Attack on Mumbai, India Raises Tensions With Pakistan

This video from ITN looks at survivors going home after the militant attacks at hotels, restaurants and other tourist sites across the Indian business capital, Mumbai, once known as Bombay. Indian police are interrogating the one gunman who was captured alive, trying to figure out who organized the attacks that killed over 180 people and injured hundreds, and why. Differing reports claim there may have been just 10 gunmen total, or that accomplices helped the shooters. Despite repeated assertions by India's neighbor and rival, Pakistan, that it bore no responsibility, the attacks have raised the pitch of India-Pakistan tensions to their most dangerous level since the December 2001 suicide attack on the Indian Parliament in New Delhi. That episode prompted the two countries to send their armies to the border, creating fears of war between two countries that possess nuclear weapons. Warm Up Questions 1. What happened in India last week? 2. How was the attack similar and different from other terrorist attacks? 3. Where is India? What is its relationship with its neighbor, Pakistan? Discussion Questions 1. What do you think will happen if the investigation shows that the attackers were from Pakistan? What if they were Pakistanis and Indians? 2. How should the United States react to this attack? 3. Some residents of India called this their 9/11. What does this mean? How did the United States and other countries react to 9/11? Which details of 9/11 and its aftermath apply to this situation, which do not apply? Additional Resources India Attack Updates

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