This Months Article

Starting: Sat September 1, 2001
Ending: Sun September 30, 2001

Messages: 273

• The United States and Pakistan: 1947-2000
• M V Kamath, Organiser, September 30, 2001

>>> But for the Himalayan ego of Mohammad Ali Jinnah who felt slighted by the Congress leadership of the forties and the Muslim psychology-seldom, if ever, analysed by professional historians-of not wishing to be under 'Hindu' rule, Pakistan would never have come into existence. Jinnah, in the first place, wanted to be. Number One; he should have known that this he could never be; in the second place, once Pakistan was set-up, he wanted it to be treated on par with India. ......
 
• Marxist Party's "Saffron Encephalitis"
• Dr. C. I. Issac, Organiser, September 30, 2001

>>> The Marxist party, now an opposition in Kerala is more anti-Centre in its thoughts and action programme and now again is more worried about the Centre's education policy. When it was in power it had no time to rule the State but enough time to work out anti-Centre agitations as well as annihilation of political opponents. ......
 
• Tale of two temples
• Prafull Goradia, Organiser, September 30, 2001

>>> The famous Wailing Wall or Western Wall in Jerusalem is the only remnant of the Jewish temple built by King Solomon about 3000 years ago. It has all through these three millennia remained a holy site for the Jews. Although it was destroyed by the Babylonians in 586 B.C., it was rebuilt by King Herod. Unfortunately, this Second Temple was demolished by-the Romans in 70 A.D. ......
 
• Astrology needs no defence
• D P Sinha, Organiser, September 30, 2001

>>> The University Grant Commission has made Astrology an elective subject of study for Universities. The world "elective" may be noted. It is left to Universities to decide whether they would like to offer a course of study in astrology. Yet Leftists and Anglophile liberals, deriving legitimacy in this country from Nehruvian legacy, have created a deafening din against introduction of these courses. ......
 
• In defence of 'Saffronisation'
• K R Malkani, Organiser, September 30, 2001

>>> Recently the National Council for Educational Research and Training (NCERT) produced the National Curriculum Frame-Work for School Education. Here was, in the word of NCERT Director, Prof J. S. Rajput, "the first ever honest attempt to modernise education by upholding not only the deepest but forgotten values of Indian civilization, but also the sagely advice of the founding fathers of our nation." ......
 
• Meeting with Church leaders clears misunderstandings -M. G. Vaidya
• From Our Correspondent, Organiser, September 30, 2001

>>> In an effort to bring about mutual trust among followers of different faiths senior leaders of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) and the leaders of various sects among the Christian community in India, held a series of meetings recently. The RSS has always considered Christians as part of the larger Indian society sharing the hopes and aspirations of everyone here. ......
 
• Kerala turns hotbed of Islamic extremism
• S Chandrasekhar, Organiser, September 30, 2001

>>> Ever since the assumption of office by the Congress-led UDF in Kerala, of which the Indian Union Muslim League (IUML) is a major ally, there has been a spurt in violent activities by Islamic fundamentalists, especially National Development Front (NDF). ......
 
• Jehad arrives America
• Atul Rawat, Organiser, September 30, 2001

>>> In the recent debate on education in the Lok Sabha (August, 2001) Shri Somnath Chatterjee, Member of Parliament, quoted Organiser (March 18, 2001) regarding an article on universal Islamic violence to prove how communal the views are. But the Islamic terrorist attack on America has proved this contention to be unfortunately correct. ......
 
• Cornered dictator's tirade against India
• Shyam Khosla, Organiser, September 30, 2001

>>> General Pervez Musharraf's options are extremely limited. His decision to join USA in the war against terrorism is not born out of conviction. It is a strategy to escape punishment at the hands of the super power. He admits to all this in his address to the nation on Wednesday. ......
 
• Truth of Islamic terrorism
• Ibn Warraq, Organiser, September 30, 2001

>>> Given the stupefying enormity of the acts of barbarism of September 11, moral outrage is appropriate and justified, as are demands for punishment and reprisals. But what is not justified or permissible in a civilised society is acts of vengeance by lynch mobs who blindly attack all those whom they perceive as "Muslims" or Arabs. Not all Muslims are terrorists. ......
 
• Target Terrorism
• Editorial, Organiser, September 30, 2001

>>> On September 11, 2001, the US woke up to the horror of Islamic terrorism. The impact of plane-bombing of WTC tower was immense on the "free" American psyche as they realised the festering disease jeopardising their freedom. President Bush minced no words in accepting the fact that the US is awakened to the global menace. "We are a country awakened to danger and called to defend freedom. Our grief has turned to anger and anger to resolution. ......
 
• An unstoppable zeal of patriotism
• Organiser, September 23, 2001

>>> The holding of Vishal Hindu Sammelan coupled with the two-day visit of the Vishwa Hindu Parishad leader, Shri Ashok Singhal, generated a tot of confidence amongst the minorities in J&K especially of those areas that are badly infected by the Pakistan-sponsored terrorism. The Sammelan was organised by the Jammu & Kashmir unit of Vishwa Hindu Parishad in Jammu recently. ......
 
• The demonisation of Hindutva
• M V Kamath, Organiser, September 23, 2001

>>> Four RSS volunteers were kidnapped in Tripura, allegedly by Baptists (a Christian w& with strong leanings towards conversion) a year ago. Their deaths in captivity were announced only this year, in July. In a country where kidnappings and killings are fairly common, the death of four PSS volunteers in unknown circumstances largely went unnoticed and uncommented upon. Media comment has been tardy if not nonexistent. ......
 
• From Mumbai to New York
• N. S. Rajaram, Organiser, September 23, 2001

>>> In its enormity the terrorist attack on the New York World Trade Center and the Pentagon has been compared to the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbour. ......
 
• Crypto-Christianity at Work!
• Rajendra Chadha, Organiser, September 2, 2001

>>> The Census Commission of India is yet to publish the details pertaining to the latest census of 2001. One does not know if the Indian Christian leadership were able to scoop out some inside information from the office of the Census Commission. ......
 
• "Eastern paradigm provides for a peaceful world"
• Organiser News Bureau, Organiser, September 2, 2001

>>> RSS Sarsangchalak Shri K. S. Sudarshan made a fortnight-long tour to Canada and the US recently. During the course of his pravas he addressed a number of social and cultural functions besides meeting a large number of Hindu religious leaders living in those countries. ......
 
• The Myth of the Hindu Right
• David Frawley, Organiser, September 2, 2001

>>> In media accounts today, any group that identities itself as Hindu or tries to promote any Hindu cause is immediately and uncritically defined as 'right winged'. In the Leftist accounts that commonly come from the Indian press Hindu organisations are routinely called militants and Fascists. ......
 
• Saffronization or decolonization?
• N S Rajaram, Organiser, September 2, 2001

>>> The surest symptom of decadence is fear of truth, especially historical truth. This is what V. S. Naipaul seems to have had in mind when he charged Indian writers like R.K. Narayan of ignoring history. Leaving Shri Narayan aside, it is undeniable that Indian intellectuals-not writers alone-live in a world of make believe in which every invader was gentle and there were no horrors, even during the Medieval (Islamic) period. ......
 
• Terrorist training camps detected in Udaipur forest
• Gaurav Kala, The Times of India, September 30, 2001

>>> Terrorist training camps may be closer to home than the distant mountains in Pakistan occupied Kashmir. Police officials have learnt that a forest area near Udaipur, Rajasthan, was till recently being used to train would-be-terrorists in the use of firearms. ......
 
• Muslim woman cannot seek alimony under ordinary law: SC
• Times News Network, The Times of India, September 30, 2001

>>> A large section of the Muslim community which is seeking equality with other communities on the issue of maintenance has suffered a setback with the supreme court ruling that a divorced Muslim woman could not invoke the criminal law for alimony. ......
 
• Illegal madrassas on Govt hit list
• Chandan Nandy, The Hindustan Times, September 29, 2001

>>> After the countrywide ban on the Students Islamic Movement of India (SIMI), the Centre plans to crack down on illegal madrassas in several states, including Uttar Pradesh, which serve as networks for ISI-backed terrorist groups. ......
 
• Atal: US winking at J&K terrorism
• HT Correspondent, The Hindustan Times, September 29, 2001

>>> In his first ever criticism of the US for ignoring India's concerns against terrorism in the recent past, PM Atal Bihari Vajpayee today accused Washington of having been indifferent to the menace, especially in Jammu and Kashmir. ......
 
• All Pak soldiers withdrawn from Afghanistan
• The Hindustan Times, September 29, 2001

>>> This is revealed by Maj Gen Qamer Zaman, the ISI's chief of operations, who assisted the Taliban militia with tactical inputs in its battles with the Northern Alliance. After this, India believes, Pakistan's tacit agreement to a US-led offensive in Afghanistan, is a matter of time. ......
 
• ISI training AP youths in terrorist activities
• Shaik Ahmed Ali, The Times of India, September 29, 2001

>>> Exploiting the religious sentiments of youngsters from the city, Pakistan's Inter-services Intelligence (ISI) has been training them in the use of arms and explosives for over a decade now. ......
 
• Kandahar hijack 'accomplice' held in Thane
• Dharmesh Thakkar, Mid-day, September 29, 2001

>>> An illegal Bangladeshi immigrant and suspected accomplice of the hijackers of the 1999 Indian Airlines flight IC-814 was nabbed by the Thane crime branch police yesterday night. ......
 
• A hijacker's guide to planning, prayer and death
• Bob Woodward, Mid-day, September 29, 2001

>>> Mohamed Atta, one of the key organisers among the 19 hijackers who carried out the Sept 11 attacks, left behind a five-page handwritten document in Arabic that includes Islamic prayers, instructions for a last night of life and practical reminders to bring "knives, your will, IDs, your passport" and, finally, "to make sure that nobody is following you." ......
 
• US ignored India's woes: PM
• The Economic Times, September 29, 2001

>>> Prime Minster A B Vajpayee on Friday made a veiled criticism of US for not raising its voice against terrorism when India was its victim. "If those who are raising their voice against terrorism today had spoken against the menace when India had become its victim, the picture would have been different," ......
 
• Behind the burka
• Polly Toynbee, The Guardian, September 28, 2001

>>> Something horrible flits across the background in scenes from Afghanistan, scuttling out of sight. There it is, a brief blue or black flash, a grotesque Scream 1, 2 and 3 personified - a woman. The top-to-toe burka, with its sinister, airless little grille, is more than an instrument of persecution, it is a public tarring and feathering of female sexuality. ......
 
• Powell follows Bush in a contrasting manner
• William Kristol, The Times of India, September 27, 2001

>>> Since his speech to Congress last Thursday, virtually every major political figure has gone out of his way to support the President. Except for his Secretary of State. On the Sunday talk shows, Colin Powell revised or modified many of his boss's remarks. ......
 
• Chasing Gulf dream, Indian youths end up as militants
• Shaik Ahmed Ali, The Times of India, September 27, 2001

>>> Several youths from the city who had landed in the Gulf looking for employment had been forced to serve terrorist groups operating in Afghanistan, Kashmir, Chechnya, Bosnia and other countries. ......
 
• Protesters face tough task
• Marisa Schultz, The Telegraph, September 26, 2001

>>> With polls showing that the vast majority of Americans support military action against terrorism, organisers of an anti-war rally planned here on Saturday have a difficult task ahead. ......
 
• Vietnam protest hotbed backs Bush call to arms
• Alex Gronke, The Telegraph, September 26, 2001

>>> The University of California at Berkeley, a famous hotbed of anti-US rhetoric and student protest during the Vietnam War, broke out in a "Rally for America" yesterday as a coalition of student activists and fraternities gathered to back President George W. Bush's "war against terrorism." ......
 
• Friend or Foe? - Pakistan's Janus face: having it both ways with Bin Laden
• David Makovsky, US News and World Report online, September 24, 2001

>>> Pakistani military ruler Gen. Pervez Musharraf spoke soothing words, promising Washington his country's "unstinted cooperation in the fight against terrorism." But political analysts counsel caution. It isn't the first time that Islamabad, an U.S. ally during the Cold War, has promised Washington that it would exploit its links to the Taliban and cough up Osama bin Laden. ......
 
