In a panel hosted by Counterterrorism Blog, CNAS Fellow and COIN guru David Kilcullen offers good insight on the Mumbai attacks: On the tactics: ‘This was not some Islamic charity or some group working alone from the Deccan Mujahedeen: this has all the hallmarks of a Special Forces raid, closer to a commando or SBS [...]
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Kilcullen on Mumbai: Did U.S. Money Help Plan the Attack?
Posted in Al-Qaeda, India, Militancy, Pakistan, Terrorism on December 9, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Mumbai Attacks, the Grand Scheme and Shadows of 2001
Posted in Afghanistan, Al-Qaeda, India, Militancy, Pakistan, Terrorism on December 5, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
I think this much is clear: Whoever the Mumbai attackers were, and whatever power they swore allegiance to, they weren’t acting on their own, and those who set things in motion had a larger strategic goal in mind: to relieve military pressure on the Taleban, al-Qaeda and other forces operating along the Afghan-Pakistani border, by [...]
Mumbai Attacks: Suggested Reading for the (Still) Needy
Posted in India, Militancy, Pakistan, Terrorism on December 2, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
My Firefox tabs are buckling under a pile of first-class terrorism analysis, so, in the spirit of international co-operation, I thought I’d share: “The Coming Urban Terror” — John Robb’s prophetic 2007 City Journal article on how the fabric of a modern metropolis unravels. “Al Qaida’s strategy to puncture the war on terror” — A [...]
Mumbai Attacks: Pakistan, al-Qaeda and Indian Muslims
Posted in India, Militancy, Pakistan, Terrorism on December 2, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Researching a backgrounder on the Mumbai attacks, I exchanged emails with Wilson John, a Senior Fellow at Observer Research Foundation, a Delhi-based thinktank. Although I’m what they used to call “an old India hand”, I haven’t paid much attention to the Subcontinent for quite some time, and a lot of what John told me came [...]
Indian Terrorism: Homegrown, By Pakistan
Posted in India, Militancy, Pakistan, Terrorism on November 28, 2008 | 5 Comments »
Aryn Baker writes in Time: The roots of Muslim rage run deep in India, nourished by a long-held sense of injustice over what many Indian Muslims believe is institutionalized discrimination against the country’s largest minority group. The disparities between Muslims, which make up 13.4% of the population, and India’s Hindu population, which hovers around 80%, [...]
Mumbai: Is India Within Its Rights to Attack Pakistan?
Posted in India, Terrorism on November 27, 2008 | 5 Comments »
As the tragedy unfolds in Mumbai, I find myself wondering why no one is bringing up this fact: This is by all definitions a foreign attack on Indian soil. India is not a Muslim country, and its own Muslim minority, apart from Kashmiris, by and large does not have a beef with the central government. [...]
