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...other city, if the leader of the nation were to come to the sickbed of a person grievously wounded by a terrorist bombing, the first thought in the victim's head would probably not be to praise the leader's economic policy. But for the young broker?and for most of those wounded in the Bombay blasts, who are able to afford the price of a first-class train ticket in large part due to the economic reforms that Singh set in motion as far back as the early 1990s?the admiration arises from the main reason why they live...
...explosions split the carriages open and hurled passengers onto the tracks. Bruised, broken and bloodied, many made it to the hospitals. Many others who were in the centers of the carriages ended up at the morgue. More than 180 were killed and 700 wounded in India's worst terrorist attack since...
...reports coming out of Kashmir. A man claiming to represent al-Qaeda said the group had set up in the disputed Himalayan territory, and it welcomed the bombings. Many analysts dismiss the call as a hoax, but the fear lingers that India may be highly vulnerable to international terrorist attacks, especially now that the government of Prime Minister Manmohan Singh is aligned in a strategic partnership with Washington. "India is now a tool in the U.S. war on terror," says Mahesh Bhatt, a filmmaker and promoter of peace between India and Pakistan. "It is only logical that...
...killing 70 people. Lashkar-e-Toiba, meaning army of the pure, has fought Indian rule in Kashmir since the early 1990s, and is believed to have links with al-Qaeda. Largely funded by Pakistan's Inter-Services Intelligence agency in the '90s, LeT was designated a foreign terrorist organization by the U.S. in 2001. It was subsequently banned by Pakistan, but it has nevertheless been implicated in several attacks on Indian government buildings and in a recent massacre of non-Muslim villagers in Kashmir. Both LeT and SIMI deny any involvement with the bombings in Bombay, telling news agencies that...
...after anti-Muslim riots killed more than 2,000 in the state of Gujarat, there have been few convictions. Police raids, detentions and the oft-reported abuses that occur under such detentions only add to their sense of being unfairly targeted. "Perceived injustice is the bedrock upon which all terrorist groups are based," says Bhatt. "We need justice for the crimes of Gujarat. Good government means hitting the violence head on, no matter who is behind it." But Ajai Sahni, director of the New Delhi-based Institute for Conflict Management, cautions that it's a big step from being disgruntled...