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From VOA:

Mumbai Terror Attack Escalates Tensions Between India, Pakistan

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By Steve Herman
New Delhi
28 November 2008

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A diplomatic row between India and Pakistan has erupted over alleged Pakistani involvement in the Mumbai terror attacks. The chill in relations between the two nuclear-armed neighbors comes as commandos in Mumbai launched their final assaults on three sites. The coordinated attacks by unknown militants have left at least 140 people dead and wounded more than 300. VOA correspondent Steve Herman in New Delhi has the story.

title="An injured man leans on a railing after a series of attacks by terrorist gunmen in Mumbai, 26 Nov. 2008 "

Accusations by India's top diplomat and some of its politicians of a Pakistani hand in this week's terrorist attacks on Mumbai is causing an immediate chill in relations between New Delhi and Islamabad. India's External Affairs Minister Pranab Mukherjee has joined the voices here speaking of a Pakistani link to the terrorists who wreaked mayhem across India's commercial capital.  

The minister says initial evidence points to the terrorists having Pakistani links.

Mukherjee also is calling on Pakistan to dismantle the infrastructure in that country which he says assists terrorists.

Other Indian politicians and military officials say those who attacked Mumbai came from Pakistan by sea.

Pakistan has been quick to respond, condemning such talk.

Speaking to reporters in the Indian state of Rajasthan, Pakistani foreign minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi accuses India of politicizing the issue.

"Do not play politics into this issue. This is a collective issue," said Qureshi. "We are facing a common enemy. And we have to join hands to defeat this enemy."

In Islamabad, Pakistani officials say Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani has called his Indian counterpart to pledge full support to jointly combat extremism and terrorism.

In the conversation Mr. Gilani told Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh that Pakistan strongly condemns the attacks on Mumbai.

India media report that Mr. Singh asked the Pakistani prime minister to send the head of his country's intelligence service to New Delhi to exchange information about the militants who attacked Mumbai.

[Frantzie]

Shame India does not have CCW. These monsters were good but a CCW might have turned it into less of a massacre.

[goldstategop]

Homeland Security has a big challenge. The Mumbai attacks revealed the importance of guarding ocean entry points as well as multiple entry points to a city. The terrorists did not intend to gain control of Mumbai, a task well beyond their capabilities. But they were successful in sowing terror and temporarily paralyzing the life of the city. This is an attack of a type we have not seen before and the terror groups are constantly evolving new avenues of attack as old ones are countered. The value of this attack lies both in its scope and audacity and the way it was able to command media attention.

"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus

[I see my hands]

While the fallen of 9/11/01 have become political carrion.

The crisis in the USA should, by natural course, push other global events to the back page. Events such as what is happening in India are significant to us but pale next to a Muslim/Socialist in the White House and the horror that he has the endorsement of 53% of Americans.

[PowderMonkey]

"An attack of this nature cannot be thrown together overnight. It requires planned, scouting, financing, training, and a support network to aid the fighters."

Disagree. One AK-47, a sack full of grenades and high-capacity mags, pick your target area, and start killing all the unarmed civilians in sight. No need to smuggle and assemble bomb or WMD components. All the tools of the trade can be conveniently hidden on your person. Just show up at ground zero and pull the trigger. Be afraid. Very afraid. Somebody's just discovered a more cost effective and less complicated way to conduct terror attacks.

[LiberConservative]

I’d like to see them try that crap over here, with our right to bear arms and all.

[Dick Bachert]

What amazes me is that these crazy bas***ds haven't already pulled off multiple operations like this one HERE.

Talk about terror and grinding the economy to a halt??

BUT, ACCORDING TO DIANE FINESWINE, BABS BOXER, CHUCKY SCHUMER, ET AL – OOOOO – GUNS ARE SOOOO DANGEROUS!! In what may be a perverse form of population control, these MORONS – many of whom are themselves armed or have armed people around them -- would prefer us to have to call 911 – and DIE while the cops are en-route.

These murderous muzzies are HERE and the more of us who CARRY CONCEALED, the more of them we can “off” BEFORE they kill on the scale of their recent activities in Mumbai.

WHY THEY WANT OUR GUNS!!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j73SsNFgBO4

[pabianice]

Duh. It’s called “war.” What a doofus.

[Cacique]

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