Or what the Telegraph and the English should stay with, instead of commentating on the Middle East and the India Pak equation..

While News of The World was just shut down for phone hacking, hyperbole is still not illegal in UK media. Con Coughlin's coverage of the Mumbai blasts ( see tag #mumbiblasts on The only hyperbole of revolution , i.e. Twitter) already recognized for that by fellow media 'scions' from India and Pakistan for its unacceptable level of simplification and noise puts Telegraph in the same spot as The Sunday Sun might be when it replaces Brooks' brainchild and presumably people get on with life without Hinton at News Corp ( ...and..and..and..BSKyB is bid again..) The character in question, Coughlin is also credited with marking Iraq "in the possession of WMD" and "start a war in under 45 minutes"

To rebut the content of the usurius leters by Coughlin in his blog would be a small matter but more because it is now public knowledge that ISI does not represent Pakistan and especially Pakistani Sovereign interests and in fact neither may the Pakistani Army. However, it is unlikely that these smaller blasts would have been treated with any less seriousness if it had been known that they would come in control so quickly and that if and when Pakistan's connections to these jihadis is made whether IM or SIMI, they would sour state relations between India and Pakistan. Also connecting the India Pak equation to the larger and fearful world of Islamic Terror has at best been a tenuous exercise thus showing more the lack of content in the commentary than the accentuation of any facts on the ground ( A Fata Morgana, dare I say)

The crux here simply being that one should let the UK media find a new focus and I believe that state is almost achieved by not making hyperbolic assertions especially in a commentary on an International event. Con Coughlin is however not the first from London to stick o his knowledge of history to write current affairs commentary, much like Mark Tully and a few FT editors who always manage to get lost in the vast seas once they quit their India centric positions and go back.