blog.foreignpolicy.com - 12/2/2008
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He chose his words very carefully, but U.S. President-elect Barack Obama nonetheless made big news in India with this exchange from today's press conference: [Question:] During the campaign, you said that you thought the U.S. had a right
to attack high-value terrorist targets in Pakistan if ...
slate.com - 12/1/2008
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Mourners in Mumbai. Click image to expand. A
vigil near the Oberoi Hotel in Mumbai It's in...
human nature to mention any personal connection when offering solidarity, so I shall just briefly say that on my first visit to India, in 1980, I stayed at the ...
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India is our most important ally; we must stand by our ...
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
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
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Barack Obama's first foreign police gaffe?
TigerHawk —
FP Passport's Blake Hounshell wonders whether Barack Obama has committed his first foreign policy gaffe . The Indian press is interpreting one of his answers at his last press conference as implying that India might legitimately strike terrorists inside Pakistan just as Obama has said the United States might do. This would be a gaffe, presumably, if either (i) the Pakistanis had the same reaction as the Indian press, or (ii) the government of India got cocky and actually attacked. Both responses would be very destabilizing. Hounshell's argument notwithstanding and at the risk ...
Mumbai: Tortured Confessions and The Justification For War
Newshoggers.com —
... not only because it has a justifiable institutional paranoia where Pakistan is concerned but also because it takes the focus off its own internals feuds and enables it to maintain a facade of an intergrated nation beset from outside. The US and its Western allies want to use such allegations to pressure the Pakistani government to crack down on its shady ISI intelligence service and to pressure Pakistan to expel or crack down on ...
Words mean something
Belmont Club —
Passport , the blog section of Foreign Policy is suggesting that Barack Obama may have put his foot in his mouth by saying on the campaign trail that the US had the sovereign right to attack terrorist targets in Pakistan if there were compelling reasons to do so. He was asked at a recent press conference if India had the right to do the same. But extricating himself from an awkward situation, the President-elect wiggled out. I think that sovereign nations, obviously, have a right to protect themselves. Beyond that, I don’t want to comment on the specific situation that’s ...
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CNN.com - Politics 12/1/2008
A captured suspect in the Mumbai attacks has told police that he is Pakistani, Indian officials say. CNN's sister station, CNN-IBN, reports that the alleged terrorist said he was trained by Lashkar-e-Tayyiba, a Pakistan-based terror group that opposes ...
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