India-US News and Discussion

Sanku · Post by **Sanku** » 04 May 2010 15:30

I wonder if it is time for the BRF jirga to pass on the same benediction to US that we routinely pass on UK?

"May your love for Pakis be requited by them, may you get more of that in your country you love so much"

Their wars are our wars indeed.

arun · Post by **arun** » 04 May 2010 15:55

Ambassador G. Parthasarathy in the Wall Streeet Journal:

MAY 4, 2010

The Axis of Grudging Cooperation ………………

No one doubts that relations with the U.S. will remain a key feature of Indian foreign policy. But in the absence of mutual trust which characterized the relationship in the recent past, existing misgivings will not be put to rest merely by grand state banquets or glib talk about democracies being "natural partners."

The Wall Street Journal

pgbhat · Post by **pgbhat** » 04 May 2010 16:14

^ Waah!! GP as usual.

shyamd · Post by **shyamd** » 04 May 2010 17:03

An American from Pakistan arrested over Time Square bomb plot

DEBKAfile Special Report May 4, 2010, 12:44 AM (GMT+02:00)

Faisal Shahzad, 30, a US citizen from Pakistan, was arrested at New York's JFK airport Monday night trying to board a flight to Dubai and will appear before a federal court Tuesday, May 4. He was identified as the buyer of the Nissan Pathfinder used to rig the failed car bomb. US Attorney General Eric Holder said that more than one person is sought in connection with the attempted terrorist plot.

Shahzad's information is vital for uncovering the extent of the conspiracy and its potential for more terrorist attacks in New York or other American cities.

US security officials began screening passengers boarding domestic and foreign flights out of Boston, New York and Philadelphia Monday night, May 3, hoping to snare a likely foreign terrorist or terrorists on the run after planting the Times Square car bomb.
By then, US officials had come around to accepting that the failed car bomb attack was coordinated by more than one person - possibly even a foreign terrorist organization - and no longer cast doubt on the credibility of the Pakistani Taliban's claim of responsibility.

The investigation got off to a slow start due to the initial skepticism in the administration and New York City Hall to the possibility of a high-profile terrorist operation which called for immediate, comprehensive action.
Shortly after the car bomb parked near on Times Square was defused safely Saturday night, May 1, debkafile reported: Our terror experts doubt that he was a loner. Surveillance was needed to locate the bomb vehicle and possibly steal or buy it from the used car junkyard, several hands must have assembled the materials and prepared the explosive device, and his lightning disappearance indicates that a getaway car must have been on hand to whisk him away from the scene before the police arrived.

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The next day, we headlined the Pakistani Taliban's claim of responsibility, taped in advance by its top bomb-maker, Qari Hussain Mehsud, and strengthened a few hours later by the release of a videotape allegedly made by Pakistani Taliban leader Hakimullah Mehsud on April 4, weeks after he was reported killed by a US missile strike in January, and ignored at the time.
On that nine-minute tape, he vowed retaliation for the killing of Islamist leaders: "The time is very near when our fedayeen will attack the American states in the major cities."

Shortly before he was killed by a US drone in Aug. 2009, his predecessor, Baitullah Mehsud, claimed his movement was now able to execute operations inside the United States.

US security officials did not take this claim seriously. However the evidence against Najibullah Zazi, the Detroit taxi driver charged in February with conspiring to attack the New York subway, reveals that al Qaeda in Pakistan recruited him when he arrived their to join Taliban. The two movements' campaign of violence against the United States and US targets in Pakistan is so closely coordinated as to be virtually interchangeable.

Therefore, when Qari Hussein claimed Taliban was avenging "martyred leaders," he included Abu Omar al Baghdadi, the al Qaeda commander in Iraq killed by a joint US-Iraqi intelligence team in mid-April.
He also warned NATO governments to denounce the US and apologize for "the massacres in Iraq, Yemen, Afghanistan, and Pakistani tribal areas - otherwise be prepared for the worst destruction and devastation in their own countries."

Philip · Post by **Philip** » 04 May 2010 20:07

Yes,maybe the failed bombing of Times Sq. was planned to fail! Amazing how one cannot set fire to a car so full of explosive material! Years later we might find out that the alert "T" shirt seller was in fact a CIA man and the Pakis/CIA planned the entire event so as to force the O-Team (or was it planned by the O-Team?) to give them even more aid to fight the deadly home grown Taliban,with military aid like AsW aircraft,F-16 fighters,anti-ship missiles,refuelling tankers,ASW frigates,Patriot missiles,"you want it Pak will get it",after all "Pak's wars are our wars",in the most famous quote of our time by the good US admiral!

