Thanks for the new thread, Davey.
PIng to new thread
The ineffectiveness of the CIA goes back to the 1970’s and the Church Committee which completely castrated the agency, causing the deaths of several dozen of our foreign operatives and collaborators resulting in friendly nations to stop supporting us because cooperating with the US means their work and often their operatives get exposed in the US media. For them it was hands off the US - we’ll do it ourselves. CIA has never recovered. President Bush has done an excellent job of putting the CIA on a solid footing but he and his appointees face an uphill battle with the established career employees and their media darlings..
Hello, Davey has started our new thread #10, posts until now are in our last [#9] thread.
Hope that you will join in with us and help fill it up, as that means that Davey will have to start us another fresh one.
My thanks to Davey for keeping this thread on the world of terror.
Stay safe, my friends.
Thank you for the new thread, it is perfect.
The prior threads in this series are:
World Terrorism prior threads:
WT Thread #1: [Started on January 1, 2006]
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/1550424/posts?page=4809
WT Thread #2: [The communist manifesto, muslim manifesto and list of elected in U.S. who belong to the Socialist party, on the first page of the thread]
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/1607641/posts?q=1&&page=4951
Thread #3:
Beginning of Israel/Lebanon War and so much more.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/1650751/posts?q=1&&page=4601
Thread #4:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/1679491/posts?q=1&&page=1
Thread #5:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/1711256/posts?q=1&&page=1
Thread #6:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/bloggers/1754972/posts?q=1&&page=5151
Thread #7:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/1791631/posts?q=1&;page=1
Thread #8:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/1817890/posts?q=1&;page=1
Thread #9:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/1853040/posts?q=1&;page=1
VEGAS BILLIONAIRE SELLS MGM STAKE TO DUBAI ROYAL FAMILY
Vegas Luxe Life with Robin Leach ^ | Wednesday, August 22nd, 2007 at 9:13 am | Vegas Luxe Life with Robin Leach
Posted on 08/25/2007 2:22:10 PM PDT by Issaquahking
Billionaire Kirk Kerkorian and MGM’s Board of Directors are expected to announce today (WED) that certain members of the Royal Family of Dubai- a Mid-East oil-rich kingdom - are buying into MGM Mirage and its $7-billion City Center hotel-condo complex. My Wall Street sources are abuzz this morning saying the multi-billion dollar deals signal the next phase of corporate takeovers and foreign investment into the booming Vegas gaming and hospitality business.
Photo co: MGM
Kirkorian’s company, Tracinda that owns his share of MGM is reducing his stake from 54.15% to 51.65% in the transaction and Wall Street believes that Dubai World will ultimately buy all of Kerkorian’s stake in the future.
Bear Stearns Vegas watcher Joe Greff commented early this morning in a 4:55 a.m. email to his investors: “MGM’s stock closed last night (TUES) at $74.32. Dubai World will buy 14-million shares of MGM at $84 per share for a total of $1.2 billion in the open market and another $1.2 billion worth of shares directly from the company. Furthermore Dubai World will purchase a 50% share in MGM’s City Center project for just under $3-billion!”
Greff went on to say: “All in all, the deal will inject nearly $3.9B of cash into MGM. We believe this deal should be a positive for the stock, as it demonstrates value for the company and reduces development risk with selling half of City Center. Partnering with Dubai World should also help MGM penetrate international markets in which it currently does not have a presence. In addition, the deal immediately improves the company’s balance sheet, as it reduces leverage for other development deals, share buybacks, and/or special dividends.”
Greff has put a new price target of $95 on the stock before year-end. It is expected that all Vegas hotel stocks would rise at the Wall Street open this morning- and The Venetian opened hovering at the $100 mark just 5- days in advance of its grand gala opening of Sheldon Adelson’s new Cotai Strip megaplex in Macau. (See our Friday edition of Luxe Life for all the advance details of Sheldon’s superplan to bring his version of Venice to the Chinese colony when he opens his 2nd property there early next week).
