Bombay attacks fallout

Fallout may end up being a poor choice of words here. Nevertheless, I found some interesting bits in this article:
Bombay attack Dossier
The response from the Pakistani Information Minister really just says it all;
"it is our fond resolve to insure that non-state actors to do not use Pakistan's soil to launch terrorist attack any where in the world"
This is the sort of statement that really reminds us that the position of information minister in most countries used to be the Ministry of Propaganda.
Another curious, though sensible side note is that the information when presented to diplomats was accompanied by a PowerPoint presentation. If nothing else that is something I should include in future discussion with students about the wide range of places that MS PP can be used in.
Apparently the attackers were being directed as the operation proceeded, even by simple means of phone calls to the hotels being attacked. And the fact that a handler told the people holding the jews hostage to 'conclude' the operation, which resulted in the jews being executed, strongly says to me anyway that that aspect was part of the original plan, and not a target of opportunity. I don't know how much debate there is over that point anyway, especially when a handler seemed to hope that the execution of the hostages would "spoil" relations between India and Israel. Why they think Israel will be angry with India over this, who knows.
Something that is often brought up with regards to these attacks is that, its the plan of the attackers to provoke a strong response, and that be counter-attacking you are 'playing into their hands' or giving them what they want. But if they actually thought that the attack would sour relations between india and isreal, when its plainly obvious to the rest of the non-insane world that pakistan has a hand in this, then maybe that whole line of thought is just bogus anyway. I suspect that these guys don't think 'our deaths will lead to an unpopular counter-attack, and through that we will get global sympathy and win'. Rather, they probably think 'this attack will show those bastards'. Its bad to underestimate an enemy, but perhaps that line of thinking is a case of over-estimation gone awry. The article ends with the ominous note that there were actually 13 people selected as attackers, this 13 met up with another 3, and then 6 went into Kashmir. Are we supposed to believe that those 6 have done nothing, are doing nothing, and will do nothing? Everyone was shocked over the Bombay attacks, even though Bombay was bombed recently also, and even though there is constant fighting in Kashmir. I guess that the Kashmir fighting is an 'acceptable' level of international terrorism. My father-in-law also noted that in Kerala a muslim terror camp had been uncovered, and, perhaps not surprisingly, the terrorists were NOT native to Kerala. Looks like the world has found kasmiri-based terrorism fine and dandy, and so now terror groups are simply expanding well into India. AND this is at a time when Hindu chauvanism is rampant and Bangladeshi terror groups are on the move.