…aka “The Great Joke that is Indian Media - Part VIII” or…one standard for Sadhvi Pragya and another for Mohammed Shakeel & Zia-ur-Rehman.
On Oct 23, NDTV reported that
The Maharashtra ATS “…claim that they have evidence that Hindu groups were involved in the blast” in Malegaon
Note that although there was only one (single) blast, the headline of the story says: “Police claim to crack Malegaon blasts case” (notice the plural?)
The NDTV report also mentioned that
Evidence of a Hindu group’s involvement was found while tracing the origins of a scooter found in Malegaon.
The Times of India later quoted Jt Commissioner of Police (ATS) saying that
There is no specific organisation to which the three belong…
The ToI report also mentioned:
The Joint Commissioner denied they had found any links between the trio and other right wing groups like Sanatan Sanstha in Maharashtra whose members were accused of carrying out blasts in Navi Mumbai and Thane earlier this year.
To my untrained mind (and speaking as a layman), it reads like Sadhvi Pragya has so far only been accused not convicted…
If you only rely on the English MSM (mainstream media) though, you may have missed that. Also, I have not seen anyone rising to her defence yet…
Quite a contrast to the students of Jamia who are allegedly involved in the terrorist blasts (as in plural) in Delhi. In a statement issued Sept 22nd, their Vice-Chancellor Mushirul Hasan said:
…the university feels morally bound to defend its students until proven guilty and we will use the legal apparatus for this purpose.
Very good.
Sadly Sadhvi Pragya does not belong to any university and appears to be short on any kind of support.
Also Mushirul Hasan almost got away with accusing the police of lying about the involvement of Jamia students in the Delhi attack:
On Saturday, I informed the minister for human resource development, the secretary and joint secretary of the MHRD and the chairman of the University Grants Commission that Jamia students had no connection with the unfortunate incident.” However, he simultaneously confirms that two of the students picked up by the police on Sunday are on the rolls of the university. [ link ]
…but I have not seen any one accusing the Maharashtra ATS of that (yet).
I would like to end with a quote by Prof Hasan:
“ (the students)…cannot be branded as terrorists until proven guilty — and if they are proven guilty by the court of law, not a tear will be shed by anyone.”
Amen.
P.S.Did anyone notice that the Sadhvi has been cleared of any involvement in the Modasa blast?
…Sabarkantha DSP KK Mysorewala also reached the city to question the Sadhvi in relation with Modasa blast. He gave her clean chit in the case.
“I interrogated the Sadhvi but didn’t find anything that could link her to Modasa blast,” he said.
Related Posts:
“The great joke that is Indian Media” series: Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4, Part 5, Part 6, and Part 7
Malegaon, SIMI, “rule in and rule out”…
and finally, a thought-provoking piece by Sandhya Jain: Karachi, Kansas, Kurukshetra.
November 2nd, 2008
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A dozen bombs, at least fifty dead and more than three hundred injured…
The government remains clueless…
“It is very early to make a conclusion but ULFA has a history of triggering serial blasts,” Assam’s Health Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma told reporters minutes after the explosions.
even as “…ordinary people believe it as an HuJI attack and Congress government was protecting them by bringing ULFA’s name into picture.”
Their view is echoed by Assam Police:
“The needle of suspicion points to jehadi outfits who are behind subversive activities in the state,” IGP (Special Branch) Khagen Sharma said here.
The jehadi elements, including Bangladesh-based HUJI, could be working in groups or individually, the senior police official said the modus operandi pointed to their involvement.
“While investigation will go on, the police have been zeroing in on Islamic fundamentalist forces which of late have been active in the state and the region,” he said.
…Kamrup (Metro) Deputy Commissioner Prateek Hajela also suspected the involvement of HUJI militants [ link ]
All the blasts took place almost simultaneously…which suggests a high degree of sophistication and coordination.
Sad statistic of the day: With 19 bomb blasts over a period of last six years the Ganeshguri point of the Guwahati city is arguably one of the most bombed place of country. [ link ]
A Roll Call of Terror:
Dec ‘05: New Delhi: Four Years, Two Attacks, One Story
Mar ‘06: Varanasi: Anger, tears and despair
Jul ‘06: Mumbai: Blasts? What Blasts? ‘Yeh to hota hi rahta hai‘
Aug ‘07: Hyderabad: Another day, another blast - “Kuch nayee baat batao yaar”
May ‘08: Jaipur: Jihadi attack in Jaipur?