The banker analyst concluded: “At this point, we do not foresee any regulatory issues with the deal.”
Its believed that MGM will use some of the proceeds from this deal for its planned partnership at the adjoining Circus Circus land block its assembled with Sol Kerzner who intends to build a version of his Bahamas resort, The Atlantis there. Ironically - or coincidentally- Kerzner has a resort in Dubai in partnership with certain members of the kingdom’s Royal Family. Some are speculating that he may well have played a role in this new mega-billion-dollar deal.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1886545/posts
The one, critical change needed by the CIA is much like what the US Army did a long time ago.
It used to be that all of the top officers in the Army were West Point graduates, but today, the vast majority are ROTC graduates from across the country. West Pointers are a decided minority.
As a result, the Army benefited by no longer being stuck in an institutional rut, their officer ranks filled with gentlemen who all shared the same outlook and education in military affairs. Instead, there was a revolution in innovative and unorthodox thinking—just what is needed to keep the US Army at its top game. Anymore, West Pointers enter the Army at a disadvantage, and must prove themselves over again to the ROTC graduates, if they expect to be respected for their leadership and initiative, and not be seen as someone who cannot be allowed to operate independently.
In the case of the CIA, it is plagued by its institutional rut of having much of its leadership come from only two schools, Yale and Harvard. For decades this has haunted the institution to the point where a conscious effort must be made to *exclude* graduates from these two schools, because they have failed to accomplish their mission.
By comparison, they are in disgrace, their failures amounting to what would be several lost major battles by the Army in a bloody war. Just replacing their commander is not enough. Their command and general staff need to be purged and retired, replaced by the initiative and innovation from graduates of other schools across the United States.
Yale and Harvard, just like West Point, had a good run, but what they produce is no longer satisfactory to manage an effective Central Intelligence Agency. They have lost a few battles too many.
KDWN .com on the radio news at 3 pm.
Carnival ship took all the passengers off, 1700 of them.
“Something was not right, something made them nervous”
Nothing has been found.
[Not much of a report, there is a video]
Melbourne Trucking School Shut Down
Last Edited: Friday, 24 Aug 2007, 10:18 PM EDT
Created: Friday, 24 Aug 2007, 10:18 PM EDT
Trucker Certifications
Melbourne, FL — The state says 7-hundred truck drivers have to re-take their certification tests because of safety questions.
I have not found the news release for the Carnival Cruise lines ship, in Florida that took all the passenger off.
It was not on the Fox half hour news.
granny
6 in Wedding Party Dead in Truck Crash
Last Edited: Saturday, 25 Aug 2007, 4:46 PM EDT
Created: Saturday, 25 Aug 2007, 4:46 PM EDT
Credit: MyFox
By JEREMY HAINSWORTH
Associated Press Writer
VANCOUVER, British Columbia — A pickup truck plowed through a crowd leaving a pre-wedding celebration in western Canada, killing six people and injuring 19, police said on Saturday.
The 71-year-old driver of a truck lost control and ran into 25 to 30 people who were walking along a rural road toward him, police in Abbotsford, British Columbia, said.
The victims had been at the bride’s parents’ house and were heading to another home, making their way along an unlit road lined with parked cars, according to police and a neighbor.
Continued...no alcohol or drugs involved.............
Hot Air Balloon Crash in Canada Kills 2, Injures 11
Last Edited: Saturday, 25 Aug 2007, 5:43 PM CDT
Created: Saturday, 25 Aug 2007, 12:13 PM CDT
08/25/2007 —
A hot air balloon caught fire over western Canada, forcing screaming passengers to leap to the ground, some with their clothes in flames, witnesses said. Police said two people died and 11 were injured.
Police said 12 passengers and a pilot were on board when the balloon crashed Friday evening in a recreational vehicle park in Surrey, British Columbia, a suburb of Vancouver.
