AP: BOMBAY, India - Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh said Friday that Pakistan must rein in terrorists on its own soil before the peace process can continue. Officials in India have said they believe the bombings on Bombay's commuter rail network earlier this week were the work of Lashkar-e-Tayyaba, a Pakistan-based Islamic militant group that operates in Kashmir, the Himalayan region at the center of the long-running India-Pakistan conflict.
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It's interesting to compare the parallels between India/Pakistan and Israel/Lebanon.
In both cases,"cross-border" terrorism is being used to goad a targeted government into violent military reaction - and, in the process,probe and evaluate the target's defenses.
- If the reaction is "mild" , the reaction force can be ambushed and possibly wiped out-yielding a propaganda victory.
- If the reaction is "strong", the response can be criticized in the world media as "over-reaction".
The parallels to Pakistan's HM and LET are the Iran/Syria-funded and directed Hamas and Hezbollah,and, looked at carefully,the operations and motives are essentially the same.
HM and LET want the entire Indian sub-continent to be under Sunni Islamic control ; Hamas and Hezbollah want the total removal of Israel from the Middle East , and the establishment of Shi'ite Islamic control.
Either set of "predators" is capable of triggering World War.
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