Tuesday, December 2, 2008

Focus: Mumbai Terror Attacks

 

From rape to slavery to honor killings, extreme oppression can be the norm for Pakistani women. But, Times Op-Ed columnist Nicholas D. Kristof reports from Pakistan that one courageous woman has built an oasis of hope in her village.


Westerners associate terrorism in Pakistan with suicide bombers, but the real emerging terrorist threat for Pakistani women is being disfigured by acid attacks, often by their own husbands, Nicholas D. Kristof says.

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The photographer Michael Rubenstein gives his eyewitness account of the attacks.

For more than two days, Mumbai has been gripped by fear as terrorists fanned out through its colonial heart in a well-planned assault, killing more than 150 people and taking hostages at two hotels and a Jewish center.

Coordinated terror attacks struck the heart of Mumbai, India's commercial capital, killing more than 100 in assaults on multiple locations in the city.

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