Jul ‘08: Bangalore: Blasts in Bangalore…3 killed already
Sept ‘08: New Delhi “Dastardly terror blasts” in Delhi
Jul ‘08: Ahmedabad: Attack in Ahmedabad: Time to say NO MORE
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Also see Tackling Terrorism: One Step at a Time
October 30th, 2008
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Courtesy Lokmanch*, the popular Hindi blog, I picked up this worrying bit of information:
- Between Jan - Jul 2008, almost 30% of Pakistani citizens who travelled to India did not go back after the expiry of their visas
- The actual number is 9635 people (until July ‘08 alone)
- In 2007, 7404 Pakistani citizens did not go back on expiry of their visas
- Of those who arrived in 2006, 7650 overstayed and are not traceable
- Of the ones that came in 2005, the number is 7043
…which means that more than 30,000 Pakistani citizens are now officially untraceable in India…and this in the last four years alone.
To make it worse, even if we detect and try to deport them, there is no guarantee that they will be taken back.
P.S. According to this exchange in Parliament, apparently 10 million (yes, you read that right) foreigners from Bangladesh, Pakistan etc are staying illegally in our country…
* For my readers unfamiliar with Hindi, here is a ToI report mentioning these statistics.
Related Posts:
North-East “burning”
Bend over backwards…
An eye-witness account of *militants* crossing into J&K
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October 24th, 2008
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…of vote-bank politics, breakdown in law and order, land mafias and alienated ghettoes. Please read on…
I received this email about the Jamia Nagar encounter last weekend. It is from Shri Anant Trivedi. Sh Trivedi is an eminent and respected citizen of Delhi working mostly in areas of good governance and improving the lot of the citizens. It is important to mention that Shri Trivedi is NOT affiliated to any political party or organisation.
The email paints a bleak picture of vote-banks, breakdown in law-and-order and a fearful minority that appears helpless against increasing radicalisation. Reproduced in full below:
Keep Reading…
September 25th, 2008
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Mohan Chand Sharma, a highly decorated Inspector of Delhi Police - receipient of seven gallantry medals - succumbed to his injuries yesterday evening…
Inspector Sharma paid for his life defending his country…fighting against “militants“
His commanding officer said, “We have lost our best man…”. Delhi’s Police Commisioner said he was, “one of our most brave officers”.
Nothing will fill the void in Inspector Sharma’s wife and children’s lives…and there is nothing that will illuminate the darkness in their hearts…But they should know that they do not grieve alone. A nation shares their agony and pain…
Please join me in saluting this brave and fearless soul…and please spare a few moments to pay homage to our martyrs.
Jai Hind, Jai Bharat.
P.S. Could we please have an exhibition like this (see picture below) to honour the brave souls who defend our borders and the thousands who face the ultimate risk every day of their lives?
Related Posts:
Antony’s absence at Manekshaw’s funeral fits a pattern
Of Stars and Martyrs, Munnabhai vs. Manish Pitambare
Let’s salute a real “Hero”
September 20th, 2008
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5 blasts, 18 dead, many more injured…
The usual statements have started to pour in:
“These dastardly terror blasts are an act of cowardice,” Gandhi said in a statement after six successive blasts ripped through the capital… [ link ]
Now waiting for the next act to unfold.
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A Roll Call of Terror:
Dec ‘05: New Delhi: Four Years, Two Attacks, One Story
Mar ‘06: Varanasi: Anger, tears and despair
Jul ‘06: Mumbai: Blasts? What Blasts? ‘Yeh to hota hi rahta hai‘
Aug ‘07: Hyderabad: Another day, another blast - “Kuch nayee baat batao yaar”
May ‘08: Jaipur: Jihadi attack in Jaipur?
Jul ‘08: Bangalore: Blasts in Bangalore…3 killed already
Jul ‘08: Ahmedabad: Attack in Ahmedabad: Time to say NO MORE
P.S. By the way, although the word “dastardly” means “treacherous, cowardly” (MSN Encarta) or “wicked/evil and cruel” ( Oxford Pocket Dictionary, Cambridge Dictionary), the usage is considered dated, old-fashioned or humorous.
