When Islamists attacked Mumbai, India's New York, many people called it that country's 9/11.  Although it certainly was the most high profile attack, it was far from the first in this country of over a billion people.  India faces terrorist attacks of one sort or another multiple times each week.  The South Asia Terrorism Portal collects figures on terrorism here and calculated that 47,371 Indians have died in terrorist attacks since 1994.  Since 2006, about two-thirds of the fatalities occurred as a result of Islamist attacks; the rest came at the hands of radical communists.Earlier this week, Indian officials said that the greatest threat to the nation's security was the Maoist insurgency.  The Naxalite movement started in 1967, but only became a real insurgency during the past decade and a half.  The name comes from the village where the movement started, Naxalbari in West Bengal.  I slipped into Naxalbari last year to find, ironically enough,...(Read Full Post)