[snipped]
Company spokesman John K. George said he does not know why the balloon caught fire shortly after takeoff.
“The company deeply regrets this evening’s incident and all injuries associated with it (and) inconvenience to those people being displaced,” George said.
The Transportation Safety Board is investigating.
A similar incident occurred earlier this month in the central Canadian province of Manitoba, Manitoba, where 12 people were injured.
Thanks to Milford421 for this report:
A third, larger IED delivered in Ontario
Submitted by admin on Fri, 2007-08-24 01:39. U.S. News | World News
By Douglas J. Hagmann, Director, & Judi McLeod, Editor, Canada Free
Press
http://www.homelandsecurityus.com/IED2
This one exploded and the police expect there will be more.
CK: St-Petersburg anarchists assert provocation
Caucasian Knot
23/8/2007
St-Petersburg anarchists assert that charge of blowing up the “Neva
Express” train is a provocation
The arrest of Andrei Kalyonov and Denis Zelenyuk, members of the
“Petersburg League of Anarchists,” on suspicion of blowing up the
“Neva Express” train is a deliberate provocation of special agencies,
Alexander Maishev, one of the participants of St-Petersburg’s movement
of anarchists, said in his interview to the “Caucasian Knot”
correspondent. In his opinion, Kalyonov and Zelenyuk got into the
FSB’s field of view several years ago because of their active civil
activities:
“Andrei Kalyonov is a member of the “Memorial” National Information
Centre (NIC) in St-Petersburg and a permanent participant of weekly
pickets against the war in the Caucasus... He took part in the action
against the G8 Summit in 2006, where he was exposed to preventive
arrest. He was repeatedly detained with anti-war leaflets in hand.”
Kalyonov and Zelenyuk were detained at Malaya Vishera railway station,
when, under the version of the investigation, the young men came to
the place of the train wreck to examine the territory. However, as the
detainees’ comrades are asserting, actually the young men, who were
delegates of the St-Petersburg League of Anarchists, were going to
Yaroslavl, to the 20th Congress of the Association of Anarchists’
Movement.
“On August 16, Andrei Kalyonov’s residence was searched, and nobody
was present during this action. Nobody knows what was found there, but
actually everything could be planted,” Alexander Maishev says.
Making his comments on the version of the investigation about any
links of the detained anarchists with Chechen Hasan Didigov who was
detained on August 21 on suspicion of taking part in the act of
terror, Mr Maishev has noted that none of the League members is
familiar with the third suspect.
“Elections are forthcoming. Half a year before Yeltsin’s resignation,
in September 1999, explosions of houses began in Moscow, which had
served an official pretext to start the second Chechen war and brought
Putin to power on the wave of chauvinism. The same starts now,”
Alexander Maishev thinks.
Author: Alexandra Kondrasheva, CK correspondent
http://eng.kavkaz.memo.ru/newstext/engnews/id/1195407.html
CK: Chechnya native accused of blowing up “Neva Express” declares his alibi
Caucasian Knot
23/8/2007
Chechnya native accused of blowing up “Neva Express” declares his alibi
Three persons were arrested under the case of blowing up the “Neva
Express” train: two St-Petersburg anarchists - Andrei Kalyonov and
Denis Zelenyuk, and Hasan Didigov, 25, a native of Chechnya.
Hasan Didigov does not plead guilty and insists on having alibi. Murad
Yunusov, his advocate, has informed that his client was detained on
August 19 on suspicion in involvement in the act of terror. Some days
later, the Malovisherskiy Court (Novgorod Region), following a
petition of the prosecutor’s office, made a decision on Didigov’s
freedom restriction measure - detention in custody.
In the opinion of the defender, the pretext for Didigov’s arrest could
be a slander by his cellmate, however, “the main pretext for his
arrest was his nationality,” the “Interfax” informs.
According to the version of the investigation, Didigov could allegedly
be the executor of the terror act, while Kalyonov and Zelenyuk acted
as organizers and “suppliers,” who provisioned the explosive, the
NEWSru.com writes.
