"Welcome to the party, pal!" Regards, Ivan
Posted on 09/24/2002 10:55:12 AM PDT by 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.
"Welcome to the party, pal!" Regards, Ivan
And -- either every imam in this country publicly condemns all terror in the name of their religion, or we assume they're hostile, search their mosques, and shut them down if necessary.
Freedom of religion and freedom from religious persecution presupposes that the religion being practiced is not advocating the destruction of the country and the people within it. Religion or not, any such organization should be treated as traitors and enemy combatants.
But the religon of peace is making faaar toooo many enemies with its rapid dog tactics.
You are a fool if you do not understand that aesthetics are intimately connected to...reason...logic.....
It's the cognition....aesthetically challenged person. (in lieu of "stupid' which would probably be misunderstood as an ad hominum attack rather than a reference to "it's the economy stupid".)
I'm fighting like mad against the "worser angels" of my nature to keep from responding to this charming slice of "ameri-talk".
It is interesting, though, to witness daily proof that the American mode of (non)expression is conquering the world along with our wonderbras....
OK. no more.
Aesthetics is a dimension of perception perpendicular to reason: emotional perception, feelings; devoid of intellectual logic, thought; an orthogonal mental axis connected at the 0,0 origin to the logics axis, both diverging from there to create the mental plane.
Sure, connected intimately at zero, the Big Bang, as are all spatial, temporal, and mental axes.
Pretty funny, my laugh for the day.
...'man the barricades, Raj and Anil, we might get more towelheads in hear before sunset....'
--at the temple today
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