[RightRules]

Now, let's get Argenbright and United Airlines into custody.

[dennisw]

GURUNG! Hero to the stupid!

[higgmeister]

http://www.thegurkhamuseum.co.uk/

Could Subash Gurung have been a Gurkha soldier? Gurkhas are known for
their unique knives featured on all of the unit designation patches of the Gurkha
Regiments which you can see by clicking on the one above.

Gurkhas come from Nepal, a landlocked state with the Chinese province of
Tibet to the north and India on the other three sides. It is 520 miles long
and nowhere exceeds 140 miles in breath, averaging between 90 and 100
miles. It is the only Hindu monarchy in the world and has never been ruled
by any other country. It still has very poor communications and, off the
few motorable roads, the main beast of burden is human.

Gurkhas are thickly set, stocky people with an average height of about 5
feet and 4 inches with a wheaten to olive complexion, almond eyes, high
cheekbones, thick, black hair and very strong leg muscles.

The Gurkhas who join the British Army become part of a limited and very
real military tradition. The Gurkha presence in the British Army began in
1815, When the Gurkhas of Nepal were defeated by the Bengal Presidency Army
of the Honorable East India Company during the Anglo-Nepal war of
1814-1816. Mutual empathy between each side led to the Gurkhas being
offered services under British Officers as Campaign troops, this was excepted.

42 years later, in 1857, Indian units of the Bengal presidency Army
mutinied, resulting in Company rule being superseded by British
governmental rule, with delegated authority in a viceroy representing Queen
Victoria. Gurkha units had shown such loyalty and Nepal supported Britain
so well during the mutiny that Gurkhas were incorporated into the Indian
Army, which was raised from the remnants of Company troops.

In 1902, there were ten regiments of Gurkhas and an eleventh was raised in
both World Wars. These regiments are known collectively as the Gurkha
brigade. On Indian Independence delicate negotiations led to Six regiments
detailed to stay with the Indian Army and the other four, the 2nd, 6th, 7th
and 10th Gurkha Rifles became an integral part of the British Army on 1st
January 1948.



 

[ikanakattara]

Point of information: While Nepal is predominately Hindu, it has about a 5% Muslim minority. Of those Muslims, the Indians claim that they have been infiltrated by Wahhabists and jihadists. The Nepalese Muslims deny this. There have supposedly been Nepalese Muslims who have hijacked jets in India (see Times of India for stories.) The jihadists are found in *every* country where there are any Muslims; even if those Muslims only make up a tiny minority of the population. So even if someone has a passport from a "friendly" or neutral country, if he is Muslim it is *possible* that he may be jihadist.

[texasbluebell]

Now I'm hearing on WLS in Chicago, that in this hearing for Gurung, it's being stated that even though he lived in the same building as those 2 arrested from the train, they don't believe that there's any connection between Gurung, and the terrorists! Unbelievable! As Dick Cheney says, there are no coincidences.

AND I can't believe what I just heard, that this was a ONE WAY ticket...

[garyhope]

Could we have, or do they already have a computer program for scanners that would digitize the scanner images and ring an alarm if "suspicious" images showed up on the carry on bags? Could it be 3D? Help cut down on some of the variables that our highly trained, skilled and motivated "security" help might miss?

[Mitchell]

I can't reconcile two statements in the article:

• The agency [the FBI] also described as "not accurate" published reports Gurung had once lived in the same North Side apartment building as another man now being held as a material witness in the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks.
• Gurung recently moved back to Chicago with his brother, Sushil, from Minnesota, said Adam Colfax, superintendent for the apartment building in the 5700 block of North Kenmore Avenue where the Gurung brothers lived until a year ago. Colfax said Gurung previously lived in an apartment at 1025 W. Hollywood Ave., where Ayub Ali Khan once lived. Khan has been detained by authorities as a material witness in the Sept. 11 attacks, but it is unclear whether he knew Gurung.

The Acxiom phone directory CD-ROM shows the following:

KHAN AYUB, 1025 W HOLLYWOOD AVE CHICAGO IL

GURUNG SUSHIL, 1025 W HOLLYWOOD AVE CHICAGO IL

There's also another Gurung at an address on the same block.

[RightRules]

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