Is Smt Gandhi’s speechwriter listening?
September 13th, 2008
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From a BBC report: “‘Another US strike’ hits Pakistan“ (emphasis mine)
Five civilians and seven militants have been killed in north-west Pakistan in a suspected US missile attack, local officials say. Missiles hit two buildings near Miranshah, the main town in the North Waziristan region on the Afghan border.
It has emerged that President Bush recently authorised US raids against militants in Pakistan without prior approval from Islamabad.
There is growing concern in Pakistan over unilateral US military action.
…It is the fifth time since the beginning of this month that US forces have carried out cross border strikes, according to local people.
…The attacks follow persistent US accusations that Pakistan is not doing enough to eliminate Taleban and al-Qaeda sanctuaries in the border region.
An unnamed senior Pentagon official told the BBC that at some point within the past two months President Bush issued a classified order to authorise US raids against militants in Pakistan…
Contrast this with:
(National Security Adviser) Mr. Narayanan said the government had proof of how terrorism was controlled from Pakistan and in this regard mentioned the arrest of two foreign nationals in the aftermath of the Mumbai blasts…
…”What (evidence) we have is stronger than what the US had (against Taliban) after 9/11″ which prompted America to launch a war on Afghanistan. [ link ]
But thats nothing new…we have been saying this for almost 10 years now and Pakistan has consistently rejected “…(the) baseless Indian allegations of support for so called cross-border terrorism”.
Related Posts:
We know its Pakistan but we hope its not!
Blasts? What Blasts? ‘Yeh to hota hi rahta hai’
Now You See Him, Now You Don’t*
September 13th, 2008
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….and the world remained silent….
For those of you who are not old enough to remember how it all started, here is a brief excerpt from The bushfire of Hindu rage (emphasis mine):
…For the benefit of those who have come of age in the last two decades, among them many of the 24×7 news channel anchors who talk utter gibberish while donning an air of supreme confidence to camouflage their limitless ignorance, let me recount the events of January 1990, which mark the beginning of the latest crusade against the Hindus of Jammu & Kashmir. Since ’secularists’ are allergic to events of the distant past, we need not go into the details of how Hindus were decapitated by the Sword of Islam wielded by the original Islamists. The present will suffice to highlight the duplicity of those whose hearts beat for the hate-India hordes in Kashmir.
Srinagar, January 4, 1990. Aftab, a local Urdu newspaper, publishes a Press release issued by Hizb-ul Mujahideen, set up by the Jamaat-e-Islami in 1989 to wage jihad for Jammu & Kashmir’s secession from India and accession to Pakistan, asking all Hindus to pack up and leave. Another local paper, Al Safa, repeats this expulsion order. In the following days, there is near chaos in the Kashmir Valley with then Chief Minister Farooq Abdullah and his National Conference Government abdicating all responsibilities. Masked men run amok, waving Kalashnikovs, shooting to kill and shouting anti-India slogans. Reports of killing of Hindus, invariably Kashmiri Pandits, begin to trickle in; there are explosions; inflammatory speeches are made from the pulpits of mosques, using public address systems meant for calling the faithful to prayers. A terrifying fear psychosis begins to take grip of Kashmiri Pandits.
Srinagar, January 19, 1990. Mr Jagmohan arrives to take charge as Governor. Mr Farooq Abdullah, whose pathetic, whimpering, snivelling Government has all but ceased to exist, resigns and goes into a sulk. Curfew is imposed as a first measure to restore some semblance of law and order. But it fails to have a deterrent effect. Throughout the day, Jammu and Kashmir Liberation Front and Hizb-ul Mujahideen terrorists use public address systems at mosques to exhort people to defy curfew and take to the streets. Masked men, firing from their Kalashnikovs, march up and down, terrorising Pandits. As evening falls, the exhortations become louder and shriller. Three taped slogans are repeatedly played the whole night from mosques: “Kashmir mei agar rehna hai, Allah-hu-Akbar kehna hai” (If you want to stay in Kashmir, you have to say Allah-hu-Akbar); “Yahan kya chalega, Nizam-e-Mustafa” (What do we want here? Rule of shari’ah); “Asi gachchi Pakistan, batao roas te batanev san” (We want Pakistan along with Hindu women but without their men). As the night of January 19, 1990, wears itself out, despondency gives way to desperation. And tens of thousands of Kashmiri Pandits across the Valley take a painful decision: To flee their homeland to save their lives. Thus takes place a 20th century Exodus.
