MAJOR RADICAL ISLAMIST TERRORIST ATTACK IN INDIA!!

Hindustani Times ^ | 24 September 2002 | Hindustani Times

[AmericanInTokyo]

Terrorists storm temple in Gandhinagar Agencies New Delhi, September 24

Three suspected terrorists have entered a temple in Gujarat's capital Gandhinagar and resorted to indiscriminate firing, killing at least 25 and injuring several others.

The terrorists entered the Akshardham temple belonging to the Swaminarayan sect around 1700 hours and fired at devotees.

"Seven men and women and four children are dead. Twenty-five people are injured and the injured are being taken out of the temple to Gandhinagar hospital," Inspector R B Rawal in the Gujarat state intelligence room told Reuters.

"There were over 50 people inside the temple when three gunmen opened fire inside the temple," Gujarat Home Secretary K Nitya Nandam told AFP.

State police control room spokesman G L Singhal had said earlier that four people had been killed in the shooting.

A television news channel put the toll at 6 dead and 40 injured.

According to an eyewitness, the three terrorists were wearing Army uniform and were armed with AK 47 rifles and sten guns.

A local police official said the terrorists had thrown a bomb at the temple, which is on fire.

According to initial reports, police forces have surrounded the temple and efforts are being made to evict people inside the temple. There is utter chaos in and around the temple.

A gun battle is reportedly on between the security forces and the terrorists. Commondos have reached the temple complex and the Army has also been called to deal with the situation.

The temple is close to the residence of the Gujarat Governor and Chief Minister and other VVIPs. The Gujarat State Assembly and Secretariat are within two kilometers of the temple complex.

The Gujarat government had received intelligence reports on the possibility of such an incident happening. Several VVIps visit the large temple complex daily.

Doctors in Ahmedabad have been told to report to hospitals.

[bonesmccoy]

those medical students really were medical students...what's so hard to understand about what happened there?

About Taliban Johnny... he was not in the US ... he was in Afghanistan... I have not heard of one case of an American citizen conducting terrorist activity against other Americans... am I wrong?

[cake_crumb]

"However I believe they would have no intention of taking control of Pakistan so much as a coup but to apply internal pressure against external Indian pressure to force the Pakistani government to collapse altogether and transform it into a new Afghanistan."

They want to turn the whole WORLD into an Afghanistan.

[Illbay]

Don't worry; they fixed all that actually about a year and a half ago. There's now an "automatic tag closer" in effect!

[cake_crumb]

"Christian believe is equality through equal labor, not freebies to the lazy. Give a man a fish, he eats for a day and comes back for freebies for the rest of his life (Democrat dependancy and poverty breading logic). Teach a man to fish, he becomes self accountable and no man becomes a slave to another. That's what Christianity is. Give them a helping hand, then walk away. You've done what the Lord requires of you."

Hear, hear!

[Illbay]

No, my first thought is too make sure we've got the story straight before we start spouting the usual Islam-is-evil-we-hate-all-Muslims-kill-them-all-now screed.

[a history buff]

Indian Muslims tout Islam's perceived absence of a caste system as one of its attractions...

[Illbay]

P.S. send this to everyone you can..

P.P.S. Every time you read an email that ends with this sentence or similar, you can bet it is bogus. Don't know why, but it's like the Internet email-spoofers have this club, and that's the secret handshake.

[cake_crumb]

"I have not heard of one case of an American citizen conducting terrorist activity against other Americans... am I wrong?"

Tim McVeigh...regardless of whomever else might have been a part of the OKC bombing.

[swarthyguy]

OK. So does the Catholic Church, the Protestants and the evangelicals.

You slammed the entire history and the whole social construct. I just wanted to give you some perspective on how and why it may have become so entrenced.

Your point in your statement eludes me. But then, i;m not trying to look too hard, either.

[Illbay]

If I posted "She sells sea shells by the seashore" continuously once per minute for the next ninety years I'd still have a long way to go to equal the waste of space that you've perpetrated on FR.

[swarthyguy]

Let's forget Sulayman al Faisal Al Lindh, Padilla, the Buffalo6 , and other plots that have certainly involved Americans like Ujaama and others that we probably do not know about. How about that Sheshani guy in Detroit.

[Illbay]

Cast[e] system sucked but it preserved a coherence to society;...

I'm sure the Untouchables will be gratified to know that their living like animals for centuries helped preserve the Hindu society.

[mikeIII]

See post #104 to Illbay, which says it like it is:

"Your first thought seems to always be "how can I defend the Islamaniacs or deflect attention from their latest atrocity?"

[Illbay]

Refers, I believe, to a line from the film Breaker Morant, wherein the title character explains to a court-marshall that they, a detachment of British Irregulars during the Boer War, treated captured Boer prisoners according to "Rule 303," meaning they summarily executed them by shooting them with the Enfield 303 rifle.

[a history buff]

I see your point; I hadn't honestly thought of it that way. My point is that just as you plausibly say that the caste system is justified in that it is necessary to maintain Hinduism, the Muslims, and others, have used the caste system as an argument to explain why their way is superior.

[null and void]

Thank you.

[Illbay]

You could also cite the domestic terrorism back during the 60s, perpetrated by SDS and similar groups.

[concerned about politics]

P.P.S. Every time you read an email that ends with this sentence or similar, you can bet it is bogus. Don't know why, but it's like the Internet email-spoofers have this club, and that's the secret handshake.

Nah. He was giving a concert over there, and he is a patriot. Only because I know his history do I believe he wrote it. I have a few books of his. (He hates the IRS!). He's a good man. Knowing what I know of him via his books and interviews, if he didn't write it, he asked someone else to do it for him. This sounds just like him.
As you know, FR has been pretty good at finding the truth and rising above the liberal media, and articles saying the same thing have been posted anyway.

[aught-6]

Bububut...whawhawhat about diversity?

/quivering simpleton liberalism off

[Illbay]

I should add that Breaker Morant is one of my all-time favorite films.