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...Bordering on War The shock of the attacks and the slow agony of watching the three-day siege unfold on television immediately invited comparisons to the Sept. 11, 2001, acts of terror in New York City. "This is our 9/11," was the refrain heard from both Mumbai's citizens and other Indians. It wasn't long before someone followed that thinking to its logical conclusion: bomb Pakistan, just as the U.S. bombed Afghanistan. Simi Garewal, a former actress and talk-show host, said on a cable news show that "America gave out the right signals to the world that they...
...connect the attacks in Mumbai with preexisting plans for passport to South Asia week, starting Dec. 6. ‘NEED TO COME TOGETHER’Professor Sugata Bose, a historian of South Asia, found out about the attacks while in his office on Wednesday and watched it unfold on television, but he said he learned more about what was going on from people in India. He said the American media coverage was superficial. “There was much more depth in commentary from Indian channels and I wish I was able to hear more of that...
...three simultaneous hostage dramas began to unfold, onlookers gathered. "It's like watching 24 in slow motion," said Vineet Pandit, 22, who lives near the Oberoi. What they would see at each of these sites was a parade of hundreds of uniformed troops over the course of several hours: the Mumbai police, the Indian army and paramilitary groups including the Rapid Action Force and the National Security Guard's ?lite "Black Cat" commandos, distinctive in their all-black uniforms. It was not always clear who was in charge. On Thursday at the Taj, police officers waited idly in their jeeps...
...their own country are a key element of how the Communist Party maintains power. But as the world economic crisis deepens and unrest becomes more widespread, the central government has had to tweak how it wages its propaganda war. Just how successfully it manages to control the way events unfold will become increasingly critical in preventing isolated cases from turning into the kind of large-scale civil unrest that threatens the party...
...Here are the most likely scenarios, in no particular order, that could unfold for Citigroup and its shareholders in the next few days...