In connection with arrest of Kalyonov and Zelenyuk, members of
anarchical initiatives of St-Petersburg made a statement refuting the
accusations of law enforcement bodies and asserting their alibi: “On
August 13, 2007, A. Kalyonov and D. Zelenyuk were in St-Petersburg,
and this fact can be confirmed by eyewitnesses.” In protest against
illegal detainment, Andrei Kalyonov announced a hunger strike
http://eng.kavkaz.memo.ru/newstext/engnews/id/1195402.html
The five people
in quarantine were inside the Estes building, each complaining of
respiratory problems and other ailments.
Developing...
http://www.homelandsecurityus.com/0824Radioactive
[Thanks to Milford421 for this alert on 2 possible radioactive packages delivered to a Philadelphia hospital.]
kdwn.com radio.
Latest is that a suspicious something was found in a bag, or they thought it was.
They now say that 1,000 people are waiting to board, sitting in buses and cars in the parking lot.
But they still have not found anything..........
Carnival Cruise ship, Jacksonville, Florida
http://gatewaypundit.blogspot.com/2007/08/suspected-iranian-agents-used-by-ap-to.html
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Friday, August 24, 2007
SUSPECTED IRANIAN AGENTS Used By AP to Bash US Policy!
This is just shocking!
** The AP is using “friends” of the Iranian Regime as their experts to bash US policy and push the regime’s propaganda!
It is always disgusting to see the lengths the media will go to push their anti-US/anti-Bush agenda but today’s use of suspected agents to bash the US is way over the line!
Not only does the AP bash military officials for their statements on Iran but the AP is also using well known Iranian apologist Trita Parsi, for one, in bashing US policy on Iran:
An intensifying US campaign against Iran
It was Iran, warned Madeleine Albright, then-US envoy to the United Nations, that had forged a “tactical alliance” with a Somali warlord and “terrorists” in Sudan. Intelligence sources for the first time spoke of smuggled Iranian weapons. In Mogadishu, journalists were told that Iranian agents were training Somalis to make car bombs. But no proof was ever presented.
US charges against Iran’s role in Iraq are mounting. But analysts say that a history of unsubstantiated US claims against Iran should serve as a cautionary tale. The lesson to be drawn is not that Iran is guiltless in Iraq, they say, but one of restraint as a familiar drumbeat sounds.
The latest step in the Bush administration’s intensifying campaign to depict Iran as a disruptive force in Iraq is a decision to designate Iran’s Revolutionary Guard force a “terrorist” group. That label, and a push for more UN sanctions against Iran over its nuclear program, and continued charges of training, funding, and supplying anti-US militants in Iraq, experts say, could harm Iraq security talks between US and Iranian diplomats in Baghdad.
“The Americans are blaming Iran for everything that goes wrong, even if it’s not Iran’s fault, and Iran does the same with the US,” says Trita Parsi, the Washington-based author of the forthcoming “Treacherous Alliance: Secret Dealings of Israel, Iran and the US.”
“Decisionmakers in Washington are by-the-minute limiting their own maneuverability in how to deal with Iran, [thereby] making it more difficult to put the relationship on a positive track,” he says...
The result of this buildup of US allegations of Iranian involvement in Iraq could also prove to be a prelude to war: “If you can make the case that Iranians are actually killing Americans, that makes it extremely difficult for those opponents of military action to depict the administration as warmongering,” adds Parsi, also the head of the National Iranian American Council.
Iranian officials deny undermining US efforts in Iraq, though senior officers note that US forces throughout the Gulf and in Iraq and Afghanistan are often within Iranian missile range. Revolutionary Guard commander Gen. Yahya Rahim Safavi vowed this week that “America will receive a heavier punch from the guards in the future.”
Some hard-liners in Iran, who today exert strong influence over every power center in the Islamic Republic, welcome the steady drumbeat from Washington as proof of US ill intent, says Hadi Semati, a political scientist in Tehran.
