Prophecy fulfilled

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On October 18, 2008, Selig Harrison, director of the Asia Program at the Center for International Policy and a Senior Scholar at Woordrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, wrote an article in Newsweek that sounded like an early warning. A key passage read:

Unless Washington broadens its counterterrorism strategy and forces Islamabad to crack down, the Islamists could end up wreaking havoc not only in Pakistan but also in India—eight times larger, a rising global power with growing ties to the United States and a huge and restive Muslim minority."

And havoc they wreaked.

On November 27, 2008, more than a month later when the article came out, news of terrorist attacks in Mumbai, India came out.

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For the timeline of the recent carnage, read Timeline-Attack on Mumbai.

For an account that the Pakistani militant that attacked Mumbai , India's financial capital, has a link with Al-Qaeda, read Follow the 8 links to Al-Qaeda by Maria A. Ressa, ABS-CBN's VP for News and Current Affairs, who is also the author of Seeds or Terror: An Eyewitness Account of Al-Qaeda’s Newest Center of Operations in Southeast Asia .

For excellent analyses on on the "whys" of the attack, read The Fire Needs to Be Put  Out by Fareed Zakaria and The Problem is Politics by Shekhar Gupta.