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...drama and pathos, it is possible to imagine the Mumbai attacks receding into the background because that has already happened for so many of India's other violent conflicts. Since the July 2006 bombing of a Mumbai commuter train, which killed 184 people, there have been nine other blasts in major Indian cities, killing 300 more. Naxalites, the Maoist insurgents who have made claims on a wide patch of central India, have clashed repeatedly with police and paramilitary forces, killing at least 175 this year, according to the South Asia Terrorism Portal. In Orissa, anti-Christian violence has claimed...
Allegations of election-rigging in the central city of Jos sparked violent clashes between Christians and Muslims that left hundreds dead and displaced thousands. Marauders from both sides rampaged through the streets, burning churches, mosques, shops and homes and using guns and machetes to slaughter their enemies. Though the casualties represented Nigeria's worst death toll in several years, the "middle belt" of Africa's most populous nation--the intersection of its mostly Muslim north and predominantly Christian south--has been racked by sectarian violence before. Religious and ethnic riots in Jos killed about 1,000 people...
...Girl, nor was I surprised when Blair kissed the Yale admissions officer (on the lips!!!!!). Something you’ve always wanted to tell someone: I quit my hockey team because my toes got too cold. Favorite childhood toy: Clue—a children’s game about violent murder. Sexist physical trait: The time I got a tan. Best part about Harvard: UC Elections, because I am a crazed sociopath. Worst part about Harvard: One time a huge football player was in front of me in the dining hall and he took ALL of the chicken quesadillas...
...Mumbai last week rely on party drugs usually associated with Western decadence to stay awake and alert throughout their three-day killing spree? Britain's Telegraph newspaper suggests that they did, citing unidentified officials claiming physical evidence shows the assailants used cocaine and other stimulants to sustain their violent frenzy. And if the notion of self-anointed holy warriors on a coke binge sounds incongruous, the report also maintains that the killers imbibed the psychedelic drug LSD while fighting advancing security forces...
...this wasn't our 9/11, and we've learned since then that there's a second reaction to terrorism. One recognizes, wearily but maturely, that killing every terrorist we can lay our hands on isn't the same as killing their ideology. The jihadist's ideology is barbaric, violent and senseless. But that isn't what will wipe it out. Ideas can't be wiped out with force, much less killed. There has to be a good reason for people to give them up. (See pictures of Two Days of Terror in Mumbai...