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Written by www.daily.pk
Sunday, 23 November 2008 17:43
India is in something of a state of shock after learning from official sources that its first Hindu terror cell may have carried out a series of deadly bombings that were initially blamed on militant Muslims. The revelation is forcing the country to consider some difficult questions.
At least 10 people have been arrested in connection with several bomb blasts in the Muslim-dominated town of Malegaon in the western state of Maharashtra in September, which left six people dead. But reports suggest that police believe the cell may also have carried out a number of previous attacks, including last year's notorious bombing of a cross-border train en route to Pakistan, which killed 68 people. Among the alleged members of the cell are a serving army officer and a Hindu monk.
Bomb attacks are not uncommon in India – there has been a flurry in recent months – but police usually blame them on Muslim extremists, often said to have links to militant groups based in either Pakistan or Bangladesh. As a result, the recent cracking of the alleged Hindu cell has forced India to face some difficult issues. A country that prides itself on purported religious and cultural toleration – an ambition that in reality often falls short – has been made to ask itself how this cell could operate for so long. India's military, which prides itself on its professionalism, has been forced to order an embarrassing inquiry.
The near-daily drip of revelations from police has also caused red faces for India's main political opposition, the Hindu nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), ahead of state polls and a general election scheduled for early next year. The BJP and its prime ministerial candidate, Lal Krishna Advani, have long accused the Congress Party-led government of being soft on terrorism that involved Muslims. However, the BJP has refused to call for a clampdown on Hindu groups, and last week Mr Advani even criticised the police over the way they questioned one of the alleged cell members, a woman called Sadhvi Pragya Singh Thakur.
This is an article from Sunday's Pakistan Daily, apparently spin isn't indigenous to America!!!Written by www.daily.pk
Sunday, 23 November 2008 17:43
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PESHAWAR, Pakistan (AFP) – Troops killed at least six militants while one soldier died Tuesday in Pakistan's restive northwest, the military said, where the country is waging a bloody offensive against Al-Qaeda and the Taliban.
They died during a two-hour shootout involving Pakistani helicopter gunships, which started when militants ambushed a security forces convoy in the Kabal area of Swat valley, a military statement said.
"Security forces pounded miscreants' (militants') hideouts in Kabal area. Five militants were killed and another two injured," the statement said.
One militant and one soldier also died in exchange of fire, it said.
The mountainous, snow-capped Swat region is renowned for its ancient Buddhist relics and once attracted large numbers of foreign and local tourists with Pakistan's only ski resort.
But since last year it has been beset by violence blamed on pro-Taliban militants and the army has launched a major offensive on the area in response.
On Monday at least 10 people were killed and 50 injured after a suicide bomber blew up his explosives-laden car at a security checkpoint in the town of Mingora in the Swat valley.
The region has been turned into a battleground since radical cleric Maulana Fazlullah, who has links to Pakistan's Taliban, launched a violent campaign for the introduction of Islamic Sharia law in the valley.
Maybe Pakistan's new Prime Minister means business, I hope so.PESHAWAR, Pakistan (AFP) – Troops killed at least six militants while one... more
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The United States warned the Indian government about a potential maritime attack against Mumbai at least a month before last week's massacre in the country's financial capital left nearly 180 dead, a U.S. counterterrorism official told CNN. full story.
The fact that we knew a month before the attacks shows that we are doing our job quit well. I hope when America's turn comes around we are still focused. We can't afford another 9/11.The United States warned the Indian government about a potential maritime attack... more
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MUMBAI, India – India demanded that Pakistan hand over suspected terrorists believed living in the country — including its most-wanted man — as diplomatic wrangling between the nuclear rivals intensified Tuesday following the deadly Mumbai attacks.
A list of about 20 names was given to Pakistan's high commissioner to India during a meeting Monday night, Foreign Minister Pranab Mukherjee told reporters.
India has already demanded Pakistan take "strong action" against those responsible for the attacks, and the U.S. has pressured Islamabad to cooperate.
The moves come as the government faces widespread accusations of security and intelligence failures after suspected Muslim militants carried out a three-day attack across India's financial capital, killing 172 people and wounding 239.
The 10 gunmen had trained for months in camps operated by a banned Pakistani militant group before slipping into Mumbai from the sea, the only known surviving attacker told police.
India's foreign intelligence agency received information as recently as September that Pakistan-based terrorists were plotting attacks against Mumbai targets, according to a government intelligence official familiar with the matter.MUMBAI, India – India demanded that Pakistan hand over suspected terrorists... more
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As the credit crunch bites, Britons may be turning to sex as a cheap way to pass the time, a charity says.
A YouGov survey of 2,000 adults found sex was the most popular free activity, ahead of window shopping and gossiping.
