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What difference does OBL's death make for India? How will things be different? Was OBL involved in Pakistani terror against India? Suggested answers to some truly intriguing questions as well as a deeply informative timeline from user Rudradev @ http://forums.bharat-rakshak.com/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=5911&start=2360 [quote] OBL was never an enemy of India, except in the broadest ideological sense. Just because he became the poster-boy of "dangerous Islamism" for the west, we do ourselves a disservice by adopting that image wholesale and applying it to an Indian context where it is not at all relevant. Indeed, I believe the presence of OBL in our subcontinental neighbourhood was in fact a net gain for India. Let me explain why. 1) In the early 1990s, the US was full of hyperpower hubris. They had just won the cold war and destroyed the USSR, and Pakistan (via its support for the Afghan war) was appreciated as a key player in that campaign. These times were the apex of

Don't fear the coming dark. Pluck the stars from the sky, little firefly. Watch them glow in your hands. They flutter as we cry, little firefly. This hope and hunger will not end. We'll just fade away and die, little firefly.