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...author traces the genesis of the bomb plot to a tide of anti-Muslim violence that swept India in the early 1990s with the rise of the Hindu national Bharatiya Janata Party, which today leads India's ruling coalition. With remarkable detective work, Zaidi takes us inside the nexus between anti-India Pakistani secret agents and South Asia's Muslim underworld, which later proved so useful to Osama bin Laden's al-Qaeda. We follow the conspiracy from a single telephone call that was made to Mafia supremo Dawood Ibrahim by his handlers in the Pakistani secret service...
...celebrated him as India's great defender. From a political nobody, Modi was catapulted into the international limelight as the white-haired, bespectacled figurehead of Indian intolerance, a national Hindu hero. In headlines and debate, he instantly eclipsed all other leaders, even the Prime Minister from his own Bharatiya Janata Party (Indian People's Party, or BJP), the moderate but aging Atal Bihari Vajpayee. Faltering from a lackluster record as head of the national coalition government in New Delhi, and from a series of local poll defeats that has left it ruling just three of India's 28 states...
...Abdullah paid for the sins of his father and grandfather and the corruption in their governments. A surprise beneficiary from the elections is Indian Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee, who insisted on a fair election no matter what the outcome. That put him at odds with his own Bharatiya Janata Party and Omar's National Conference, which is a partner in Vajpayee's ruling coalition. Vajpayee even declined to campaign in the state?which Kashmiris took not as a slight but as a signal that the Prime Minister saw the elections as part of a healing process, not an opportunity...
...That didn't stop hard-liners from howling for swift justice or Muslim families in Gandhinagar fleeing their homes, anticipating the worst as conservative Hindu leaders called for a mass strike. Vajpayee, however, has been ruing the events of the spring in speeches around the world. Statements from Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leaders blamed Pakistan?not Muslims?to dilute religious overtones. To ensure the peace, this time the state deployed 3,000 soldiers to the area. The measured tones frustrated some coalition members?"Our Prime Minister only cares about international opinion," griped Kamleshji Maharaj of the Vishwa Hindu Parishad...
...know where this leaves them. "We lived together quite happily," recalls farmer Faiz Mohammad Khan. The change precedes the slaughters of February and March: several years back, some prominent Hindus in the village began organizing meetings of the Vishwa Hindu Parishad (VHP), extremist champions of India's ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP). "They came here and talked about Muslims, how all of us have weapons, and that Hindus had to protect themselves," says Khan. "Now no one cares about us and we have no faith in them. But we have nowhere else...