The Scots were most amorous with 43% choosing sex over other pastimes, compared with 35% in South England.
Aids charity the Terrence Higgins Trust, which published the survey, also welcomed recent figures showing an increase in condom sales.
Around one in 10 respondents to the survey, carried in November, said their favourite free activity was window shopping and 6% chose going to a museum as the cheapest way to pass the time.
But the sexes differed on their priorities, with women preferring to gossip with friends while men had sex firmly at the top of their list.As the credit crunch bites, Britons may be turning to sex as a cheap way to pass the... more
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The owner of the Taj Mahal hotel says the Mumbai hotel had been warned of a possible terrorist attack prior to this week's deadly terror assault.
Tata Group Chairman Ratan Tata would not provide details about the warning or the security measures that were enacted as a result, but he told CNN that they were eased in the days before gunmen entered the hotel.
Tata also told CNN's Fareed Zakaria that even if the security precautions had still been in place, they wouldn't have stopped the gunmen because they entered the building through a rear door that does not have a metal detector.
"If I look at what we had ... it could not have stopped what took place," Tata said. "It's ironic that we did have such a warning, and we did have some measures. People couldn't park their cars in the portico, where you had to go through a metal detector. They knew what they were doing, and they did not go through the front. All of our arrangements are in the front. They planned everything," he said of the attackers. "I believe the first thing they did, they shot a sniffer dog and his handler. They went through the kitchen."
Tata said the terrorists were very organized and moved with detailed precision.
"They seemed to know [the hotel] in the night or in the daytime. They seemed to have planned their moves quite well, and there seem to have been a lot of pre-planning."The owner of the Taj Mahal hotel says the Mumbai hotel had been warned of a possible... more
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In this Nov. 28, 2007 file photo, a social worker displays earrings and pendants AP – In this Nov. 28, 2007 file photo, a social worker displays earrings and pendants made using the AIDS …
LONDON – As World AIDS Day is marked on Monday, some experts are growing more outspoken in complaining that AIDS is eating up funding at the expense of more pressing health needs.
They argue that the world has entered a post-AIDS era in which the disease's spread has largely been curbed in much of the world, Africa excepted.
"AIDS is a terrible humanitarian tragedy, but it's just one of many terrible humanitarian tragedies," said Jeremy Shiffman, who studies health spending at Syracuse University.
Roger England of Health Systems Workshop, a think tank based in the Caribbean island of Grenada, goes further. He argues that UNAIDS, the U.N. agency leading the fight against the disease, has outlived its purpose and should be disbanded.
"The global HIV industry is too big and out of control. We have created a monster with too many vested interests and reputations at stake, ... too many relatively well paid HIV staff in affected countries, and too many rock stars with AIDS support as a fashion accessory," he wrote in the British Medical Journal in May.
Paul de Lay, a director at UNAIDS, disagrees. It's valid to question AIDS' place in the world's priorities, he says, but insists the turnaround is very recent and it would be wrong to think the epidemic is under control.
I came to this conclusion years ago. America has much less to worry about than they did in 1990. I used to speak at High school about AIDS. Africa still needs much work though. But, short of mandatory abstinence, what do you do? And...that won't work either, the disease will eventually run it's course. America has made a business out AIDS though, so another one bites the dust.In this Nov. 28, 2007 file photo, a social worker displays earrings and pendants AP... more
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MUMBAI, India – 9:21 p.m. Wednesday, Chhatrapati Shivaji Terminus __ Two young men walk casually through Mumbai's main railway station, a worn Victorian hulk bustling with late commuters heading home, scurrying past small food stands and juice bars and vendors selling newspapers. They enter near the taxi stand, where long lines of battered black and yellow cabs wait for fares. One wears khaki cargo pants and a blue T-shirt. A pair of small knapsacks are slung over a shoulder. He looks like a college kid.
They are, says a photographer who follows them on part of their grim journey, "backpackers with assault rifles."
The two — and other death squads working in pairs — are to wreak carnage in landmark after landmark across Mumbai over the next three days, creating panic in this normally unflappable city and killing more than 195 people.
Obama is on to something on the Pakistan page. Maybe we should take our troops from Iraq and move them to Pakistan for about 30 days of Military games. This crap needs to stop, Pakistan for some reason protects these people. Maybe they need some tough LOVE.MUMBAI, India – 9:21 p.m. Wednesday, Chhatrapati Shivaji Terminus __ Two young... more
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MUMBAI, India – A 60-hour terror rampage that killed 195 people across India's financial capital ended Saturday when commandos killed the last three gunmen inside a luxury hotel while it was engulfed in flames.
Authorities searched for any remaining captives hiding in their rooms and began to shift their focus to who was behind the attacks, which killed 18 foreigners including six Americans.