“I haven’t seen this level before [of] a systematic [US] propaganda campaign, partly disinformation, partly probably true, but exaggerating it … to blame Iran for everything,” says Mr. Semati, who recently spent three years at think tanks in Washington. “It reinforces the idea that people have in this town [Tehran] that any discussions on Iraq are purely tactical, and that the Americans are not serious.”
The Iraq effort “is already a failure,” says Semati. “Blaming Iran serves a purpose of partially, or even mostly, from the perspective of hard-liners in Washington, making the situation look better.”
...”This administration has a track record of doing what it thinks is right, and doing it regardless [of the facts].... The debate is far less about ‘Can it be true?’ or ‘Can it not be true?’ “ says Parsi. The bigger picture, he says, is a regional power struggle between a strengthening Iran and an America weakened by debacle in Iraq.
Front Page Magazine ran a brilliant piece in April , “Iran’s Oil Mafia”, on several of the Iranian agents working in the US.
This is what the Iranian newspaper Aftab wrote about an interview with Trita Parsi in 2006, via that FrontPage article:
The government-owned newspaper Aftab published an interview with Trita Parsi on December 28, 2006 that underscores Parsi’s efforts on behalf of the Iranian regime..
Translation: “The conflict between Iran and the West on Iran’s nuclear file has entered a critical state. The government must now utilize all the possible resources to defend the national interest. In this, we have not paid enough attention to the potentially significant influence of the Iranian American society in moderating the extremist policies of the White House. In comparison of this untouched potential to the influence of the Jewish lobby in directing the policies of Washington in supporting Israel, we see the difference between what is and what could be.”
There is much more about Trita Parsi’s regime connections at FrontPage.
Here is more on Trita Parsi the leader of the National Iranian American Council (NIAC) by one reader from an earlier post:
I woke up this morning to this wonderful expose of one of the most deceptive propaganda arm of the Islamic Republic in the West, the largest Iranian-American organization in the US, the National Iranian American Council (NIAC).
The true nature of this group headed by the mullah’s voice, Trita Parsi, is finally exposed...
Furthermore, I might add that I have seen Trita Parsi plus being paraded around by CNN, PBS and NPR as a “Middle East” expert and he has also become the darling of the rabid left who often cite his propaganda to back up their assertions in anything supports and relates the murderous mullahs’ agenda. Trita Parsi et al are extremly dangerous because they have an uncanny talent to torture logic, facts and reason to mind-bending extremes in order to have clueless politicians (Baker, pelosi et al) to believe monumentally ridiculous “explanations for terrorist acts committed by the IR”.
Is it too much to ask the Associated Press to use Iranian experts who are not working with the regime in Iran for their articles?
This AP article is not only factually misleading- It is openly promoting the propaganda of the Iranian Regime!
Previously:
Mullah Friends & Apologists in the US “Outed” at Front Page
Mullah Apologists Hope to Ban California Legislation Wednesday
UPDATE: (Friday PM) In the comments:
Just this week, NIAC board member Mohammad Navab wrote a comment on our site saying that he was not a board member for the Campaign Against Sanctions And Military Action In Iran (CASMII), as an article we had written alleged, and upon double checking CASMII had blanked any reference to him on their site. (But there was still the google cache.)
** You can check out the details HERE.
The moral of the story is, they are very concerned about public scrutiny, so keep the pressure on!
posted by Gateway Pundit at 8/24/2007 12:07:00 PM
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Saturday, August 25, 2007
IRAQIS PROTEST TERROR- Hold Rally at Saudi Embassy
This was a welcome sight...
Iraqi-Americans held a protest yesterday denouncing terrorism in Washington DC.
Members of the Iraqi American Coalition for Peace demonstrate, Friday, Aug. 24, 2007, in front of the White House in Washington. The group was protesting against the international terrorism, which they said was backed and supported by ‘evil’ Saudi scholars living in Saudi Arabia. (AP Photo/Ron Edmonds)
Iraqis protested against terrorism in front of the White House and Saudi Embassy in Washington DC yesterday.
