International Terrorism Monitor—Paper No. 315 Global News Blog November 28, 2007 Copyright © B. Raman – South Asia Analysis Group www.saag.org By B. Raman Certain areas in the suburbs of Paris, with a large immigrant Muslim community from North Africa, have been going through a wave of violence by sections of Muslim youth acting collectively [...]
Musharraf Minus the Uniform
November 28, 2007 By
Global News Blog Wednesday, November 28, 2007 Copyright © B. Raman – South Asia Analysis Group www.saag.org By B. Raman Gen. Pervez Musharraf has at long last become Gen.(retd) Pervez Musharraf , a little more than nine years after Mr. Nawaz Sharif, the then Pakistani Prime Minister, appointed him as the Chief of the Army [...]
The Eagle has landed again and again and …
November 27, 2007 By
Global News Blog Tuesday, November 27, 2007 © Copyright 2007 Dr. Bhaskar Dasgupta. All rights reserved. By Dr. Bhaskar Dasgupta Prometheus was sentenced by Zeus to have his liver eaten by a giant eagle (think Garuda), while being chained to a rock. The liver would be eaten, then re-grow, and again be eaten by this [...]
Al Qaeda’s Psywar—An Update
November 27, 2007 By
International Terrorism Monitor—Paper No. 314 Global News Blog Tuesday, November 27, 2007 Copyright © B. Raman – South Asia Analysis Group www.saag.org By B. Raman “O Allah, Pervez, his ministers, his ‘Ulama and his soldiers have been hostile to your friends in Afghanistan and Pakistan, especially in Waziristan, Swat, Bajaur and Lal Masjid: O Allah, [...]
Jihadis Strike at Pak Army & ISI again
November 27, 2007 By
International Terrorism Monitor—Paper No. 313 Global News Blog Tuesday, November 27, 2007 Copyright © B. Raman – South Asia Analysis Group www.saag.org By B. Raman Physical security regulations in the office of Pakistan’s Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) at Rawalpindi exempt officers of the rank of Brigadier and above coming in their own vehicle from frisking at [...]
BLASTS IN UTTAR PRADESH
November 23, 2007 By
INTERNATIONAL TERRORISM MONITOR–PAPER NO.312 Global News Blog Friday, November 23, 2007 Copyright © B. Raman – South Asia Analysis Group www.saag.org B.RAMAN Thirteen persons were killed in seven well-synchronised explosions near court premises in three cities of Uttar Pradesh—Lucknow, Varanasi and Faizabad—on the afternoon of November 23,2007. 2. The explosions took place within about five [...]
Sino-Indian Co-operation in Counter-Terrorism: An Update
November 23, 2007 By
C3S Paper No.76 dated November 22, 2007, by B.Raman Global News Blog Friday, November 23, 2007 Copyright © B. Raman – Chennai Centre for China Studies www.c3sindia.org (To be read in continuation of my earlier paper of May 25,2007, on the same subject at www.c3sindia.org/terrorismandsecurity/91/sino-indian-co-operation-in-counter-terrorism/.) Shri Pranab Mukherjee, India’s then Defence Minister, had visited China [...]
Chinese Mobile Phone Services in North Myanmar
November 21, 2007 By
C3S Paper No.75 dated November 21, 2007, by B.Raman Global News Blog Wednesday, November 21, 2007 Copyright © B. Raman – Chennai Centre for China Studies www.c3sindia.org It is learnt that taking advantage of the inability of the Myanmar military junta to provide satisfactory and affordable mobile phone services in the Shan State and the [...]
To keep on doing the same thing while expecting different results is the definition of insanity!
November 20, 2007 By
Global News Blog Tuesday, November 20, 2007 © Copyright 2007 Dr. Bhaskar Dasgupta. All rights reserved. By Dr. Bhaskar Dasgupta USA’s counter terrorism effort in the Global War against Terror is frankly creating more terrorists than it is stopping. If the objective was to reduce the number of terrorists, then it has failed, because the [...]
Fresh Shia-Sunni Violence in Kurram Agency
November 20, 2007 By
International Terrorism Monitor—Paper No. 310 Global News Blog Tuesday, November 20, 2007 Copyright © B. Raman – South Asia Analysis Group www.saag.org by B. Raman “Al Qaeda is trying to replicate Iraq in Pakistan by exacerbating the already existing divide between the Shias and the Sunnis in the civil society as well as in the [...]
