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India-Pakistan tensions rise over Mumbai attacks
Dec 3, 2008, 14:51 GMT
Chhatrapati Shivaji Terminus (CST) railway station at night in Mumbai, India, 03 December 2008. EPA/STR
New Delhi - Tensions between India and Pakistan escalated on Wednesday with New Delhi warning that it would 'act decisively' to protect its citizens, saying the perpetrators of the Mumbai attacks that claimed 171 lives had come from Pakistan.
'The government of India is determined to act decisively to protect the territorial integrity of India and the right of our citizens to a peaceful life with all means at our disposal,' India's External Affairs Minister Pranab Mukherjee said at a joint press conference with US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice in New Delhi.
Mukherjee in his discussions with Rice said he had informed her that was 'no doubt that the attacks were perpetrated by individuals who came from Pakistan and whose controllers are in Pakistan'.
On Monday, India summoned the Pakistan envoy to New Delhi, Shahid Malik, to inform him the Mumbai attacks were carried out by elements based in Pakistan and demanded action against militant outfits on its soil that had targeted India.
Indian security agencies have said the Pakistan-based Lashkar-e- Taiba militant group was behind the attacks.
Indian authorities also gave a list of 20 suspected fugitives to Pakistani envoy in India demanding their repatriation. The list included Masood Azhar, a leader of the Islamic militant Jaish-e- Mohammed group, and Lashkar-e-Taiba chief Hafiz Mohammed Saeed.
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..on this occasion, the USA has nothng to do with any of this in India or raghead land, and if we produce no hope for the world, after freeing
Europe,
whole chunks of Asia,
millions in Iraq from their own totalitarian rulers,
Afghanistan,
protecting sea lanes,
air corridors,
billions in AIDS treatment and cures,
22% of the UN's budget
Huge chunks of the IMF
...or despite the one half trillion dollars per year americans presently spend in doing so, perhaps the rest of the world can get off it's ass and produce some on it's own, or even for us, for a change!
Merry Christmas
By the way, Lance, where's that insightful dissertation on how Bush broke the bank of England??? Bah Humbug!
Typical response:
We give food and money thus we are allowed to mass kill people.
I beg to differ Mr. Lance---The U.S. has not done 'mass killing' (of innocents). Check the accurate History books that will re-define what youre getting at: Hitler, yes, George Bush , No. You read and trust the American Media waaaaay too much, dude.
War was still a better response to Hitlers Germany than APPEASING that bas-ard. Whole countries were raped by him BEFORE the U.S intervened.
No one from Iraq every harmed anyone in the United States (no more than the 17,000 murders/year that already existed in the U.S. that is). 9/11 had nothing to do with Iraq.
The Iraq war was defined as a preemptive war.
The strategy of mass killing, mass destruction and mass invasion with overwhelming forces without provocation is a concept of the Bush administration.
Comparisons to Hitler are unrealistic. Bush sends jesus-bombs while Hitler sent secular-tanks and infantry. There is a big difference there.
Your comments are just more excuses for getting away with mass killing, mass destruction and mass invasion.
... well, let me adjust that a bit:
While Hitler was a secularist and then later deity seeking mentally ill person, Germany at the time, and hence the forces Hitler commanded, was a predominantly catholic and christian.
So, while Hitler did not command jesus-bombs, he did command catholic and christian tank and infantry units.
Let us all pray that deadly natural disasters will hopefully wipe out the whole of U.S.A and during the recovery stage, the land will be given back to on its indigenous people ... the America Indians.
God destroy America!
Let us pray night and day!
pray to who ?
I am afraid that my tax money did actually go to Pakistan and to their military.
An ex military guy was one of the principal trainers of the terrorists.
I feel just terrible that the US keeps supporting Pakistan and that our media keeps saying that Kashmir is about a separatist movement. That is what the terrorists want you to believe. It's like, whose side is the US corporate government on? It is too terrible to think about which is why I guess most Americans just remain in denial.
Kashmir was never Islamic. Never. It has been stolen just like every other country that the Muslims have taken over.
Why are we protecting them? Just because the Saudis are buying our worthless treasuries? Oh and the Communists from brutally oppressive China. They buy our worthless dollar too.
What a mess we are in.
'Kashmir was never Islamic. Never. It has been stolen just like every other country that the Muslims have taken over.'
That is so funny.
You do realize that the United States was originally pagans and was never christian. And that Mexico was never 'Hispanic christians' but were originally pagans. That New Zealand was pagans, Australia was pagan, and most of the world was pagan until taken over by christians. Infact, before 2000 years ago there were no christians and everything was never christian.
So, I wonder. What is your point? Are muslims not allowed to take something over, but christians are allowed to take something over?
Sounds like I caught onto another double standard here. Boy, I could go on for months with this double standard. Lets here more!
Pakistan HAS to start capping taliban and Al Qaeda towel heads on their own turf and it has already started! It's hard to believe Al Qaeda made such a mistake. In order to look like they're doing somehting, they now have to make a real effort.
They're doing it all for us! Muslim bombs on Muslims.
Merry Christmas!
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lanceDec 3rd, 2008 - 19:22:52
Good to hear that India has not bombed Pakistan back to the stone ages. Apparently, mass killing people has not rubbed off onto them from the United States.
Perhaps there is hope for the world after all, but it ain't coming from the U.S.
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