Posted on 07/11/2006 11:26:36 AM PDT by areafiftyone
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When will we finally put an end to this madness? How many more have to die before we do what must be done?
This is a very good opportunity for spreading AIDS
Watch out!!1
5.56mm
I agree. How many will die before these countries get it thru their thick heads that Al Qaeda must be destroyed and the Islamic religion banned!
I agree. How many will die before these countries get it thru their thick heads that Al Qaeda must be destroyed and the Islamic religion banned!
Article from BBC from This last June 21, 2006
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/5100974.stm
"New metro rail project for Mumbai"
Indian premier Manmohan Singh has launched a metro railway project in the western city of Mumbai (Bombay).
Work on the $5bn mass rapid transit will begin in October and is expected to be completed by 2010.
A large part of the system will run on elevated tracks while the remainder is underground - the third such system after Calcutta and capital, Delhi.
The system is being seen as the answer to Mumbai's traffic problems and rising air pollution levels.
The Mumbai metro railway system will cover a distance of 146km (90 miles) and link India's financial and entertainment capital with its suburbs.
End of gridlock?
Mr Singh inaugurated the first phase that will link Versova in the west to Ghatkopar in the east - a 11km (6.8 miles) corridor with 12 stations.
"We need new investment in world-class public infrastructure for our cities. We have to invest in public transport," he said.
"Our cities have to become more liveable and more people-friendly."
The government of the western state of Maharashtra and the private Reliance Dhirubhai Ambani Group will share the costs of the corridor with the private company picking up 74% of the tab.
Authorities say the metro railway will drastically reduce travelling time in a city of over 18 million people where traffic gridlocks have begun affecting work.
They say the time taken to travel from Versova to Ghatkopar will be reduced to 21 minutes on the metro railway from over an hour by road.
There has been some criticism of the Metro railway project by the city's environmentalists who say it will mar its skyline.
Story from BBC NEWS:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/pr/fr/-/2/hi/south_asia/5100974.stm
Published: 2006/06/21 05:52:26 GMT
metro project? my ass! that bloody PM cannot maintain security in open trains, how will he protect people in underground metro trains? he will probably open more peace talks with pakistan and bus, train routes to pakistan in the name of peace! BS!
http://www.khaleejtimes.com/DisplayArticleNew.asp?xfile=data/subcontinent/2006/July/subcontinent_July383.xml§ion=subcontinent
Khaleej Times Online >> News >> SUBCONTINENT
Bombs hit trains in Mumbai, at least 135 dead
(Reuters)
11 July 2006
MUMBAI - At least 135 people were killed and hundreds injured in seven bomb explosions on packed commuter trains and stations during rush hour on Tuesday in Mumbai, India’s financial hub, officials said.
City police chief A.N. Roy told Reuters 135 people were killed while Chief Minister Vilasrao Deshmukh, the top elected official in the state, said 300 people were injured.
“It is a bomb blast. We are not sure if it is RDX or not,” Roy said, referring to the possible use of high-powered plastic explosives.
Commuters fled suburban rail stations in panic after the explosions and mobile phone lines were jammed. Television pictures showed twisted rail carriages and people in bloodstained clothes carrying dead and wounded on stretchers.
“The blasts happened when the trains were most crowded,” D.K Shankaran, chief secretary of the state of Maharashtra, of which Mumbai is the capital, told Reuters.
“At least 40 people have died. Casualties probably will go up. Ambulances and hospitals are on stand-by.”
There was no immediate claim of responsibility. But suspicion turned to Muslim militants fighting New Delhi’s rule in disputed Kashmir, who have been blamed for several bomb attacks in the country in the past.
The blasts occured throughout Mumbai’s western suburbs, which are linked to the downtown office and business areas mainly by the train network.
“We have doused the flames at all the blast sites and now we are taking the injured to hospitals,” A. Jhandwal, Mumbai’s fire services chief told Reuters.
Dazed survivors with wounds from injuries to heads, legs and hands waited at railway stations, with little sign of any emergency medical aid.
One critically injured person lying near the railway tracks was carried away by people using a long sheet of cloth.
“We heard a loud blast in one of the train compartments. When we rushed there and looked, we saw people with severed limbs and grievous injuries,” one witness told the CNN-IBN news channel, standing in a blood-spattered coach.
“There were no police or railway people to help.” Officials said five trains had been hit and two stations.
“All suburban train services have been suspended and search operations are going on,” the chairman of India’s Railway Board, J.P. Batra, told reporters.
Emergency meeting
Indian Prime Minister immediately called the home (interior) minister and other top officials to an emergency meeting to discuss the violence.
”It is a sad day,” Home Secretary V.K.Duggal told reporters ahead of the meeting. “Security has been definitely put on high alert.”
The Mumbai blasts came just hours after suspected Islamist militants killed seven people, six of them tourists, in a series of grenade attacks in Indian Kashmir’s main city, Srinagar, police said, the most concerted targeting of civilians in months.
Kashmir has been split between India and Pakistan since shortly after the two countries gained independence from Britain in 1947, but both claim it in full.
Mumbai, a metropolis of about 17 million, which was formerly called Bombay, has been hit by a series of bomb blasts in the past decade.
More than 250 people died in a string of bomb explosions in the city in 1993 for which authorities blamed the city’s underworld criminal gangs.
Police in the Indian capital New Delhi said they were on the lookout for more violence.
“We have mobilised our entire forces who are conducting checks in all areas such as buses, bus stops, train stations and religious institutions,” Anil Shukla, deputy commissioner of police for South Delhi, told Reuters.
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Most bloods donations and doners are usually screened for HIV and Hepatitis before their blood is even used on any patient especially in big cities where the healthcare is more modern than in the rural areas.
i regret my ignorance on the subject
That's okay I just know a bit more about it because my boyfriend is a HIV/STD counselor. :-)
Oh by the way, WELCOME TO FREE REPUBLIC!
I seriously doubt India can win this war on terror. This current pacifist government doesn't have spine to protect her people. I am not sure we are in a position to fight this war. Not with this spineless government in power. We have voted the wrong ones to power.
Last year it was Delhi and now Mumbai. They've also attacked IISc and killed a famous professor. This is NOT mere terrorism. This is WAR. They are just biding their time with peace talks, while utilizing that time to make extensive preparations to strike PRE-IDENTIFIED SPECIFIC targets.
Its more like a military operation. And we all know who is the most powerful military dictator in Asian Subcontinent is.
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