Iranian Mehr News wrote the article (the only one I found) on the protest:
TEHRAN, Aug 25 (MNA)— Hundreds of Iraqis residing in the U.S. converged in the front of the Saudi embassy in Washington on Friday condemning Riyadh’s policy towards Iraq, Sotaliraq said on its website.
With slogans “Down with Terrorism” and “Shia and Sunni Should Unite in Iraq,” demonstrators called for the immediate halt to Saudi support for terrorism in Iraq and the issuance of “takfiri” religious decrees (fatwas) by Saudi scholars.
Nazar Heydar, the director of Iraq information center in Washington and a member of the international center for campaign against terrorism, said “by this demonstration we meant to draw the attention of the world to Saudi Arabia as the real source of terrorism.”
“We believe that by issuing takfiri religious decrees and financial support of terrorist operations, Saudi Arabia is the real source of terrorism, not only in Iraq, but in the entire world. We read in the press that 50% of suicide bombers in Iraq are Saudi nationals,” he explained.
In a statement issued by Iraqi demonstrators, they called upon the U.S. to pressure Saudi Arabia to stop actions leading to the murder of innocents.
“We tried to submit a copy of the statement to the Saudi ambassador to Washington, but he refused to accept it,” Heydar noted.
Members of the Iraqi American Coalition for Peace demonstrate, Friday, Aug. 24, 2007, in front of the White House in Washington. The group was protesting against the international terrorism, which they said was backed and supported by ‘evil’ Saudi scholars living in Saudi Arabia. (AP Photo/Ron Edmonds)
Members of the Iraqi American Coalition for Peace take part in street theater as they demonstrate, Friday, Aug. 24, 2007, in front of the White House in Washington. The group was protesting against the international terrorism. (AP Photo/Ron Edmonds)
Notice the sign below- “70% of suicide bombers in Iraq are Saudi.”
Members of the Iraqi American Coalition for Peace demonstrate, Friday, Aug. 24, 2007, in front of the White House in Washington. The group was protesting against the international terrorism, which they said was backed and supported by ‘evil’ Saudi scholars living in Saudi Arabia. (AP Photo/Ron Edmonds)
posted by Gateway Pundit at 8/25/2007 03:19:00 PM
Israeli Columnist Glick Slams US Foreign Policy Fantasies
Caroline Glick, famed columnist at the Jerusalem Post, blasts the “fantasists” in the US for once again ignoring the threats by radical Islamic leaders threatening not just Israel, but all of Western civilization.
Column One: The rise of the fantasists
...The fantasists ignored completely Osama bin Laden’s declarations that his goal is to conquer the world in the name of Islam. They disregarded the political and cultural milieus marked by inexhaustible envy towards the West and the US that gave rise to al-Qaida and its sister organizations. Rather than acknowledge the reality of real war with real enemies, both camps of fantasists argued that instead of slaying these twin dragons, the US should appease them by serving them Israel for lunch.
These voices were relegated to the margins of public debate until the lead up to the 2004 presidential elections. Ahead of those elections, backed by George Soros’s financial muscle, the fantasists had an enormous impact of the debate in the Democratic Party. Politicians who until then had supported the war generally, and in Iraq particularly, clamored to decry it...
... A BRIEF look at recent statements by Iran’s leaders and its terrorist vassals suffice to show how cut off these views are from reality. Last Saturday, Iran’s supreme leader Ali Khamenei said, “America and its followers are stuck in a whirlpool and they sink deeper as time passes. A dangerous future is predicted for them.” Wednesday Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad signaled that Iran will share its nuclear know-how with others saying, “If nuclear energy is something good, all nations should enjoy it on the basis of law.”