A previously unknown Muslim group with a name suggesting origins inside India claimed responsibility for the attack, but Indian officials said the sole surviving gunman was from Pakistan and pointed a finger of blame at their neighbor and rival.
Islamabad denied involvement and promised to help in the investigation. A team of FBI agents also was on its way to India to lend assistance.
Some 295 people also were wounded in the violence that started when at least a dozen heavily armed assailants attacked 10 sites across Mumbai on Wednesday night. At least 20 soldiers and police were among the dead.MUMBAI, India – A 60-hour terror rampage that killed 195 people across... more
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The State University of New York College at Cortland
Increasingly these days, we hear about Islamic fundamentalism from the Western media, the policy makers and many an intellectual. The term has gained so much currency that it deserves some serious scrutiny. It needs our attention especially because it is the Western rendition of Islam, and not an expression which Muslims have anything to do with. Apparently, it seems to imply that there is what you may call fundamentalist Islam as distinct from non-fundamentalist Islam. It seems to emphasize that there are those among Muslims who believe in the basic principles of Islam and there are those who do not.
So far, there have been only two sects in Islam - Shia and Sunni. The adherents of both agree that the Qur'an is the word of the Almighty as revealed to the Prophet Muhammadp. Both share the belief that the Prophet Muhammadp was the last of all the prophets. Further, both proclaim that Islam constitutes an ideology which goes far beyond mere praying, and that it provides universal principles for all crucial aspects of social life.
Despite this broad agreement between the two, relationships between the Shias and the Sunnis have been far from easy over the centuries to say the least. Now this interjection of fundamentalist/non-fundamentalist dichotomy might create a four fold sectarianism: the Shia fundamentalists and the Shia non-fundamentalists; the Sunni fundamentalists and the Sunni non-fundamentalists. Should this differentiation be allowed to take root in modern Islam, it would be an artifact of the West and not due to any intrinsic reasons within the community of Islam itself. Naturally, a closer look at this new expression is in order. What does fundamentalism mean and why is it being used in the context of Islam by the Western media and the policy makers? We shall address ourselves to these questions in this chapter.
Ilyas Ba-Yunus, Ph.D.*
The State University of New York College at CortlandThe State University of New York College at Cortland
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MUMBAI (Reuters) - The bodies of five hostages were found on Friday after Indian security forces attacked gunmen at a Jewish religious centre in Mumbai, an Israeli diplomat told Israeli television by telephone from the scene.
National Security Guard commandos stand on the rooftop of Nariman House in Mumbai November 28, 2008. (REUTERS/Punit Paranjpe)
"The incident has not ended," Haim Choshen told Channel 2. "Five bodies of hostages have been found inside the Chabad House. We still don't know whose bodies."
Also, an Israeli rescue service run by Orthodox Jews said its staff sent to Mumbai to help believed that hostages in the Chabad Centre had died.
"Apparently the hostages did not remain alive," the Zaka service said in a brief statement quoting its staff in Mumbai. It did not identify the hostages nor say how many may have died.
India's National Security Guards chief J.K. Dutt told Indian television that the commandos had killed two militants in operations at the center.
"We have neutralised two terrorists," Dutt said. "Along with that we have also found two bodies. Those bodies appear to be of hostages."
How many innocent people have to die before the United Nations takes this problem seriously? Apparently anti Jewish sentiment and anti American sentiment are so prevalent in The United Nations that this is looked at by them as business as usual. Global terrorism isn't just our problem, if the rest of the world doesn't take this serious what are we supposed to do? This to me says that The United Nations is just a play money fund for third world countries and we should not adhere to anything they say.MUMBAI (Reuters) - The bodies of five hostages were found on Friday after Indian... more
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Iraq's Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki on Thursday finally got the broad consensus he sought on the Status of Forces Agreement with the U.S. - 149 of the 198 lawmakers present in the 275-member National Assembly gave their support to a deal that allows American forces to remain in Iraq until the end of 2011. But Iraq's legislators also put the prime minister on notice: "We want to tell Maliki that we are building a new democracy, and that we're not ready anymore to let the power be in one man's hands, no matter who he is," said Abdel-Bari al-Zebari, a Kurdish lawmaker.
