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To: IQBAL LATIF who wrote (41314)	10/30/2001 4:25:53 PM
From: Proton	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 50167

Ike, I've been away for a while and may have to do so again soon (family matters). Let me join the others who have expressed their appreciation for your inside view of the region. I'm sure this has all be hashed out on the thread, but here are a few questions that come to mind: 1. Who's responsible for the anthrax attack on the U.S.? What is the current thinking of that question among Pakistani leadership and elites? 2. Where does Saudi Arabia really stand? Who's in charge there? 3. Perception in this country is that the U.S.-led coalition is beginning to lose it's strategic grip on the Afghan situation. I don't necessary believe that, and I appreciate your optimism regarding the outcome. How is the prosecution of the war being viewed "off the street" in Pakistan and elsewhere in the region? Best regards, P.

To: IQBAL LATIF who wrote (41314)	10/30/2001 5:34:17 PM
From: Joe S Pack	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 50167

Ike, Thanks for enlightening on this religious poisson in India. Though you have not answered some of my pointed questions in my previous response that is fine for now. But now you have given a long list atrocities in India against other religions/communities and inviting everybody on this thread to write to congressmen/senators. I think this must be condemned by all. I have no qualms. But this list immediately diverts the attention from the main subject of terrorism and war on terrorism. There is a difference between terrorism and internal religious/communnal/social problems. Name a country that does not have internal problem? Even a homogenous country like Japan has internal problem due to social and political differences. But that is not the current topic. I hope you know the difference and understand it. Take a country like India which has 1 billion people and all sorts of religions. On top of that India has another evil called castism (which is as insidous as racism in US, middle east and other countries). I don't think you know anything about castism in India other than reading through some media. I have lived through and attempted to do something about it even when I was 10 year old kid. Do you know that in India even Christians and Muslims have castism? (Remember how the Indian government scuttled the reference to castism in India while US managed to scuttle racism at the South African conference on Racism?) Some of those incidences are because of castism although it has the religious undertone. Do you know how many such atrocities happened in USA, UK every year? Do you know some of the missionaries are there not only for spreading religion through teachings? They try to buy poor people under the pretext of religion? Anyway if we want we can discuss about religion as long as our stamina can hold. I know what you are trying now. Don't mistake me that I am trying to protect India and defending sleazy US news media. Some times you have to take your rose colored glass of nationalism and look objectively. I hope your country and Musarraf can get rid of those ISI-bin Laden-Taleban nexus, HUM and other terrorist networks and do some thing with 6000+ madarasas (which may lead to next generation of terrorists, if left unchecked). Best regards, -Nat