Cherry Blossoms

Quake Money for Terrorists!

Sun, 13 Aug 2006 05:52:45 -0000

When a massive earthquake stuck North East Pakistan including the Pakistan Occupied Kashmir, bleeding hearts of India setup email and internet campaigns to collect and send money for relief.

I had written then on various fora that this money can easily fall into wrong hands since many news reports have been filed on how the Kashmiri Terrorist Groups have geared upto provide assistance in distribution of relief material.

A number of candle-kissers had vehemently protested at the apparent lack of sensitivity on my part.

Today, my stance vindicted with the following news report, I sit back at my Geckoid Headquaters, and contemplate on how India would be if we had a quantatively lesser number of undescended gonads around:

‘Quake money’ sent to Pak used to finance UK plane bombing plot
Aug-13,06

KARACHI: Money sent to Pakistan for quake rehabilitation was used to fund the Heathrow bomb attack plot that was foiled by British authorities following inputs from their Pakistani counterparts, if an investigation by a leading Pakistani daily is to be believed.

According to the Daily Times, the Muslim Charity of UK remitted a huge amount of money to three individuals in three different bank accounts in Mirpur, Pakistan occupied Kashmir (PoK) in December last year as earthquake relief.

But the money in the three accounts in Saudi Pak Bank, Standard Chartered and Habib Bank Ltd was solely for the purpose of financing the foiled bomb plot, the paper said. According to the report, two of the recipients are British citizens of Kashmir origin while the third is an Islamabad-based builder, also of Kashmir origin.

Officials said all three have been arrested, but it is still not known whether the three had any links to militant organizations such as the Al Qaeda or Lashkar-e-Toiba.

An official said UK National Terrorist Financial Investigation Unit authorities asked them to carry out ‘discreet enquiries’ about large sums of money being transferred by charities to accounts in Pakistan.

Source: New Indian Express
http://www.newindpress.com/NewsItems. ... tle=Top+Stories&Topic=420

Photochor Khan - The Story of Dr. Khan, the Father of Pakistani Nukes

Wed, 08 Mar 2006 17:53:05 -0000

http://media.putfile.com/Photochor

By Rudradev, a BRF regular!

The West is Surprised, India Yawns..

Mon, 23 Jan 2006 12:00:12 -0000

Talk about surprises!
The Telegraph, today.

Iran has secretly extended the uranium enrichment plant at the centre of the international controversy over its resumption of banned nuclear research earlier this month, satellite imagery has revealed.

Seven buildings have been erected around the concealed centrifuges which Western governments fear will be used to manufacture weapons-grade uranium at the Natanz site, 200 miles south of Teheran.

The discovery has heightened fears that Iran is stepping up the pace of its suspected weapons programme, in breach of international agreements, since it removed International Atomic Energy Authority seals on nuclear equipment at the site 10 days ago.

Western intelligence agencies are focusing on alarming similarities in satellite imagery of Iran’s nuclear sites, which the regime claims are for civilian purposes, and atomic facilities in Pakistan used to make the raw materials for nuclear weapons, as they try to identify the purpose of the Natanz construction spree.

The building work took place unannounced during a 16-month pause in research and development at the site, while Iran engaged the West in protracted talks over its professed desire to develop nuclear power. The existence of the Natanz site was kept secret until it was exposed by an Iranian opposition group in 2002. Iran started to move funds out of the European banks on Friday to avoid possible financial sanctions after its scientists resumed work. The showdown has contributed to soaring world oil prices and a slump on Wall Street stock markets.

The Sunday Telegraph has seen recent United States intelligence analysis of satellite photographs of nuclear sites in Iran and Pakistan that strengthens fears that the Islamic regime is secretly developing atomic weapons under the guise of a supposedly peaceful power programme. “Iran’s facilities are scaled exactly like another state’s facilities that were designed to produce fissile material for nuclear weapons,” the US report concluded, using the phrase “another state” to refer to Pakistan for diplomatic reasons.

Alarming similarities huh?
Alarming surprise for whom?

