Mumbai Terrorism

NYT: Group Behind Mumbai Terror Has "Flourished", Still Viewed As A Major Threat

nytimes.com | LYDIA POLGREEN and SOUAD MEKHENNET | Posted 09.29.2009 | Home


Ten months after the devastating attacks in Mumbai by Pakistan-based militants, the group behind the assault remains largely intact and determined to ...

Mumbai Attack: India Issues Arrest Warrants For 22 Pakistanis

CNN | Posted 07.25.2009 | World


An Indian court has issued arrest warrants for 22 Pakistanis wanted in connection with last year's terror attacks in Mumbai....

Mumbai Attacker Accidentally Admits Adulthood

CNN | Posted 06.06.2009 | World


The lone surviving suspect from last year's Mumbai terror strikes Wednesday inadvertently admitted he is 21 years old, contradicting his earlier asser...

Mumbai Trial: Suspect Retracts Confession, Says It Was Coerced

BBC | Posted 05.18.2009 | World


The leading suspect in the Mumbai (Bombay) attacks trial has retracted his confession. The lawyer for the sole surviving suspected gunman, Mohammed A...

Mumbai Attack Trial Begins, Suspect Admits To Being Pakistani

UPI | Posted 04.23.2009 | World


The only surviving suspected gunman arrested in the deadly attacks on Mumbai in November admitted in court Monday he was from Pakistan....

Mumbai Terror Attack Tapes Released

Telegraph | Posted 03.27.2009 | World


Newly released tapes of conversations between the masterminds of the Mumbai attacks and their gunmen on the ground reveal callous, remote-control kill...

Escape from Emotional Terrorism: The Bush Years

Michelle Kraus | Posted 02.18.2009 | Politics


Michelle Kraus

In September, the economic stability of the world as we know it was eroding under the Bush administration's feet. Slipping and sliding, they were worried about the money, and you never put it at risk.

Bush's Final Gift: Gaza

Eric Margolis | Posted 02.15.2009 | Politics


Eric Margolis

Just when we thought it was impossible for the calamitous George Bush and Svengali Dick Cheney to do any more damage to the world or to America's inte...

US Praises Pakistan Cooperation In Mumbai Attacks Probe

GroundReport | Posted 02.09.2009 | World


GroundReport

Originally published on GroundReport.com, the citizen journalism site covering world news from the ground up. By Imran Schah NEW DELHI-- US Secreta...

Captured Mumbai Terrorist Is Pakistani, Admits Government

GroundReport | Posted 02.07.2009 | World


GroundReport

Originally published on GroundReport.com, the citizen journalism site covering world news at the local level. By Ajmer Alam Wani JAMMU/ISLAMABAD/NE...

Mumbai Gunmen Phone Transcript Shows Chain Of Command

AP | SAM DOLNICK | Posted 02.07.2009 | World


NEW DELHI — "Keep your phone switched on," a handler instructs a gunman by phone in the midst of the Mumbai siege, "so that we can hear the gunf...

Last Year's Truths: What We Got Wrong in the Aftermath of the Mumbai Attacks

Vamsee Juluri | Posted 02.02.2009 | World


Vamsee Juluri

We were quick to spot the similarities between some Indian and American reactions to 26/11 and 9/11 respectively, especially from the Right, but we failed to see the differences.

Pakistani Confesses To Mumbai Attacks

AP | KATHY GANNON | Posted 01.31.2009 | World


ISLAMABAD, Pakistan — A militant arrested in Pakistan has confessed involvement in the Mumbai terror attacks and is giving investigators details...

Lessons for President-Elect Obama From Mumbai

Father Paul Mayer | Posted 01.28.2009 | Politics


Father Paul Mayer

In Afghanistan we find a bloody quagmire so hopeless that ordinary Afghanis are not sure who to fear more -- the American occupiers or the often ruthless Taliban.

An Interview with Shabina Riaz, an MP in Pakistan

Stefan Deeran | Posted 01.22.2009 | Politics


Stefan Deeran

In an interview with The Exception Magazine, Shabina Riaz addresses many misconceptions of Pakistan, including women's rights, the prospect of war with India and the roots of terrorism.

After the Horror

Shashi Tharoor | Posted 01.17.2009 | World


Shashi Tharoor

As evidence slowly mounts that the terrorists came across the Arabian Sea from Pakistan to wreak mayhem on Mumbai, the geopolitical reverberations of the carnage are beginning to resonate.

9 Is Not 11

Arundhati Roy | Posted 01.12.2009 | World


Arundhati Roy

November isn't September, 2008 isn't 2001, Pakistan isn't Afghanistan, and India isn't America. So perhaps we should reclaim our tragedy and pick through the debris with our own brains and our own broken hearts so that we can arrive at our own conclusions.

Delhi Normal, Tensions Submerged

Monroe Price | Posted 01.10.2009 | Media


Monroe Price

In the wake of the Mumbai events, liberalization of the delivery of news has been seemingly postponed. The government has issued an "advisory" on frequent visual replaying of the atrocities.

Mumbai Terror Group Trained American Jihadists

Wired | Posted 01.10.2009 | World


Royerinchicago A growing chorus of intelligence officials in the U.S. and in south Asia have pinned the Mumbai attacks on the Kashmir-based militants ...

Printing Poetry

Wendy Block | Posted 01.09.2009 | Living


Wendy Block

Back from Best Buy one recent evening with my new all-in-one inkjet, I finally began connecting it to the computer just before midnight. When I next g...

Mumbai Is Quiet, But What's Next?

Yvonne R. Davis | Posted 01.09.2009 | World


Yvonne R. Davis

Beyond the Mumbai attacks, the larger issue looms of what to do and how the U.S. is going to deal with global terrorism.

Did The Saudis Help Fund The Terror School Behind Mumbai?

The Daily Beast | Posted 01.08.2009 | World


In Muridke, Pakistan, there is a toney boarding school set in a neatly trimmed green campus that includes a farm, swimming pool, and even a small hosp...

Mumbai Attacker Kept In Underwear Only To Prevent Suicide

Telegraph | Posted 01.07.2009 | World


Ajmal Amir Kasab has been refused any clothing, except for underwear, to prevent him from choking to death, according to reports. He is being held ...

Connecting the Dots on the Mumbai Attacks

Janet Ritz | Posted 01.07.2009 | World


Janet Ritz

There has been a great deal of reporting, speculation, finger pointing and denials on the Mumbai attacks, much of which has focused on trees (dots) in...

A Lashkar e Toiba By Any Other Name....

Marie-Lou Fernandes | Posted 01.06.2009 | World


Marie-Lou Fernandes

For a group that has declared its prime objective to be the liberation of Indian Muslims and the destabilization of India, surely this was an event that would do their organization proud.