B Raman on Syria, India, USA

“A welcoming friend to many a terrorist”:http://www.sulekha.com/redirectnh.asp?cid=307813
bq. The orchestrated campaign against Syria mounted by the United States is more proof of what this writer has been saying for weeks, namely, that neutralization of jihadi terrorism directed against Israel and the US and not oil is the priBook Review: Pakistanmotivating factor of US actions in the Middle East.
This comment is particularly interesting as the person writing this is the former head of the counter-terrorism division of the Research & Analysis Wing, India’s external intelligence agency.

and also B. Raman reviews the book, “Spies In The Himalayas?Secret Missions And Perilous Climbs” which reveals something I did not know before
“Those Nuclear Ice Spies”:http://www.sulekha.com/redirectnh.asp?cid=307814
bq. The lucid account of this joint operation based on research into declassified documents in the US and interviews, confirms that while overtly non-aligned, India had been covertly collaborating with the US and the UK in monitoring China.