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.

[AmericanInTokyo]

[LaBelleDameSansMerci]

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Perpendicularity does not remove a dimension from an intimate relationship with that which it is intersecting. The perpendicular position is the source of all human life on the planet. Almost all of it anyway....

[swarthyguy]

>>swarthyguy signed up 2002-04-10.


Must have me mistaken for some one else. I maintained Inja should have used the Xmas/NewYear holidays to strike Pakistan. People's attention is diverted by the holidays and the Afghan campaign was foremost in America's minds.

ANd yes, permission will never be given but a sovereign country has to consider its own interests primarily.

India seems to have decided that Missile Defence and cooperation with the US is paramount and atrocities in Kashmir and elsewhere are worth absorbing to remain in the good books of the US and not upset the WoT apple cart.

[USMMA_83]

It didn't take too long for the Brits at BBC to come up with the real angle to this terror. Here is their headline: Analysis: Why is Gujarat so violent?

It's Gujarat that's violent, not the Muslims....

[justshe]

Of COURSE it is GWB's fault. What isn't? (/sarcasm)

[AmericanInTokyo]

Next their headline will be "Bullets, Hand Grenades Fell Temple Worshippers in India"

[OldFriend]

Where there are pacifists there is murder and mayhem.

[RightWhale]

Second one looks like Wyatt Earp. First one like Doc Holliday. O. K. Corral.

[USMMA_83]

Man, I keep on mistaking you for "Berzerker" my apologies....

[anniegetyourgun]

So I hear.....

[swarthyguy]

maybe we look alike; pakistani cousins and all that, eh, old chap? /grin

[USMMA_83]

Personally, I think India has to wait it out in regards to Pakistan. Either Pak is engulfed in a civil war in a few years, or India acquires Missile Defence by way of Israel and US. Then, they can go clean house in Islamabad....

[Plutarch]

How do we know it was terrorist? Might have been just a disgruntled customer, like at the LAX El Al episode.

[AmericanInTokyo]

If the FBI were in charge, they would be making such a statement right about now. "Time to move on folks, nothing to see here. It's just another isolated incident".

[USMMA_83]

Well, you Indians do like your avatars....Berzerker one day, Swarthyguy another...

[cake_crumb]

Three Islamists storm a Hindu temple and murder innocent worshippers....now the temple is on fire and the terrorists, who may or may not have hostages, are having a shootout with security forces....

Bloody rabid b@stards.

[USMMA_83]

Is it on fire? Man...the temple was a work of art...

[Illbay]

Are you certain this has anything to do with Muslims?

When I saw it I thought it must be more Hindu vs. Sikh violence, like at Amritsar about twelve or fifteen years ago.

Any corroboration?

[AmericanInTokyo]

YEP. DEATH TOLL NOW AT 44.

Hindustani Times flashes that "COMMANDO RAID BEGINS"

They are fighting, battling and burning as we freep.

[AmericanInTokyo]

"Prime Minister of India to cut short Maldives trip due to temple attack
Prime Minister AB Vajpayee will return from Maldives on Wednesday evening a few hours ahead of schedule in view of the Gandhinagar attack...."