• Terrorism in J&K on US list: Powell
• PTI, The Hindustan Times, September 23, 2001

>>> Terrorism in Jammu and Kashmir is on US President George W Bush's target list along with other terrorist movements like Irish terrorism and Basque terrorism, Secretary of State Colin Powell has said unambiguously in an interview to the BBC. ......
 
• SU Law Center chancellor resigns
• Scott Dyer, The Advocate, September 15, 2001

>>> During a memorial service Friday for the victims of the recent terrorist attacks, Southern University Law Center Chancellor B.K. Agnihotri dropped a surprise, announcing his immediate resignation. ......
 
• 'Co-operation in Every Sense' (Interview - Jaswant Singh)
• The Times of India, September 15, 2001

>>> The catastrophic terrorist attack on the US has jolted the world community to the depredations of the scourge that India has long suffered. The US has finally turned the heat on its long-time ally turned problem-state, whose espousal of separatist causes has in many ways led to the growth of terrorism. Wisdom appears to have dawned on Washington - at a terrible cost. ......
 
• Caste is no race
• Ramesh Patange, Organiser, September 9, 2001

>>> 'United Nations' World 'Conference Against Racism, Racial discrimination, Xenophobia and Related Intolerance in Durban is an important event. It is very difficult for a layman to understand the exact meaning of the various words used in the title. Yet, curiously enough there is heated discussion on the subject of the conference in India. ......
 
• Imagine they were Christian missionaries, or Islamic terrorists
• S. Gurumurthy, Organiser, September 9, 2001

>>> All four of them were kidnapped, over two years ago, in August 1999. By a leading purveyor of terrorism in Tripura the National Liberation Front of Tripura. The Indian intelligence knows that the American-powered Baptist Church, which keeps spreading the poison of separatism among the Tribals of North East, fully backs this terrorist outfit. ......
 
• 'Dalit Love' of the Catholics a Kerala Paradigm
• C.I. Issac, Organiser, September 9, 2001

>>> Kerala a State with Christian domination in all fields including political, has to tell rather a different story of 'Catholic's love' of dalits and downtrodden. In the educational, charitable and medical fields of Kerala, the Christians, particularly the Catholics, presence is very dominant. The Catholics who began to concentrate in the educational sector since 1831 is now a dominant factor in this field, particularly in the case of Kerala. ......
 
• Saffronisation: What is wrong with it?
• Shyam Khosla, Organiser, September 9, 2001

>>> The pseudo-liberals and the "secular brigade" see red in every step the BJP-led Government takes to introduce an element of modernity, nationalism and spiritualism in the moth-eaten education system bequeathed to us by our colonial rulers. ......
 
• Race vs Caste
• Editorial, Organiser, September 9, 2001

>>> By setting its face against a discussion on the caste-based oppression at the World Conference against Racism in Durban, the Central Government has sparked off a debate. Surprisingly, NGOs of all shapes and sizes suddenly became active and started blurting out anything but arguments to include caste in the Conference agenda. In their hurry to champion the cause of the dalits they failed to see the greater economic designs of some countries and also the objectives of the Fifth Columnists back home. ......
 
• Motivations and successes
• B. L. Grover, Organiser, September 9, 2001

>>> "We have come to seek Christians and spices", that is how Vasco-da-Gama explained the motive behind his visit when he landed at the famous Indian port of Calicut in May 1498. Similar motives guided the activities of other European settlers in India-the Dutch, the English, the Danes and the French. ......
 
• India's silent war. on the diplomatic front
• Pranay Sharma and Seema Guha, The Telegraph, September 30, 2001

>>> Foreign minister Jaswant Singh always carries a copy of the Hanuman Chaleesa with him on his travels abroad. When Singh arrives in Washington on Tuesday for a meeting with US secretary of state Colin Powell, there will be another important document in his patent leather briefcase - a personal letter from Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee to President George W Bush. ......
 
• The Osama connection
• A. R. Kanangi, Afternoon Despatch & Courier, September 29, 2001

>>> Five terrorist groups in Kashmir gave a call for a strike protesting against the US bid to get the world's super terrorist Osama bin Laden. It is evident that they are all sympathy for him. Along with terrorists based in Pakistan, they too have expressed their support to him and to the 'taliban that has harboured him. ......
 
• V P Singh, Gujral differ on support to the US
• Anju Sharma, The Hindustan Times, September 22, 2001

>>> Two Former prime ministers today expressed divergent views on extending support to the US for a possible war on Afghanistan. ......
 
• Sign of the Times
• Ravindra Kumar, The Statesman, September 30, 2001

>>> A recent order of the Press Council of India has raised serious questions on the efficacy of the council and the functioning of two of the country's largest newspapers. Like most orders of the Council, this one too has been largely ignored. But it raises issues and finds fault in a manner that is at once unprecedented and provocative. ......
 
• Preparing for Chaos?
• Editorial, The Statesman, September 30, 2001

>>> What is militant trade unionism, asks Jyoti Basu, I don't understand! We understand your purpose very well, Mr former chief minister. You did the same thing at a meeting of bus and minibus drivers and conductors convened by your protégé, Subhas Chakraborty, which provoked our editorial - Dreams and Nightmares! - on 12 September 2001. ......
 
• Buddha will crack down on Simi, but to go slow
• Statesman News Service, The Statesman, September 30, 2001

>>> The chief minister today expressed concern over the activities of anti-national forces, including "ISI and militants in north Bengal". He was addressing IPS officers at Police Computer Centre in Salt Lake. ......
 
• Summary justice
• Kesava Menon, The Hindu, September 30, 2001

>>> While they unequivocally condemn  terrorism, Middle Eastern leaders often ask  the rest of the world to take cognisance of  the existential angst and the political  conditions that breed terrorism. But when it  comes to dealing with terrorists on their soil  these same leaders go about it with a ruthless  efficiency. ......
 
• The siege within
• B. Muralidhar Reddy, The Hindu, September 30, 2001

>>> As the United States mulls over its military response to  last fortnight's terrorist attacks in New York and  Washington, the Pakistan President, Gen. Pervez  Musharraf, is faced with a challenge to his authority from  within. The plethora of religious and militant outfits created  and nurtured by successive Governments in Islamabad for  over two and half decades are up in arms against what they  see as a volte-face by Gen. Musharraf on Afghanistan and  the ideology of jehad on which they have thrived. ......
 
• Illegal Bangladeshi immigrants feel the heat
• Kishore Rathod, Mid-Day, September 29, 2001

>>> The fallout of the crackdown on activists of the Students Islamic Movement of India (SIMI) in the Kausa-Mumbra area of Thane, has resulted in the police turning the heat on illegal Bangladeshi immigrants camped in the region. ......
 
• Matchless fighters
• Brij Bhardwaj, The Hindustan Times, September 26, 2001

>>> With war in Afghanistan round the corner, one can't help but recall the last war. The Russian forces had to beat a hasty retreat from this barren landscape which has been the graveyard of many mighty armies. ......
 
• 'WTC attacks bears fingerprints of IA hijacking'
• Rashmee Z Ahmed, The Times of India, September 25, 2001

>>> A 30-year-old photograph of Osama bin Laden, wearing purple flared trousers, a skinny-rib jumper and leaning against a pink Cadillac, that enduring symbol of America, is being hawked around by a Swedish picture agency at 1,000 pounds a copy. ......
 
• The Complexities of Shivaji
• Vijay Prashad

>>> Our modern consciousness harbors within itself rather peculiar ideas. We pride ourselves on our tremendous advances from a pre-modern past which we almost universally see as depraved (at the very least in economic and political terms). On the other hand, we turn to the past for our heroes: and these heroes are absorbed without criticism (in fact, criticism is tantamount to heresy in some circles). Thus, America lauds its Founding Fathers (Jefferon, Madison, Hamilton, Washington) even though these gentlemen practiced a form of slavery which does not square with their genteel image. ......
 
• Ancient Wisdom Deals A new Hand
• Siddharth Wakantkar, The Indian Express, September 30, 2001

>>> The relevance of ancient texts may be the subject of debate following Union Minister Murli Manohar Joshi's decision to introduce astrology in universities, but few will dispute that much of our scriptures remains uninvestigated. And, says noted Sanskrit scholar Siddharth Wakankar, the principal reason for the popular disinterest is the tendency to focus on the more 'erudite' sections of ancient literature, to the exclusion of more everyday subjects. ......
 
• Simi-ISI link worries centre
• Our Special Correspondent, The Telegraph, September 30, 2001

>>> The government may have used the Osama card to push through the ban on the Students' Islamic Movement of India, but the real reason appears to be the organisation's covert connections with Pakistan's Inter-Services Intelligence. ......
 
• U.S. did not take terrorism seriously then, says PM
• Our Staff Reporter, The Hindu, September 29, 2001

>>> The U.S. did not take the threat of terrorism seriously when India raised the issue earlier, the Prime Minister, Mr. Atal Behari Vajpayee, said today. Addressing the members of the Bharatiya Janata Party's Alpsankhyak Morcha - minority front - at his residence, Mr. Vajpayee said he had, while addressing the U.S. Congress last year, pointed out that terrorism operated in a different way and ``does not recognise any boundary or religion... does not value human life.'' ......
 
• Pak.-Taliban nexus still active?
• Vinay Kumar, The Hindu, September 29, 2001

>>> As the situation changes rapidly in Afghanistan in the face of an imminent U.S. attack and the declaration of ``jehad'' by the Taliban militia against America, reports have hinted at a strong Pakistan-Taliban nexus and the support of Pakistani students of various `madrassas' to fight alongside the Taliban against the Northern Alliance. ......
 
• "Auctioning" of panchayats
• Editorial, The Hindu, September 29, 2001

>>> Even while the leaders of the various political parties in Tamil Nadu are busy firming up alliances for the coming elections to rural and urban bodies in the State, there are reports from several villages that the village ``elders'' are engaged in finding a consensus among themselves to nominate presidents and members to the local bodies. ......
 
• Relating to the new paradigm
• Chinmaya R. Gharekhan, The Hindu, September 28, 2001

>>> The Events since September 11 have conclusively established America's credentials as the complete superpower, with unchallenged, and unprecedented, supremacy not just in military terms but also in diplomatic, political, economic and technological fields. Sure, the strikes against the World Trade Center and the Pentagon have exposed the vulnerability of the United States to terrorist attacks, but they do not take anything away from its preeminence in the world. ......
 
• Disinformation war
• Editorial, The Pioneer, September 28, 2001

>>> While it is all very well for us to offer air force bases to American forces to fight their war against Osama bin Laden, it must not be forgotten that we have to fight alone our own war against terrorists in Kashmir. Terrorist incidents in the Valley have not actually declined to the extent we assumed they would after September 11. ......
 
• The war in the north
• G Parthasarathy, The Pioneer, September 28, 2001

>>> While the predominant focus of world media attention in recent days has been on Pakistan's role in developments in Afghanistan, relatively little media attention is being paid to the crucial role that Afghanistan's Central Asian neighbours, notably Tajikistan and Uzbekistan will have to play in coming months in the global fight against terrorism. ......
 
• War Of Ideas - Afghan Intervention Should Be Military And Political
• Swagato Ganguly, The Statesman, September 28, 2001

>>> Will the US led coalition go only after bin Laden or topple the government that provides him succour? Since little intelligence appears forthcoming about bin Laden's whereabouts, one may turn out inseparable from the other. ......
 
• Interview with Daniel Pipes on the American Islamist groups
• Fox News Channel, September 27, 2001

>>> Brit Hume, Host: President Bush has been at pains in the days since the terrorist attacks to encourage tolerance toward Muslims in America. And in so doing, he's met with prominent Muslims at the White House and at a mosque here in Washington. For their part, those Muslim spokesmen say it's unfair to associate them or the Muslim faith with terrorist terror. But have all these Muslim leaders always been as opposed to terrorism as they say they are now? For answers, we turn to Daniel Pipes, director of the Middle East Forum, author, and former official in the Defense and State departments, who joins me from Philadelphia. ......
 
