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E.O. 12958:N/A 
TAGS: KMDR KPAO PGOV PREL IN
SUBJECT: MEDIA REACTION: INDIA-RUSSIA RELATIONS, MUMBAI 
TERROR ATTACK, COPENHAGEN SUMMIT; NEW DELHI. 
 
This countrywide cable reports on relevant media 
reaction/opinion from India's large non-English press. 
The Mission reports on English-language media via email 
through the daily "Early Edition" summary. 
 
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INDIA-RUSSIA RELATIONS 
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¶1. "INDIA-RUSSIA RELATIONS: ANOTHER PERSPECTIVE ON THE 
TALIBAN," op-ed in December 17 left-of-center Marathi 
daily, APLA MAHANAGAR: "U.S. forces will leave 
Afghanistan after the year 2011 and that's when a 
vacuum will form in the country, which is likely to be 
filled by nefarious insurgent forces like the Taliban. 
Pakistan will encourage this prospect. India's efforts 
to contain the Taliban will need strong support and 
affirmation. This is where Russia will play a positive 
role. Russia recently debunked the concept of the 'good 
Taliban', which America often advocates. Both India and 
Russia feel, as opposed to the view held by Washington, 
that there can be no distinction between 'good' and 
'bad' Taliban. To believe otherwise can only lend 
legitimacy to terrorist outfits." 
 
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MUMBAI TERROR ATTACK 
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¶2. "HEADLEY AND CIA," editorial in December 17right-of- 
center Urdu daily HINDUSTAN EXPRESS: "The reasons, 
motives and factors of why and how the 26/11 terror 
attacks in Mumbai are linked to the U.S deserve to be 
explored deeply.  Possibly the Zionist forces may have 
been playing a double game to trap the two major powers 
of the world into its net and, like America, India too 
is becoming a victim of their heinous exercise. India 
needs to be on high alert particularly after the ISI 
claims it has defeated even the CIA in guerilla war." 
 
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COPENHAGEN SUMMIT 
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¶3. "UNCERTAINTY IN THE WORLD SUMMIT," editorial in 
December 17 Guwahati Assamese centrist AJIR DAINIK 
BATORI: "Any attempt to impose the entire burden of 
carbon gas emission cut on poor countries will have 
disastrous consequences for their people as this will 
hamper their economic growth.  Since rich nations are 
the main polluters for the past 150 years or so, 
countries such as the U.S., Germany, and France should 
now save the world from peril by implementing the Kyoto 
Protocol in totality.  Unless they willingly agree to 
do it, the Copenhagen Summit may end in failure." 
ROEMER