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India sets sights on cruise missile market
Asia Times Online ^ | Jan 30, 2007 | Siddharth Srivastava

Posted on 01/29/2007 5:10:36 AM PST by sukhoi-30mki

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To: sukhoi-30mki

A major proliferator.


21 posted on 01/29/2007 2:47:18 PM PST by TBP
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To: TBP

Paki Army???


23 posted on 01/29/2007 6:45:44 PM PST by Gengis Khan
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To: TBP; USMMA_83

So you deny you are a member of Council of Khalistan?


24 posted on 01/29/2007 6:47:07 PM PST by Gengis Khan
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"I remember reading the articles."

I remember reading plenty of articles accusing various US companies for selling WMD related articles to Iraq. Oh and how can you forget A.Q. Khan?
25 posted on 01/29/2007 6:51:58 PM PST by Gengis Khan
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What the heck are you talking about?


27 posted on 01/29/2007 8:46:04 PM PST by TBP
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To: Gengis Khan

As far as I know, COK has no membership. Merely a few directors/trustees/officers. It has never been a membership organization. You don't jon it, like you would, say, the Republican Party.

And COK is committed to achieving the end of freedom for Khalsitan by peaceful, democratic, nonviolent means. I suppose that qualifies as terrorism by the Indian government's definition, but not by anyone else's.


28 posted on 01/29/2007 8:51:46 PM PST by TBP
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To: Gengis Khan

What?


29 posted on 01/29/2007 8:54:24 PM PST by TBP
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Read the question again.

I asked you.....
"So you deny you are a member of Council of Khalistan?"


30 posted on 01/29/2007 9:02:16 PM PST by Gengis Khan
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You are in the Paki Army?


31 posted on 01/29/2007 9:02:32 PM PST by Gengis Khan
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To: Gengis Khan

One can't be a member of something that is not a membership organization, as I said when you asked this before.


32 posted on 01/29/2007 9:22:38 PM PST by TBP
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No, I was in the US Army. The question is offensive, given that the context made this crystal clear. But apparently, you hve nothing useful to say so you have resorted to the inane smears of your Hindutva paymasters.


33 posted on 01/29/2007 9:24:15 PM PST by TBP
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I find it very funny..that you keep referring to the Indian government as the 'Indian regime'.. This particular phrase in US is usually used for non-democratic governments like Pakistan..china...
India's democracy has her flaws but even with all those flaws..India's government is answerable to her people and undergoes revision every five years..That does not happen in any 'regime'. It is a joke to call India's government a 'regime'
As far as being blood thirsty is concerned, i would say India's government would not really qualify...There is no Saddam sitting at the top in India...Everything is open...If the government kills someone, there would parades of newspaper reports and news channel reports...That argument does not stand..Some other 'regimes' would qualify as blood thirsty china or Pakistan.....
As far as Khalistan is concerned...How long do you plan to flog that dead horse....What would the Sikhs gain by getting Khalistan that they already don't have..??. In case you have not noticed already, the prime minister happens to be a Sikh..Sikhism is part of India as much as Hinduism....No Hindu ever refuses to bow his head to the 'Wahe Guru'....The whole khalistan arguement was settled by the Sikhs themselves in the 90s..I donot want to get into that issue any longer....


34 posted on 01/30/2007 11:09:56 AM PST by MunnaP
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Quote :
So now in addition to India's dream of hegemony in South Asia, they want to be a major exporter of arms.

Given that they sold heavy water to Iran, along with other such actions, I'd be very worried abotu who India's "customers" will be. It's a country that has engaged in cross-border terrorism in Sindh as well as domestic terrorism of the Saddam typeagainst its own minorities, all the while pretending to be a friendly ally of the West.



This is such baloney...I laughed my guts out.....


35 posted on 01/30/2007 11:12:17 AM PST by MunnaP
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India's democracy has her flaws but even with all those flaws..India's government is answerable to her people and undergoes revision every five years..That does not happen in any 'regime'. It is a joke to call India's government a 'regime'

Th eproblem is that all that does, from the persepctive of the minorities, is change the faces of the oppressors. As Rep. Dana Rohrabacher (R-Cal.) has aid, "For the people of Jammu and Punjab and Kashmir, Indian might as well not be a democracy. For them, India might as well be Nazi Germany."

If the government kills someone, there would parades of newspaper reports and news channel reports

Where? The government-controlled PTI? The government-controlled TV and radio? Don't make me laugh. The FACT, as I have noted beforeis that the Punjab State Magistracy, which represents the judiciary of Punjab, and human-rights groups have shown that over 250,000 Sikhs were murdered in Punjab by Indian forces. The U.S. State Department reported that in 1994, the Indian government paid over 41,000 cash bounties to police officers to kill Sikhs. One officer received a bounty for killing a three-year-old Sikh boy! Can you please tell me how that is fightinig terorism? It sounds more like an act of terrorism to me.

And unfortunately, Christians, Muslims, Assamese, Bodos, Dalits, Manipuris, Tamils, and other minorities ahve also been killed by the tens of thousands. amensty International reported that tens of thousands of political prisoners are being held. And the Movement Against State Repression reports that over 52,000 Sikhs are being held as political prisoners. Some of them have been held without charge, trial, or access to legal counsel since 1984!

Contrary to your claims, Khalistan is very much alive. I showed that already; no need to go over it again.

What would the Sikhs gain by getting Khalistan that they already don't have..??

Well, for one thing, they'd be able to sell their crops at market prices instead of having to buy supplies at exorbitant prices, then sell their grain at sub-market prices, as the Indian government forces them to do now. They will know that the secret cremations and the killing of innocnet Sikhs will end. They will control their own water. They will be able to press their own interests more effectively with the other countries of the world. These are just a few of the benefits.

Sikhism is part of India as much as Hinduism

Which of course explains a former Cabinet minister saying that everyone in India must be a Hindu or be subservient to Hinduism. Let me ask you, if Sikhsims is as much a part of India as Hindusm, then why do the Hindus keep killing Sikhs?

In the words of Narinder Singh, a spokesman for the Golden Temple, the seat of the Sikh religion, who was interviewed in August 1997 by National Public Radio, "The Indian government, all the time they boast that they are secular, that they are democratic. But they have nothing to do with a democracy, nothing to do with a secularism. They just kill Sikhs to please the majority."

With 17 official languages and no common culture, India is manynations in one, nd as Steve Forbes pointed out, history shows that countries like that fall apart.

BTW, do you know who created the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam, which the US government identifies as a terrorist organization? According to journalist Tavleen Singh of India Today, India's leading newsmagazine, it was the Indian government. They eve put up the leaders in the finest hotel in Delhi. On January 2, 2002, the Washington Times reported that India is sponsoring cross-border terrorism in Sindh. The newspaper Hitavada reported that the Indian government paid the late governor of Punjab, Surendra Nath, more than $1.5 billion to foment terrorism in Punjab and in Kashmir, to which they responded by killing large numbers of people.

36 posted on 01/30/2007 1:39:20 PM PST by TBP
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BTW, India already boasts of having missiles that can reach anywhere in Pakistan. Why does it need new warheads?


37 posted on 01/30/2007 1:41:52 PM PST by TBP
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Same reason why US needs warheads.


38 posted on 01/30/2007 2:08:49 PM PST by Gengis Khan
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"No, I was in the US Army."

LOL! And I am the Emperor of Mongolia!

More likely you are in custody of the US army at Gitmo.


39 posted on 01/30/2007 2:22:12 PM PST by Gengis Khan
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So you are saying terrorist organisations dont have memberships?


40 posted on 01/30/2007 2:26:25 PM PST by Gengis Khan
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