• Russia memo lists Pak advisers in terror network
• Tom Heneghan, The Hindustan Times, September 27, 2001

>>> Osama Bin Laden had at least 55 bases or offices in Afghanistan earlier this year with over 13,000 men, ranging from Arabs and Pakistanis to Chechens and Filipinos, according to Russian information. ......
 
• Escaped Tibetan kids tell tales of woe
• Gurmukh Singh, The Times of India, September 25, 2001

>>> Forty years on, the agony of the more than 130,000-strong Tibetan exiled community is still piling on as more than 2,500 new refugees flee to India every year "to escape the ever-tightening grip of the Chinese." ......
 
• The Nostradamus Show
• Anita Pratap, Outlook, September 24, 2001

>>> September 11 was a humbling day-not just for the US, but for the entire world. What was believed to be strictly the stuff of Hollywood blockbusters and best-selling novels unfolded before a horrified world. Reality was much more terrifying and unbelievable than fiction and it will probably take a few years before we know whether it was indeed the day the Nostradamic prediction of World War III began between the Christians and Muslims of the world. ......
 
• Laden With Risk
• Rajesh Joshi, Outlook, September 24, 2001

>>> The Islamic Movement of Sudanese Students (imss) is a relatively unknown and low-profile, Pune-based organisation. But now it is high on the watch list of the IB and other Indian agencies. The reason: according to intelligence sources, its activists owe allegiance to Osama bin Laden, the prime suspect in the recent terrorist aircraft attacks in the US. ......
 
• Globalisation Of Terror
• Prem Shankar Jha, Outlook, September 24, 2001

>>> The tragedy that has struck America is too poignant for words. As I write, the toll is rising. When the dust settles, we're likely to find that anywhere between 10,000 and 50,000 people have had their lives cut short. In various parts of the world, there are people who openly express their satisfaction that the mighty, presumptive ruler of the world has been struck a crippling blow where it is most vulnerable-in its image of itself. ......
 
• J & K terrorism on Bush's target list, says Powell
• The Economic Times, September 23, 2001

>>> Terrorism in Jammu and Kashmir is on US president George W Bush's target list along with other terrorist movements like Irish terrorism and Basque terrorism, secretary of state Colin Powell has said unambiguously in an interview to the BBC. ......
 
• Even doves bare talons, vow revenge
• The Wall Street Journal, The Indian Express, September 21, 2001

>>> Last week, Lee Weiner, a 1960s radical and one of the Chicago Seven, did something he's never done before. He hung an American flag outside his house. Weiner fiercely opposed American military involvement in Vietnam, but last week's terrorist attacks New York and Washington obliterated his pacifist inclinations. ......
 
• Musharraf on CNN
• CNN News, September 30, 2001

>>> AMANPOUR: That day when President Bush called you after those terrible events, what was your first response to him? What were your first words?
MUSHARRAF: That I, first of all, certainly condoled all the tragedy that has struck the United States. I condoled the loss of lives in the United States and expressed our cooperation in fighting terrorism around the world. ......
 
• India gets a French kiss
• Shobori Ganguli, The Pioneer, September 29, 2001

>>> In a world gone into unprecedented diplomatic flux since September 11, India was assured by France on Friday that "whatever changes or evolution takes place in the world situation, France has a priority to support its relations with India." ......
 
• USA comes running for help
• Mohan Sahay, The Statesman, September 28, 2001

>>> The US Drug Enforcement Authority has sought India's help to try and neutralise Afghanistan's role in the estimated $400 billion narcotics traffic. It fears J&K and Rajasthan may emerge as the new supply routes for narcotics trade. ......
 
• Some Muslim Leaders Seen With Bush Expressed Support for Terrorist Groups
• Fox News, September 28, 2001

>>> Since the terror attacks against the United States, President Bush has been flanked by Muslim leaders in an attempt to reach out to what many have perceived as moderate members of the Muslim community. ......
 
• Osama's mission is to incite Muslims against US
• The Hindustan Times, September 27, 2001

>>> Millions of words have been written about Osama bin Laden, but almost all of them by people who have never met him. One of the few who has is Pakistani journalist, Rahimullah Yusufzai. Here he describes his extraordinary meetings with the world's most wanted man. ......
 
• Al-Rasheed: From a welfare trust to a terrorist empire
• HT Correspondent, The Hindustan Times, September 27, 2001

>>> While much attention has been focussed on the inclusion of the Harkut-ul-Mujahideen in the list of terrorist organisation identified by the United States, an organisation that is active in Kashmir and is also on the list, has passed largely unnoticed. ......
 
• Global campaign against terrorism
• Muchkund Dubey, The Hindu, September 26, 2001

>>> The Terrorist attack of September 11 on the twin towers of the World Trade Center in New York and the Pentagon in Washington and the U.S. response in the form of the launch of a global campaign against terrorism, heralds a new era in international relations. It has created a new divide in the world, on one side are those who are with the U.S. in the campaign and, on the other, those who ``are with the terrorists''. ......
 
• Return of the State
• S. Venkitaramanan, The Telegraph, September 26, 2001

>>> The events of September 11, 2001 constitute a defining moment in the economic history of the modern world, especially because of their serious effects on the United States economy, which has been an engine of growth for the world. The terrorist strike on the World Trade Center was literally an attack on the heart of the US financial system. ......
 
• Islam's flawed spokesmen
• Jake Tapper, www.salon.com, September 26, 2001

>>> Some of the groups claiming to speak for American Muslims find it impossible to speak out against terrorist groups. ......
 
• 150 terrorist camps identified in Pak, PoK
• Srinjoy Chowdhury, The Statesman, September 23, 2001

>>> The Centre has identified about 150 terrorist training camps in Pakistan and Pakistan-occupied Kashmir. About 5,000 men are trained in these camps. ......
 
• Minds In Turmoil
• Tapas Ray, The Statesman, September 23, 2001

>>> A Joseph Conrad novel has a character explaining the logic of terrorist violence to an anarchist. Mere destructive ferocity is not the goal, he says. Nor is butchery, as "murder is always with us" and the plotters are, in any case, too "civilised" to stoop so low. The agent is advised to blow up the Greenwich observatory instead, as "the demonstration must be against learning - science." ......
 
• The Bigot's Brain
• Amit Bhattacharya, The Pioneer, September 23, 2001

>>> They are super smart, deadly efficient and thoroughly brainwashed. And, they have hijacked a Washington-bound 747 with a lethal consignment of nerve gas DZ-5, a single drop of which can kill a roomful of people. The terrorists are demanding the release of their leader, or else the deadly cargo would be dumped over the US eastern seaboard in an act of ultimate terrorism that would wipe out an entire population. ......
 
• Tightrope Walk - Terror aftermath creates complex reality
• Editorial, The Statesman, September 22, 2001

>>> The terror attacks on the US has created several complicated new realities, among which is that while it is necessary to take on global terror networks which are of religious inspiration, it would be counter-productive if the international campaign against terror were to appear to target Islam itself. ......
 
• One of The UN's Most Important Tasks
• Valentin Kunin, The Statesman, September 22, 2001

>>> Obviously the problem of intensifying the struggle against international terrorism will be the basic, if not the main subject on the agenda of the 56th session of the UN General Assembly. ......
 
• Afghanistan is a symptom, target the system, Vajpayee tells U. S.
• Dileep Padgaonkar, The Times of India, September 21, 2001

>>> Even as India braces itself to cooperate with the United States in the retaliatory actions it is about to launch against the Taliban regime, Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee appears to be distraught over Washington's failure so far to take India's concerns into account in the overall strategy to combat terrorism. ......
 
• Proposed US backlash may choke lifeline of J&K ultras
• Our Political Bureau, The Economic Times, September 17, 2001

>>> Despite protests from the usual suspects in the Left parties and two former prime ministers, VP Singh and Deve Gowda, the political class appears convinced that India stands to benefit from the proposed counter-terrorism campaign. ......
 
• Indian agencies provide CIA with data on Bin Laden's hideouts and training camps
• Times News Network, The Times of India, September 17, 2001

>>> The CIA is in the process of obtaining more data about the hideouts and terrorist training camps of Osama bin Laden in Afghanistan from Indian intelligence agencies. ......
 
• Bin Laden's network a hard puzzle to crack: experts
• The Times of India, September 17, 2001

>>> Mohamed Atta, a student of urban planning, militant Muslim and suicidal pilot, was a leader of his hijacking cell and shuttled among cities in the U.S. and abroad, offering investigators a trail that could lead to key managers of the conspiracy to attack America. ......
 
• Effects of Colonization on Indian thought
• Michel Danino, Bharatiya Pragna, September, 2001

>>> The theme chosen by this seminar is a very apt one. Having suffered the burden of two centuries of British occupation, India has, since Independence, tried to come to terms with the impact of that exotic presence perhaps diametrically opposed to her own temperament, culture and genius. ......
 
• In Hijacker's Bags, a Call to Planning, Prayer and Death
• Bob Woodward, The Washington Post, September 28, 2001

>>> Mohamed Atta, one of the key organizers among the 19 hijackers who carried out the Sept. 11 attacks, left behind a five-page handwritten document in Arabic that includes Islamic prayers, instructions for a last night of life and practical reminders to bring "knives, your will, IDs, your passport" and, finally, "to make sure that nobody is following you." ......
 
• African diplomat in Osama's network: Report
• Gaurav Kala, Times News Network, September 27, 2001

>>> Diplomatic niceties prevented the Delhi Police from questioning an African diplomat suspected to be involved in Osama Bin Laden's thwarted plan to blow up the US embassy here. The diplomat, suspected to be an intelligence agent, has since left India. ......
 
• A home ministry report on SIMI activities
• The Newspaper Today, September 27, 2001

>>> The Students' Islamic Movement of India is observing its silver jubilee as a students' front of the Jamaat-e-Islami Hind, this year. ......
 
• Pak. 'uneasy' with U.S. strategy
• B. Muralidhar Reddy, The Hindu, September 27, 2001

>>> Have differences arisen between the United States and the military establishment in Pakistan over the former's strategy in getting at Osama and the Taliban regime? Yes, if the leading Pakistani English daily, The News, is to be believed. ......
 
• "Osama is not the end of the story"
• Sridhar Krishnaswami, The Hindu, September 27, 2001

>>> The Bush administration has made it clear that there is absolutely no change in its relations with India; and that the operations against Osama bin Laden and the Al-Qaeda outfit he heads are not the end of the story. After this is over, the U.S. will set its eyes on other terror groups, including those operating in Jammu and Kashmir. ......
 
• What Bush Got Right - And Wrong
• Daniel Pipes, The Jerusalem Post, September 26, 2001

>>> In his speech defining American policy on September 20, President George W. Bush explained what he meant by declaring "war on terror" and told the American people what it will mean to them. Overall, it was a strong presentation, with some parts exactly right, but it also contains errors that urgently require fixing. ......
 
• Kashmir is on our agenda: us to India
• Chidanand Rajghatta, The Times of India, September 26, 2001

>>> The United States has assured India that it shares New Delhi's concern about terrorism in Jammu and Kashmir and its war against the scourge will continue beyond the immediate task of nailing the perpetrators of the carnage in America. ......
 
• Martyred But Not Conquered: A View on Armenia
• Zenit.org, September 26, 2001

>>> Father Daniel Findikyan hopes the world never forgets that Armenians were the victims of the first genocide of the 20th century. ......
 
• John Paul II Commemorates Armenian Genocide
• Zenit.org, September 26, 2001

>>> John Paul II paid a moving tribute this morning to the 1.5 million Armenians killed in a genocide last century, in the hope that the world will never again witness "such inhuman aberrations." ......
 
• Kashmir terrorist link to WTC attack
• HT Correspondent, The Hindustan Times, September 26, 2001

>>> American intelligence has finally found a link between the World Trade Center attacks and Pakistan-based Kashmiri terrorists. ......
 