The Sunday Telegraph has seen recent United States intelligence analysis of satellite photographs of nuclear sites in Iran and Pakistan that strengthens fears that the Islamic regime is secretly developing atomic weapons under the guise of a supposedly peaceful power programme. "Iran's facilities are scaled exactly like another state's facilities that were designed to produce fissile material for nuclear weapons," the US report concluded, using the phrase "another state" to refer to Pakistan for diplomatic reasons.

Bah.

Fear Psychosis & Indian PR

Tue, 29 Nov 2005 08:46:59 -0000

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Daily Times, Pakistan:

F-16 outperformed by Russian aircraft

Pakistan may like to think twice about acquiring F-16s following reports that in the recently concluded joint US-Indian air force exercises, the much-vaunted aircraft did not come out the winner in its “encounters” with Indian Sukhoi-30 MKIs.

The exercises had mixed teams of Indian and American pilots on both sides, according to a report on Monday in the Christian Science Monitor, and observers say that in a surprising number of encounters - particularly between the American F-16s and the Indian Sukhoi-30 MKIs - the Indian pilots came out the winners. “Since the cold war, there has been the general assumption that India is a third-world country with Soviet technology, and wherever the Soviet-supported equipment went, it didn’t perform well,” says Jasjit Singh, director of the Centre for Air Power Studies in New Delhi. “That myth has been blown out by the results” of these air exercises.
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Maj Mark A. Snowden, the 3rd Wing’s chief of air-to-air tactics and a participant in Cope India 2004, admitted that the US Air Force underestimated the Indians. “The outcome of the (2004) exercise boils down to (the fact that) they ran tactics that were more advanced than we expected,” he told Aviation Week last year. “They had done some training with the French that we knew about, but we did not expect them to be a very well-trained air force. That was silly.”

The Monitor report filed from New Delhi says, “But there are some signs that America’s premier fighter jet, the F-16 Fighting Falcon, is losing ground to the growing sophistication of Russian-made fighter planes, and that the US should be more wary about presuming global air superiority - the linchpin of its military might. ‘The Sukhoi is a ... better plane than the F-16,’ says Vinod Patney, a retired Indian Air Force marshal, and former vice chief of air staff. ‘But we’re not talking about a single aircraft. We’re talking about the overall infrastructure, the command and control systems, the radar on the ground and in the air, the technical crew on the ground, and how do you maximise that infrastructure. This is where the learning curve takes place.’”

While Indian bloggers are generally ecstatic about the performance of the Indian pilots against the American aircraft, an American pilot who participated in the exercise expressed disgust over triumphant Indian comments, pointing out that the point of the exercise was to learn and “for two weeks of training, both sides got more out of their training than they probably would in two months”.

Washington Times hears from KK

Mon, 21 Nov 2005 13:15:03 -0000

Kaushik Kapisthalam, a veteran citizen commentator on defense and strategic affairs concerning india writes to Washington Times.

I'm disappointed by the editorial "Terror and tension in South Asia" for showing moral equivalence between Pakistan-sponsored terrorism and Indian "concessions" in Kashmir. It also is disheartening to note that even after four years since September 11, there is little appreciation for the fact that the war on terror cannot succeed when the United States selectively prosecutes the fight against terrorists.

Read the whole letter.

Dedicated Blog on Delhi 10/29

Fri, 04 Nov 2005 08:17:26 -0000

Terror in Delhi 10/29 is a blog set up to record news, views about the recent terror attacks in New Delhi (on 29th Oct 2005)

Specifically, the Blog has entries mapping the 'peace at all costs' kind of dhimmitude approach to fighting Terrorism.

India's resolve to fight terrorism, it seems, is secondary to opening up of the LOC in Kashmir and trying to kiss up to Musharaff.

The struggle against Terror needs to be urgently divorced from the honeymoon that Manmohan is seeking with Musharaff. The only language that the terrorists understand is violence.. and by God, give them that and see the results.

Also ignore the 'cycle of violence' cynics. A cycle of violence is better anyday than giving in and getting our innocents killed anyway.

