Mumbai release for Obama's War

MUMBAI: American journalist Bob Woodward's book O b a m a' s Wa r s—which gives readers a peek into the workings of the White House especially on the US president's strategy for a way out of Afghanistan—is expected to be released in Mumbai this week.
He also touches on what happened in the White House during the 26/11 terror strike. According to Woodward immediately after the attack, outgoing American President George Bush called his national security team into the office and said: "You guys get planning and do what you have to do to prevent a war between Pakistan and India.The last thing we need right now is a war between two nuclear-power states."
Woodward writes that within 48 hours of the Mumbai attack, then CIA director Michael Hayden, contacted Pakistan's ambassador to the US, Hussain Haqqani.
Bush called up Prime Minister Manmohan Singh with whom he had a strong personal relationship. "My intelligence shows that the new Pakistani government is not involved," Bush had said. In a call to Ahmed Shuja Pasha, director-general of Pakistan's ISI, Hayden said: "We've got to get to the bottom of this." The day after Christmas , Pasha flew to the US where he briefed Hayden at the CIA headquarters. He admitted that at least two retired Pakistani army officers had ISI links, but it had not been an authorized ISI operation.