• China will choke funds to terrorists
• Reuters & Dpa, The Statesman, September 26, 2001

>>> China is ready to help the USA choke funds supply to the terrorist group responsible for the 11 September attacks while Russia has ruled out participating in any military strikes against Afghanistan. "The Chinese government endorses the international community strengthening cooperation in cracking down on terrorist activities, including pre-vention and curbing of finan-cing terrorist activities," the Chinese foreign ministry spo-kesman, Mr Zhu Bangzao, said. ......
 
• Mishra makes his point on terrorism in J&K
• Sridhar Krishnaswami, The Hindu, September 26, 2001

>>> The National Security Advisor and Principal Secretary to the Prime Minister, Mr. Brajesh Mishra, who met senior Bush administration officials and law-makers here, is said to have pointed out in a quiet but forthcoming way India's stand on terrorism. He said that in spite of all the immediate concerns and objectives, the long-term implications should not be ignored or brushed aside. ......
 
• Political consensus must to fight terrorism: Vajpayee
• Nagla Chanderbhan, The Pioneer, September 26, 2001

>>> Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee has asked the people to remain vigilant as "a war can break out anywhere, any time and in any form". ......
 
• Freezing the funds
• Editorial, The Pioneer, September 26, 2001

>>> Amidst the burst of anger against Osama bin Laden and his terror network, President George Bush has taken an important step in the global war on terrorism by deciding to freeze the assets and bank accounts of 27 persons and organisations suspected of financing terrorists. If taken to its logical conclusion, the decision could prove to be more effective in eliminating networks like Al Qaida's than a military offensive. ......
 
• Secularist dislike for the Sarsanghachalak
• Rakesh Sinha, The Pioneer, September 26, 2001

>>> The recent meeting between RSS chief KS Sudarshan and Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee made headlines in the media. The news reports were largely a commentary mixed with reporters' own perspectives about the Sangh. However, for them, it assumes significance since "liberal" Vajpayee and "zealot" Sudarshan share dais and common views. ......
 
• Take on terror
• Abhijit Bhattacharyya, The Pioneer, September 26, 2001

>>> Two landmark developments took place in 1988. First, the beginning of the withdrawal of Soviet forces from Afghanistan in May, and, second, the mysterious death of Pakistan's President Zia in a plane crash in August. The US Ambassador to Pakistan, a known expert on Pak-Afghan axis on guerrilla warfare, drug menace, money laundering and terrorism, too perished along with Zia. ......
 
• US list ignores terrorist groups in J&K
• John Chalmers, Reuters, September 25, 2001

>>> Frontline guerrilla outfits fighting in Kashmir were left off a list of people and groups whose assets in the United States have been frozen by President George W. Bush. ......
 
• Minds In Turmoil
• Tapas Ray, The Statesman, September 23, 2001

>>> A Joseph Conrad novel has a character explaining the logic of terrorist violence to an anarchist. Mere destructive ferocity is not the goal, he says. Nor is butchery, as "murder is always with us" and the plotters are, in any case, too "civilised" to stoop so low. The agent is advised to blow up the Greenwich observatory instead, as "the demonstration must be against learning - science." ......
 
• William of Orange 'funded by the Pope'
• John Follain, The Sunday Times, September 23, 2001

>>> Documents discovered in Vatican archives suggest that William of Orange, the Protestant hero who ascended the English throne in 1689, was in the pay of the Pope. ......
 
• Tightrope Walk - Terror aftermath creates complex reality
• Editorial, The Statesman, September 22, 2001

>>> The terror attacks on the US has created several complicated new realities, among which is that while it is necessary to take on global terror networks which are of religious inspiration, it would be counter-productive if the international campaign against terror were to appear to target Islam itself. ......
 
• One Of The Un's Most Important Tasks
• Valentin Kunin, The Statesman, September 22, 2001

>>> Obviously the problem of intensifying the struggle against international terrorism will be the basic, if not the main subject on the agenda of the 56th session of the UN General Assembly. ......
 
• Terrifying means to terrible ends
• KPS Gill, The Pioneer, September 22, 2001

>>> America is discovering the real contours and complexities of the "New War" that has been unleashed against it. It is a war that the US Defence Forces are extraordinarily ill-equipped to confront. This is, moreover, the very first war in US history that has been initiated on the US mainland, and, notwithstanding the US response, that will continue to be fought there, at least in part. ......
 
• End Game: Kamikaze turns PRO
• Alan Elsner, The Economic Times, September 22, 2001

>>> Intelligence services around the world are tearing up their psychological profiles of potential suicide bombers after last week's attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon. ......
 
• A Frankestein Monster
• Kautilya, The Herald, September 21, 2001

>>> One wonders if the human rights groups who have been worrying all along about the rights of the killer terrorists will recognise the right of the Kashmiri women to choose their dress code without being compelled forcibly to conform to the dress prescribed by the Lashkare Jabbar terrorist outfit. ......
 
• Pakistan's Hypocrisy
• Editorial, The Navhind Times, September 21, 2001

>>> Musharraf was being practical and realistic. His address to the nation on Wednesday did not leave anyone in doubt about Pakistan's miserable situation. Much of what he said about India of course could be cut off as slanderous propaganda, but then he was not very off the mark when he said if Pakistan had not fully supported the international community in its campaign against terrorism India would have taken the initiative and harmed its national and strategic interests. ......
 
• Shahi Imam mulls political party for Muslims
• The Navhind Times, September 21, 2001

>>> It is time Muslims in India band together to form a political party so that they use their numerical clout to get a firm grip over national politics, says the head priest of the country's largest mosque. ......
 
• India slams Pakistan for playing the Kashmir card
• The Navhind Times, September 21, 2001

>>> Hitting back at the Pakistan President, General Pervez Musharraf, for his anti-India tirade, the External Affairs Minister Mr. Jaswant Singh, today charged Islamabad with continuing support to cross-border terrorism while proclaiming support to global fight against the menace. ......
 
• Jaswant gives a silent reply to Musharraf's outbursts
• Our Political Bureau, The Economic Times, September 21, 2001

>>> In sharp contrast to General Pervez Musharraf's unabashed verbal aggression last night, India took on the position of the benign elder statesman today. While expressing deep disappointment with Musharraf's "lay off!" warning, India refused to join the cross-border slanging match. ......
 
• New Delhi declares media war against Islamabad
• Our Political Bureau, The Economic Times, September 21, 2001

>>> In a major embarrassment to Pakistan, which was coerced into supporting the campaign against its progeny Taliban, New Delhi has released video tapes of terrorist camps in Pakistan and Pak occupied Kashmir, the main producers of jehadis fighting India in Kashmir. ......
 
• Why this quibble over terrorism?
• Manoj Mitta, The Indian Express, September 20, 2001

>>> Three days after Black Tuesday, Malaysian Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad denounced terrorism saying "Islamic countries should not side with fellow Islamic countries" on the issue. India has reason to feel particularly vindicated by Malaysia's reaction. ......
 
• 'America was our ultimate enemy'
• Shabnam Minwalla, The Times of India, September 16, 2001

>>> In a tiny hotel room in Mumbai, Liyaqat Ali stares unblinkingly as the television replays the now familiar sequence of devastation. As the aircraft hurtles to its fiery fate, a sinister soundtrack unspools in his head. "Jag jawana Musalmana ... Nabke rakh Amrikanu..." ......
 
• Osama's mission is to incite Muslims against US
• The Hindustan Times, September 27, 2001

>>> Millions of words have been written about Osama bin Laden, but almost all of them by people who have never met him. One of the few who has is Pakistani journalist, Rahimullah Yusufzai. Here he describes his extraordinary meetings with the world's most wanted man. ......
 
• NDA supports PM's stand on fighting global terrorism
• HT Correspondent, The Hindustan Times, September 27, 2001

>>> Amidst increasing speculation about divisions in the ruling NDA over India's role in the global war against terrorism, the alliance partners today met to pledge total support to Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee and his government on the issue. ......
 
• Kashmir terrorist link to WTC attack
• HT Correspondent, The Hindustan Times, September 27, 2001

>>> American intelligence has finally found a link between the World Trade Center attacks and Pakistan-based Kashmiri terrorists. ......
 
• Terrorists no less
• Editorial, The Pioneer, September 25, 2001

>>> The brutal killing of 12 CRPF jawans recently in Jharkhand's Hazaribagh district by activists of the Maoist Communist Centre (MCC), an outlawed Naxalite group, should be viewed in the context of the new global war on terrorism. Terrorist groups like the MCC, which have been claiming to be people's movements, have to be dealt with severely. ......
 
• Killing me or Osama won't help US: Omar
• Agencies/Islamabad, The Pioneer, September 25, 2001

>>> Taliban leader Mullah Mohammad Omar on Monday said world terrorism could only be defeated if the US withdrew its forces from the Gulf region, the Afghan Islamic Press reported. ......
 
• Punish the Evil or uproot the Evil: America must stop acting as Super Cop - its time to perform.
• Celia W. Dugger, The New York Times, September 24, 2001

>>> BOMBAY, This city, the financial capital of the world's most populous democracy, knows the sudden horror of a terrorist attack that seems to come from nowhere. ......
 
• A Top Boss in Europe, an Unseen Cell in Gaza and Decoys Everywhere
• Douglas Frantz With Raymond Bonner, The New York Times, September 23, 2001

>>> Officials in Europe, the United States and Pakistan say they have identified new elements of the bin Laden terrorist network, including a top lieutenant in Europe and a previously undisclosed cell in the Gaza Strip. ......
 
• A Top Boss in Europe, an Unseen Cell in Gaza and Decoys Everywhere
• Douglas Frantz With Raymond Bonner, The New York Times, September 23, 2001

>>> Officials in Europe, the United States and Pakistan say they have identified new elements of the bin Laden terrorist network, including a top lieutenant in Europe and a previously undisclosed cell in the Gaza Strip. ......
 
• Asur Osama bin Laden a no, no!
• Sabyasachi Bandopadhyay, The Indian Express, September 22, 2001

>>> Tension built up today at Kumartuli, the colony of traditional idol makers in Kolkata when the police late yesterday evening, prevailed upon an artisan to reshape the idol of a demon resembling Osama Bin Laden. ......
 
• Why this quibble over terrorism?
• Manoj Mitta, The Indian Express, September 20, 2001

>>> Three days after Black Tuesday, Malaysian Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad denounced terrorism saying "Islamic countries should not side with fellow Islamic countries" on the issue. India has reason to feel particularly vindicated by Malaysia's reaction. ......
 
• India under attack
• A R Kanangi, Afternoon Despatch & Courier, September 15, 2001

>>> There can be no distinction between terrorists and those who harbour them. That's what a sad and angry President Bush said after the World Trade Centre in New York and the Pentagon came under attack by terrorists. ......
 
• Vajpayee offers Bush partnership to combat threat of terrorism
• Times News Network, The Times of India, September 13, 2001

>>> Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee has assured U.S. President George W Bush that India is willing to cooperate with the U.S. in the investigations into the terrorist strike and expressed the desire "to strengthen our partnership in leading international efforts to ensure that terrorism never succeeds again". ......
 
• Minority colleges and their abuse
• Dr. T. H. Chowdary, Bharatiya Pragna, September, 2001

>>> Articles 29 & 30 of the Indian Constitution provides for religious and linguistic minorities to establish and manage educational institutions. Such a privilege and special right is of course not available to the unfortunate Hindu community, which is divided into over 4000 castes and each one of which is the most hopeless minority. Let us leave aside this disability for the so-called Hindu "majority". ......
 
• Our objective is total victory
• Robert D. Blackwill, The Hindustan Times, September 24, 2001

>>> Few people will ever forget where they were or what they were doing when they first heard the news on September 11 of the horrible and unprovoked attacks on Americans and others in New York, Washington and Pennsylvania. ......
 
• Islamic Fighters Head to Afghanistan for Jihad - Hundreds Cross Border From Pakistan
• Rajiv Chandrasekaran, The Washington Times, September 24, 2001

>>> As thousands of panicked Afghans continued fleeing toward the Pakistani border, Nisar Ahmed set off in the other direction today. ......
 
• Support for American war divides Pakistan
• Arnaud de Borchgrave, The Washington Times, September 24, 2001

>>> A campaign to smash the global terror network has clashed head-on with Pakistan's two states within a state - the Islamist clergy and the Inter-Services Intelligence Agency, or ISI. ......
 
