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juancole.com - 12/5/2008
The Pakistan Link to Mumbai; Rashid: It was a Diversionary Tactic
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The Times of India worries that fundamentalist violence in Afghanistan and Pakistan are spilling over into India: 'In Pakistan, deaths in bomb blasts and other fidayeen attacks and actions of security forces have increased almost 10 times in the last four years from 648 in 2005 to 6,310 in ...
tomdispatch.com - 12/4/2008
Tomgram: Anand Gopal, Making Sense of the Taliban
— tomdispatch.com — [ 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 ... (more) Tomgram: Anand Gopal, Making Sense of the Taliban

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timesofindia.indiatimes.com - 12/5/2008
Rice urges 'robust' Pakistani response to Mumbai attacks-Pakistan-World
— timesofindia.indiatimes.com — New Delhi: The US leadership has asked Pakistan to ban the Jamaat-ud-Dawa, the renamed political wing of... Lashkar-e-Taiba, immediately and take action against Hafiz Mohammed Saeed, the head of the organization. This would count as an immediate ... (more) Rice urges 'robust' Pakistani response to Mumbai ...

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guardian.co.uk - 11/30/2008
Mumbai: Behind the attacks lies a story of youth twisted by hate | World news | The ...
— guardian.co.uk — The pitted roads around Multan, the city of saints, stretch flat across the fields. They lead past... rundown factories, workshops, shabby roadside teashops and mile after mile of flat fields broken only by the mud and brick houses of the villages of ... (more) Mumbai: Behind the attacks lies a story of youth ...

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Suburban Guerrilla — Juan Cole: But Ahmed Rashid correctly argues that the terrorist attack on Mumbai was a diversionary tactic, aimed at relieving the Pakistani military pressure on the Tehrik-i Taliban Pakistan in the tribal agencies and on the remnants of al-Qaeda. Neither India nor Pakistan should fall for this tactic.

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firedoglake.com 12/2/2008 — SEPECAT Jaguar Looks like the Indian press wants the same rights to bomb other countries the US has been claiming, and they're trying to use Obama's words to justify it: Sovereign nations have the right to protect themselves, US ...
Car bomb kills 18 in Pakistani city of Peshawar — The Huffington Post | Full News Feed
PESHAWAR, Pakistan — A car bomb devastated a busy street in the northwestern Pakistani city of Peshawar on Friday, killing at least 18 people and injuring dozens more. Violence is spiraling in Pakistan's northwest just as the country faces rising tensions with India over the deadly ...
Defusing the Mumbai Situation — A Blog For All
The security situation in Mumbai remains tenuous at best as a bomb was discovered and defused at a Mumbai rail station today among the baggage left following the terror attacks last week. That can't be good news for Mumbai law enforcement, which is already reeling from their inability to contain ...