<HTML><BODY style="word-wrap: break-word; -khtml-nbsp-mode: space; -khtml-line-break: after-white-space; ">I tried to talk about the Mumbai bombings in my class on Tuesday night. I was so livid that I was virtually incomprehensible. Where do you start with just how fucked up this is? Lashkar-e-Tayyaba is almost certainly responsible, they're a group largely trained by al-Qaeda, but they're immune to reprisal because Pakistan's intelligence agency, our valiant ally in the war on terror, is their patron. It's hard to tell whether Musharraf's condemnation of the bombing is the worst form of hypocrisy or an indication that he's totally lost control of ISI. Either way, he's scared shitless that the recent US tilt to India will accelerate. At least Manmohan Singh is no George Bush or Ehud Olmert. If he were, Indian troops would be in Lahore by now.<DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>Michael McIntyre</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"><DIV><DIV><DIV>On Jul 13, 2006, at 2:28 PM, George Scialabba wrote:</DIV><BR class="Apple-interchange-newline"><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"><P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">At 01:56 PM 7/13/2006, you wrote:</FONT></P> <BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"><P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 10.0px"><FONT face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">London bombings 7/7/2005:</FONT></P> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 10.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica; min-height: 14.0px"><BR></P> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 10.0px"><FONT face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">Posts on on LBO talk on first three days (7/7 to 7/9): 26</FONT></P> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 10.0px"><FONT face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">Number of posters: 23</FONT></P> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 10.0px"><FONT face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">Death toll: 52</FONT></P> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 10.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica; min-height: 14.0px"><BR></P> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 10.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica; min-height: 14.0px"><BR></P> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 10.0px"><FONT face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">Mumbai bombings 7/11/2006:</FONT></P> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 10.0px"><FONT face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">Posts on on LBO talk on first three days (7/11 to 7/13): 3</FONT></P> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 10.0px"><FONT face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">Number of posters: 1</FONT></P> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 10.0px"><FONT face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">Death toll: at least 200</FONT></P> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 10.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica; min-height: 14.0px"><BR></P> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 10.0px"><FONT face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">Thought this was an interesting statistic.</FONT></P> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 10.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica; min-height: 14.0px"><BR></P> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 10.0px"><FONT face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">- Sujeet</FONT></P> </BLOCKQUOTE></BLOCKQUOTE></DIV><BR></DIV></DIV></BODY></HTML>