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Steve Weissman, Truthout: "The terrorist attacks in Mumbai call out to President-elect Barack Obama and his advisors to rethink the signature blunder of George W. Bush's eight years in office - the so-called War on Terror. As US intelligence reports have made clear, the centerpiece of the supposed campaign against terror, the military occupation of Iraq, has increased the likelihood of more attacks like those in Mumbai, Madrid, London and Manhattan. The new escalation in Afghanistan will similarly increase terrorist attacks there, in neighboring India and Pakistan, in disputed Kashmir, and throughout the world."

http://www.truthout.org/112908A

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A tale of two terror attacks

CounterPunch
by Dave Lindorff

Before the odor of burned gunpowder has left the air of the Taj Mahal Hotel in Mumbai, the US is lecturing India not to go off half-cocked and attack Pakistan, simply because all of the attackers in the terrorist assaults in that city arrived by boat, apparently from neighboring Pakistan. US officials, including Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, are calling on India to engage in a ‘transparent’ and ‘thorough’ investigation into the attacks to establish who was responsible. How different this is from the American government’s response to the 9-11 attacks in the US! … Here again, we have an example of the US expecting one mode of behavior for the rest of the world, and another for itself...

http://counterpunch.org/lindorff12022008.html


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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