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Bush sop too little, nothing significant: Indian FM

IRNA

New Delhi, Oct 11, IRNA -- India`s external affairs ministry 
officials were not "particularly impressed" by the American 
President, George W Bush, "remembering to include Indian cities" 
among the list of cities hit by terrorist attacks since the global 
war against terrorism was launched, local press reported here 
Saturday. 
The mention was seen as "a sop" offered to the government, and 
was "nothing significant", Indian officials said. 
The government has not forgotten that Bush "failed to even 
mention" the 25 August Mumbai blasts in his list of "terror-struck" 
cities during his address to the UN General Assembly less than a 
month after that date. 
Senior officials said that there was "probably a realization" 
within the US administration that its Pakistan policy and "double 
standards on terrorism" were raising a lot of questions. 
Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee has repeatedly urged the 
removal of "double standards" in gauging terrorist attacks, while 
deputy Prime Minister LK Advani condemned Bush`s omission of Mumbai 
in his UNGA address on 23 September. 
India has urged western interlocutors to "impress upon Pakistan" 
the need to completely end cross-border terrorism and dismantle the 
infrastructure of terror that has targeted innocent people in J&K and 
elsewhere in this country. 
According to agency reports, citing Delhi among the cities that 
have been struck by terrorists since the US waged a war against 
terror after the 9/11 attacks, President Bush has asserted that the 
fight against terrorism is far from over. 
"Since 11 September the terrorists have taken lives... since the 
attacks on our nation that fateful day, terrorists have attacked in 
Casablanca, Mombasa, Jerusalem, Amman, Riyadh, Baghdad, Karachi, New 
Delhi, Bali, and Jakarta," Bush said in a speech to the New Hampshire 
Air and Army National Guard Reservists in New Hampshire. 
He said after all the action America has taken and all the 
progress it has made against terror, there is a temptation to think 
that the danger has passed. The danger has not passed, he said. 
The terrorists, Bush said, continue to plot and plan against 
America and its people. "America has only one option; We must fight 
this war until the work is done." 
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