In an interview with Britain’s Independent, Iraqi Shiite terror boss Muqtada al Sadr admitted that his group trains with Hizbullah. Sadr said, “We have formal links with Hizbullah…. We copy Hizbullah in the way they fight and their tactics, we teach each other and we are getting better through this.”
On the occasion of the one-year anniversary of last year’s war against Israel, Hizbullah chief Hassan Nasrallah told Iranian television that Hizbullah acts at Teheran’s pleasure. “I am a lowly soldier of the Imam Khamenei. Hizbullah youths acted on behalf of the Imam Khomeini… and sent their blessings to the Iranian people,” Nasrallah said.
On August 6, Osama Hamdan, Hamas’s representative in Lebanon, told al-Kawthar television that Hamas is preparing for war not because expects it Israel to attack, “but because the final goal of the resistance is to wipe this entity [Israel] off the face of the Earth. This goal necessitates the development of the capabilities of the resistance, until this entity is wiped out.”
Amazing.
What is it going to take for America to come back to its senses?
And, how can the democrats claim that they will protect America when they still believe the real threats to America are coming from inside the White House?
posted by Gateway Pundit at 8/25/2007 11:56:00 AM
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[photos...once again they aimed at the children, there are more dead than the 28]
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BOMB BLASTS Hit Amusement Park in India
-UPDATED-
Four more bombs defused in amusement park!
Three bomb blasts went off in in Hyderabad, India today.
Two targeted an amusement park!
At least 44 are dead.
A man shines a flashlight on what appears to be blood following one of the blasts. CNN reports that the amusement park was holding a lazer light show when the blast went off.
The BBC reported:
At least 28 people have been killed in two explosions in the southern Indian city of Hyderabad, reports say. One of the blasts ripped through the Lumbini amusement park during a laser show, killing at least five people, media reports said.
Some 50 people were injured in the explosions, about 1200km (780 miles) south of the capital, Delhi.
In May, 14 people died when a bomb exploded in a mosque in Hyderabad, one of southern India’s biggest cities.
A bomb disposal squad member makes checks at Lumbini Park in Hyderabad after a powerful bomb blast on saturday. (Photo: Nagara Gopal Hindu News)
The other blast went off at a popular restaurant.
Hindustan Times has this:
Twenty four people died when an explosion ripped through Gokul Chat Shop at Kothi locality at around 7.50 pm, Andhra Pradesh Home Minister K Jana Reddy told reporters in Hyderabad.
In another blast five minutes earlier at a place five kilometres away, six persons perished in a blast in an auditorium in Lumbini Park near the state secretariat in the heart of the city when a laser show was on, he said.
Reddy said about 500 people were in the auditorium at the time of the incident. The blast ripped through the middle row of the auditorium when the show had just begun.
So powerful was the blast that some of bodies were flung into the air and scattered over the area. Hyderabad Police Commissioner Balwinder Singh said the toll at Lumbini Park, overlooking the picturesque Hussain Sagar lake, may go up as it was teeming with week-end crowd.
Police officials inspect the bodies of victims at the site of the blast at the Lumbani park, in Hyderabad, India, Saturday, Aug.25, 2007. A pair of bombings tore through crowded public areas in the southern city of Hyderabad on Saturday night, killing 28 people and leaving dozens more wounded, officials said. (AP Photo/Mahesh Kumar A)
HotAir says it may be revenge for the mosque bombing on May 14th.
Update: A third blast went off...
Medics move a person injured in a bomb blast on a stretcher, at a hospital in Lumbini Park in the southern Indian city of Hyderabad August 25, 2007. Three explosions within minutes, one at a street-side food stall and two in an amusement park, killed at least 34 people in the southern Indian city of Hyderabad on Saturday, police and officials said. (REUTERS/Krishnendu Halder)
An injured of a twin blast is shifted to a hospital, in Hyderabad, India, Saturday, Aug.25, 2007. (AP)
posted by Gateway Pundit at 8/25/2007 09:53:00 AM