CRamS · Post by **CRamS** » 04 May 2010 20:54

pgbhat wrote:^ Waah!! GP as usual.

Problem is except for him, Brahma Chellaney, Swapan Dasgupta to name a few, there are hardly any others who articulate this position. Most are taken in by grandioise banquets and used car salesman talk. The "South Asia experts" will dismiss the likes of GP as "hardline Hindu nationalists". We have been foisted upon with a PM who extols the virtues British colonial rule, and I have seem many a US/UK elite shower MMS with the praises often reserved only for their heroes. So with the bohomie between MMS & his cabal with US on full throttle, GP's sane warnings will just be noise that will filtered out. And each time MMS is seen as loosing ground, US/UK will throw him a dog bone which his handlers can spin as a great achievement.

Amber G. · Post by **Amber G.** » 05 May 2010 21:27

Meanwhile a small tidbit from our "local" news: Surya Yalmanchili won the Ohio District 2 democratic primary (for US congress) . (Main election will be in November against Republican Schmidt). Now no one out side of local community would consider it a news, and no one expected SY to win (He is 28 yrs old, politically unknown and was polling at less than 10% in the past ) but it got in national news because the opponent made fun of SY's name ("with a name like this, does he really think of being elected") and some other stupid/racist/conspiracy things. Msnbc's Oberman had him on "worst person" etc ... well backlash was that the opponent lost!.. So it appeases that even in very conservative place, many people do not like racists.
Here is one link for some background: link

News item:
http://news.cincinnati.com/article/AB/2 ... em+primary

Amber G. · Post by **Amber G.** » 06 May 2010 06:33

Another small item from Harvard.edu (Ex IIT'an)
Nitin Nohria named next dean of Harvard Business School

VinodTK · Post by **VinodTK** » 07 May 2010 05:52

http://www.dnaindia.com/india/report_us-envoy-breaches-protocol-visits-india-s-neighbours_1380012

Last week, Roemer decided to visit Bangladesh, Afghanistan and Pakistan. It is not known how the American ambassadors posted in those capitals thought of Roemer’s high-profile visits. But he is the first US ambassador in New Delhi who went ahead and met the top political leaders of those countries.

Roemer praised the good work done by India in Afghanistan and paid a visit to India House in Kabul, to pay his respects to those killed in the terror attack in 2008. A serving Indian diplomat and the military attaché including several Afghan civilians were killed in the terror attack.

SwamyG · Post by **SwamyG** » 08 May 2010 03:04

Vijay Govindarajan's take on Nitin's appointment as HBS dean.
Nitin Nohria: A Signature Appointment

There are many countries in the world that will tolerate immigrants but I cannot think of any country, other than the U.S., which gives the same opportunity to an immigrant that it gives to a local national. It's one thing to invite a stranger into your house, but it's quite another to make the stranger the head of the family. This is the business model of the United States: this is what gives the U.S. competitive advantage vis-à-vis Europe or China.

There seems to be some 'giddy' comments.

svinayak · Post by **svinayak** » 08 May 2010 05:50

SwamyG wrote:Vijay Govindarajan's take on Nitin's appointment as HBS dean.
Nitin Nohria: A Signature Appointment
There are many countries in the world that will tolerate immigrants but I cannot think of any country, other than the U.S., which gives the same opportunity to an immigrant that it gives to a local national. It's one thing to invite a stranger into your house, but it's quite another to make the stranger the head of the family. This is the business model of the United States: this is what gives the U.S. competitive advantage vis-à-vis Europe or China.
There seems to be some 'giddy' comments.

When credibility of the institution is in question they will appoint Indian. They had some Indian in Moody's too and also quoting some Econ professor from Chicago.

abhishek_sharma · Post by **abhishek_sharma** » 08 May 2010 06:33

US Ambassador to India in Afghanistan

http://blogs.usembassy.gov/roemer/2010/ ... ghanistan/

What is he doing there?

shukla · Post by **shukla** » 08 May 2010 07:36

abhishek_sharma wrote:US Ambassador to India in Afghanistan

^^ News report elaborating above..

US envoy breaches protocol, visits India's neighbours

A former Congressman and member of the 9/11 commission, Roemer has breached diplomatic protocol by stepping into areas which don’t fall under his jurisdiction.