Friends at work

Mon, 31 Oct 2005 17:46:19 -0000

My friends,

Dr. Manish H @ Pediatrics Dept, Safdarjung Hospital

Dr. Lalit P @ Railway Hospital, Paharganj

are treating victims of the vicious bomb blast attacks in Delhi on Diwali Eve.

Among the patients they are personally attending, are two children with extensive burn wounds, a old woman who lost her eyesight, a woman who has a sharpnel lodged in her thoracic cavity after entering through her back shearing the supra-spinatus muscle and the underlying scapula.... and a middle aged couple.

I am visiting them soon as soon as they can receive visitors.

Meanwhile, Happy Diwali/Deepawali!

Tomorrow morning, i will leave for the transcedental realm of Vrindavan to spend Diwali day there, returning in the evening.

Inquilab (revolution) claims the credit

Sun, 30 Oct 2005 19:44:47 -0000

AN unknown group calling itself Inquilab (revolution) has claimed responsibility for three blasts in New Delhi which killed 61 people.
The claim came in calls to reporters in Srinagar, summer capital of Indian Kashmir.

"Such attacks will continue until India pulls out all its troops from the state (of Kashmir) and stops inhuman activities in the state," the group's spokesman, Ahmed Yar Gaznavi, told local news agency Kashmir News Service.
"Activists from our Inquilab group carried out the blasts," Mr Gaznavi told the news agency, which often receives calls from militant groups operating in Kashmir.

Two reporters who received the call said that from the accent of the caller he did not sound Kashmiri.

Television channels said Inquilab was an offshoot of the pro-Pakistan Islamic militant group Lashkar-e-Taiba, one of a dozen rebel outfits which have been engaged in an insurgency against Indian rule in divided Kashmir since 1989.
Lashkar has rarely claimed responsibility for its attacks in the past.
Police said they had no record of the existence of Inquilab but were investigating the claim.

Source

Update: Reuters has more info

The Blast in Delhi & Aftermath

Sun, 30 Oct 2005 03:03:46 -0000

I was still out somewhere between Safdarjung Hospital and South Extension when the Blasts hit the Sarojini Nagar Market. I was there in that very market a few hours before the bomb went off.

On the way back, I observed yet more disturbing scenes. One of them: As soon as the blast occurred, all of the busy markets were descended upon by policemen asking shoppers to leave and shopkeepers to pull down their shutters. Most complied immediately given the fact that the news had spread almost instantaneously over cell phones.

Yet, some parts of the market with shops and stuff catering primarily to poorer sections were still crowded with reluctant shoppers who did not manage to understand the enormity of situation. The labourer class people who had come to purchase cheap bargainable stuff for family and children for the festivals ahead did not quite understand the situation and thus were not in any hurry. The small street side pavement vendors of cheap clothes, tinklets and stuff were even less reluctant to loose the holiday earnings.

A few policemen near South Extension went berserk and started to hit street vendoring women to move away, broke decorative lights a few shopkeepers were busy putting up and rained verbal abuses to coerce everyone to leave. Short of a full charging, they move up and down narrow streets making sure everyone complied with their orders to leave.

This was a sorry sight. On one hand we had Terrorists planting bombs to kill young girls and innocent people in markets and we have our Police whose idea of efficiently vacating an area involves the similar terror tactics (although of a much lower magnitude, but nevertheless terrorising) as the terrorists themselves.

Sometimes, it IS difficult to convince people calmly to leave a place since the threat of more bombs going off was a reality, and the police have to resort to some sort of coercion to achieve its goals. But it could be mild without involving lathi charging (Indian term for using the baton) women vendors who survive on what they earn selling each day.

I fail to rationalise this kind of disturbing and shocking behavior, much less accept it as practicality.

Diwali Eve Bombs in Delhi

Sat, 29 Oct 2005 23:53:59 -0000

I am in Delhi as I write this post, the time now is 5 mins past 10 and I just returned after some shopping and visiting a few friends. I was in Sarojini Market earlier today in the noon around three o' clock, bought little blinking lights on my way to AIIMS.