• Religious Schools in Pakistan Are Breeding Grounds for Pro-Taliban Militants
• AP, Fox News, September 24, 2001

>>> At one of Pakistan's biggest Islamic schools, students begin their studies with prayers for a Taliban victory if the United States goes to war with Afghanistan. ......
 
• From Mao to Bin Laden
• Claude Arpi, Rediff on Net, September 24, 2001

>>> In October 1954, at the height of the Hindi-Chini Bhai Bhai honeymoon, Nehru paid a 12-day visit to China during which time he met Mao Zedong, chairman of the People's Republic of China twice. At the first meeting, the discussions revolved around the attitude and behavior of the United States with both leaders strongly criticising the different aspects of American foreign policy. ......
 
• Text of Statement From Osama Bin Laden
• The Associated Press, September 24, 2001

>>> Here is the text of Osama bin Laden's statement as provided on Monday by the Al-Jazeera television news network, based in Qatar. It was translated from Arabic by The Associated Press. Some sections of the faxed statement were illegible. ......
 
• The Cassandra Curse: Terror Predicted
• Los Angeles Times, September 23, 2001

>>> But the warnings were out there had we chosen to hear, issued by a small band of terrorism experts and their acolytes. They wrote best-selling books and popular magazine articles. They conducted hearings and reported to Congress. They joined the dialogue in academic journals and on university faculties. ......
 
• US campaign includes war on Kashmir terrorism too: Powell
• UNI, The Hindu, September 23, 2001

>>> The United States-led campaign against global terrorism also means war against terrorism in Jammu and Kashmir and elsewhere, US Secretary of State Colin Powell has said. ......
 
• Fight to the Finish
• K Subrahmanyam, The Times of India, September 22, 2001

>>> President George Bush, in his address to the joint session of the Congress, has made it clear that the proposed war against terrorism will not follow the patterns of previous wars. ......
 
• Letter to BBC Asian Network
• Friends  Of  India  Society  International, September 21, 2001

>>> On behalf of Friends of India Society International, we would like to lodge an official complaint on against the bias in the presentation and discussion in the evening program on "Possible implications of the US military action against Afghanistan" hosted by Sam Ali Khan on Thursday, 20 September between 7 and 8PM. ......
 
• Voices of Moral Obtuseness
• Charles Krauthammer, The Washington Post, September 21, 2001

>>> In the wake of a massacre that killed more than 5,000 innocent Americans in a day, one might expect moral clarity. After all, four days after Pearl Harbor, the isolationist America First Committee (which included such well-meaning young people as Gerald Ford and Potter Stewart) formally disbanded. ......
 
• Jettison Jehad
• Manoj Joshi, The Times of India, September 21, 2001

>>> General Pervez Musharraf has turned in another masterly TV performance. While ostensibly addressing his nation, he aimed his message at the US and India. ......
 
• Hama Rules
• Thomas L. Friedman, The New York Times, September 21, 2001

>>> In February 1982 the secular Syrian government of President Hafez al-Assad faced a mortal threat from Islamic extremists, who sought to topple the Assad regime. How did it respond? President Assad identified the rebellion as emanating from Syria's fourth-largest city - Hama - and he literally leveled it, pounding the fundamentalist neighborhoods with artillery for days. ......
 
• Fighting Terrorism on a Global Front
• Kofi A. Annan, The New York Times, September 21, 2001

>>> The terrorists who attacked the United States on Sept. 11 aimed at one nation but wounded an entire world. Rarely, if ever, has the world been as united as it was on that terrible day. It was a unity born of horror, of fear, of outrage and of profound sympathy with the American people. ......
 
• They're closing in on Osama, our man still at large
• Smruti Koppikar, The Indian Express, September 20, 2001

>>> Reconstructing the blasts trail to Dawood Ibrahim then safely ensconsed in Dubai meant that sleuth agencies other than the Mumbai police got involved. Amidst much resistance from the Mumbai top brass, a Special Task Force was set up involving officers from the CBI, IB and RAW as well as half a dozen embassies, the Interpol and terrorism experts in the US and London. ......
 
• Overt assistance from Pakistan may bring dire consequences
• Jane's Intelligence Digest, September 20, 2001

>>> As the United States plans its military response to last week's terrorist attacks in New York and Washington, the role of Pakistan - and the position of the country's unelected military leader, General Pervez Musharraf - have become key questions. ......
 
• 'As the World Turns'
• Ramesh Rao, Sulekha Spotlight, September 20, 2001

>>> The world has changed, experts and lay people alike are proclaiming since September 11, 2001, when the most spectacular and complex act of terrorism ever conceived and enacted upon brought to rubble America's symbols of might and power. The non-stop coverage of events since that shocking morning has left us mostly benumbed, and not very well-informed. ......
 
• Jehad on jehadis
• Brahma Chellaney, The Hindustan Times, September 20, 2001

>>> Although US retaliatory strikes appear unlikely to begin before October, jehadis are already on the run. The thuggish Taliban's one-eyed chief, Mullah Mohammad Omar, his son-in-law, Osama bin Laden, and their band of advisors and commanders are holed up in mountain hideouts. Terrorist chieftains in countries as disparate as Lebanon and Sudan have gone underground. ......
 
• Musharraf fears losing grip over Kabul
• Vinod Sharma/Udayan Namboodiri, The Hindustan Times, September 20, 2001

>>> It was a speech of a soldier, a Muslim, a promoter of the Taliban and a President all rolled into one that General Pervez Musharraf delivered to his countrymen on Wednesday night. He betrayed the limited options at his disposal while deciding to back the United States. ......
 
• Selective Human Right
• Prem Shankar Jha, Outlook, September 17, 2001

>>> There is something disturbing about the ease with which debate on vital issues of nation-building, whose outcome could well decide whether India survives and prospers in future years, gets sidetracked into irrelevancy or loses its focus. A prime example is the controversy over Union home minister L.K. Advani's decision to extend some form of amnesty to policemen who stand accused of committing crimes or violating human rights while on duty in insurgency-ridden areas. ......
 
• She fought the Taliban and lived to tell her tale
• Jhimli Mukherjee Pandey, The Times of India, September 16, 2001

>>> She cooks for her husband, looks after the house, goes shopping and loves to write. So what, don't all women do it? They may, but not everyone, rather no one, is Sushmita Banerjee. After all, how many can claim the credit of having taken the Taliban bull by its horns? ......
 
• JWG will help in intelligence sharing on terrorists
• Bisheshwar Mishra, The Times of India, September 15, 2001

>>> With a Joint Working Group (JWG) of India with the U.S., Britain, Canada, Germany and Israel in place to fight terrorism, the mutual sharing of vital intelligence has become much easier, experts say. ......
 
• India's bin Laden
• Editorial, The Indian Express, September 14, 2001

>>> September 11 has for ever altered old notions of balance of power. As the hijackers who effectively converted civilian airliners into missiles demonstrated, superiority in military hardware is no more a fail-proof deterrent against those who would wreak unspeakable destruction. ......
 
• Russia, CIS worried about Osama's 'army'
• Man Mohan, The Times of India, September 13, 2001

>>> New Delhi: Besides the US, Russia and many Central Asian nations are also worried about Saudi millionaire-terrorist Osama bin Laden's "army". ......
 
• Democracies must fight terrorism: Advani
• Times News Network, The Times of India, September 13, 2001

>>> Condemning terrorist strikes in the US as "an attack on the entire humanity," home minister L K Advani on Wednesday said, "never before have so many innocent civilians been made the target of annihilation and with such impunity." ......
 
• Exclusion of Hindus from prayers
• A Petition from American Hindus to President Bush

>>> On Sunday, 16 September, 2001 during the prayer for the victims of the terrorist attacks, you included Christians, Jews, and Muslims. During your inauguration speech you urged Americans to "go to their churches, synagogues, and mosques to pray." ......
 
• Bombing Kabul won't help: Gill
• Tavleen Singh

>>> Did he think that this new, global war against terrorism whose first battle was likely to be fought in Afghanistan was going to make a difference ? No. "It will not make a difference because terrorism is a small commander's war. Terrorist groups are discrete, disconnected, so there are small groups in different places. Many of the groups are autonomous and have to be tackled at different levels." ......
 
• Yoga - everybody's doing it
• Shane Watson, www.thisislondon.com

>>> If you ring round the pillars of London's yoga community this is how it goes. One of them is incommunicado in Ibiza, another is on her way to a Sanskrit class, several are not so enthusiastic about talking to a journalist (for fear of being misinterpreted), a few of them ask me if I'm all right, panting and firing questions on the end of the line while they radiate inner calm. These are the gurus of the new thems. ......
 
• Afghanistan a symptom, target the system: PM
• Dileep Padgaonkar, The Times of India, September 21, 2001

>>> Even as India braces itself to cooperate with the United States in the retaliatory actions it is about to launch against the Taliban regime, Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee appears to be distraught over Washington's failure so far to take India's concerns into account in its overall strategy to combat terrorism. ......
 
• U.S. May Be Refocusing on Iraq
• www.stratfor.com, September 20, 2001

>>> Even with the cooperation several countries in the region have pledged, a U.S. air campaign against Afghanistan would be limited by geography and politics. Washington may now be turning to Iraq as an easier target. But although Baghdad may have offered support to Osama bin Laden at times, it was not likely involved in last week's terror attacks. ......
 
• Equal Time for Hitler?
• William Safire, The New York Times, September 20, 2001

>>> The primary source of information for  the average Afghan is the radio, often a transistor  made 30 years ago. The 20 transmitting towers of the  Taliban's Radio Shariat (meaning "Islamic law") are  spewing out hatred of America all the time. ......
 
• Non-bailable case registered against SIMI chief, 5 activists arrested
• Sharat Pradhan, Rediff on Net, September 20, 2001

>>> The Uttar Pradesh police has slapped non-bailable cases on the president of the Students Islamic Movement of India (SIMI) and six others while five of its activists were arrested for attempting to incite communal passions and mislead Muslim youth. ......
 
• 'America was our ultimate enemy'
• Shabnam Minwalla, The Times of India, September 16, 2001

>>> In a tiny hotel room in Mumbai, Liyaqat Ali stares unblinkingly as the television replays the now familiar sequence of devastation. As the aircraft hurtles to its fiery fate, a sinister soundtrack unspools in his head. "Jag jawana Musalmana ... Nabke rakh Amrikanu..." ......
 
• Training tomorrow's holy warriors
• Rashmee Z. Ahmed, The Times of India, September 16, 2001

>>> Those who might pilot the flying bombs of tomorrow walk these streets, take the tube, work out at neighbourhood gyms, go on rough camping holidays and buy books from local bookstores. They are also likely to be receptive to the prescriptions of Al Muhajiroun, a north London organisation spread across 25 British cities and most often associated with recruiting young British Muslims to train for jihad in distant lands. ......
 
• Britain is a terrified terrorist haven
• Rashmee Z. Ahmed, The Times of India, September 16, 2001

>>> Is Britain really the Afghanistan of the Western world, offering refuge to hundreds of faceless, still-unknown Osama bin Ladens? All the tears, condolence messages and Tony Blair's words of "unflinching support" to America cannot disguise the terrible truth: Britain is simply petrified by last Tuesday's events because it is riding a tiger it is too scared to dismount for fear of being gobbled up. ......
 
• Many Pakistanis in U.S. support Bin Laden
• M. D. Nalapat, The Times of India, September 16, 2001

>>> Osama bin Laden has several sympathisers in the U.S. This became evident from two meetings with groups of individuals (mostly from Pakistan, but including a few from India) staying in the New Jersey, Bronx and Queens areas. They refused to accept that he may have been responsible for Tuesday's acts of terror, saying that he was only active in the jehad against "Indian military occupation" in Kashmir. ......
 
• 'Pak support to terrorism should not be ignored'
• The Times of India, September 16, 2001

>>> Union home minister L. K. Advani on Saturday said any American strategy to crush terrorism should take into account Pakistan's active encouragement to the scourge in tandem with Afghanistan's ruling Taliban, even as he hinted at wider Indo-U.S. interaction in intelligence sharing. ......
 