Last week, Roemer decided to visit Bangladesh, Afghanistan and Pakistan. It is not known how the American ambassadors posted in those capitals thought of Roemer’s high-profile visits. But he is the first US ambassador in New Delhi who went ahead and met the top political leaders of those country

Roemer also met president Asif Ali Zardari and foreign minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi in Pakistan, where he made it clear that India had a positive role to play in Afghanistan.

When asked about Pakistan’s response to his comment, Roemer said, “Zardari was thoughtful and positive.” The ambassador did not go into details mainly because this was a conversation between the US and Pakistan.

Roemer also said that he worked hard to ensure that Indian officials got access to Pakistani-American terrorist David Headley. Headley, the prime accused in 26/11 terror attacks in Mumbai, is now in FBI custody.

This guy is clueless..

Karan Dixit · Post by **Karan Dixit** » 08 May 2010 08:10

I have a different take on this; it seems India has outsourced its ambassadorial duties in aF-Pak region to US.

Note to the jirga: 'a' is silent here. Just pronounce F-Pak. Where F stands for canadaian visa.

bahdada · Post by **bahdada** » 08 May 2010 08:28

Pakistanis Now Posing as Indians to Avoid Discrimination
http://gawker.com/5533642/pakistanis-no ... rimination

Since the failed Times Square carbomb, and the arrest of Pakistani suspect Faisal Shahzad, a Pakistani man was ludicrously prevented from buying garden fertilizer. Others, according to Reuters, are now posing as Indians to try and avoid increased stigma.

Asghar Choudhri, "an accountant and chairman of Brooklyn's Pakistani American Merchant Association," told Reuters that "a lot of Pakistanis can't get jobs after 9/11 and now it's even worse... they are now pretending they are Indian so they can get a job."

ROFLMAO.

What kills me is that Paki Asghar thinks this is something new. Most Paki's I know never just come out and say they are from Pakiland.

Masaru · Post by **Masaru** » 08 May 2010 12:34

X-post from US-PRC-India thread

India to have 'pre-eminent' role in S Asia: Blake

The US on Saturday acknowledged that India will always have a pre-eminent role in South Asia where it can be a very important force for stability and said it looks forward to its first strategic dialogue with the country in June at the level of Foreign Ministers.

Blake, who was in China last week for the Sino-US strategic dialogue on South Asia, said both the United States and China are sensitive to Indian concerns in the region. {Huh! Next some official from foggy bottom will go on to say India will have a 'pre-eminent' role in India? Why does it need to be stated that a country with 70% of population and more than that share of economy in 'South Asia' will have a 'pre-eminent' role in it? What is South-Asia any way? }"India will continue to have a pre-eminent role in the South Asian region, and it is in all of our interest to work very closely with our friends in India to achieve our common objectives," he said.

Noting that the Chinese have a growing role in South Asia and around the world, Blake said his principal message to them was that the United States would like to coordinate more and better with Beijing, since they have growing assistance programme and investment in South Asia.

"In many cases, we have similar interest in many parts of South Asia. So it is in our interest therefore to coordinate with them on assistance so that we do not duplicate our efforts in important places like Afghanistan," he said.

Observing that there is a need to work with the European Union, China and a lot of countries that have interest in various parts of South Asia, Blake said: "But, I think, India will always have the pre-eminent role. {Why the disappointment? Would the US prefer this role for TSP or BD or Nepal or may be PRC? }

"We understand that, the Chinese understand that India can be a very important force for good and for stability in this part of the region. So it is important for all of us to work with India." {Is that why they transfer missile and n-bomb blueprints to deeper than Mariana Trench friends? }

What is Sino-US strategic dialogue on South Asia? Doesn't the US already have a 'major non-NATO ally' and a 'natural partner' in that region? Is there a similar Indo-US strategic dialogue on East/North-east Asia or Asia-Pacific?

Another pointer to the evolving G-2 condominium and the sharing of responsibilities strategy that is in the vogue.

Raja Ram · Post by **Raja Ram** » 08 May 2010 17:42

Nothing new in the above stance of the USG. For those who remember, at the time of Obama getting elected, I had written in this very same forum that this signals the return to the Clintonian policy and state department status quoists to power.

Right after 1998, Shakti tests, Clinton indicated openly that for the USG, China is the power of all Asia and India has to be boxed into a South Asia context. That too as a "soft power" and "economic power".

Still others may remember the Caroe Power circles and the qualifications needed for a nation to become a global power. I had written then that the US geo-strategic intent and vision of India is to contain into a box - regionally and capability wise, so that it remains a useful power to keep China honest viz-a viz US along with the likes of Japan and Korea. Nothing more.

