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Thanks to Chicago Terrorists, India Changes Visa Rules
NBC ^ | 16 Dec 2009

Posted on 12/16/2009 5:33:55 AM PST by cold start

(Chicago-based terrorist causes India to revise its visa rules with U.S.)

India is taking some precautionary measures after the arrest of Chicagoan David Coleman Headley as a terror suspect in the 2008 Mumbai attacks.

The Asian country has revised its tourist-visa regulations, affecting those with long-term tourist visas, the India Times reports.

“Americans with five- or ten-year tourist visas will no longer be allowed to enter India within two months of their last departure from India if their last visit was longer than 90 days or if they have stayed longer than 180 days during the past year,” an advisory on the Indian embassy site stated.

The tighter regulations come just weeks after the arrest of Headley, a Pakistani-American from Chicago, and Pakistani-Canadian Tahawwur Rana Hussain, both accused of plotting the Mumbai attacks and allegedly planning another terrorist attack on a Danish newspaper that had published controversial cartoons depicting the Prophet Muhammad.

Other types of visa will not be affected, but tourists who want to go to India more than once in two months will need to wait until their request is approved by Indian authorities, a process that can take up to two weeks.


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KEYWORDS: alqaeda; alqaida; chicago; chicagocell; daoodgilani; gwot; headley; india; islam; jihad; mumbai; terrorism; terrorists; us; wot

1 posted on 12/16/2009 5:33:56 AM PST by cold start
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2 posted on 12/16/2009 5:36:40 AM PST by Cindy
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To: cold start

They should apply this rule to American MUSLIMS!


3 posted on 12/16/2009 6:28:35 AM PST by Red in Blue PA (Obama, Hitler, Stalin: Who are 3 people nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize.)
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“Thanks to Chicago Terrorists”

Are we sending the Gitmo terrorists to Illinois for trial or further training?


4 posted on 12/16/2009 6:28:56 AM PST by A Strict Constructionist (How long before we are forced to refresh the Tree of Liberty? Sic semper tryannis)
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Are we sending the Gitmo terrorists to Illinois for trial or further training?

No coincidence, there.

5 posted on 12/16/2009 7:24:12 AM PST by Smokin' Joe (How often God must weep at humans' folly. Stand fast. God knows what He is doing.)
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To: Red in Blue PA

it SHOULD, but that’s difficult to target. I don’t think visa forms ask you to fill out your religion.


6 posted on 12/20/2009 11:00:29 PM PST by Cronos (Nuke Mecca NOW!!!<img src="http://shiitehappens.files.wordpress.com/2008/12/bomb_mecca450.jpg" />)
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To: cold start

How will I contact my tech support rep?!


7 posted on 12/20/2009 11:19:26 PM PST by CaptRon
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