• Fearing U.S. attacks, training camps in PoK closed temporarily
• The Times of India, September 16, 2001

>>> Apparently fearing a U.S. strike, over 10 training camps in Pakistan occupied Kashmir (PoK) and Federally Administered Tribal Areas (FATA) have been closed temporarily and trainee militants have moved to different areas, highly placed intelligence sources said here on Saturday. ......
 
• She fought the Taliban and lived to tell her tale
• Jhimli Mukherjee Pandey, The Times of India, September 16, 2001

>>> She cooks for her husband, looks after the house, goes shopping and loves to write. So what, don't all women do it? They may, but not everyone, rather no one, is Sushmita Banerjee. After all, how many can claim the credit of having taken the Taliban bull by its horns? ......
 
• Why a war against terror has Pakistan terrified
• Pramit Pal Chaudhuri, The Hindustan Times, September 16, 2001

>>> The Tables seem to have turned. A rehabilitated Pakistan is reportedly making demands of the United States: Lift sanctions, talk Kashmir. Indians wonder if Osama bin Laden has not magically healed an ailing US-Pakistan relationship. The equation is complex. ......
 
• JWG will help in intelligence sharing on terrorists
• Bisheshwar Mishra, The Times of India, September 15, 2001

>>> With a Joint Working Group (JWG) of India with the U.S., Britain, Canada, Germany and Israel in place to fight terrorism, the mutual sharing of vital intelligence has become much easier, experts say. ......
 
• Govt hopes US will also target terrorist in PoK
• Our Political Bureau, The Economic Times, September 15, 2001

>>> The Vajpayee government, while offering logistical support to the US administration for a possible retaliatory attack against the Taliban, hopes that the terrorist camps dotting the PoK and even Afghanistan would be targeted too. ......
 
• US demands set Musharraf against jehadis
• Our Political Bureau, The Economic Times, September 15, 2001

>>> Even as Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf has offered "unstinted co-operation" in response to the American demand for Islamabad's co-operation to tackle the perpetrators of Tuesday's terrorist attack, he will have to acquiesce in the US attack on its own men if he were to deliver. A conservative estimate puts the Pakistani element in Taliban forces at 40 per cent. ......
 
• Pak media cool to US plan to hit Osama-linked groups
• Team ET, The Economic Times, September 15, 2001

>>> While the US has received support from its NATO allies and from many other nations in its move to wage a war against the groups linked to Saudi dissident Osama Bin Laden for their alleged involvement in the recent terrorist attacks in the United States, the Pakistani media has been less than whole hearted in its support for the US. ......
 
• India hands over vital info to US agencies
• Indrani Begchi, The Economic Times, September 15, 2001

>>> India's new position of a frontline state against international terrorism is gathering pace, with increased vertical and horizontal cooperation building up between New Delhi and Washington. ......
 
• Prez backs Indo-US strike at jehadis
• Our Political Bureau, The Economic Times, September 15, 2001

>>> President K R Narayanan today joined Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee for building a national consensus supporting the United States' proposed retaliatory strikes against the fundamentalist Taliban. ......
 
• Teacher beats up student for criticising Osama bin Laden
• www.expressindia.com, September 15, 2001

>>> A class five student had to be hospitalised on being severely beaten up by his Urdu teacher for making remarks against Saudi billionaire Osama bin Laden during a discussion on the terrorist attacks in US, police said on Saturday. ......
 
• Narayanan calls for closer Indo-U.S. ties to fight terror
• Times News Network and Agencies, The Times of India, September 15, 2001

>>> President K.R. Narayanan on Friday called for close cooperation between the U.S. and India against the increasing terrorist threats to both countries. Speaking on the occasion' of new U.S. ambassador Robert D. Blackwill's presentation of credentials, the President stressed that there was an urgent need for both nations to work together for their safety and economic progress. ......
 
• Prejudice In Pakistan
• Rod Nordland, www.msnbc.com, September 15, 2001

>>> When I got Maj. Gen. Hamid Gul on the telephone at his home to ask if I could interview him, his reaction was guarded at first. "What's your nationality?" he asked. "American," I said. "Are you a Jew?" When I said I wasn't, he agreed to the interview. "I'm sorry to ask you that," he added. "It's just that Jews wouldn't understand what I have to say." ......
 
• From A Distance: Mass murder, sex  and paradise
• Naomi Ragen, The Jerusalem Post, September 14, 2001

>>> (September 6) Just this week as I was standing by the door waiting to say good-bye to my son who was going  to school after the long summer vacation, I heard the news that yet another Muslim suicide bomber had detonated himself in the center of Jerusalem, only a few streets from where my son passes each morning. ......
 
• Islam's American Lobby
• Daniel Pipes, The Jerusalem Post, September 20, 2001

>>> The terror attacks on America could not have taken place without a sophisticated infrastructure of agents operating inside the United States that gathered information, planned, and then executed the four hijackings. That infrastructure, in turn, could operate thanks in large part to the protection provided by America's militant Islamic lobby. ......
 
• India identifies terrorist training camps
• Satinder Bindra, CNN News, September 19, 2001

>>> India has been working with the United States in the days following last week's hijacking attacks by sharing the locations of what it said are terrorist training camps. ......
 
• Islamic Coalition Warns of Holy War
• Pamela Constable, Washington Post, September 18, 2001

>>> Lahore, Pakistan Leaders of a coalition of 35 Islamic groups warned Monday that the United States would be taking on "the entire Muslim world" if it attacks Afghanistan, and they said they would formally announce a "holy war" to defend both Afghan and Pakistani sovereignty if such an attack comes. ......
 
• 'We have to confront terrorism and defeat it' - The Rediff Interview/Dr Ajai Sahni
• Rediff on Net, September 17, 2001

>>> Ajai Sahni, executive director of the Institute for Conflict Management in New Delhi, feels it is time India took a strong stand against terrorism. He says India must send a message to the world that terrorism will not be tolerated. A strong country does not negotiate with terrorists. ......
 
• Kissinger: 'We can't tolerate this'
• CNN News, September 17, 2001

>>> Let's explore further the impact of Pakistan, now offering its support to the United States in exchange for retiring $30 billion worth of debt and some other things they want taken care of by the United States. There are folks like the Northern Alliance, the opposition front to the Taliban, that says don't trust Pakistan. Do you trust Pakistan? ......
 
• A New War and Its Scale
• Michael R. Gordon, The New York Times, September 17, 2001

>>> When President Bush and his top aides talk about military action to end Afghanistan's support for terrorism, they are focusing on attacks to punish the Taliban and undermine their control over the country, not a full-scale American occupation. ......
 
• Bush Warns of a Wrathful, Shadowy and Inventive War
• Todd S. Purdum, The New York Times, September 17, 2001

>>> A day after proclaiming flatly that the nation was "at war," President Bush and his senior advisers took pains to warn Americans today that it would be a war unlike any other, fought in the shadows, testing the patience of the public and leaders alike, but that nations failing to join the crusade would face the "full wrath of the United States," as Vice President Dick Cheney put it. ......
 
• Why a war against terror has Pakistan terrified
• Pramit Pal Chaudhuri, The Hindustan Times, September 16, 2001

>>> The Tables seem to have turned. A rehabilitated Pakistan is reportedly making demands of the United States: Lift sanctions, talk Kashmir. Indians wonder if Osama bin Laden has not magically healed an ailing US-Pakistan relationship. The equation is complex. ......
 
• Prejudice In Pakistan
• Rod Nordland, www.msnbc.com, September 15, 2001

>>> When I got Maj. Gen. Hamid Gul on the telephone at his home to ask if I could interview him, his reaction was guarded at first. "What's your nationality?" he asked. "American," I said. "Are you a Jew?" When I said I wasn't, he agreed to the interview. "I'm sorry to ask you that," he added. "It's just that Jews wouldn't understand what I have to say." ......
 
• Teacher beats up student for criticising Osama bin Laden
• www.expressindia.com, September 15, 2001

>>> A class five student had to be hospitalised on being severely beaten up by his Urdu teacher for making remarks against Saudi billionaire Osama bin Laden during a discussion on the terrorist attacks in US, police said on Saturday. ......
 
• To the South Asian Desk at the U.S. State Department And To Whomever Else It May Concern:
• Yvette C. Rosser, The University of Texas, September 13, 2001

>>> The horrors of the past few days are beyond belief. I am completely saddened and totally horrified by the attacks on NYC and DC. I cringe at the thought of how many lives were so violently ended, and how many dreams and hopes eviscerated by such calculated cruelty. I feel dreadfully sorry for the families of those thousands of innocent guileless victims who were murdered so ruthlessly and with such hateful, purposeful glee. ......
 
• A religion that sanctions violence
• Patrick Sookhdeo, Daily Telegraph, September 17, 2001

>>> Until recently, Islam has had a negative and violent image in the West, but now the trend is to focus on Islam as a religion of peace. Since the World Trade Centre attack, there has been a flood of statements and articles making these assertions. A recent BBC2 series formed part of this trend, as did John Casey's article in praise of Islam in this newspaper. ......
 
• India Offers Bases to U.S for Retaliatory Attacks
• Rajiv Chandrasekaran, The Washington Post, September 16, 2001

>>> India will allow its military bases to be used as a staging ground for U.S. forces in a retaliatory attack on terrorist targets in Afghanistan, an offer that provides the United States with a new degree of strategic flexibility and additional leverage to elicit a similar commitment from neighboring Pakistan. ......
 
• Taliban Leader Urges Muslims to Prepare for Jihad
• Yahoo News, September 15, 2001

>>> The supreme leader of Afghanistan (news - web sites)'s ruling Taliban has urged Muslims there and around to world to face the threat of U.S. attack firmly and prepare for jihad (holy war) to defend their faith. ......
 
• Extremists 'are targeting children'
• Stewart Payne, The Daily Telegraph, London, September 15, 2001

>>> A School librarian who witnessed Muslim pupils in their classroom celebrating the terrorist atrocities in America said she believes that fundamentalists peddling an extreme form of Islam are deliberately targeting Asian children in Britain. ......
 
• Cracks appear in coalition
• Ewen MacAskill, Ian Black in Brussels and Ian Traynor in Moscow, The Guardian, September 15, 2001

>>> The first cracks appeared in George Bush's fledgling international coalition against terrorism yesterday over the extent of military action against the prime suspect for the New York and Washington attacks, Osama bin Laden, and any countries harbouring him. ......
 
• U.S. Demands Air and Land Access to Pakistan
• John F. Burnsm, The New York Times, September 15, 2001

>>> In intensive talks here and in Washington over the last 72 hours, American officials have demanded that Pakistan agree if necessary to allow American ground troops and special forces units to operate from this country, senior officials said. ......
 
• War Without Illusions
• The New York Times, September 15, 2001

>>> There is no doubt that this week's terrorist attacks  on New York and Washington were the opening salvos in  the first American war of the 21st century. Less clear  is just what sort of war this will be and how the United  States can ensure that it prevails. George W. Bush,  suddenly thrust into the unaccustomed role of commander  in chief, faces fateful decisions about the use of  American military power in distant, difficult corners  of the world. ......
 
• "If Kashmiri Muslim is milk, Hindu is sugar"
• BJP Today, September 1-15, 2001

>>> Introduction: Prime Minister's Independence Day Speech
You just now heard the melodious band of our Armed Forces. I convey my greetings to all of you. We are celebrating the 54th anniversary of our Independence. Today, we pay our respectful homage to the martyrs of the Freedom Struggle. I would like to remember today all the great men and women of our Freedom Movement, especially Mahatma Gandhi and Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose. ......
 
• Is conversion justified? (Letter to the Editor)
• T. R. Gopalan, BJP Today, September 1-15, 2001

>>> Rama Gopalan wants conversion to be banned but Puthiya Tamilagam Leader Dr. Krishnaswamy states that as per the constitution every Indian had the right to practice the religion of his choice and hence no ban was needed. ......
 
