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Mumbai Attack Is Test for Pakistan on Curbing Militants
Anjum Naveed/Associated Press
A Pakistani in Islamabad on Wednesday shouted slogans against the United States and India.


By JANE PERLEZ and SOMINI SENGUPTA
Published: December 3, 2008
LAHORE, Pakistan — Mounting evidence of links between the Mumbai terrorist attacks and a Pakistani militant group is posing the stiffest test so far of Pakistan’s new government, raising questions whether it can — or wants to — rein in militancy here.

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Mohammad Ajmal Kasab, a surviving siege gunman, at Mumbai’s main train station on Nov. 26.
President Asif Ali Zardari says his government has no concrete evidence of Pakistani involvement in the attacks, and American officials have not established a direct link to the government. But as Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice landed in the Pakistani capital, Islamabad, on Thursday morning, pressure was building on the government to confront the militant group Lashkar-e-Taiba, which Indian and American officials say carried out the Mumbai attacks.

Though officially banned, the group has hidden in plain sight for years. It has had a long history of ties to Pakistan’s intelligence agencies. The evidence of its hand in the Mumbai attacks is accumulating from around the globe:

¶A former Defense Department official in Washington, who spoke on condition of anonymity, said that American intelligence analysts suspect that former officers of Pakistan’s powerful spy agency and its army helped train the Mumbai attackers.

¶According to the Indian police, the one gunman who survived the terrorist attacks, Muhammad Ajmal Kasab, 21, told his interrogators that he trained during a year and half in at least four camps in Pakistan and at one met with Mohammad Hafeez Saeed, the Lashkar-e-Taiba leader.

¶And according to a Western official familiar with the investigation in Mumbai, another Lashkar leader, Yusuf Muzammil, whom the surviving gunman named as the plot’s organizer, fielded phone calls in Lahore from the attackers.

Many of the charges against Lashkar originate from investigators in India, which has a long history of hostility with Pakistan. The United States shares an interest with India in shutting down Pakistani militant groups that pose threats to its soldiers in Afghanistan.

Today, Lashkar-e-Taiba, whose name means “army of the pure,” operates openly in Lahore. Its militant wing, Western officials say, has used camps in Pakistani-controlled Kashmir and Pakistan’s tribal areas to change from a group once focused primarily on Kashmir into one now determined to join the ranks of a global jihad. The Mumbai attacks, which included foreigners among its targets, seemed to fit the group’s evolving emphasis.

The 63-year-old Mr. Saeed lives in a large compound that includes a cream-colored mosque that faces on to a bustling commercial street. A sign outside says Center of Qadsisiyah, a triumphant reference to the place where the Arabs defeated the Persians in the seventh century.

A spokesman for Mr. Saeed, Muhammad Yahya Mujahid, denied in an interview on Wednesday that Mr. Saeed was involved in the Mumbai attacks, and described the Indian demand that he be turned over along with 19 others as “propaganda.”

“India wants him because he exposes India on Kashmir and on water closure,” Mr. Mujahid said, referring to Pakistani complaints about India cutting off water sources to Pakistan.

The group’s public face, Jamaat-ud-Dawa, runs Islamic schools and charity works and maintains a 75-acre campus about 15 miles north of Lahore, at Muridke, he said. Since 9/11, he added, “The scene has changed and the relationship is not so good with the establishment.”

According to Western intelligence officials, Lashkar was formed in 1989 with the assistance of Pakistan’s powerful Inter-Services Intelligence agency, with Mr. Saeed as its head collaborator.

How far that relationship extends today remains a topic of intense debate, Western officials said. Critics in Pakistan of the ISI maintain that the intelligence agency still protects Lashkar.

Though established as a proxy force to fight India in Kashmir, Lashkar has since turned itself into a transnational group, officials say. Today it has cells in Bangladesh, Afghanistan, Pakistan’s tribal areas, and a few of its fighters have even turned up in Iraq, officials said.

