"The heavily-forested Kupwara is not the sprawling urban Mumbai.Encounters within forests have nothing in common with encounters with terroristsentrenched inside urban buildings and going on a shooting spree in crowdedpublic places in a big city such as Mumbai. But there are disconcertingsimilarities between what happened in Mumbai between November 26 and 29, 2008,and between what has happened during the last five days in the Kupwara area--simultaneous, well-orchestrated attacks on multiple targets, whether static ormoving army patrols, a skilful use of hand-held weapons and gadgets suchas GPS systems, suicidal and not suicide terrorism, strike, stay and fighttactics instead of the hit and vanish tactics and an ability to keep theencounters with the security forces going for a long time in order to makean impact on the local population and the international community throughdramatic media reports. "