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Fighting Together
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India-US have several areas of cooperation against terrorism |
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Radhavinod Raju
The United States and India represent the world’s most powerful and largest democracies, with a combined population of nearly 1.5 billion people. Both are victims of Islamist terrorism. With a number of converging interests in central, south and south-east Asia and the Indo-Pacific regions, these countries have come together in a strategic partnership that is bound to get strengthened in future. Cooperation in the field of counter-terrorism has been a significant part of the partnership. Let us see how the two countries have responded to terrorism, and how they can cooperate with each other.
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The United States has faced terrorist attacks within and outside the country.
Some of the major attacks on outside US interests include the attacks on the US
embassies in Nairobi, Kenya and Dar-es-Salaam, Tanzania by al Qaeda in 1998,
killing more than 200 people, including Americans, triggering missile attacks on
al Qaeda camps in Afghanistan. The warship USS Cole was attacked by al Qaeda in
2000, killing 17 US marines. While the attacks on the World Trade Centre by
Ramzi Yousuf and that on the CIA Headquarters by Aimal Qazi in 1993 were major
attacks, the most devastating one on US power was mounted by Osama bin Laden’s
al Qaeda on the World Trade Centre and the Pentagon on 11 September 2001,
killing almost 3,000 people and bringing down the twin towers, symbols of
American power. |
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