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  • Security Tight in Indian Holy City (Friday showdown)

    03/14/2002 9:44:24 AM PST · by Dog Gone · 7 replies · 364+ views
    Associated Press ^ | Thursday, March 14, 2002 | BETH DUFF-BROWN
    AYODHYA, India (AP) -- Suresh Kumar Pal helped destroy an ancient Muslim mosque here a decade ago. On Friday, he intends to defy a Supreme Court order and lay the first stones of a Hindu temple at the heart of renewed sectarian bloodshed. ``We can't fight the might of the police, but we will try. We live on Lord Rama's land, so we have to do our duty,'' said Pal, a Hindu, who had brought a few bricks with him for the planned temple, whose construction is bitterly resisted by Muslims. He echoed thousands of Hindus who have gathered on...