• 'Greater Bangladesh' idea angers Assam (Letters to the Editor)
• Wasbir Hussain, BJP Today, September 1-15, 2001

>>> Here is an uproar in Assam over a "Greater Bangla" proposal mooted in a Net discussion by a group of Bangladeshi intellectuals, who feel that a loose political confederation comprising Bangladesh, West Bengal and the seven northeastern states is indeed feasible. Taking a serious view of this idea being propagated, the ruling Asom Ganan Parishad brought the matter to the notice of Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee, home minister L.K. Advani, defence minister George Fernandes and external affairs minister Jaswant Singh. ......
 
• Congrats for publishing original copy of Kashmir's Instrument of Accession (Letter to the editor)
• Arvind Lavakare, BJP Today, September 1-15, 2001

>>> Your magazine's August 1-15, 2001 issue was notable for publishing a copy of the original Instrument of Accession as signed by the Maharaja of J&K on 26th October 1947 and its acceptance on the next day by the Governor General of the then Dominion of India. It is probably the first time ever that any publication anywhere in the world has published that most invaluable document supporting India's position on J&K. ......
 
• Pervez Musharraf's Summit (Letter to the Editor)
• J Saha, BJP Today, September 1-15, 2001

>>> The much published Indo-Pakistan political summit is over. It was a summit between a self-proclaimed dictator President of Pakistan and a democratically elected Prime Minister of India. What a contrast! It was built up as an optimistic big bang of high hope but ended as a pathetic damp squib. So, why did Pervez Musharraf come to India? ......
 
• RSS workers sacrifice in Tripura
• BJP Today, September 1-15, 2001

>>> Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee said here on August 18, soon after receiving news about the sacrifice rendered by four Pracharaks of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh in Tripura that it was most retrettable that the media at large did not carry the news of this gruesome murder by an extremist organisation. ......
 
• A Middle East Party
• Daniel Pipes, The Jerusalem Post, September 14, 2001

>>> In Stockholm, people stood outside the gates of the U.S. embassy with long burning candles to express their sorrow. In Berlin, they placed flowers at the embassy. Austria's parliament flew a black flag. "We are all Americans!" editorializes the not-usually pro-American newspaper Le Monde. ......
 
• 'America had it coming'
• Rashmee Z Ahmed, The Times of India, September 14, 2001

>>> In London, a disabled Muslim cleric with a passport revoked by the government, a following across continents and ambitions to convert the West to Islam, pronounces on the attacks in New York and Washington: "America had it coming". ......
 
• Arabs and Muslims Steer Through an Unsettling Scrutiny
• Somini Sengupta, The New York Times, September 14, 2001

>>> On a quiet block in Brooklyn Heights yesterday, a small cluster of men and boys gathered inside a mosque for afternoon prayers. Outside, a man drove past slowly and yelled, "Murderers." ......
 
• The Revealing May 1998 Bin Laden Interview
• John Miller, September 14, 2001

>>> Q ... What is the meaning of your call for Muslims to take arms against America in particular, and what is the message that you wish to send to the West in general?
A . The call to wage war against America was made because America has spear-headed the crusade against the Islamic nation, sending tens of thousands of its troops to the land of the two Holy Mosques over and above its meddling in its affairs and its politics, and its support of the oppressive, corrupt and tyrannical regime that is in control. These are the reasons behind the singling out of America as a targe......
 
• Pak problem: Bin Laden next door, Dawood under its nose
• Ghulam Husnain, The Indian Express, September 14, 2001

>>> It was the normal afternoon traffic rush on Malir Road. As a prison van slowed down before Malir Bridge, several armed men who were lying in wait showered it with a hail of Kalashnikov bullets. The shooting was so intense that none of the 10 policemen who were escorting Karachi's top gambling den operator Shoaib Khan aka Shoiab Rummywalla back to prison got a chance to even fire back. ......
 
• Schoolboy shot in warning over Indian support to US
• Times News Network, The Times of India, September 14, 2001

>>> AGRA: In probably the first instance of its kind here, suspected militants on Thursday shot at and injured a class IV student of the Holy Public School and left a note warning India not to support the US following the carnage in New York's World Trade Center. ......
 
• Pakistan President Faces Dilemma
• Steven Gutkin, The Associated Press, September 14, 2001

>>> Islamabad, Pakistan - If he cooperates with Washington, he risks the wrath of Islamic fundamentalists. If he doesn't, he risks the fury of Washington. ......
 
• Bush thanks rescuers; Pakistan says yes and no
• Martin Walker, UPI, September 14, 2001

>>> Chanting "USA - USA", exhausted police, rescue workers and firefighters found new energy to cheer and flourish flags amid the ruins of New York's World Trade Center on Friday, hailing President George W. Bush as the symbol of an America that would revive, recover and retaliate for the terrorist wounds gouged into its heart. ......
 
• Caution from Indian Muslim bodies: act in haste, and repent Tehelka.com
• Tehelka.com, September 14, 2001

>>> India should not rush into any act that can spell danger for the subcontinent is the strong message that Muslim bodies in the country are sending following the terrorist attacks on the US. They support India's stance against terrorism but caution against rushing into any alliance with America without thinking about its own interests and concerns. ......
 
• Pak to back US only if it has UN mandate
• PTI, The Hindustan Times, September 14, 2001

>>> Expressing doubts over the involvement of renegade Saudi  billionaire Osama Bin Laden in terrorist strikes in US,  Pakistan has said it would back American actions against  him only if they have UN mandate. ......
 
• Islam: A Complex faith
• The Barnabas Fund, September 14, 2001

>>> The terrorist attack on America's World Trade Centre and the Pentagon last Tuesday has given rise to a media debate on Islam. Although the perpetrators have not yet been identified, many commentators have suspected that an Islamic group may be responsible - hence the debate. ......
 
• A Global Network Of Terror
• Forbes.com, September 14, 2001

>>> Among the thousands of operatives trained by Osama bin Laden's Al Qaeda organization are fanatics from all over the world. Many now constitute semi-autonomous cells, all dedicated to bin Laden's jihad against America. ......
 
• Get Them Where They Live
• Robert McFarlane, The Washington Post, September 13, 2001

>>> In the days ahead, as grief and rage evolve toward revenge and preventing a recurrence, we will all be tested. We -- all of us, not just the government -- have known for years that this could happen someday. Worse, we even knew who would do it -- Osama bin Laden or one of two or three other cells with the means to conceive and carry out such an attack. ......
 
• Still the enemy
• Editorial, The Times of London, September 13, 2001

>>> Outside the American Embassy in Moscow the pavement is carpeted with flowers, icons and votive candles. Its switchboard is jammed with sympathetic voices. Across the city, flags flutter at half mast and in Russia's eleven separate time zones, a minute of silence yesterday honoured the dead. ......
 
• UK a 'safe haven' for world terrorists
• H.S. Rao, The Indian Express, September 13, 2001

>>> Saudi dissident Osama bin Laden's terrorist group, Al'qaeda which is suspected of involvement in the American attacks, has supporters in Britain and has used London as a centre for raising funds, reports said on Thursday. ......
 
• Coalition Warfare and Covert Operations
• George Friedman, www.stratfor.com, September 13, 2001

>>> U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell formulated the nation's immediate response to the Sept. 11 suicide attacks in Washington, D.C., and New York City. The response consisted of two parts: first, that the United States would respond militarily, and second, that the United States would respond in the context of a coalition. ......
 
• US to work with India to counter terrorism
• Times of India, September 13, 2001

>>> "We will work with our Indian partners and friends to achieve the common objective of ensuring that such acts of terrorism will not be repeated," US ambassador to India Robert D Blackwill said addressing the staff of the embassy which opened for public dealings. ......
 
• China Strengthens Ties With Taleban by Signing Economic Deal
• John Pomfret, International Herald Tribune, September 13, 2001

>>> In a sign of Beijing's increasingly close ties with the Taleban regime in Afghanistan, China has signed a memorandum of understanding for economic and technical cooperation with Kabul, press reports from Afghanistan and Pakistan said. ......
 
• Bush to visit N.Y. devastation Friday
• Ian Christopher McCaleb, CNN, September 13, 2001

>>> President Bush will travel to New York on Friday afternoon to offer his condolences to the families of those injured or killed in Tuesday's terrorist attack and to thank rescue workers. ......
 
• Demands of Leadership
• The New York Times, September 13, 2001

>>> [G]eorge W. Bush is facing multiple challenges, but his most important job is a simple matter of leadership. The nation, reeling from this week's terrorist attacks, needs to see its president in control, ready to make tough decisions for the right reasons. Expressing determination to punish the people who organized the assaults on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon is important, but not nearly enough. ......
 
• World War III
• Thomas L. Friedman, The New York Times, September 13, 2001

>>> As I restlessly lay awake early yesterday, with CNN on my TV and dawn breaking over the holy places of Jerusalem, my ear somehow latched onto a statement made by the U.S. transportation secretary, Norman Mineta, about the new precautions that would be put in place at U.S. airports in the wake of Tuesday's unspeakable terrorist attacks: ......
 
• U.S. Needs New Threat Assessment
• www.stratfor.com, September 13, 2001

>>> With the recent terrorist attacks, war came to America's mainland for first time in 136 years. This is a new type of battle, one with the future potential to inflict irreparable damage to the United States on its soil. To tackle it, the U.S. government will have to dramatically reconsider its threat assessment. ......
 
• South Asia is like the Middle East, except everyone has nuclear weapons
• Max Garrone, Salon News, September 13, 2001

>>> The U.S. wants Pakistan to use its influence with the Taliban to hunt Osama bin Laden and his allies, but regional geopolitics will make that tricky. ......
 
• U.S. Military Will Retaliate
• The Associated Press, September 13, 2001

>>> The United States will respond to terrorist attacks on New York and Washington with a sustained military campaign, Deputy Defense Secretary Paul Wolfowitz said Thursday. ......
 
• Tomorrow it could be us
• T. V. R. Shenoy, The Indian Express, September 13, 2001

>>> For heathen heart that puts her trust In reeking tube and iron shard - All valiant dust that builds on dust, And guarding calls not Thee to guard. For frantic boast and foolish word, Thy Mercy on Thy People, Lord! ......
 
• Press Release on Terrorst Attacks in USA
• Dinesh Agrawal, Overseas Friends of BJP(USA), September 13, 2001

>>> The act of terrorist killing of thousands of innocent people in New York and Washington DC, on September 11, 2001, is the most heinous crime against the entire humanity. Overseas Friends of BJP condemns such dastardly acts of cowardice in the strongest terms, and send out heartfelt sympathies and prayers to the families of the innocent victims of these terrorist attacks. ......
 
• Vietnam comes to Manhattan
• Subhash Agrawal, The Financial Express, September 13, 2001

>>> It was November 1979 and I had newly arrived in the United States. The university campus was tucked amidst lush hills and valleys, and the maple trees were still glistening with amazing hues of orange in a typical New England autumn. ......
 
• Coping with terror
• Editorial, The Pioneer, September 13, 2001

>>> New Delhi has understandably gone on high alert following terrorist attacks in New York and Washington DC and the crash of a hijacked plane near Pittsburgh. While the identity of those responsible has not yet been conclusively established, it is not difficult to make surmises. And the first name that comes to the mind is that of the Saudi Arabian terrorist Osama bin Laden. ......
 
• Trial by Terror
• K Subramanyam, The Times of India, September 13, 2001

>>> The terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center totally destroying the two landmark towers and on the Pentagon have been compared to a second Pearl Harbour. Such a monstrous terrorist act has not been witnessed since the end of World War II, and its impact will be felt in every nook and corner of the globe. ......
 
• India repeats offer of help
• Arati R Jerath, The Indian Express, September 13, 2001

>>> With United States President George Bush vowing retribution for yesterday's attacks in New York and Washington, both against the perpretators and against the country sheltering them, India moved swiftly to make common cause with Washington by offering all help in tracking down the culprits. ......
 