Whether the group has come under the influence of Al Qaeda is uncertain.

“We’re not saying there’s a direct hand in it but you have to think there’s some learning going on, emulation going on, there are influences or contacts of some kind,” a senior American official said.

India security officials say that while Lashkar remains active in Indian-administered Kashmir, violent militant activities there have fallen significantly in recent years.

Accounts from the captured gunman in Mumbai as well as those from a former Lashkar fighter who spoke with The New York Times provided glimpses of its recruitment methods and how the Mumbai attacks were planned.

According to Rakesh Maria, the chief of the crime branch of the Mumbai police, the surviving gunman, Mr. Kasab, came from a village called Faridkot, in Punjab. The son of a laborer, he dropped out of school after fourth grade and moved to Lahore to join an older brother and make a living as a day laborer.

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There, he told investigators, he was recruited into Lashkar.

One of the camps he attended was in Muzaffarabad, the capital of Pakistani-administered Kashmir, where Jamaat-ud-Dawa, the Lashkar affiliate, did relief work after a big earthquake in 2005.

There were roughly 25 people, sometimes more, in each camp, said Deven Bharti, a police commissioner in Mumbai. Whether some of them were being prepared for other attacks on other targets, in India or elsewhere, is not known. “We can’t rule it out,” Mr. Bharti said.

Mr. Kasab received training in handling arms, navigating the sea and survival techniques. He was shown Google Earth maps and video images of his targets. At one of the sessions, he told interrogators, Mr. Saeed, the Lashkar leader, gave a motivational speech, covering a host of pan-Islamic grievances from Palestinian territory to Iraq to Kashmir.

A GPS navigational device was found on the boat that the gunmen used to get close to Mumbai, before killing its captain and abandoning it in the Arabian Sea. The GPS device showed that they left Karachi on Nov. 23.

He knew only limited information about his conspirators, Mr. Bharti said. He did not know whether there were plans to attack other targets. “He was only a foot soldier,” Mr. Bharti said.

He was given an AK-47, a pistol, grenades and 5,400 rupees, about $110. The police said they were still looking into whether they had collaborators who helped them plot the attack beforehand, or during the day of the siege. The police dismissed earlier reports that they had rented rooms earlier and positioned weapons.

Mr. Bharti said that the information Mr. Kasab had provided so far had checked out, including his most recent tip: that he and a partner, Ismail Khan, had abandoned a bag with a 17-pound bomb at Victoria Terminus, also known as Chhatrapati Shivaji Terminus, the railway station where they began their killing spree. The police recovered the bag on Wednesday.

But much remains unclear or unknown about him. A strict practice among the trainers of Lashkar-e-Taiba, the former Lashkar fighter told The Times, was a system of changing the names of the members every few months, so that everyone had layers of names that were discarded over time.

That system was intended to make it very difficult to identify members of Lashkar-e-Taiba, and is a likely explanation why Pakistani investigators have had little luck in finding Mr. Kasab’s family in Faridkot.

The former fighter, who comes from the tribal areas of Pakistan, said he joined Lashkar-e-Taiba in 2000, stayed for eight months, then switched to another group, Jaish-e-Muhammad, for “ideological reasons.”

He said that retired Pakistani Army officers impressed with Lashkar’s ideology joined its ranks as volunteers. He spoke on condition of anonymity because he did not want to be identified to his former associates.

According to the former fighter, some members of Lashkar moved to the Federally Administered Tribal Areas, particularly the Mohmand region, close to the city of Peshawar.

The group focused on waging war against India, he said, but was also committed to wider goals, among them the creation of an Islamic state in south and central Asia.

At its start in 1989, Osama bin Laden was widely reported to have been a financial supporter. Since 2002, Lashkar trainers have worked closely with Al Qaeda and the Taliban in Afghanistan, according to Seth Jones, an expert on militant groups at the RAND Corporation who has spent time in Afghanistan.