It is fairly apparent that the Iraqi's can't handle Governing themselves yet. The question is why not? And how do they plan to accomplish this? And....are they going to pay our expenses? Giving them their chance at freedom is one thing, breaking our own back in the process is yet another. There is plenty of oil money to rebuild their infrastructure and to pay us for our time. I think this should be a stipulation. The leaders in power have much to gain from success, and much to loose from failure. So...let them put their money where their mouth is.Iraq's Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki on Thursday finally got the broad consensus... more
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MUMBAI, India – Teams of heavily armed gunmen stormed luxury hotels, a popular restaurant and a crowded train station in coordinated attacks across India's financial capital Wednesday night, killing at least 78 people and taking Westerners hostage, police said. An explosion followed by a raging fire struck one of the hotels, the landmark Taj Mahal, early Thursday. Screams could be heard and enormous clouds of black smoke rose from the at the century-old edifice on Mumbai's waterfront. Firefighters were spraying water at the blaze.
The attackers specifically targeted Britons and Americans, witnesses said. Fires burned and gunfire was heard for hours. Officials said at least 200 people were wounded.
The motive for the onslaught was not immediately clear, but Mumbai has frequently been targeted in terrorist attacks blamed on Islamic extremists, including a series of bombings in July 2007 that killed 187 people.
An Indian media report said a previously unknown group calling itself the Deccan Mujahideen had claimed responsibility for the attacks in e-mails to several media outlets.
Societies who only let the BAD GUY'S have guns end up like this one.MUMBAI, India – Teams of heavily armed gunmen stormed luxury hotels, a popular... more
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CNNMoney.com) -- Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama on Friday proposed emergency assistance for small business endangered by America's financial crisis, calling for a "small business rescue plan" of tax incentives and loans.
"Small businesses employ half of the workers in the private sector in this country, and account for the majority of the job growth. But we also know that a credit crunch has dried up capital and put these jobs at risk - shops can't finance their inventories, and small firms can't make payroll," Obama said at a rally in Chillicothe, Ohio. "If we don't act, we'll be looking at scaled back operations, shuttered shops, and laid-off workers."
This is just part of what Barack Obama said in October. Now this, as well as all the other promises are put on the back burner. WOW, the Left's worst fear is going to be realized by their own guy. As small businesses fail all over America, Obama focuses on saving BIG, BLOATED, IRRESPONSIBLE, CORPORATIONS well isn't that nice and Republican of him. As I watch my business of eighteen years slip through my fingers from the lack of a few thousand dollars. It fills me with wonderment how someone who promised to help the middle class is preoccupied with only the rich. TRILLIONS FOLKS,TRILLIONS.....All that will be left are Big Corporation's, National Media, Hollywood, and the Government. The rest of us are going to trickle downward.CNNMoney.com) -- Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama on Friday proposed... more
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The Constitution Club
A Group Blog
Re: Which Promises Will President Obama Abandon
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A week before the election, I predicted that despite his daily sniping at McCain for wanting to “continue George Bush’s tax policies” and give “more tax cuts to the wealthiest Americans,” he was just kidding.
“The most politically dangerous and economically ruinous idea pushed by Obama on the campaign trail is the redistribution of income,” I wrote.
Should Obama push through his tax plan, coupled with the expensive new entitlements he wants to give to the lower class, he will immediately alarm Americans. His intellect, the wisdom of his advisors, and the fact that none of his supporters will care tells me that this idea will be quickly jettisoned by the incoming President. The economy, and his party, will be the better for it.
From yesterday’s NY Times:
In light of the downturn, Mr. Obama is also said to be reconsidering a key campaign pledge: his proposal to repeal the Bush tax cuts for the wealthiest Americans. According to several people familiar with the discussions, he might instead let those tax cuts expire as scheduled in 2011, effectively delaying any tax increase while he gives his stimulus plan a chance to work.
Andre suggested that Obama might declare in January that the economy was worse than he thought, and rethink his promises. I said, no, it would be in December. I was off by a week. My apologies.
I hate to say "I TOLD YOU SO" but, it's in the archives anyway. LOL He had to sacrifice all you wonderful leftwingers, and he even had the SACK to do it before taking office. BOLD ,that one. But, maybe us some of us little people will get some of the 7 trillion? NOTThe Constitution Club
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Video Released Of FBI Questioning Casey's Parents
Friday, November 21, 2008 – updated: 4:52 pm EST November 24, 2008
ORLANDO, Fla. -- New FBI interviews released Friday revealed the most damaging evidence in the case against Casey could come from her own father.
"The worst odor that you could possibly smell in this world. I've smelled that odor before. It smelled like a decomposed body," George Anthony told investigators during a July 31 interview.
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George is a retired homicide investigator. He said he would never forget the smell of human death and that's what he said he smelled coming from his daughter's car.
Eyewitness News obtained new video Friday showing the FBI interviewing George and Cindy Anthony.
This is a classic murder folks, and my opinion I think the father acts awful fishy. Maybe he helped his bad seed to depose of the body? How could anyone even hurt a little child like that? Much less a parent killing their own child ?Video Released Of FBI Questioning Casey's Parents
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