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...drama and pathos, it is possible to imagine the Mumbai attacks receding into the background because that has already happened for so many of India's other violent conflicts. Since the July 2006 bombing of a Mumbai commuter train, which killed 184 people, there have been nine other blasts in major Indian cities, killing 300 more. Naxalites, the Maoist insurgents who have made claims on a wide patch of central India, have clashed repeatedly with police and paramilitary forces, killing at least 175 this year, according to the South Asia Terrorism Portal. In Orissa, anti-Christian violence has claimed...
Pakistan has denied any connection to the attacks in Mumbai, though their meticulous planning, coordination and precision imply a level of direction that no ordinary militant group is capable of. But this time the terrorists may have gone too far. The murderers of Mumbai made special efforts to single out American and British nationals among their hostages, and killed the Israelis running Mumbai's Jewish center. This was clearly not just an attack on India; the assailants were taking on the "Jews and crusaders" of al-Qaeda lore. If it turns out that the massacre in Mumbai was planned...
...expected sympathy. How horrifying, to have terrorists attack a place that’s so familiar...
...spent the summer in Mumbai. The sites targeted in last week’s terrorist attack read like a checklist of the places where you could have found me this August. The railway station across from my newspaper office. Metro Cinema. Colaba Causeway. The Taj Mahal Palace & Tower—better known simply as the Taj—and the Oberoi Hotel...
...imagining the attack on Leopold Café is the worst. I tried not to eat there this summer. The food was terrible: five kinds of sizzlers and “chilly chicken.” But Leopold’s was a convenient meeting place, full of dreadlocked backpackers and girls tan from the beaches of Goa. I kept finding myself at a table in the corner...