another attack on a school

[candypreet]

Blast near JK school: 12 killed, 100 injured

AFP[ MONDAY, JUNE 13, 2005 02:08:38 PM ]

http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/articleshow/1140657.cms

SRINAGAR: At least 12 people were killed and 100 injured on Monday when a vehicle bomb exploded near a school in Pulwama town of Jammu and Kashmir.
The blast shook the town of Pulwama, 30 kilometers south of Srinagar, at around 11.00 am.

Police said two people were killed on the spot, while two died on the way to hospital in Srinagar.

"So far four people have died and over 50 are injured," a spokesman said.

"Initial reports suggest that an improvised explosive device fitted to a vehicle - either a truck or a car - detonated," he said.

The explosion took place near a high school and students were among the injured. Six of those hurt were in critical condition.

Ambulances ferrying the injured from Pulwama, a district headquarters, were seen arriving at Srinagar's main hospital.

Private cars and mini-buses also rushed to Srinagar with the injured. Many drivers pleaded with policemen to clear traffic snarls.

"It was a massive explosion that brought us out of our homes," retired government employee Ghulam Mohammed told AFP by telephone.

"I could see people lying on the ground, some of them bleeding profusely."He said many vehicles were damaged in the blast that also smashed windows in several dozen shops, houses and office complexes.Other residents said the explosion sent people running for cover.

The blast closed down all the shops, banks, post offices and schools in the town, which is prone to rebel attacks. Senior police and civilian officials have rushed to the scene.

Tens of thousands have died in Kashmir since an Islamic revolt against Indian rule began in 1989

[candypreet]

TERRORISM

A bloody trail

PRAVEEN SWAMI

The Harkat ul-Mujahideen, once the most formidable terrorist organisation operating in Jammu and Kashmir, has returned strongly to jehad

For the past six months, as Indians have watched terror attacks take place across the country, attention has been focussed on one single Islamist terror group: the Pakistan-based Lashkar-e-Taiba. Some attention has been paid, too, to the growing influence and power of the Harkat ul-Jihad Islami (HuJI) and the Jamaat ul-Mujahideen in Bangladesh, both of which have executed successful terror strikes both in that country and in major Indian cities. Now, a new threat is evident from an organisation that for decades was the flag-bearer of the jehad but seemed to have been buried by history.

"The Harkat ul-Mujahideen has not been dissolved," thundered the Pakistani cleric Nizamuddin Shamzai at a rally in February 2000, "and nor do we wish to please Clinton, Vajpayee, the Jews of Israel, Russian communists and other infidels by announcing its end. This is an organisation our elders built and has set about the business of jehad in a very organised manner." Shamzai, long the patron-saint of Islamist terror groups in Pakistan, was assassinated in a 2004 shootout near his seminary in Karachi. His words, though, are starting to appear prophetic.
http://www.hinduonnet.com/fline/stories/20060324005102200.htm

[candypreet]

Suspected Islamic militants kill husband and wife in Indian Kashmir
The Associated Press

Published: September 12, 2006


JAMMU, India Suspected Islamic militants shot and killed a husband and his wife in a remote mountain village in the Indian-controlled portion of Kashmir, police said Tuesday.

The couple were killed late Monday night in the Thand Dhok area, some 190-kilometers (120-miles) north west of Jammu, the winter capital of India's Jammu-Kashmir state, said local police chief Farooq Khan.

Khan said the two were Muslim and likely killed because they were suspected of informing Indian forces on the militants. However, he said it also could have been a feud between two militant outfits and their supporters.

No militant organization immediately claimed responsibility for the act.

Since 1989, more than a dozen militant groups have been fighting in India's portion of Kashmir for the region's independence or its merger with Muslim-majority Pakistan. Kashmir is divided between the two countries but claimed by both.

The insurgency has killed more than 68,000 people, most of them civilians.

JAMMU, India Suspected Islamic militants shot and killed a husband and his wife in a remote mountain village in the Indian-controlled portion of Kashmir, police said Tuesday.

The couple were killed late Monday night in the Thand Dhok area, some 190-kilometers (120-miles) north west of Jammu, the winter capital of India's Jammu-Kashmir state, said local police chief Farooq Khan.

Khan said the two were Muslim and likely killed because they were suspected of informing Indian forces on the militants. However, he said it also could have been a feud between two militant outfits and their supporters.

No militant organization immediately claimed responsibility for the act.

Since 1989, more than a dozen militant groups have been fighting in India's portion of Kashmir for the region's independence or its merger with Muslim-majority Pakistan. Kashmir is divided between the two countries but claimed by both.

The insurgency has killed more than 68,000 people, most of them civilians
http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2006/09/12/asia/AS_GEN_Kashmir_Violence.php

[aj1]

The insurgency has killed more than 68,000 people, most of them civilians

Just pointing out this number, to those who love to count the dead in Iraq.

