July , 2007
Talk to terror and it will come back to bite you
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"We're interrupting that story to bring you this news just coming in..." When you're in journalism school, you always wonder what the breaking story will be when you announce that on television. In my case the date was July 11, 2006, the story of course, the horrific wave of train bombings in Mumbai that killed 187 people, maimed and wounded more than 800. A familiar sinking feeling in the pit of my stomach- distinct from that for other bad news journalists give out everyday- simply because terror is different. Terror acts are planned, often months in advance, with a view to kill as many people as possible- people the terrorists don't even know. The instinct to do that is illogical at the least, diabolical at its worst, and completely unforgivable. Which is why you can never talk to terrorists. Yet our governments do it all the....
Talk to terror and it will come back to bite you.
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"We're interrupting that story to bring you this news just coming in......." When you're in journalism school, you always wonder what the breaking story will be when you announce that on television. In my case the date was July 11, 2006, the story of course, the horrific wave of train bombings in Mumbai that killed 187 people, maimed and wounded more than 800. A familiar sinking feeling in the pit of my stomach- distinct from that for other bad news journalists give out everyday- simply because terror is different. Terror acts are planned, often months in advance, with a view to kill as many people as possible- people the terrorists don't even know. The instinct to do that is illogical at the least, diabolical at its worst, and completely unforgivable. Which is why you can never talk to terrorists. Yet our governments do it all the....
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Suhasini Haidar is the Deputy Foreign Editor and Prime-Time anchor for CNN-IBN, regularly anchoring its award-winning show India@9. She entered the world of journalism in 1994 with an internship at the CNN’s United Nations Bureau in New York. She worked with the CNN in New Delhi after that, as a producer and then as a correspondent until she moved to CNN-IBN in 2005. Suhasini regularly covers the sub-continent, frequently reporting from Pakistan. She has also traveled with Prime Minister Manmohan Singh to cover his official visits to the US, France, Russia, NAM, SAARC and CHOGM and is the only journalist to have interviewed Singh, Mrs. Gursharan Kaur, and their daughters. Suhasini's also been in the field covering elections in Gujarat and Jammu and Kashmir for CNN-IBN. She received her Bachelor's degree at Delhi University's Lady Shri Ram College and her Master's at Boston University's College of Communication. When not at work Suhasini turns off the TV and loves to read, swim and walk. When she is lucky, her two daughters, dogs and husband join in.
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