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Shielding the President
April 2009
Nick Buxton
Why are top Democrats protecting Bolivia's former president from facing trial for the massacres he ordered?
A telephone conversation with Gerardo Hernandez -- Part 1
April 2009
Saul Landau

(This conversation took place on April 1, 2009. Our film crew received Justice Department approval to talk with “the prisoner,” with a prison official in the room. Before his 1998 arrest, Gerardo directed the operations of the other Cuban State Security agents who infiltrated violent groups in...

Lahore: the final wake-up call
March 2009
Praful Bidwai

By targeting Sri Lankan cricketers in the heart of Lahore, Pakistani militants have crossed yet another red line. The attackers were well-trained terrorists armed with rocket launchers, grenades and automatic guns. That they engaged the police in a 25-minute gun battle and escaped only proves...

Pakistan's drift into the hands of extremists
March 2009
TNI
 Tariq Ali
The intention of the attack on Sri Lanka's cricket team was to send a clear message to Washington: Pakistan is ungovernable

The appalling terrorist attack on the Sri Lankan cricketers in Pakistan had one aim: to demonstrate to Washington that the country is ungovernable. This is the...

There is no military option
December 2008
Praful Bidwai

Ultimately, it wasn’t superior firepower, sophisticated interception methods or commando training that explains how one of the Mumbai attackers was arrested alive. The key to that feat lies in the great courage shown by the city’s policemen in overpowering Mohammed Ajmal Amir Iman (Kasab) with...

Hawks now push for India to take action against Pakistan
December 2008
Praful Bidwai
The Indian conservatives have unleashed a media campaign to demand that India take serious punitive action against Pakistan.
Needed: Creative diplomacy, not force
December 2008
Praful Bidwai

No words can fully capture the horror and revulsion caused by the terror attacks in Mumbai. And none are strong enough to condemn the killing of 180 people in a meticulously planned operation, executed with ruthless precision. Nothing, including outrage against the gravest of injustices, can...

India mulls tough options against Pakistan
December 2008
Praful Bidwai

When United States Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice arrives here tomorrow to try to soothe nerves frayed by last week's terrorist attacks in Mumbai, she is likely to find that she faces an uphill task and must invest a great deal of her energy in defusing mounting suspicions and tensions...

Secular fabric under threat
November 2008
Praful Bidwai

The BJP claims to be uniquely concerned about and determined to fight
terrorism, and makes security a central plank of its politics. Its
hypocrisy and double standards on terrorism have shocked secular
liberals in India.

Guilty until proven innocent
October 2008
Praful Bidwai
India’s counter-terrorism strategy, which has become deeply communalised and duplicitous, will only strengthen terrorism’s sources and roots, argues Praful Bidwai.

EVEN before Delhi witnessed the September 13 bomb blasts, on top of terrorist attacks targeting innocent civilians in...

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