potential casualties in Mumbai.
The terrorist attacks ...
International support to India and Pakistan against Jihadi terror
counterterrorismblog.org 12/1/2008 — As Governments and private sector analysts are now decrypting the secrets of the Mumbai Jihadi operation and as diplomats are hurrying to head off a crisis between the two Asian nuclear powers, the counter terrorism community within Democracies is ...
Mumbai - The Case Against Pakistan Strengthens
newshoggers.com 12/12/2008 — By Cernig
This is the post where I willingly eat some crow,which will no doubt please some critics of my earlier posts on the recent terror attacks in Mumbai.
Right from the first , India blamed the Lashkar e-Taiba, a primarily ...
Apocalypse now
thetalkingdog.com 11/30/2008 — My heart goes out to the people of Mumbai, India, who have endured days of an ongoing and vicious terror attack that has already killed over 100 and wounded hundreds...
Pakistan foreign minister cuts short India visit-India
timesofindia.indiatimes.com 11/29/2008 — NEW DELHI: Distressed over widespread charges of involvement of Pakistan in the Mumbai terror attacks, Pakistan foreign minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi cut short his four-day visit to India and abruptly left for Islamabad on Saturday morning. Qureshi ...
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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 ...
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