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Making Sense of the Mumbai Attacks

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Mumbai Attacks: 'These Weren’t Just Terrorists'

03 min 50 sec

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Professor Bruce Hoffman characterizes the attacks on Mumbai, India's largest city, as "more like a military operation than a terrorist attack."

The assaults, he says, were coordinated, sustained, and simultaneous.
Mumbai Terrorists Were Organized and Well-Trained

05 min 16 sec

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Professor Bruce Hoffman discusses the "detailed and meticulous planning" behind the terrorist attacks on Mumbai, India's largest city.

He says, the attack on Mumbai proved a small number of well-armed, well-trained terrorists can "paralyze a city."
Bruce Hoffman: Bottom Line of the Mumbai Terrorist Attack

03 min 31 sec

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Professor Bruce Hoffman says the attacks on the Indian city of Mumbai were designed to undermine confidence and disrupt daily life, not just to take lives. Which, he says, is another reason hotels are becoming "favorite targets" for terrorists.
Tristan Mabry: Who is a Pakistani and Why Does it Matter?

04 min 52 sec

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Tristan Mabry summarizes the current situation in Pakistan: who lives there, who is fighting whom, and why it matters.
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Posted: 12.16.08, 08:38 AM

I think Prof Hoffman would agree that "not just terrorists" does not mean "not terrorists." The point is that the method of creating terror is far more thought-out and sophisticated than we normally associate with the genre. But some of the essential elements of terrorism were evident - namely in the (mostly) indiscriminate targeting of civilians for the express purpose of destabilizing an authority and ... creating terror.