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...While terrorist attacks have touched off rounds of finger pointing between the Pakistani and Indian governments in the past, the Feb. 18 bombing of a Pakistan-bound train in India's western state of Haryana had no such effect. Within hours of the blast and fire that killed at least 68 people, most of them Pakistanis, on the Samjhauta (Friendship) Express, politicians from both countries had vowed that the peace process would continue. Such acts, said Pakistan's President Pervez Musharraf, will only "strengthen the resolve" for "peace between the two countries." Indian officials, meanwhile, sent condolences to victims' families...
...While terrorist attacks have touched off rounds of finger pointing between the Pakistani and Indian governments in the past, the Feb. 18 bombing of a Pakistan-bound train in India's western state of Haryana had no such effect. Within hours of the blast and fire that killed at least 68 people, most of them Pakistanis, on the Samjhauta (Friendship) Express, politicians from both countries had vowed that the peace process would continue. Such acts, said Pakistan's President Pervez Musharraf, will only "strengthen the resolve" for "peace between the two countries." Indian officials, meanwhile, sent condolences to victims' families...
...Arab states don't come to our help, they will find [Iran] at their gate," says Mohammed Bashar al-Faidi, a spokesman for the Association of Muslim Scholars. "For the sake of the entire Muslim community worldwide, the beast has to be destroyed in Iraq." For leaders of terrorist groups, the fear of a regionwide Shi'ite ascendancy serves as a useful fund-raising tool as well as recruiting propaganda. Radical Sunni preachers and TV talk-show hosts across the Arab world are inflaming sentiments by accusing Iraq's "Persians" of ethnic cleansing. In January, an editorial in al-Ahram...
...kidnapping an Egyptian cleric. The Americans aren't going to show up for the trial. And it's unclear whether the Italians really are going to end up in jail. But you can count on the Italian intelligence service thinking twice before helping the Americans with another sensitive counter-terrorist operation...
...hope things aren't really that bleak. Because the fact is Europe and Canada are our first and best lines of defense. A terrorist cell in Europe planned and executed 9/11. And today, with 14 million Muslims, Europe remains our Achilles' heel. An alarming number of European Muslims identify with Islam more than they do with their adopted countries. And Europeans do not need visas to enter the United States...