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...read these reports and warnings, and almost canceled a trip I had planned to Cornwall last weekend. I was going for the beaches, cliffs and seaside towns, a break from the dirty city air. The reports made me think I would have to stand during the six hour train ride, push through crowds on tiny streets and fight for a spot on the sand. But I was fixated on Cornwall, and left for the coast with one of my friends...
...came under fire from Pakistan. Having hardly cooled since the recent Kashmir crisis, tensions between the old enemies went straight back to boiling point Tuesday after Indian jets shot down a Pakistani reconnaissance aircraft along a disputed coastal border. India and Pakistan both claim the plane was in their air space, and each side rushed to produce scraps of debris Wednesday to prove their point. While both newly nuclear states vowed, through gritted teeth, to avoid escalation into full-scale hostilities, both sides have placed their military forces on full alert. Pakistan admitted firing a missile at Indian aircraft Wednesday...
...obviously great concern that this could grow into a more serious conflict," says TIME U.N. correspondent William Dowell. "With tensions already so high after the Kashmir crisis it?s disturbing that Indian jets would shoot down a propeller-driven Pakistani plane rather than force it out of their air space. Such an action looks calculated to increase tension rather than reduce it." Although Pakistan and India have developed extensive mechanisms to prevent their constant low-level clashes spiraling into war, the latest confrontation only widens the danger. Despite Pakistan?s withdrawal from the Indian side of Kashmir last month, there...
...journalists from CNN, the BBC, AP and other news outlets, being taken to the site where India yesterday shot down a Pakistani plane. We were flying over an exquisite but weird landscape, that has been turned into hundreds of miles of waterlogged marshland by the monsoons. From the air it would be impossible to tell where one country ends and the other begins, which may explain how some of these incidents happen...
...base, the pilot initially denied that we?d been under attack. They were under orders not to say anything. Eventually they let on that the Pakistanis had fired a missile -? which Pakistan later confirmed. We were about 2 miles away from the border, and the missile exploded in the air about a quarter mile ahead of us. The pilots of the choppers following behind ours saw a plume of smoke and the explosion, which they say are tell-tale signs of a surface-to-air missile. If they?d waited another minute or two before firing, we?d have been...