Ultimately what India will be is dependent not on the desire of global powers but what its people and leadership want it to be. It need not be constrained by anyone or anything else. The shackle to break is one in the minds. It is the toughest one to break.

Why the lay citizens, many stalwarts and occassional ramblers here too are not sure whether India has the wherewithal to break out and assert its tryst with destiny.

Till then we have to wait for that morning sun "dhi yo yonah prachodyat

NRao · Post by **NRao** » 08 May 2010 20:10

bahdada wrote:
Pakistanis Now Posing as Indians to Avoid Discrimination
http://gawker.com/5533642/pakistanis-no ... rimination

Since the failed Times Square carbomb, and the arrest of Pakistani suspect Faisal Shahzad, a Pakistani man was ludicrously prevented from buying garden fertilizer. Others, according to Reuters, are now posing as Indians to try and avoid increased stigma.

Asghar Choudhri, "an accountant and chairman of Brooklyn's Pakistani American Merchant Association," told Reuters that "a lot of Pakistanis can't get jobs after 9/11 and now it's even worse... they are now pretending they are Indian so they can get a job."
ROFLMAO.

What kills me is that Paki Asghar thinks this is something new. Most Paki's I know never just come out and say they are from Pakiland.

The original article: http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE64655Y20100507

lakshmikanth · Post by **lakshmikanth** » 09 May 2010 10:26

I was just watching a Bill Maher show: "Real Time with Bill Maher" and it was Salman Rushdie, David Frum who has something to do with FrumForums.com and he is a Journo who wrote speeches for Bush and is no more with the Republican party, and the VP of Fox VP of Business Alexis Glick.

Here are a few snippets that is old info here at BRF but still makes me

and also

Frum moron says that the US has been able to control the terrorists since 9/11 since the sophistication of the attacks have come down so much, even though there have been subsequent terror attacks in Britain, Spain, Bali (You guessed it: no India mentioned ). And also he wanted tighter immigration controls for letting ideologically crazy people in (which Bill Maher shot down).

Alexis Glick chips in and gets the 'K' word in: "We are extending our friendly hand to Muslim world" {At the cost of India I supppose} "Let's not forget about the nucular risks in Porkistan and their neighbor India AND Kashmir {I guess new Pentagon circular says that Kashmir is already independent from India}. "I was in a chamber of commerce discussion with Ambassador Burns and Adm. Mullen and there was a consensous that we are looking at Iran and its nuclear weapons etc, while we should be focussed completely on the nuclear situation in Pakistan."

I guess the plan for getting India to concede Kashmir has been approved by Pentagon. Now, the media minions are starting to raise this issue above the noise floor. Soon the noises will be deafening.

Salman sahib chipped in that the real problem is Pakistani support to Taliban and as long as that is not broken the US cannot win.

abhishek_sharma · Post by **abhishek_sharma** » 09 May 2010 15:07

Imam’s Path From Condemning Terror to Preaching Jihad

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/05/09/world/09awlaki.html

shukla · Post by **shukla** » 09 May 2010 18:42

Business engagement level between US and India touches new high

Prem · Post by **Prem** » 11 May 2010 00:25

http://www.weeklystandard.com/articles/ ... nce?page=5
Diplomatic Negligence
The Obama administration fumbles relations with India
BY Daniel Twining

The Bush administration’s de-hyphenation of India and Pakistan policy after decades of Pakistan-centricity created a range of new strategic possibilities—including the most substantial progress ever made between India and Pakistan in back-channel negotiations on Kashmir. De-hyphenation allowed the United States to improve relations with both Islamabad and New Delhi rather than treating them in zero-sum terms. Indian trust that Washington won’t favor Pakistan’s revisionist agenda in both Afghanistan and Kashmir—and that America has a stake in India’s democratic security against terrorism emanating from Pakistan—would do more to promote the normalization of Indo-Pakistani relations than putting pressure on India in ways that rekindle old sentiments about a U.S. approach that seeks not to strengthen India but, rather, to keep it down.

