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• Pakistan Moves Troops Toward Indian Border

  Dec 26, 08 8:40 AM CST
  Pakistan began moving thousands of troops away from the Afghan border toward India today amid tensions following the Mumbai attacks, intelligence officials said. The move represents a sharp escalation in the standoff between the nuclear-armed neighbors and will hurt Pakistan's US-backed campaign against al-Qaeda and the Taliban taking place near Afghanistan's border.
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• India Cans Pakistan Cricket Trip

  Dec 18, 08 2:54 PM CST
  Government officials have canceled the Indian cricket team’s tour of Pakistan, the Times of India reports, terming the trip unsafe and inappropriate in the aftermath of the Mumbai terrorist attacks for which it holds a Pakistan-based group responsible. “The government has declined permission to go ahead with the tour taking into account the recent developments in Mumbai as well as the overall circumstances prevailing at present,” an official says.
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• Police Arrest 2 in Mumbai Probe

  Dec 6, 08 8:09 AM CST
  Police arrested two Indian men accused of illegally buying mobile phone cards used by the gunmen in the Mumbai attacks, police said, marking the first known arrests since the bloody siege ended. It wasn’t immediately clear whether the two had prior knowledge of the attacks; if they did, the arrests could represent evidence of homegrown ties to the attacks, a blow to Indian officials who have blamed the massacre entirely on Pakistani extremists. More »

• Cops Foiled Earlier Mumbai Terror Plot

  Dec 6, 08 6:50 AM CST
  Indian police busted a terror cell planning to attack Mumbai earlier this year that was directed by the same two Pakistani-based terror kingpins accused in last week's attacks, said police. Those captured Pakistani and Indian militants, still being held, had guns, explosives, and maps of Mumbai landmarks, the New York Times reports. One suspect said he had received 4 months training from Pakistan's ISI spy agency.
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• Terrorists Reportedly Coked Up, on Steroids

  Dec 4, 08 8:33 AM CST
  The men who terrorized Mumbai did so with the help of cocaine, steroids, and even LSD, claims a report in the Telegraph. Police found syringes tainted with those drugs at the scene, according to an unnamed official, and later found the drugs in their blood.  “This explains why they managed to battle the commandos for over 50 hours with no food or sleep,” the source said. More »