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EMBASSY BLAST REVEALS SCOPE OF WAR

The suicide attack on the Indian Embassy in Kabul on Thursday lays bare the reality that this confl ict is a single war with multiple fronts that extend from Afghan battlefi elds to Pakistan’s fractured political scene and include the vital interests of India and the United States.The bomber detonated an explosives-packed SUV near the outer perimeter wall of the Indian Embassy compound, killing at least 17 people, all Afghans, and wounding nearly 80 others, including three Indian security guards. The Taliban claimed responsibility.International efforts to end Afghanistan’s violence are complicated because the major players see their interests differently:

The U.S. goal is to prevent al-Qaida from regaining its bases in Afghanistan, where it trained militants and plotted the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks in New York and Washington.•Pakistan, with archrival India to the east, believes it needs a friendly government in Afghanistan on its western border, preferably one without close ties to the Indians.•For its part, India seeks regional allies and access to oil- and gas-rich central Asia.

As the war enters its ninth year, President Barack Obama is considering whether to focus the fi ght in Af-ghanistan against al-Qaida’s allies in the Taliban or shift to more missile strikes and special operations raids against al-Qaida in Pakistan, a nuclear-armed country where the terrorist movement’s leadership is believed to be hiding.

Whatever option Obama chooses, the administration must wrestle with the fact that neither Afghanistan nor Pakistan can be secure as long as instability plagues the other. Militants move freely from one country to another, sheltering among the ethnic Pashtun community that lives on both sides of the border.

The Taliban claimed responsibility in a Web site statement but did not say why the embassy was targeted. India’s ambas-sador, Jayant Prasad, blamed the bombing on “people who don’t like the friendship between the Afghan and the Indian people.”“We are working with our Afghan friends to fi nd out more about who is behind the attack,” he said.However, the Afghan Foreign Ministry said the attack “was planned and implemented from outside of Afghan borders” by the same groups responsible for the July 2008 suicide bombing at the Indian Embassy that killed more than 60 people.

At the time, the Afghan government blamed the 2008 attack on Pakistan’s Inter-Services Intelligence, although Thursday’s state-ment did not mention Pakistan by name.U.S. offi cials suspect the 2008 bombing was carried out by followers of Jalaluddin Haqqani, a longtime Afghan militant leader whose fi ghters are battling U.S. forces in eastern Afghanistan from sanctuaries in the border area of Pakistan. American com-manders consider the Haqqani group, which is allied with the Taliban and has ties to al-Qaida, to be among the most dangerous insurgent groups in Afghanistan.The Pakistani civilian government that took power last year has increased cooperation with the U.S. in the fi ght against Islamic extremists, and the Foreign Ministry spokesman, Abdul Basit, was quick to condemn Thursday’s bombing in Kabul.

“Whenever terrorist activity occurs, it should strengthen our resolve to eradicate and eliminate this menace,” Basit told reporters in Islamabad. He described speculation about a Pakistani role as “preposterous.”

Nevertheless, some U.S. offi cials remain skeptical that the Pakistani military is prepared to break entirely with all the Islamic militant groups that operate in their country.Indian defense and political analysts were quick to point the fi nger at Pakistan.“How long is India going to absorb the shocks of repeated attacks?” asked Ajai Sahni of the Institute for Confl ict Management, a New Delhi-based think-tank. He said the attack was the result of India’s failure to develop “any conventional or covert strat-egy to impose any costs on Pakistan.”A report last year by the Pakistan Policy Working Group, an independent, bipartisan group of American experts on U.S.-Paki-stani relations, described Afghanistan as “a new battleground for IndoPakistani hostility.”

Taliban claims a role

“How long is India going to absorb the shocks of repeated attacks

“Continued Pakistani ambivalence toward the Taliban stems in part from its concern that India is trying to encircle it by gaining influence in Afghanistan,” the group said in a report. “Pakistani security officials calculate that the Taliban offers the best chance for countering India’s regional influence.”