Today, victory in Afghanistan is essential, as are strengthening civic institutions and security in Pakistan. But democratic India is the region’s big strategic prize. India can be an essential partner for the United States in promoting a more peaceful, prosperous, and liberal world. But an untended relationship could degenerate in a way that recalls the troubled past—at a time when India’s region, wider Asia, and the international economic and political order are growing less stable in ways that threaten both countries’ core interests. “Given all the authoritarian regimes, terrorism, and the tenuous economic recovery in Asia,” asks Indian-American scholar Sumit Ganguly, “can Mr. Obama really allow U.S.-India relations to backslide into the mutual neglect last seen during the Cold War?
The United States has a deep interest in India’s success as a democratic superpower—one that can shape a non-Western modernity that is inherently peaceful, pluralistic, prosperous, and attractive to the wider world

Philip · Post by **Philip** » 11 May 2010 00:47

The MEA is impotent when it comes to dealing with the US,which treats India like a plantation employee in pre-civil war times!It would've been unthinkable for this to have happened in IG's era or even Rajiv's or ABVs.Our great US approved role in S.ASia is limited to the boundaries of India,that too with a caveat,check first with Uncle Sam before opening one's mouth on foreign affairs.

Paul · Post by **Paul** » 11 May 2010 04:35

Had IG and her defiant policies continued any longer, she would have been remembered as the Leonid Brezhnev whose prolonged rule led to economic stagnation accompanied by excessive military spending in USSR eventually leading to economic collapse.

It is the likes of PVN and MMS who have realigned India’s foreign policies more in tune with ground realties and focussed on economic growth in accordance with the electorate’s wishes. Future generations will testify to the wisdom of this approach.

svinayak · Post by **svinayak** » 11 May 2010 04:38

Paul wrote:Had IG and her defiant policies continued any longer, she would have been remembered as the Leonid Brezhnev whose prolonged rule led to economic stagnation accompanied by excessive military spending in USSR eventually leading to economic collapse.

It is the likes of PVN and MMS who have realigned India’s foreign policies more in tune with ground realties and focussed on economic growth in accordance with the electorate’s wishes. Future generations will testify to the wisdom of this approach.

IG was a target of one of the largest covert war in the Third world

Paul · Post by **Paul** » 11 May 2010 04:39

No disagreements there...

abhishek_sharma · Post by **abhishek_sharma** » 11 May 2010 07:48

http://drezner.foreignpolicy.com/posts/ ... _terrorism

We have failed to acknowledge that al-Qaeda has a strategy and, moreover, that it is one designed to overwhelm us. It is a strategy of attrition. And it is a strategy of attrition that focuses on strengthening its own capabilities and expanding its recruitment pool, particularly on our shores, while weakening our ability to fight. It seeks to flood already-stressed intelligence systems with “noise” and with low-level threats from “lone wolves” and other jihadi hangers-on (i.e., low-hanging fruit) that will consume the attention of law-enforcement and intelligence agencies in the hope that these distractions will allow more serious operations to slip by unnoticed.

shukla · Post by **shukla** » 11 May 2010 14:59

‘US to attack terrorists on Pak soil’

A former Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) official, Arthur Keller said it is likely that US will ask Pakistan to launch a military offensive in North Waziristan, where Shahzad is believed to have received the terror training or it will do so itself.

“If you''re not going to help, just get the hell out of the way,” is what Keller believes Washington would tell Islamabad. Keller, while quoting from a speech that Obama had delivered in August 2007 on foreign policy, stressed that Obama, the then presidential hopeful had clarified that US would not hesitate to target militants across Pakistan.

abhischekcc · Post by **abhischekcc** » 11 May 2010 16:47

Paul wrote:Had IG and her defiant policies continued any longer, she would have been remembered as the Leonid Brezhnev whose prolonged rule led to economic stagnation accompanied by excessive military spending in USSR eventually leading to economic collapse.

It is the likes of PVN and MMS who have realigned India’s foreign policies more in tune with ground realties and focussed on economic growth in accordance with the electorate’s wishes. Future generations will testify to the wisdom of this approach.

Paul, the hollowing out of Indian industrial might developed under socialism was the objective of the massive strikes led by Datta Samant. It was the conflict generated by his strikes and IG's defiannce of the same that led to the destruction in Bombay's industrial strength.

After that, Indian economy was coasting on past momentum for some years until remitances fell drastically in the runup to Gulf War 1.

Eventually, we had to liberalise the economy, give our gold as security and accept IMF conditionalities.
Although this story has a happy ending (it has not ended yet).

The murder of Rajiv Gandhi must be seen in the light of need of western economies to open up foreign markets, as should IG's own murder.

JE Menon · Post by **JE Menon** » 11 May 2010 23:22

Fortunately, those developments appears to have worked, whether intentionally or not, in favour of increasing India's overall power.

VinodTK · Post by **VinodTK** » 12 May 2010 05:38

How Bam's losing India

In fact, Obama's feckless approach to cooperation in the War on Terror has been steadily driving a wedge between the United States and the world's other big democracy. The partnership with India that George W. Bush carefully built is in shambles -- jeopardizing our future in Asia.

