Monday, August 17, 2009 NEW DELHI: Indian Prime Minister on Monday said that cross-border terrorism remains the most pervasive threat to India. “There is need for utmost vigilance. There is credible information that terrorists in Pakistan will carry out fresh attacks in India, says Prime Minister Manmohan Singh said. Noting that there were signs of revival of over-ground militant activities, he said attempts were being made to link isolated and unconnected incidents to create an impression of a groundswell of anti-India feeling. "All this shows that efforts to disturb the current status quo have not been given up,” Singh said. Earlier, union home minister P Chidambaram said that the gravity of the terror threat remains undiminished and the country cannot lower its guard.
BAGHDAD: Nearly 500 U.S. Army combat engineers who specialize in clearing roads of explosives started shifting to southern Afghanistan."We are probably going to be the beginning of the influx you are going to see to Afghanistan," Lt. Col. Kevin Landers, commander of the Fort Carson, Colo.-based 4th Engineer Battalion, said as crews packed crates and cleaned vehicles for the flight to Kandahar.Obama has ordered 17,000 more U.S. soldiers and Marines to Afghanistan to bolster the 38,000 American troops already battling the resurgent Taliban."We are going to take this footprint out of Iraq," said Landers, whose battalion received word of its reassignment last month just after taking command of clearing roads in Baghdad of bombs and debris.
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