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...Blame Pakistan, for one thing. On Friday, India's Prime Minister Manmohan Singh linked the bombings to its neighbor, saying, "These terrorist modules are instigated, inspired and supported by elements across the border." Tortuous peace talks between the two countries now seem all the more challenging, with India already announcing that it might postpone a meeting with Pakistan that had been scheduled for this week. Singh said he warned Pakistan's leaders "that if the acts of terrorism are not controlled, it is exceedingly difficult for any government to carry forward what may be called a normalization and peace process...
...deep into Israel's soul. It is practically a sacred notion in the Israeli military that nobody is left behind. And because the nation has a citizen's army and Israel's population is so small, hostage taking is felt intimately; if it's not your son or your neighbor's son, it could...
...terrorism and the U.S. invasion of Iraq, regional actors have lacked a clear compass, rules of the road or a referee. Syria is being told to clean up its act in Lebanon and Iraq; Iran to drop its nuclear program and to stop meddling in its neighbor's affairs; Hamas to undergo an ideological revolution; Hizballah to disarm. All are perfectly justifiable demands, but none are being accompanied by a clear and appealing incentive for the parties' taking such actions--other, that is, than avoiding retribution if they...
...tempted to show excessive leniency and give in to ETA's political demands in exchange for an end to violence. "What are we going to negotiate with ETA?" says Pilar Elias, a PP councilwoman in the town of Azkoitia, whose husband was killed in 1980 by a neighbor belonging to ETA (and whose life he had saved 18 years earlier). "First they have to turn over all the weapons and ask for forgiveness. After that, we will...
...India's national symbol, the Mughal mausoleum of the Taj Mahal. This distrust of Islam has only increased since independence in 1947: modern India was founded in the Muslim-Hindu bloodletting of Partition from Pakistan, in which a million people died, and since then three wars against Islamic neighbor Pakistan have killed millions more...