Reply #2: IMO, BushInc's involved. Times (UK): Petraeus convinced Pakistan solution needs to go THRU India.

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http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/asia/article5254369.ece

Bombay: fragile truce in danger of being blown apart
Richard Beeston, Foreign Editor

We still do not know the identities of Bombay’s attackers, nor which group they belonged to, not even what their demands were. But in one significant measure they have already achieved a major objective by their three-day reign of terror against Indian civilians, foreign tourists and Orthodox Jews in a city better known for culture, trade and entertainment.

After seven years of painstaking rapprochement between India and Pakistan, relations between the two dominant, nuclear-armed states of South Asia are once again seriously at risk. This not only threatens to destabilise the entire region but could also set back the West’s fight against al-Qaeda, the Taleban and other Islamic militants operating in Pakistan and Afghanistan.

The Pentagon began to look afresh this year at the war in Afghanistan, where USled forces are struggling to contain a growing insurgency by the Taleban. One conclusion was that the war could not be viewed exclusively as an Afghan problem. It also involves the Pashto-speaking areas across the border in Pakistan’s lawless tribal territories, where various groups linked to al-Qaeda are operating under constant attack by US drones.

General David Petraeus, the former US commander in Iraq and now in overall charge of US forces in the region, is convinced that the best way to succeed in Pakistan lies through India. If the ruling establishment in Islamabad and the Pakistani people in general conclude that the main threat to their fragile country comes from militant Islam, rather than their traditional enemy India, then the war is close to being won.

Somebody else came to the same conclusion this week when they ordered the attack on Bombay. Plunge India and Pakistan back into a state of war and millions of young Muslims in the region could be mobilised in a new jihad. Kashmir could once again become a flashpoint. Pakistan might be forced to reduce or withdraw its forces fighting in the tribal areas and turn its attention to India.

There is still no evidence that the commandos in Bombay, also known as Mumbai, had this goal in mind. But it came as little surprise that the young men leading the attack had orders to capture and kill as many citizens of America and Britain as possible, the two countries at the forefront of the military mission in Afghanistan.

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Another AMAZING COINCIDENCE, eh?