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Mumbai: “Pre-Emptive Strike” Against Obama’s Pakistan And Afghanistan Strategy
Pat Dollard | Young Americans —
On the verge of Indian/Pakistan war
Mumbai attacks ‘were a ploy to wreck Obama plan to isolate al-Qaeda’:
The carnage may have been an attempt to put Pakistan and India at each other’s throats and
kill US hopes for the region
Jeremy Page in Mumbai, Tom Coghlan and Zahid Hussain - (Times Online UK)
Relations between India and Pakistan were on a knife edge last night amid fears that Delhi’s response to the Mumbai attacks could undermine the Pakistani army’s campaign against Islamic militants on the frontier ...
MSNBC anchor surprised to find terrorism still exists post-Obama
Hot Air » Top Picks —
... at least argue that it’s because of the outpouring of affection and imminent healing of the globe that terrorists might be especially determined to reassert themselves. That, at least, would follow the theory that all grievances abroad are ultimately reactions to Bush policy rather than independently motivated by, say, death-cult ideology. Witt sounds genuinely mystified, though. Can’t Bin Laden feel the Change? Incidentally, at least one intel expert does think the attacks were a response to U.S. policy — specifically, Obama’s: One analyst even described the attacks as a ...
Tomgram: Anand Gopal, Making Sense of the Taliban
TomDispatch —
[Note for Readers: To listen to a TomDispatch audio interview with journalist Anand Gopal about the difficulties involved in reporting from Afghanistan, click here.]
Just when the Obama presidency-to-be was revving up to introduce its new national security "team" and reformulate U.S. policy in Afghanistan and the Pakistani border regions, the Afghan War ratcheted up a notch -- and not because there was another missile strike from an American drone aircraft in the Pakistani tribal borderlands, or because yet more civilians died in U.S. military operations, or even because attacks by "the Taliban" rose yet again to new heights. ...
Who Are the Taliban?
Antiwar.com Original —
... decided that stirring up a good old face-off between the two edgy nuclear powers of the subcontinent would be advantageous. A precision operation that managed to slaughter just about anyone in sight (including Indian Muslims) now threatens to change the nature of the Afghan War, heat up the conflict ...
