India charged six people with murder for the attack in Calcutta outside the American Cultural Center that killed four police officers. The six included three teachers of an Islamic school and three Bangladeshis. In addition, 55 people, mostly Muslims, were detained for questioning in the eastern metropolis, drawing flak from Muslim community leaders who called the exercise a pogrom. Indian officials backed down from their earlier statements that the attack, which wounded 30 other people, was the work of terrorists, and said it was too early to know.
Make up your damned minds. Is it terrorism or not? (Well, we're sure it's murder, anyway.) |