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Lucy Caldwell’s recent piece (“Lessons From Mumbai,” column, Dec. 3) on the terrorist attacks on Mumbai was deeply unsettling. Her elliptical logic re-frames a complex historical issue as a simplistic issue of ‘radical Islam’, a dangerous oversimplification of the struggle that precludes nuanced dialogue on issues of national security not only in India but around the world...
...terrorist attacks in Mumbai were not the most recent avatar of some insidious force of radical Islam sweeping across continents and cities throughout the world, using terrorist means to bring down democracy, kill the infidels, and raise the crescent banner over the rooftops of the world. Lashkar-e-Taiba is indeed an Islamic terror group, and may even form part of a larger network of groups located in the NWFP and along the border with Afghanistan...
...restored to Greece in 1974, that earlier generation has continued to hold a fascination amongst the far-left fringe. Exarchia is close to the Polytechnic School of Athens, whose gates were crushed by the military to break up a student uprising in Nov. 1973. That incident inspired the Marxist terrorist outfit November 17, which killed 23 people in targeted assassinations before being dismantled...
Indian security analysts, meanwhile, were not only reticent but also skeptical of both the Pakistani authorities' ability and their willingness to crack the whip on the many terrorist groups operating on Pakistani soil. Mistrust of the Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) runs deep among Indian intelligence and security circles - far more than in the U.S. - particularly since the late 1980s, when the ISI was accused of aiding a fierce insurgency in India's border state of Punjab. Many believe that the ISI-Pakistani-army nexus holds the country in a vise, severely curtailing any civilian government's power to take...
...Israeli security forces of settlers occupying a Hebron house whose ownership is in dispute. Initial indications were that the rioting settlers had injured at least 15 Palestinians, two or three of whom had suffered gunshot wounds, and Israeli security officials were on high alert to prevent any attempted settler terrorist attacks on Palestinian mosques or other facilities. Israeli security officials told TIME of their fear that the current confrontation could prompt some militants to try to emulate Baruch Goldstein, the settler lionized by extremists for his massacre of 29 Muslims in a shooting spree at the tomb of Abraham...