Their presence has increased in Afghanistan in the last year, Mr. Jones said. “They have had small numbers of fighters embed with local Afghan units on the ground such as the Taliban to gain combat experience and improve their tactics, techniques and procedures,” he said.

Lashkar was banned under strong American pressure in 2002. Since then, Mr. Saeed disassociated himself from Lashkar, said his spokesman, Mr. Mujahid. Lashkar was now an “operational wing” to fight in Kashmir — its fighters no longer under Mr. Saeed’s control.

Asked if he knew the operational commander of Lashkar, Mr. Mujahid waved his hand dismissively, and said he was in Kashmir.

He also denied even knowing the name of Mr. Muzammil, the man identified by the Indian authorities as the person in charge of the Mumbai operation.

“Everyone who was interested in Kashmir, went to Kashmir,” he said. “They are doing there what they have to do.”

Now my article(this is all i have due to unfortunate circumstances its not two pages):

Christopher Columbus is credited for being the first person ever to explore the Americas. His travel encouraged others to travel to the Americas which later help shape today’s culture and society. However, just because he is praised for his contributions to society does not mean it has always been like that, especially during his time. In fact, it shows that he was underappreciated and not honored for his discoveries that helped open new industries or business for the European countries. His tarnished reputation came about when his settlers were killed by the Taino Natives, which led to some political arrests. By reading his letters, anyone would know exactly how he feels about his number one accusers, King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella.

In his letter, the tone and diction is much more intense and aggressive than his friendly letter he wrote to his friend, who supported his voyages. He states, “The other most important matter, which calls aloud for redress” (par.1, pg.3, Christopher Columbus). The phrase, “calls aloud for redress not only him calling for the Crowns’ attention he is also displaying his anger toward them for not treating him honorably and respectable. He feels as though are embarrassing him in front of the whole country and more importantly, his family. All he wanted to from Spain was to get the respect and recognition for serving his country and leading them to prosperity.

He also uses pathos to make his audience (the King and Queen) feel the grief he feels at an old age. He has been accused and put on trial in serving his country even though they are his accusers. He states, “I came to serve at the age of twenty-eight years and now I have not a single hair on my body that is not gray, and my body is infirm, and whatever remained to me from those years of service has been and taken away from me and sold, and from the my brothers, down to my very coat, without my being heard or seen, to my great dishonor (pg.3). He makes you feel sorry for all the pain and suffering he had to endure to help Spain. He told them how he and his brothers were captured by the natives and was mistreated by them. For him it makes him believe that they had took him for granted and do not care for everything he has done to benefit their future. Who could blame Columbus for asking the king to grant him permission to move to Rome?

In conclusion, if the Spanish thrown would have gave Columbus much more credit and honor than what he has received, imagine how much of a powerful nation they would have become with all the new crops and land they would have received. He would have been credited for help build their society and cultures.


The Professional The Student
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Ghetto Heaven,

Ghetto Heaven

Looking for love throughtout the hood
Young girls is thick, righteousness is narrow
I got my mind on God, I want my people to and wear nice clothes
I'm not with my child's mother but I got your back forever
As the weather, talks to us
His holy spirit walks through us
The youth dull eyes search for guidance
A thug is a lost man in disguise
I still stand tall, I walk through the valley when the buildings tumble
Sometimes I feel that I might just murder
You but I thats not my purpose
I want people to say his life means a lot
He found ghetto heaven in himself and god

[d'angelo]
Ghetto heaven......
Standin in some ghetto heaven
Ghetto heaven......
Standin in some ghetto heaven
Ghetto......

