This is part two, the final part, in a short series about the attack in Bombay/Mumbai Part one here
We looked at the story of the possibility that someone tried fooling the Pakistani president with a fake phone call tht almost started a hot war between Pakistan and Indian. In this post we explore some technical aspect of how a hoax could go down and fool some basic protection system.
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It what every world leader fears to hear, a phone call by a hostile nation warning you that soon you might be on the receiving end of an attack. You must act quick, get ready a defense, prepare for a counter attack and maybe be ready to pull the big guns and get ready the WMDs. But, what if that phone call never happen? What happen if it was a hoax? That is what happen (reported) between Pakistan and India just hours after the bombings in bombay.
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News rooms all over Americans have been sweeting bullets about how online blogging are going to kill them because of their fast reporting and today I can see why. Around 4:40pm today right in front of my office was a crazy scene you would see in a action move set. Tens of cops, uncovers, motorcycle and etc on a high speed chase of who knows why. What i caught was a man trying to car jack people as he tried to ran away from the cops which I have never seen in my whole life. So after all the rumors on the street, it was a murder, bank robbery, who knows. But I thought I would wait till it hits the local news. Well I turn on the 5:30 news.. Nothing. 6:00 news? Nothing as well. Head over the sfgate and nothing really local. The only local news is about Bad Air and the tiger lawsuit. Really? Is this local to me? Your telling me a high speed chase is not local news? I am sorry, but that is pretty important to me as I live here (ok i live a few blocks away, but my building is there). I can see why sites like sfist are so popular with locals and the -ist sites are. They are what locals really care about. We all know San Francisco is a big city and maybe we do care about bigger issues but losing on reporting local news is pretty bad. I saw a camera man there, but, could not tell what channel he was from so he could have been a freelancer. But this lack of reporting of crime is a bit scary because if I was not there I would never know about it.
Pictures of the even after the break
Well Local News definently is more quality news to me than blogging IMO.
I’m not sure how they prepare their news for the day but I assume there is a process and this is some kind of loophole in the system.
Anam Ahmed is discussing. 
Waseem is discussing.
Anam Ahmed 11:42 pm on December 7, 2008 Permalink
Hi
First i would like to correct you here: “which India has since blamed on the Pakistan-based militant group Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT), it was banned in Pakistan so its EX-militant group. And its quite interesting that we are saying it was from the Foreign Minister Office and they dont believe it…Pakistan and India are in a never ending circle of blaming and pointing fingers at each other. Its been going on for so long and to me it seems like it will never end. First India goes under attack which i feel very sorry for and i mourn for the people who died but India blamed it on Pakistan. But they dont see that we are the victims as well, Pakistan is not going thru the gloriest times of it all either we have bombings from Talibans and its getting intense but its not in the news bc our stupid senseless media is not covering it and not letting the world know they we Pakistanis are victims too. 2 days ago a van blew up infront of a mosque killing 29 people in NWFP there was a rumour for a long time that oh Indians did it as a revenge for what “we” did. I mean what is this? What is happening to us? is everytime there is going to be a attack we are going to say India did it or Pakistan? People need to get some sense and try to get to the bottom of this.