I was on my way back when the bombs went off (circa quarter to six) and after a few mins, cell phones began to ring all over, relatives, friends calling each other to find out if everything is all right. Vehicles went off road to the stop on the sides and the roadside PCO's got flooded. I am living very close to Govindpuri and thus geographically I was close to two of the three bomb locations.

I have never felt emotionally disturbed because of bomb blast news earlier, but today, It shook me. I had met a lot of people in cheerful holiday mood today everywhere, particularly in the markets. I keep trying not to think of the fate of little children and old people I had just met in the markets, the women in bright dresses, smiles abound, teenaged girls looking around for a good deal, might now just be mutilated charred bodies borne on stretchers.

I don't feel lucky, rather, I feel disgust and anger. Too emotive to put them down in words, perhaps another time.
Who ever did this had done their homework well. They have consciously chosen the busiest areas: worse, these are areas frequented by the middle class. Paharganj has a large population of foreigners, particularly of the backpacking type.

As I come to terms with these blasts, I resolve to devote yet more blogging time for terrorism related topics; Tomorrow morning, I plan to visit Safdarjung hospital where I have good friends working to access the Casualty situation and find out about people who have been admitted. And I hope I will have something to post about.

Never forget.

Nazis, Gandhi and Violence

Fri, 07 Oct 2005 19:17:10 -0000

MARK M. ANDERSON's article, 'Crime and Punishment' is 'must read' material. After reading it, come back to read the following:

When Mahatma Gandhi was asked about his opinion on the Nazi invasion, he replied, "I would like you to lay down the arms you have as being useless for saving you or humanity. You will invite Herr Hitler and Signor Mussolini to take what they want of the countries you call your possessions.... If these gentlemen choose to occupy your homes, you will vacate them. If they do not give you free passage out, you will allow yourselves, man, woman, and child, to be slaughtered, but you will refuse to owe allegiance to them".

His words, "What difference does it make to the dead, the orphans, and the homeless, whether the mad destruction is wrought under the name of totalitarianism or the holy name of liberty and democracy?" make absolute sense of Anderson's article.

Height of Depravity

Tue, 28 Oct 2003 03:09:21 -0000

From the Healing Iraq Blog, a very disturbing article about Islamo Fascist Terrorists getting creative and wrapping explosives around a few months old baby, turning it into a unwilling suicide bomber.. or as the blog author calles it, a 'Baby Bomb'... what creative juices wooze out of their islamic brains of these devout Muslims, one can only wonder!

The Mujahedeen are getting very creative day by day. Someone told me yesterday that a woman carrying a baby just a few months old was arrested in front of Al Yarmuk hospital in Baghdad after trying to enter. The IP and FPS found out that the baby was wrapped in explosives between his clothes. After questioning the woman she confessed that the baby was kidnapped and that some Arabs had offered her a considerable amount of money to get the baby inside the crowded emergency hall in the hospital, leave it there and they would do the rest. Pretty amazing isn't it? Hospitals? I can't understand why they didn't hang the woman on the spot. Because obviously the terrorists are craving for some attention. We could have given them all the attention they wanted by doing that.

The world is starting to Note-!

Mon, 27 Oct 2003 01:57:02 -0000

ABCNEWS found explosive anger toward America in the mosques, madrasas and streets of Pakistan. ABCNEWS in an Article on Pakistani Jihad Factories makes some obvious observations. Some Highlights:

"Pakistan, a key ally in the U.S.-led war on terror, has been one of the world's capitals of terrorism for the past decade."
"With all its internal divisions and corruption, a rising tide of Islamic extremism, and an arsenal of nuclear weapons, many analysts consider Pakistan potentially one of the most dangerous countries on Earth.
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Even though some News Media are starting to realise the true nature of Pakistani society, they haven't yet started to understand the implications, which they sub-consciously tend to think, only affects India. Alas, in todays world, Islamofascism in individual nations is just a syptom of a larger malady.. that of Islam itself