Let's hear the outrage...


[crickets chirping]

[candypreet]

Just pointing out this number, to those who love to count the dead in Iraq.

Let's hear the outrage...


[crickets chirping]
there wont be an outrage, You see the dead are Indians, and I have been poiting out that number for a few years here on this board and no one has bothered

[truthbtold]

there wont be an outrage, You see the dead are Indians, and I have been poiting out that number for a few years here on this board and no one has bothered


:(

sad but true!

[Camp]

The awareness is growing. When we see no repentance after all the continued attacks by mohammads minions then the infidels are forced to lump all of the koran readers together. That is human nature responding to a threat.

[aj1]

there wont be an outrage, You see the dead are Indians, and I have been poiting out that number for a few years here on this board and no one has bothered

deaths that do not fit into an anti-Bush agenda do not count with some folks. if you are goning to be realistic, you can't look at a piece of it here and ignore all the pieces elsewhere.

I don't think that the Bush admin has done as good a job as should be done, and I see too many compromises made. but I still would not have wanted Kerry overseeing it.

but no matter who is in the White House, there WILL be a global war on terror for many years to come.

[candypreet]

deaths that do not fit into an anti-Bush agenda do not count with some folks. if you are goning to be realistic, you can't look at a piece of it here and ignore all the pieces elsewhere.

I don't think that the Bush admin has done as good a job as should be done, and I see too many compromises made. but I still would not have wanted Kerry overseeing it.

but no matter who is in the White House, there WILL be a global war on terror for many years to come.

I hope so too

[candypreet]

Seven militants, 2 troops killed in Kashmir


http://www.dawn.com/2006/10/09/top4.htm

[candypreet]

Young Army officer killed in Kashmir

http://www.hindu.com/2006/10/09/stories/2006100909580500.htm

[candypreet]

An Army officer from Pammal near Tambaram, who passed out of the Officers Training Academy here in March, was killed in an encounter with militants near the Line of Control in Jammu and Kashmir on Saturday.

Lieutenant Parthiban, son of a retired Army officer, belonged to 5 JAK LI (Light Infantry). His body was brought to Chennai on Sunday.

He had spoken to his parents over phone only on Friday, stating that this team had killed a few militants and he himself shot dead three of them in the Line of Control area. His father, Major (retired) V. Natarajan, had served in Kargil during the conflict and retired last year. Parthiban completed his higher secondary from Kendriya Vidyalaya in IIT, Chennai, and graduated in Physics from Bishop Heber College, Tiruchi. Last year, he cleared the Combined Defence Services Examination and the interview at Bangalore.

Lt. Parthiban had enrolled for M.Sc. in Physics when the call from OTA came. Several college mates of the martyred officer thronged his house.

[Tony Z]

Blast near JK school: 12 killed, 100 injured

AFP[ MONDAY, JUNE 13, 2005 02:08:38 PM ]

http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/articleshow/1140657.cms

SRINAGAR: At least 12 people were killed and 100 injured on Monday when a vehicle bomb exploded near a school in Pulwama town of Jammu and Kashmir.
The blast shook the town of Pulwama, 30 kilometers south of Srinagar, at around 11.00 am
Ban vehicle bombs!!!

[candypreet]

Ban vehicle bombs!!!
:add09: :add09:

[candypreet]

:add09: a bump for 2007.....:add09:

[candypreet]

http://www.reuters.com/article/newsOne/idUSDEL20172620070828

By Simon Denyer - Analysis

NEW DELHI (Reuters) - A hostile neighborhood combined with a lack of domestic political will and some sloppy policing have made India a soft target for Muslim militants, experts say, after bombs killed 40 people in the south.

The U.S. government's National Counterterrorism Center says India was second only to Iraq in terms of terrorist incidents and deaths between January 2004 and March this year, with 3,674 people killed, more than hotspots like Afghanistan and Colombia.

A daily diet of violence in Kashmir and attacks by small bands of Maoist rebels in the countryside seldom make national headlines, but high-profile bomb attacks on India's cities blamed on Islamist militants now take place more often.

"As a nation we are impotent when it comes to tackling terror," the Times of India said. "After every attack, our police and politicians make the same old noises but nothing happens."

The latest attack, in the southern city and emerging IT centre of Hyderabad, was swiftly blamed on Islamist militant groups based in Bangladesh or Pakistan, using Indian Muslims to carry out their work.

It was an explanation rejected by both neighbors, but one diplomats say has a ring of truth.

Chief suspect is Shahid Bilal of the Harkat-ul Jihad Islami (HuJI), a Bangladeshi group originally set up during the Afghan jihad against Soviet occupation, who was also blamed for organizing another bombing in Hyderabad in May.

"The clever money is on him," said one Western diplomat. "It is a very reasonable working hypothesis."

