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...evidence slowly mounts that the terrorists - or at least most of them - came across the Arabian Sea from Pakistan to wreak their mayhem on Mumbai, the geopolitical reverberations of the carnage are beginning to resonate. Pakistan was hacked off the stooped shoulders of India by the departing British in 1947 as a homeland for the subcontinent's Muslims, and its relations with India since have been bedeviled by a festering dispute over the divided territory of Kashmir, India's only Muslim-majority state. Almost as many Muslims have remained in India as live in Pakistan, but Pakistan...
...Mumbai without people. Driving toward south Mumbai on the morning after the attacks, the city's normally teeming streets were emptied of life. In one sense, this was lovely, if disturbing: you had unimpeded views of the city's stately colonial buildings, its stone-paved avenues and the glittering sea. But this absence of humanity also revealed how stunned and baffled Mumbai's citizens were by the brazen attacks on their home. They stayed inside because they knew this was more than just another random bomb blast, the kind Indians usually shake off like so many mosquitoes...
...intelligence infrastructure that Patil leaves behind is a hornet's nest of competing interests and gaps in coordination. There were warnings earlier this fall based on telephone intercepts of an attack targeting the city, originating in Pakistan and using a sea route from Karachi, the same route used by those who smuggled explosives into the city before the 1993 Mumbai blasts. That intelligence was passed on from the foreign-intelligence bureau to the domestic-intelligence bureau and then, according to procedure, to the state police. But there was no follow-up with the local Mumbai police, who would have been...
...fate has been inextricably tied to water: the city famous for its canals is even shaped like a fish, with an imposing tail bifurcating at the Isola di San Pietro. Over the centuries, the Venetians' empire-building navies gave them grandiose reason to stage an annual Marriage with the Sea--the doge on board a gilded galley flinging a ring into the lagoon in mythic matrimony. Last week, however, the sea wanted more than a ring: the Adriatic appeared to be reeling in all of Venice itself, grabbing at it with the worst floods La Serenissima has seen in more...
...several days, wintry rains, pushy winds and high tides combined to inundate much of Venice's scarce solid ground. At one point, the sea level was more than five feet higher than normal; water sloshed into every part of the city. The Piazza San Marco was submerged, as were all embankments. Venice barely had time to haul out the wooden planks it sets up to help pedestrians navigate flooding. Sometimes only yellow do not cross tape separated pavement from canal...