Love, Your happiness don't begin with a man
You're a strong woman so why should yo depend on a man
I understand you want a man that's resourceful
He feels like he brought when he pay your bills
Talk to a friend to find what love is
Her main didn't love her, 'cause he didn't love his
We hugged from afar and told her how I felt
You never find a man, till you find yourself
Time makes you learn from your mistakes
Just because one man messed up our reputation you shouldn't run away
You want certain guys but you have to reach a certain point too
At the destination, a king will annoint you
Goin through the storm, many bodies stay warm
The relationship died for you to be born cause your much more
Than anything you can get from the store
For you to grow he had to go so what you stoppin him for
It's hard being alone I must admit
Find heaven in yourself and god

I know I love my baby
My baby loves me
I'm laying in some heaven, need a little company, yeah
It's twenty four seven, time to get some geto heaven
Time to get some geto heaven
Geto heaven, geto heaaven
Time to get some geto heaven, ohhhhhhh...

Music is much bigger than me\
As far as happiness, it's like a trigger to me
Dealing with the wack rappers and the groupies
Record execs gets hard at times
But to pick words and to be heard across the seas
Doing things you like to support your daughters
Keepin your guys who collection court orders
the ancestors brought us messages
They thought of things to say to become the end thing for the day
It seems the way for me somehow
Music is a gift that is sacred
I hope you didn't use it hopin you could grow to it
Servin or a surgeon you going to deal with it
Can't imagine dealing with it without soul music
It's like donnie? half? helped me see lonnie's? faith?
On my behalf, let's take whole steps to a ? ho tep?
Amd show depth, as we make people nod
Find heaven in this music and god
Find heaven in this music and god
Find heaven in this music and god

The 6th Sense, Ghetto Heaven, Me Against the World

When a wrote my own rendition of the songs, I decided to keep the chorus the same because the direct quotes are more significant then any of the other things that are stated. It gives to different viewpoints that both send a powerful message which is why left the chorus to give my viewpoint and the person who says the chorus.

The 6Th Sense

This song is one of the best songs that the artist Common(formerly known as Common Sense). He is very different from most rap artist because he is tends to be more political or spiritual with his music. From listening to the song to reading the lyrics you receive two different interpretations from him. When you read the lyrics you get more of a continuous list of ideas that seems to flow freely from the mind, however, it tend to have a some what opposite effect. When you hear it makes it much more


Me Against the World

When you read the lyrics, it sounds as though the artist/writer of the piece feels angry and helpless; it is almost seems that he is giving up on whatever he is fighting for. However when you listen to it as a song, its sounds like a plea or a message to not only his community but to anyone who is involved in street or gang violence and he is trying to let you learn from his experience through his eyes and of the eyes of everyone who as been affected by this kind of violence. When the chorus plays, this woman sings it almost in a vulnerable tone making me believe that if we didn't listen to the message, then we are turning the world against ourselves and that we automatically endanger everyone one around causing people to develop the mentality of the survival of the fittest.

Ghetto Heaven

The main difference from actually listening to the song and reading it as a poem is the tempo from which it is delivered. When I hear the music, it makes the lyrics make sense and more understandable as a his audience but when you read the lyrics without ever listening to it a a song, it sounds like a cluster of ideas.

I think the story of Alvar Nunez Cabeza de Vaca is a little disturbing just because of the simple fact that it is mainly true. I chose this picture(Cabeza de Vaca) and the next one, Human Rights, because to me it vividly describes the story and the natives encounter with Spain. It shows the harsh treatment and injustice that he and the natives had endured during that time from Spain.

Christopher Columbus' Conflict with the Spanish Thrown

Christopher Columbus is credited for being the first person ever to explore the Americas. His travel encouraged others to travel to the Americas which later help shape today’s culture and society. However, just because he is praised for his contributions to society does not mean it has always been like that, especially during his time. In fact, it shows that he was underappreciated and not honored for his discoveries that helped open new industries or business for the European countries. His tarnished reputation came about when his settlers were killed by the Taino Natives, which led to some political arrests. By reading his letters, anyone would know exactly how he feels about his number one accusers, King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella.

