Posted on 02/16/2010 4:32:02 AM PST by Cindy
Note: Video included.
NEW DELHI:
SNIPPET: "Stephen Hampston and Steven Martin were detained by the Intelligence Bureau (IB) and Delhi Police on Monday for possessing some high-tech gadgets, maps and binoculars.
"They checked into the hotel on February 13 and hotel authorities informed us after they found their activities suspicious. We are questioning them," a police officer said."
(Excerpt) Read more at timesofindia.indiatimes.com ...
Beeber-like devices?
Note: Photos included.
“Two Britons arrested in Delhi hotel for ‘plane-spotting activities’”
By MAIL FOREIGN SERVICE
Last updated at 12:12 PM on 16th February 2010
SNIPPET: “Two Britons have been arrested in the Indian capital for ‘suspicious plane-spotting activities’.
Steven Martin, 56, and Stephen Hampston, in his mid-40s, were arrested at the Radisson Hotel in Delhi on Monday evening.
Police sources said the pair were carrying sophisticated equipment, including high-powered binoculars, cameras and a gadget used to monitor air traffic and capture details of any plane in the air at any time.”
SNIPPET: “Suspicious: Steven Martin and Stephen Hampston were arrested at the Radisson Hotel in New Delhi over alleged ‘plane-spotting activities’
Google maps of Indira Gandhi International Airport, which is near the hotel, were also found on a laptop being used by one of the men.”
Rubik's cubes, crystal radios? ;-)
This is fresh breaking news...so I don’t know yet how this will turn out.
http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5jJ2YHMyi10-FNWZs9oDSL5-Mb1Jg
“Two Britons detained near Delhi airport”
(AFP) – 7 hours ago
NEW DELHI —
SNIPPET: “The popular planespotting website www.airliners.net has a member called Steve Martin based in Britain, though AFP was unable to confirm if this was the same man detained in Delhi.
India has been on a heightened state of alert after a deadly restaurant bombing in the western city of Pune on Saturday killed nine people, including two foreigners.
It has also been on the defensive after revelations that David Coleman Headley, a US citizen and key suspect in the 2008 Mumbai attacks, visited India numerous times as a tourist.”
First thought (well, second thought after a bad joke), shoulder launched rockets to take down planes as they take off.
This sounds like real news and deserves some attention.
These devices may be searching for frequencies that may initiate engine fuel mixtures, false altimeter settings or anything that may be of a disrupted nature in an aircraft in the critical phases of departures or landings..
One thing’s for sure, British society is so overrun with lunatics from every corner of the globe that “British nationals” means nothing more than what passports they happened to have when arrested.
This is NO joke. They must know something we don't know.
I fear something bad is going to come down soon for them.
It already has so in the large city of Puni a few days ago, one foreign in with the others killed by the terrorists.
correction: one “foreigner” was also killed. dont remember if he was an American. might have been European
Thanks Eye of Unk and that’s what caught my eye...the airport, airplanes and “gadgets.”
Maybe someone will post an update or two today on this thread as to what the gadgets are.
They are getting in position to make a hit on the Commonwealth Games, the Hockey World Cup and the IPL Cricket League games, something like that, in India.
AQ is already warning Pakistanis (aka moozlim brothers) to stay away from India. This is more or less breaking news in India today (press reports).
The 313 Brigade - International Terrorism Monitor - Paper No. 579 By B. Raman There are two jihadi terrorist organisations by the name the 313 Brigade. The first is Kashmir-centric and is associated with the Harkat-ul-Jihad-al-Islami (HUJI) of Qari Saifullah Akhtar. It has been in existence since at least 1999 and is a member of the United Jihad Council, based in Pakistan-Occupied Kashmir, which is headed by Syed Salahuddin of the Hizbul Mujahideen. It looks upon India as its main enemy and is not against the Government of Pakistan, its Army and the Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI). 2. On December 15,1999, a Rashtriya Rifles unit in Jammu & Kashmir had killed one Sher Khan, who was described as the chief commander of a newly formed 313 Brigade and a HUJI commander called Nadeem Khan during an encounter in the Marot forest area of Surankote. The "Excelsior", a daily newspaper published from Jammu, had quoted Indian defence sources as saying that the 313 Brigade had been formed by the Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) a few days earlier. They claimed to have killed its leader within a few days of its formation and infiltration into J&K. 3. Thereafter, from to time, there were references to the activities of the 313 Brigade in the Surankote area of J & K. In October 2004, a Rashtriya Rifles unit captured one Sabzar Ahmed, a resident of the Surankote area, who was described as a member of the 313 Brigade. 4. On March 17, 2006, "The Nation", the Pakistani daily, had carried a report on a letter jointly written to Pervez Musharraf by the members of the United Jihad Council of Kashmir protesting against his Government succumbing to pressure from the George Bush administration to discontinue support to the Kashmir-related jihadi organisations. Among those who had signed the letter was one Munir Ahmed of the 313 Brigade. 5. In April 2006, the US State Department issued the 2006 "Country Reports on Terrorism," which listed a number of designated "foreign terrorist organizations" and also listed "other selected terrorist groups also deemed to be of relevance to the global war on terrorism." The HUJI was listed in the latter category. The report noted the group's "links to al Qaeda," and that the "HUJI's operations in Kashmir were led by Commander Ilyas Kashmiri, a former commander in the Afghan jihad, .... who was arrested in October2005 on charges of attacks against President Musharraf in 2003." 