Analyst: Mumbai attacks ‘were a ploy to wreck Obama plan to isolate al-Qaeda’
Terrorism • November 2008 • Views: 617
The carnage may have been an attempt to put Pakistan and India at each other’s throats and kill US hopes for the region…
Officials and analysts in the region believe that last week’s atrocities were designed to provoke a crisis, or even a war, between the nuclear-armed neighbours, diverting Islamabad’s attention from extremism in tribal areas bordering Afghanistan and thus relieving pressure on al-Qaeda, Taleban and other militants based there.