In his letter, the tone and diction is much more intense and aggressive than his friendly letter he wrote to his friend, who supported his voyages. He states, “The other most important matter, which calls aloud for redress” (par.1, pg.3, Christopher Columbus). The phrase, “calls aloud for redress not only him calling for the Crowns’ attention he is also displaying his anger toward them for not treating him honorably and respectable. He feels as though are embarrassing him in front of the whole country and more importantly, his family. All he wanted to from Spain was to get the respect and recognition for serving his country and leading them to prosperity.

He also uses pathos to make his audience (the King and Queen) feel the grief he feels at an old age. He has been accused and put on trial in serving his country even though they are his accusers. He states, “I came to serve at the age of twenty-eight years and now I have not a single hair on my body that is not gray, and my body is infirm, and whatever remained to me from those years of service has been and taken away from me and sold, and from the my brothers, down to my very coat, without my being heard or seen, to my great dishonor (pg.3). He makes you feel sorry for all the pain and suffering he had to endure to help Spain. He told them how he and his brothers were captured by the natives and was mistreated by them. For him it makes him believe that they had took him for granted and do not care for everything he has done to benefit their future. Who could blame Columbus for asking the king to grant him permission to move to Rome?

In conclusion, if the Spanish thrown would have gave Columbus much more credit and honor than what he has received, imagine how much of a powerful nation they would have become with all the new crops and land they would have received. He would have been credited for help build their society and cultures.

Christopher Columbus does not deserved any credit for discovering the Americas but only creating an opportunity for Spain (which leds to the deaths of many Native Americans). However, in his contributions, he should be giving some praise and glory but he might have deserve the lack of respect, persecutions, and dishonor he received from Spain. It may be a form of karma expressed through the hardships that the Natives endure as well as the crew members on the boat, seemly that he did not treat neither with the greatest respect.
Honorable or not

Desiree's Baby

http://www.eastoftheweb.com/short-stories/UBooks/DesiBaby.shtml

Anne Bradstreet

Anne Bradstreet was born in 1612(in the colonial period)in England, but later moved to the Massachusetts Bay Colony in America in 1630. Even though women didn't go to school her, father tutored her eight hours a day and because of his status(a steward for the Earl of Lincoln), she was as able to get unlimited access to the library. She first became inspired to write through authors' writings of different books. In 1628, she married Simon Bradstreet, her father's assistant. When they started their hard new life in Salem, they lived in harsh living conditions(sickness and death) with eight children( this inspired most or many of her writings. Her writing was frowned upon simple because she was a women and went against the common ideas of women. She didn't like that women couldn't contribute much to society and were made inferior to men. Her husband and religious experiences were also inspirations of her work. She died in 1672.

Christopher Columbus is credited for being the first person ever to explore the Americas. His travel encouraged others to travel to the Americas which later help shape today’s culture and society. However, just because he is praised for his contributions to society does not mean it has always been like that, especially during his time. In fact, it shows that he was underappreciated and not honored for his discoveries that helped open new industries or business for the European countries. His tarnished reputation came about when his settlers were killed by the Taino Natives, which led to some political arrests. By reading his letters, anyone would know exactly how he feels about his number one accusers, King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella.

In his letter, the tone and diction is much more intense and aggressive than his friendly letter he wrote to his friend, who supported his voyages. He states, “The other most important matter, which calls aloud for redress” (par.1, pg.3, Christopher Columbus). The phrase, “calls aloud for redress not only him calling for the Crowns’ attention he is also displaying his anger toward them for not treating him honorably and respectable. He feels as though are embarrassing him in front of the whole country and more importantly, his family. All he wanted to from Spain was to get the respect and recognition for serving his country and leading them to prosperity.