6. Reports in the Pakistani media indicated that Ilyas Kashmiri, who headed the 313 Brigade of the HUJI in J&K, was released by the Pakistani authorities on the intervention of Syed Salahuddin and had shifted from Pakistan-Occupied Kashmir (POK), where he was previously based, to the Waziristan area of the Federally-Administered Tribal Areas (FATA). 7. A second organisation also known as the 313 Brigade is Pakistan-centric and is the fighting arm of the International Islamic Front for Jihad Against the Crusaders and the Jewish People formed by Osama bin Laden in 1998 in association with a number of terrorist organisations of Pakistan, Bangladesh, Uzbekistan and other countries. It came into existence after the US invasion of Iraq in 2003. It looks upon the US and Israel as its main enemies. It is strongly against the Pakistan Govt, its Army and the ISI because of their alleged co-operation with the US in Afghanistan. 8. While the Kashmir-centric 313 Brigade claims responsibility for its actions in Jammu & Kashmir, the Pakistan-centric 313 Brigade does not admit its operations in Pakistan. Till 2007, the responsibility for the attacks on Pakistani army and ISI officers was claimed by organisations with names such as the Islambouli Brigade, the Jundullah etc. After the raid by the Special Services Group (SSG) of the Pakistan Army into the Lal Masjid of Islamabad in July, 2007, the responsibility for many of the attacks on military establishments and personnel has been claimed by the Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP). 9. Among the terrorist attacks in Pakistani territory in which the Pakistan-centric 313 Brigade was suspected were: (a). The two attempts to kill Pervez Musharraf in Rawalpindi in December, 2003. (b). The attempts to kill the Corps Commander of Karachi and Shaukat Aziz, the then Finance Minister who had been nominated by Musharraf to take over as the Prime Minister, at Fateh Jang in the Attock constituency of Punjab in 2004. Shaukat Aziz escaped an assassination attempt while he was canvassing a bye-election campsign. (c). The murder of two officers of the Intelligence Bureau at Kohat in the North-West Frontier Province (NWFP) in 2004. (d). The attack on the Marriott Hotel in Islamabad in September 2008.The Danish diplomatic staff were functioning from there. (e). The November 19, 2008, assassination of Maj-Gen Amir Faisal Alvi, who headed the SSG in 2003-2005 before he was removed by Musharraf for unworthy conduct. 10. Immediately after the attempt on Shaukat Aziz, an Islamic web site had quoted a group calling itself the Islambouli Brigade as claiming that it had targeted one of the men of the "American infidel group in Pakistan". Lt Khaled Islambouli was the leader of the group of soldiers, who assassinated Egyptian President Anwar Sadat during a military parade in Cairo in 1981. Though the statement did not mention Aziz by name, it was apparent the reference was to him. It said: "One of our blessed battalions tried to hunt a head of one of America痴 infidels in Pakistan while he was returning from Fateh Jang, but God wanted him to survive. With this blow, we are delivering a message to the Pakistani Government and its head Pervez Musharraf, who is still extraditing the Mujahideen to America to appease it. " It accused the person targetted at Fateh Jang of being "a follower of the wicked Bush and his cronies." 11. "Yesterday痴 attack will be followed by more painful blows if you do not stop blindly obeying the orders of that Bush. If you don稚 stop, the Mujahideen will wage a bloody war in Pakistan," it added. It said it was giving the Musharraf Government a "period of truce" to stop handing over arrested persons to the US, failing which the brigade "will behave in a different way." The statement did not say how long the truce would last, but it warned that its message was "the last warning. "Within the coming few days, our brigade will speak with the language of blood which is the only language you understand," it further warned. 12. In an interview to the "News", the prestigious Pakistani daily, apparently given after the attempt to kill Aziz, the 45-year-old Haji Mohammad Omar, who had succeeded Nek Mohammad as the leader of the pro-Taliban elements in South Waziristan, warned: "The rulers would not be safe if the Pakistan Government with US assistance targets our leaders. We are convinced that commander Nek Muhammad was killed by the US military with the connivance of our own government. The rocket attacks on Pakistan Army and Frontier Corps camps and assets in South Waziristan and the resistance being put up by the militants there are largely fuelled by the US military involvement in the so-called campaign against al-Qaeda and Taliban in Pakistan. The militants target only those places where US military personnel and spies are stationed. Our men take maximum care not to harm Pakistani soldiers and militiamen. "He alleged that hundreds of US troops and intelligence agents had been secretly deployed in South Waziristan and that US military planes and helicopter gunships were operating in Pakistani territory and air space. 21. Where do the statements of the TTP claiming responsibility for attacks on Pakistani military personnel fit in? What is the relationship between the TTP, Ilyas and his 313 Brigade? What happened to the 313 Brigade of J&K? Does it continue its separate existence? Answers to these questions are not available. ..... ....22. The jihadi picture in Pakistan is getting murkier and murkier. Nobody----neither Pakistan's political and military leaders nor the US intelligence agencies and military leadership nor the mushrooming community of terrorism analysts all over the world---- seems to understand what the hell is going on in Pakistan, which is inexorably becoming a country beyond understanding and beyond redemption.
paragraphs are our friends. ooops.
Bad enough you didn’t make paragraphs but to have it in italics also is a real eye killer!
You have really achieved something there, in that you managed to make ital as annoying as ALL CAPS. :)
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