One wedge issue is Obama's deceptively cozy relationship with Pakistan. What the Pentagon and the media trumpet as Pakistan's new "cooperation" in fighting the Taliban, Indian experts see as simply one jihadist wing of Pakistan's secret service (the ISI) surreptitiously taking out the others, with our Predator drones doing the shooting.

ramana · Post by **ramana** » 12 May 2010 08:47

Even the TTP which is really anti-TSP state is being horse-swindled into becoming a US target. And US is obliging in taking out TTP targets in Waziristan. Mullah Birader the real "good" Taliban who wants to negotiate and end to hostilities with Karzai Govt has been arrested and proclaimed "bad" Taliban,

Being swindled once is foolish, twice is coincidence and thrice is congenital idiot.

shukla · Post by **shukla** » 12 May 2010 18:43

Rana's trial likely to begin on November 1

The trial of Pakistani-Canadian terror suspect Tahawwur Rana, charged with involvement in the Mumbai attacks, is expected to begin on November 1 and go on for a tentative four weeks, with a US judge saying that the trial process should start "sooner rather than later". During Rana's status hearing in US district court on Tuesday, Judge Harry Leinenweber set November 1 as a "tentative" date for commencing the trial of the 49-year-old terror suspect, after both prosecution and defence lawyers agreed to it.

Later, Rana's lawyer Patrick Blegen said the "government has estimated four weeks for the trial but that is a tentative estimation". "There is only one defendant. There are other defendants but the government does not have them in its custody. So it is a one-defendant trial. "The prosecution is the one who has to put on its case, so it would know better than I as to how long the trial will take. The government has said four weeks is a tentative estimation," Blegen added.

Amber G. · Post by **Amber G.** » 13 May 2010 07:28

Recent article in Hill by Ron Somers
India: A US partner for global opportunity
And From Geogia Tech ...
Atlanta plays host to USA India Business Summit

A_Gupta · Post by **A_Gupta** » 14 May 2010 05:30

Just picked up a new book from the library:

"The Limits of Influence: America's Role in Kashmir"
Howard B. Schaffer
Published by the Brookings Institution, 2009.

Has this been discussed here previously?

Prem · Post by **Prem** » 15 May 2010 00:51

x-post
US want him extradited.

Ukrainian Arrested in India on TJX Data-Theft Charges
A Ukrainian national has been arrested in India in connection with the most notorious hacking incident in U.S. history.
IDG News Service — A Ukrainian national has been arrested in India in connection with the most notorious hacking incident in U.S. history.
Sergey Valeryevich Storchark was one of 11 men charged in August 2008 with hacking into nine U.S. retailers and selling tens of millions of credit card numbers. He was arrested in India earlier this week, according to a spokesman with India's Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI).
In a statement, the CBI said they'd arrested Storchark in New Delhi on the night of May 8, as he deplaned from a flight from Goa, for layover before a flight to Turkey. U.S. authorities had asked for his extradition via diplomatic channels, the CBI said.Authorities say that Storchark was a reseller of stolen credit cards -- one of the men that hacker Albert Gonzalez and his accomplices turned to when they wanted to sell the data they'd stolen from major U.S. retailers such as TJX, Dave and Buster's, Office Max and DSW.
In 2008, U.S. Attorney General Michael Mukasey described this as probably "the single largest and most complex identity theft case

http://www.cio.com/article/593613/Ukrai ... ft_Charges

aditya.agd · Post by **aditya.agd** » 15 May 2010 01:20

India needs to be extremely cautious with the new brand of terrorism emanating from US. Just like Headley, Rana and similar others who are American-Pakistanis and disguising themselves as tourists planning to attack India and Indians.

We must proactively censure America for promoting terrorism in India albeit indirectly.

abhishek_sharma · Post by **abhishek_sharma** » 15 May 2010 02:37

I wonder what the Army officers think about the Ambassador.

http://photos.state.gov/galleries/5/amb ... 10/16.html

http://photos.state.gov/galleries/5/amb ... 10/17.html

SwamyG · Post by **SwamyG** » 15 May 2010 04:39

Anti-Bill Halter Group Botches Hindi Script In Latest Mailer

abhishek_sharma · Post by **abhishek_sharma** » 15 May 2010 07:42

Mr. Kapil Sibal Union Minister for Human Resource Development to get Prestigious US Award

http://www.indianembassy.org/newsite/pr ... /May/1.asp