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...Since 2005, more than 520 people have been killed, and hundreds more injured, in 12 major bombings around the country. Claims of responsibility are rare, and Indian defense and intelligence analysts have long assumed that large-scale, coordinated bombings like the Ahmedabad attack are the handiwork of international, or Pakistani, terror networks. But experts are now coming to accept that the volume of recent attacks would not have been possible without a significant number of local recruits. "They are increasingly acquiring their own expertise," says B. Raman, former head of counterterrorism for the Research and Analysis Wing, India's external...
...Pakistani Prime Minister was in Washington Monday promising not to allow Pakistan to become al-Qaeda's new rear base. As everyone knows, it's too late for that - bin Laden and almost every other important terrorist we're after are comfortably holed up there. For the last seven years Bush has begged, cajoled, threatened, and bribed the Pakistanis to do something about al-Qaeda. But nothing has worked...
...unlike Iraq, it has had nothing to do with incompetence. This weekend the Los Angeles Times reported that the CIA has billeted officers in Pakistani military bases in the Northwest Frontier Province looking over the Pakistanis' shoulders to make sure no leads were missed. It was the right thing to do. But, other than a couple of Predator attacks on second- and third-level Qaeda targets, al-Qaeda is still thriving...
...spent two months in Pakistan earlier this year and took an informal poll among the few hard-line militants who would talk to me. I spent one evening with the survivors of Islamabad's Red Mosque, an armed group that fought it out with the Pakistani army last year...
...guess, after all, I can't say I blame Obama for kicking the Pakistani can down the road...