• Fight against terrorism has to be indivisible
• Manoj Joshi, The Economic Times, September 13, 2001

>>> Till the fateful September 11, 2001, when the World Trade Center towers were brought down, the Bombay blasts of March 1993 were the worst act of urban terrorism. Bomb blasts occurred in eleven places including the Bombay stock exchange, Air India building, Centaur Hotel and Zaveri Bazar. Some 250 died in the blasts that took place between 1.20 and 4 pm on March 12 and several times that number were injured. ......
 
• US & them mindset may now disappear
• Arati R Jerath, The Indian Express, September 13, 2001

>>> India would certainly not have wished a tragedy of this scale to buttress its war against international terrorism. But there is little doubt that Tuesday's tragic events will serve to make the world sit up and take note of a phenomenon which has taken a heavy toll of lives here over the past decade. ......
 
• Battle against terrorism may have just begun
• C Uday Bhaskar, The Economic Times, September 13, 2001

>>> Never before in the annals of world history has life imitated the surreal with such macabre and horrifying effect as the events of Black Tuesday unfolded across television screens the world over. Images of the death and destruction that engulfed New York and Washington DC became a bewildering mix of fact and fiction. Was the picture of the second aircraft that slammed into the Word Trade Centre real or some kind of hi-tech computer simulation? ......
 
• Dawood in the basement
• Editorial, The Indian Express, September 12, 2001

>>> Islamabad will be deeply embarrassed if the story about Dawood Ibrahim's whereabouts published in a Pakistani magazine is accurate. It is not the first time the media has reported that the alleged mastermind of the 1993 bomb blasts in Mumbai lives a peaceful life in Karachi. His Bollywood-set lifestyle there has been described often enough. ......
 
• Prehistoric people cared for kin
• Reuters, The Indian Express, September 12, 2001

>>> Early humans were willing to lend a helping hand - or at least some mushy deer meat - to assist elderly and incapacitated members of their clans, tens of thousand of years earlier than previously believed, scientists said on Monday. ......
 
• India hopes U.S. will now pressurise Pak to extradite Dawood and company
• Shri G. Balakrishnan, The Times of India, September 12, 2001

>>> Indian security agencies hope that the terrorist attack in New York on Tuesday will see the U.S. put pressure on Pakistan to extradite Dawood Ibrahim, Tiger Memon, Chhota Shakeel and others, who masterminded the serial bomb blasts in Mumbai in March 1993. ......
 
• Nepal Muslims back J&K militancy
• Keshav Pradhan, Hindustan Times, September 11, 2001

>>> In stark contrast to Nepal's position on the Kashmir issue, a Nepalese Muslim organisation has extended support to the ongoing separatist agitation in the Indian state. ......
 
• 10,000 attend Hindu rally in London
• Sanjay Suri, Indo-Asian News Service, September 9, 2001

>>> London, Sep 9 (IANS) About 10,000 people are estimated to have attended a rally of Hindu leaders in London that brought together major Hindu organisations of Britain for the first time. ......
 
• Militants entering India via Bangladesh
• Pervez Iqbal Siddiqui, The Times of India - Internet Edition, September 6, 2001

>>> Pakistan militants are now using a new corridor to enter the country. According to a recent report of the intelligence agencies sent to their Delhi headquarters, a route through Bangladesh surfaced during investigations into the movement of three Jaish-e-Mohammed ultras, who were killed in Lucknow, and one Lashkar-e-Taiba militant, who was shot dead in Faizabad recently. ......
 
• Lee warn of growing Islamic crusade
• The Times of India - Internet Edition, September 6, 2001

>>> Southeast Asia's elder statesman Lee Kuan Yew wrapped up a four-day visit here on Wednesday warning the region to be on alert for growing "anti-Zion" Islamic crusade spawned by fighting in Afghanistan. ......
 
• Generous to a fault
• Anil Narendra, The Pioneer, September 6, 2001

>>> It hardly bears reiteration that India wants to live in peace with all its neighbours, including Pakistan. But peace or tranquillity is a two-way game. The other party too has to respond positively to your initiative. Prime Minister Vajpayee has tried on more than one occasion to make General Musharraf see reason, but every initiative from his side has obtained a negative response. ......
 
• Christianity almost beaten says Cardinal
• Ruth Gledhill, The Times, UK, September 6, 2001

>>> Christianity has almost been vanquished in Britain, Cardinal Cormac Murphy-O'Connor told a gathering of priests yesterday. ......
 
• Riding jehad from Agra to NY
• Udayan Namboodiri, The Hindustan Times, September 6, 2001

>>> How different is Pervez Musharraf today from the man we saw in Agra? International observers are increasingly viewing him as a President who enjoys more legitimacy than he did in July. But they also see him as someone who's dangerous to regional security, as he no longer keeps his appeasement of jehadis a secret. ......
 
• Persecution forcing Hindus to flee Pak
• Rediff on Net, September 5, 2001

>>> Religious persecution and violation of human rights are forcing Hindus in Pakistan to flee to India, a Pakistani migrants association said on Wednesday. ......
 
• Pak offered Russia $130 mn to spy on India: Daily
• PTI, The Hindustan Times, September 5, 2001

>>> Pakistan has offered $ 130 million to Russia for developing and launching a spy satellite capable of 'keeping an eye on India and other neighbouring countries', a Russian daily reported. The preparations are nearing completion for the launch of Pakistan's first satellite 'Badr-B' aboard Russian 'Zenit' booster and Pakistani space agency 'Suparco' ......
 
• Romeo Force eliminates killers of 2 pujaris
• Excelsior Correspondent, The Daily Excelsior, September 5, 2001

>>> Romeo Force and Poonch Police today eliminated nine militants, including a group involved in the killing of two priests in Dundak temple, in two separate operations at Surankot and Mendhar tehsils of Poonch district taking last two days toll to 20. An army porter was also killed during the day in Gursai area of Mendhar. ......
 
• They have no love for Kashmiris & only want 3 rivers'
• Excelsior Correspondent, The Daily Excelsior, September 5, 2001

>>> General Officer Commanding (GOC) 16 Corps Lt Gen J B S Yadava today said Pakistan was trying to alter the status of International Border by resorting to firing and trying to disrupting fencing work. ......
 
• Report: Mother Teresa Had Exorcism
• The Associated Press, The New York Times, September 5, 2001

>>> Mother Teresa had an exorcism performed on  her  while hospitalized  in 1997,  the Archbishop of Calcutta said Wednesday. ......
 
• Raising hell to secure 'jannat'
• Wilson John, The Pioneer - Internet Edition, September 4, 2001

>>> What is happening between two Islamic sects in Pakistan has quite a few lessons for the people of Kashmir and for all those who hope for peace and stability in the region from President, aka General Pervez Musharraf. ......
 
• History and realpolitik
• Nayanjot Lahiri, The Hindustan Times, September 4, 2001

>>> The destiny of nations, it has been said, is shaped in their classrooms. That our country has schools without classrooms, colleges without libraries and a teaching community that is undervalued and underpaid, does not augur well for India's destiny. ......
 
• Is Jabbar a front for Lashkar?
• Udayan Namboodiri, The Hindustan Times, September 3, 2001

>>> What is the Lashkar e Jabbar? Does it really exist? Reports of this unknown militant outfit threatening Muslim women to wear burqas have caught the government's intelligence wing by surprise. ......
 
• The Myth of the Hindu Right
• David Frawley (Vamadeva Shastri), Organizer, September 2, 2001

>>> In media accounts today, any group that identifies itself as Hindu or tries to promote any Hindu cause is immediately and uncritically defined as 'right-winged'. In the leftist accounts that commonly come from the Indian press, Hindu organizations are routinely called militants and fascists. However, if we look at their actual views, Hindu groups have a very different ideology and practices than the political right in other countries. ......
 
• 'Festival expresses the imagination of Mumbai through local talent'
• Vaishnavi C. Sekhar, The Times of India, September 1, 2001

>>> Bal Gangadhar Tilak may have changed the Ganpati festival forever when he made it part of the anti-colonial movement, but the Big G has only got bigger and bigger in the last few decades. In the process, he has drawn not only, tourist and media attention but that of academics too. ......
 
• Govt unaware of the plight of 5,000 refugees
• Times News Network, The Times of India - Internet Edition, September 1, 2001

>>> Around 5,000 Hindu refugees have been living in abject poverty in Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot's hometown here for the past two years, waiting to be granted citizenship and rehabilitation. ......
 
• Press Release:
• HINDU UNIVERSITY OF AMERICA, INC., September 8, 2001

>>> The Hindu University of America, which is incorporated in the state of Florida, and is authorized by the Education Department, Florida to conduct Master and Doctoral Programs in Hindu Studies acquired an over 12 acre of land in Orlando.  The property has two buildings. ......
 
• Secularism re-examined
• Andre Beteille, The Hindu, September 3, 2001

>>> The Public debate on secularism is acquiring some curious features. It is obvious that many persons have misgivings about it, but, with the exception of a few mavericks, they are generally not prepared to attack it openly. While this is true by and large of the intelligentsia, it is invariably the case with politicians. ......
 
• McDermott Assails India Caucus
• Aziz Haniffa, Rediff on Net, September 3, 2001

>>> Several congressmen of the United States take an interest in the Indian American community only to beef up their own campaign coffers, influential pro-India Congressman Jim McDermott has alleged. ......
 
• Rights and Resolution
• Editorial, India Today, September 3, 2001

>>> The subjects are too sensitive to be generalised-one moral, the other national.  But the face-off between human rights and national security has taken a kind of political turn.  Human rights, as they are being practised anywhere in this big bad world, are all about politically convenient idealism-ask the Chinese.  But India is a different country, with a genuine terrorist problem that continues to challenge its patience as well as national well-being. ......
 
• Herbal Patrol
• Natasha Israni, India Today, September 3, 2001

>>> Dusk brings with it a certain sense of tranquillity. it is a time when all activity ceases and the day comes to a halt. At the Santa Cruz (W) police station, however, sundown brings its own tumult. Vehicular traffic at the crossing where the chowki stands is at a peak, as is carbon monoxide content in the air. ......
 
• A gift from the gods: bottled cow's urine
• Julian West, The Telegraph, September 2, 2001

>>> Hindu nationalists in India have launched a marketing exercise to promote cow's urine as a health cure for ailments ranging from liver disease to obesity and even cancer. ......
 
• Beyond Control
• Vikram Chanda, The Indian Express, September 2, 2001

>>> Tom Clancy is one of the world's leading novelists, and when he lends his name to a new Op-Centre thriller set in Kashmir, expectations are bound to run high. Till page 13 at any rate. After that, your jaw is likely to drop in disbelief as you scan the pages in vain for some traces of reality. ......
 
• Six Jamatiya tribals killed in Tripura
• Agencies/Agartala

>>> Six persons belonging to Jamatiya tribal community were gunned down by the National Liberation Front of Tripura insurgents in five villages under Killa police station of South Tripura district, police said on Monday. ......
 
• Bosnia & Hyderabad
• B.Raman, September 1, 2001

>>> The Lashkar-e-Toiba (LET), the militant wing of the Pakistan-based Markaz Dawa wal Irshad (MDI), has been behind most of the recent incidents of terrorism in Jammu & Kashmir (J&K). ......
 
• CHINESE ARMS FIRM FACES U.S. SANCTIONS: Technology Allegedly Passed to Pakistan
• Alan Sipress, The Washington Post, September 1, 2001

>>> The Bush administration will impose sanctions today on a major Chinese arms manufacturer because it transferred sensitive missile technology to Pakistan despite assurances by Beijing last year that it would refrain from these exports, according to the State Department. ......
 
• Dutch Bhagvad Gita a sellout
• Ranvir Nayar, Rediff on Net, September 1, 2001

>>> The Bhagvad Gita, the treatise that encompasses the essential philosophy of Hinduism, has now reached out to the Dutch-speaking people of the Netherlands and Belgium. ......
 
• Stone writ could hold key to Ayodhya
• Ambikanand Sahay & Vinay Pandey, The Times of India, September 1, 2001

>>> Sharif and Justice Naeem Ullah Khan Sherani rejected on July 25, 2001, the appeal of accused and upheld the Death Sentence awarded to Ayub Masih, a Christian in a blasphemy case. ......