He also uses pathos to make his audience (the King and Queen) feel the grief he feels at an old age. He has been accused and put on trial in serving his country even though they are his accusers. He states, “I came to serve at the age of twenty-eight years and now I have not a single hair on my body that is not gray, and my body is infirm, and whatever remained to me from those years of service has been and taken away from me and sold, and from the my brothers, down to my very coat, without my being heard or seen, to my great dishonor (pg.3). He makes you feel sorry for all the pain and suffering he had to endure to help Spain. He told them how he and his brothers were captured by the natives and was mistreated by them. For him it makes him believe that they had took him for granted and do not care for everything he has done to benefit their future. Who could blame Columbus for asking the king to grant him permission to move to Rome?

In conclusion, if the Spanish thrown would have gave Columbus much more credit and honor than what he has received, imagine how much of a powerful nation they would have become with all the new crops and land they would have received. He would have been credited for help build their society and cultures.

Diction

Diction

Other than the color, what comes to mind when think of lipstick color?
When I first heard the phrase, "lipsticked girl", I thought about a prissy girl who likes to wear make-up or change her appearance to make herself look beautiful.

How will it change the meaning and feeling of the line if instead of the "lipstick girl" it was "the girl with the lipstick on"?

If the phrase was changed to "the girl with the lipstick on", it would be a plain description of the girl in question and make the audience bored with the author's writing.

Write a simile comparing a tree to a domestic animal. In your simile, use a word that is normally used as a noun (like lipstick) as a adjective (like lipsticked).

The Coast Rewood is like a towered basketball player.

Romanticism, Gothicism, Realism

Info about Romanticism: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Romanticism

Info about Gothicism: http://www.wwnorton.com/college/english/nael/romantic/topic_2/welcome.htm

Info about Realism: http://www.wsu.edu/~campbelld/amlit/realism.htm

Response to Anne Bradstreet

Anne Bradstreet has a many writings for which she is famous for and many of her inspirations came from her things she lived with or went through in her life. She was inspired by religious experiences, lack of women rights, living conditions, and even her husband. He, her husband, was always away from home on long trips because he was the assistant to her father who was a steward of Earl of Lincoln. In the poem, “To My Dear and Loving Husband”, she expresses her endless love for him (her husband) through her word choice and style of writing. This allows her to show her husband how she feels from a creative style of writing.

The first thing you notice about her style of writing is that it is of the old English and written in a way of Shakespeare. This style gives a certain effect on the love poem making it filled with more passion than a poem written regularly or in terms used in standard English( of that time). It might make the poem less colorful and fuller in meaning and expressing one’s self in a martial relationship. To represent the longing and waiting for her husband to come home from the long travels, she uses old words the same she uses the writing style, as a ways of communicating more effectively and as for her husband more romantically.

The word choice that she used showed more of a reflection of her even though she wrote this on the thought her dear beloved husband.She uses words like “thee” and “ye” when she is talking about or comparing the love she has for her husband. It also reminds you have someone of great status or is greatly respect by someone. It is also, as if someone has earned a special title or of importance. It probably symbolized the importance of the relationship more than anything else between them. For example, she says, “I prize thy love more than whole mines of gold or all the riches that the East doth hold”. She uses these old terms to make a comparison of her love for her husband, somewhat like a metaphor. She seems as if she would give a lot to be with the love of her life and willing to sacrifice anything that she probably doesn’t have already or never have( like wealth). It is amazing to see a woman of her time write something so meaningful to her husband.

The poem seems like it will always be the classic love poem, always full of meaning and profound love.

The Gettysburg Address

1. His views on slavery.
2. This sentence makes you remember you purpose and why and who you are doing it for.
3. Both the Declaration and Lincoln's speech are written in a formal manner.
4. His purposes seems to be a way of spreading unity among the people instead some type of speech that tries to persuaded people to view or choose different things that involves society.

I HAVE A DILEMMA

I CANT TRANSFER MY ESSAYS TO THE BLOG BECAUSE MY USB BE IS BROKEN. I HAVE JUST FOUND THIS OUT-MEANING I HAVE TO RETYPE SOME OF THEM THAT ARE MISSING.