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...died in a frenzy of battles and assassinations. The toll includes several high-profile figures: in addition to Gazi Baba, Jaish-e-Muhammad lost two other senior leaders, while India mourned Kuka Parray, a former rebel leader who switched sides. Hawks such as Indian Deputy PM Lal Krishna Advani are again vowing revenge. "We have to fight it out," he said last week. As a Srinagar civil servant lamented: "We're back to square one." - By Alex Perry. With reporting by Yusuf Jameel/Srinagar...
...surprisingly, India's more hard-line Hindu politicians have been quick to seize upon the possibility that Pakistan?not Gujarat?might be to blame for the Bombay attack. Visiting the scene of the blasts, Deputy Prime Minister Lal Krishna Advani declared, "Pakistan's nefarious designs are not limited to Kashmir or Punjab but to the whole of India." He specifically cited his suspicion that "SIMI has been acting in conjunction with the Lashkar-e-Toiba." Similarly, Gujarat's BJP chief minister, Narendra Modi, who returned to office last November on a wave of Hindu self-assertion, blames what he calls...
...Indian Muslim sensibilities that fuels Umar's lethal rage. In his interview with TIME, Umar asserted that "Hindus have been pushing us for a long time," and he vowed revenge in the form of further violence?possibly even against India's top political leaders. "People like Modi and Advani will be dealt with soon," he warned darkly. Informed of this statement, Indian police and intelligence officials were quick to dismiss it as an empty threat. "I don't think we have to worry about our national leaders," says the RAW officer. "Their security is very tight." He adds, "Unless...
...parachut-ing crates of arms into eastern India; in New Delhi. Bleach was arrested in Bombay with an aircrew from Russia in 1995. The crew received a presidential pardon in 2000 after Moscow intervened. British Prime Minister Tony Blair pressed for Bleach's release during Indian Deputy Premier L.K. Advani's trip to London in June. The suspected ringleader of the weapons plot, Danish national Niels Christen Nielson, was never captured and the intended recipients of the weapons never identified...
...Instead, both sides have displayed remarkable self-restraint. Indian Deputy Prime Minister and Hindu hard-liner, Lal Krishna Advani, cautioned the country's Parliament: "These attacks are specifically aimed at ending the normalcy we have achieved in the Valley." Maulana Fazlur Rehman, a Taliban supporter and chief of Pakistan's fundamentalist Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam, was on a goodwill visit to India at the time of the attacks?and lost no time in condemning them. He added that he would encourage both governments to hold peace talks, and called all Kashmiri militants to "cease their operations." Even Zafar Akbar...