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In minutes, group landing from sea spread terror across Mumbai
Washington Post Dec 1, 08 11:23 AM CST
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How did 10 young men cripple a bustling Indian city in minutes? It started when four arrived on an inflatable boat in a poor fishing colony, scaring off inquisitive residents and jumping into taxis for the Oberoi Trident hotel, the Washington Post reports. “It’s a slum area. We didn’t think to protect it,” said a policeman.
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'I have done right,' militant declares to police
Daily Mail (UK) Nov 30, 08 6:55 AM CST
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The lone Mumbai terrorist captured alive said months of training had prepped him and his cohorts to kill 5,000 people, the Daily Mail reports. Describing the massacre to police, Azam Amir Kasab of Pakistan, 21, said his instructions were to “target whites, preferably Americans and British.” He was told to "kill to my last breath." But the gunman begged to live when taken to a hospital. “I do not want to die," he told health-care workers.
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Other US victims were Virginia man and his teenage daughter
New York Daily News Nov 28, 08 2:32 PM CST
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The massacre in Mumbai has left at least four Americans dead: A Brooklyn-raised rabbi and his wife, and a Virginia man and his teenage daughter. Rabbi Gavriel Holtzberg, 29, and Rivka Holtzberg, 28, were slain at a Jewish center they helped run. Family and friends in Brooklyn have one speck of good news: The couple's nanny managed to escape with their 2-year-old son, Moshe. “Today, he became an orphan,” a rabbi in Brooklyn told the New York Daily News .
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Local news says assault on militants there is over
MSNBC Nov 28, 08 8:00 AM CST
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A huge explosion shook Mumbai’s Jewish center as Indian commandos ended a siege on militants holding foreign hostages there, MSNBC reports. A local rescue service reported that all hostages inside were dead, including two Americans. Local news reports said the mission was over, with militants either dead or captured after commandos swept through each floor amid explosions and gunshots.
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ANALYSIS
Many fear Yanks may be colluding with India
New York Times Nov 23, 08 7:35 AM CST
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Pakistanis are fearful that the US is part of an India-Afghanistan plot to carve up the nation, writes Jane Perlez in the New York Times . Those worries have been fueled by a theoretical map drawn by US neoconservatives featuring a shrunken Pakistan and larger neighbors. “One of the biggest fears is the collaboration between India and Afghanistan to destroy Pakistan,” said a Pakistani insider. “Some feel the United States is colluding in this.”
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Strike is second this week in militant stronghold
Reuters Oct 12, 08 6:07 AM CDT
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A pair of US missiles yesterday killed five militants in a Pakistani border community, according to a local intelligence official. Some were foreigners living in a village in North Waziristan, an al-Qaeda and Taliban stronghold, the official said. US drones had been circulating for hours and delivered the missiles after tribesmen fired shots, Reuters reports. The attack is the second in a week. Recent US strikes have been strongly condemned by Pakistan.
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Official had helped in 2001 US defeat of Taliban
Reuters Sep 13, 08 8:23 AM CDT
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A bomb detonated near Kabul killed an Afghan provincial governor and three others today, Reuters reports; Taliban militants claimed responsibility for the attack. The governor and former cabinet minister, Abdullah Wardak, had helped the US when it toppled the Taliban in 2001. It was unclear whether the roadside attack was a suicide bombing or done via remote control. Wardak’s driver and two bodyguards were also killed.
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New fuel for tensions between US and Pakistan
Reuters Sep 12, 08 5:59 AM CDT
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A US missile attack killed at least 10 people today in northwest Pakistan, where many al-Qaeda and Taliban militants are based, Reuters reports. Drones fired missiles at a former government school that housed militants and their families in the latest move in a heated US-Pakistan disagreement over militants in the border region as Afghanistan’s insurgency grows. Pakistan condemned a US troop assault last week inside its borders, the first since 2001.
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Drone attack is the latest of several near Afghan border
Associated Press Sep 5, 08 8:00 AM CDT
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A suspected US airstrike on Pakistan’s border with Afghanistan killed at least 5 people today, part of a stepped-up effort against militants in the region, the AP reports. The victims' identities remained unclear. Conflicting intelligence reports called them either al-Qaeda operatives or innocent women and children, AFP notes. US drones reportedly killed 4 low-level militants in a similar drone strike yesterday.
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Militants take family hostage, trade fire with Indian forces
Times (UK) Aug 27, 08 1:55 PM CDT
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Militants who snuck into Indian-administered Kashmir from neighboring Pakistan were holding a family hostage today in after killing several people yesterday, the Times of London reports. Tensions are high in Jammu, some 300 miles northwest of New Delhi; Muslim groups in the area have long agitated for independence from Hindu-dominated India, or a handover to Muslim-dominated Pakistan .
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90% of Iraq's foreign fighters come across neighbor's borders, new report contends
Associated Press Mar 12, 08 3:08 PM CDT
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Syria is a key jumping-off point for foreign militants in Iraq, with 90% entering through the Syrian border, the Pentagon reported yesterday. “It is not clear that Syria has made a strategic decision to deal with foreign terrorists using Syria as a transit point,” the report notes. Meanwhile, Iran's support of Shiite insurgents also remains troublesome, the AP reports.
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Militants offer invite
after UN names him 'messenger of peace'
Associated Press Jan 19, 08 7:21 PM CST
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Nigeria’s top rebel group urged George Clooney to come heal their war-torn land today, the AP reports. The militants, who often pressure officials by blowing up oil pipelines, promised to work with Clooney “and other credible peace makers" to cool off fighting in Nigeria. Clooney gave no immediate response to the invitation.
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Pakistani militants, al-Qaeda blamed
Washington Post Jan 18, 08 12:41 PM CST
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The CIA director blames a cooperative effort by al-Qaeda and a group of Pakistani militants for the assassination of Benazir Bhutto, the Washington Post reports. The conclusion jibes with the explanation Pervez Musharraf has offered, though some Pakistanis still suspect the president and his government had a hand in the ex-PM’s murder.
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