Pakistan's Lashkar-e-Taiba works hand-in-glove with HuJI, with a network of militants commuting between the two countries and using Bangladesh's long, porous border to enter India, security experts say.
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[Tony Z]

Blast near JK school: 12 killed, 100 injured

AFP[ MONDAY, JUNE 13, 2005 02:08:38 PM ]

http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/articleshow/1140657.cms

SRINAGAR: At least 12 people were killed and 100 injured on Monday when a vehicle bomb exploded near a school in Pulwama town of Jammu and Kashmir.
The blast shook the town of Pulwama, 30 kilometers south of Srinagar, at around 11.00 am.

Tens of thousands have died in Kashmir since an Islamic revolt against Indian rule began in 1989
Muslim shitheads.

[Mallard]

there wont be an outrage, You see the dead are Indians, and I have been poiting out that number for a few years here on this board and no one has bothered

Buried by the News
The deaths of civilians in Hyderabad is not a media priority.

By Jonathan Foreman

http://www.homestead.com/prosites-prs/hyderabad-bombings_dead.jpg

This weekend saw an extraordinary demonstration of strangely selective “news value” in the British and U.S. media. On Saturday night a pair of synchronized bombs ripped apart two crowded nightspots in Hyderabad, India. The explosions killed 42 people and wounded at least a hundred more. Since the attacks, police have found and diffused 19 more bombs at movie theaters, bus stops, and pedestrian bridges.

As far as I can tell this slaughter was not important enough to make the front page of any major newspaper in Britain or America. Why? Well, one thing is certain: It is not as if bombs go off every day in Hyderabad, which happens to be one of India’s key industrial cities. Moreover, it is not as if India is not on the world’s media map these days.

Indeed the 60th anniversary of Indian and Pakistani independence has generated vast amounts of coverage on both sides of the Atlantic. Everyone from Time, to the BBC, to the Financial Times (and of course, the most recent issue of NR’s “The Week”) has commented on the festivities, as well as the triumphs and trials of this nascent democracy. And yet, within the fortnight of such coverage, this case of paradigmatic anti-democratic hostility is relegated to mid-paper triviality.

Certainly, the bombing was not one of those quotidian subcontinental disasters— train crashes or ferry sinkings — in which unfathomable numbers of South Asians die. Rather, it was a terrorist bombing of the cruelest kind, one akin to the slaughter of holiday makers in Bali, one aimed purely at innocent civilians. The elected setting was a wealthy, peaceful, economically important metropolis (not confusing, hard-to-get-to Kashmir, or one of those remote Indian provinces convulsed by Maoist insurrection or ethnic insurgency.)

Furthermore it was a terrorist incident with genuine international implications. Indeed it could have a poisonous effect on already tense relations between two hostile, nuclear armed-states: Indian officials have blamed Pakistani intelligence for the attack. So it’s not an unimportant or a boring story, or one without wider implications. And these days there are plenty of readers and viewers in America and Britain who come from that part of the world and who care about incidents like this.

Why then has it been relegated to the inside pages along with the death of former French premier Raymond Barre, and the stalling of war crimes trials in Liberia? One plausible explanation for the minimal coverage is that the Western media’s pace-setters somehow regard murdered Indians as of lesser value than dead people of more favored ethnicity. Not just less important than Americans, Europeans, and Japanese, but less important than Palestinians, Iraqis, Israelis and so forth. If 42 people were killed in the West Bank you can be dead sure it would be front-page news.

But I suspect that the true answer follows a different line: it is simply that the men and women at the front of the media herd have invested their resources in certain places, for reasons that are a mixture of politics and practicality. Everywhere else falls into the category of backwater.

Hyderabad is backwater simply because it is far away. Editors don’t have hundreds of reporters on the spot waiting and hoping for action. More importantly, they don’t have any pre-packaged opinions of causes or solutions to whatever problem prompted the bombing. They don’t vacation in Hyderabad, and they don’t understand that South Asia is strategically at least as important as Israel/Palestine.

It’s too bad for the people who were blown up there and for the relatives who mourn them, and it’s too bad for the cause of good journalism.

http://article.nationalreview.com/?q=NDI1YzQ0ZWM5YjUyOThlMzg4NjI5YzFiYzFlZTRkZTU=

[pambo]

Oh Christ that's horrible.

[candypreet]

yes it is.

[Ono]

I saw some of it on TV, but the media is more interested in bathroom antics.

Terrible mass murder

[pixikill]

hey! i know! lets sell them uranium!! (http://www.radioaustralia.net.au/news/stories/s2016914.htm)

[candypreet]

hey! i know! lets sell them uranium!! (http://www.radioaustralia.net.au/news/stories/s2016914.htm)

whats the connection

[Osamayomama]

Considering who India is pointing their weapons at, you should just give them the uranium.

[pixikill]

whats the connection
volitility