Why is the World media giving so much coverage on the Mumbai terrorism? There have been many terrorist attacks in India in Mumbai, Jaipur, Bangalore and India with many more casualties. Never has the world media picked on the story. CNN covered the story for 3 days in a row. CNN Latin, CNN International all covered for almost entire three days. Every major newspaper in the world headline was about MUMBAI on war? Is this because Westerners were targetted. Is it because Mumbai Jews were attacked? Much of the media has pointed finger at Pakistan or Pakistan based agencies. No one has blamed Pakistan govt or army but they think there is some Pakistani connection.
Was watching late edition with Wolf Blitzer just now. He had CIA ex deputy director, a former assitant to President Bush on homeland security and other 2 experts.
The CIA guy said that even if we believe the Lashkar-e-Taiba (LET) was behind this attack, he doesn't believe that they had any direction from Pakistan govt or ISI. Pakistan's current turmoil doesn't allow them to engage in such kind of attack in India.
the homesecurity lady also shared similar opinion and further added that she doesn't think thay there were only few people who invaded Mumbai and they definitely had help from other locals for this well planned attack.
Wolf mentioned that India was provided a warning from US about a possible attack on Mumbai hotels in Septermber but still they couldn't provide sufficient security. The epxerts said that this is the problem with Indian agencies they have earlier expereicned in the past as well that they don't communicate well with each other even if they receive such warnings in advance. They all agreed it was major security lapse.
The panel also discussed the possibility of PAkistan moving their troops if India decide to move their troops on border. Obviously this move will not be in US favor if Pakistam move\ their troops away from their werstern border.
I would be wating to see if they put the video of this edition online. It was an interesting discussion which people should watch if they have missed it.