Their wounds, as also the wounds of Hindu India, have been festering for 18 years. The simmering anger of Hindus has now burst into a raging bush fire that threatens to burn to ashes media’s perverse notions of ’secularism’ and destroy the politics of Muslim appeasement.
Related Posts:
Cry of the Valley - *must read*
The lies about Amarnath…
No land for the Yatris - Government capitulates
How many “Hindus” would it take to change the demography of Kashmir?
August 13th, 2008
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This is probably a less lucid post than most of what I write…In spite of that it has taken me a very long time to draft this.
Last Sunday, after hearing of the blasts in Ahmedabad, I asked myself…what would I have done? What should the Government do? What can we do…as concerned, anxious and angry citizens?
I decided not to write anything more about the attacks until I had some idea of the answers to this questions…This post is an attempt in that direction…It mainly deals with what the government should do/ or consider doing…I may decide to write a separate post on what each one of us, as proud ”Bharatiyas”, can do…
The suggestions are organised in different sections (in no particular order):
The Political Will
Effective Policing and Intelligence Coordination
The role of the “middle class”
The role of the Muslim community
The role of Pakistan
Better Legislation
The Ideological Challenge
The ideas I have mentioned below are not all mine - they rely heavily on work and thinking done by others, more experienced and better informed than me…What I have attempted is to bring these ideas together - in a coherent, mostly consistent, way. I will be grateful for any critiques…Please contribute freely with your ideas and suggestions…
Jai Hind.
Tackling Terrorism: One Step at a Time
The Political Will
Our biggest weakness in this war is the lack of political will…No amount of proposals, ideas and counter-terrorist measures will work unless there is a clear, unambiguous and determined consensus - across all parties - at all levels - that this is WAR and it has to be fought with the same intensity and sense of urgency…The time for patting ourselves on the back about the “Spirit of Mumbai” (or Bengaluru or Ahmedabad) is past…
Political Will means bringing pressure on Pakistan …or as Ashutosh memorably mentioned in his comment on this blog, “turning on the heat“…It necessarily involves retaliation - something which NSA M K Narayanan hinted at a few weeks ago (after the attack on the Indian Embassy in Kabul)…It is time to follow-up on these statements…For more than a decade, we have been crying hoarse about terrorist camps and support infrastructure across the border…Well, THIS is the time to do something about it…
As Raja Ram mentioned in his comment following the Mumbai Blasts:
…The GOI has to present the evidence gathered publicly, set forth a clear demand for actions from governments - or agencies of governments - that may be involved with a clear time frame. This should be backed up with a clear promise of retributive action against the perpetrators with or without their support. International support for such should be channelised and developed.
…But this can happen only when the political class has the clarity of mind about dealing with terror in that manner. There are consequences to such actions that we must be ready to face. The political class, mind you is a creature of the people. The people should not only be ready to back them but demand such action from the political class and only then will they respond. Till that happens, concerned Indians can pull their hair and whack their heads - not much is going to come out of it. India will just have to take it in her stride yet again and fight on alone. There is no support for India in her war on terror. What is available is only meaningless platitudes.
The PM needs to get up and say, as did Tony Blair last June: “…This extremism can be defeated. But it will be defeated only by recognising that we have not created it; it cannot be negotiated with; pandering to its sense of grievance will only encourage it; and only by confronting it, the methods and the ideas, will we win.”
The President, Chief Commander of the Armed Forces needs to declare: India will not negotiate with terrorists… And every political party - and their leaders in Parliament - need to unequivocally support this stance…otherwise there is little hope.
Keep Reading…
August 1st, 2008
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A new series starting today with two news items…
“The central government will be sending a package for orphans of the slain militants. Scholarships and pension will be provided to them similar to the relief being provided to other orphans,” Nirupama Kaul, chairperson of the All India Centre for Urban and Rural Development told media-persons in Srinagar on Wednesday (30th July ‘08).
Kaul claimed she met Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on July 25 and presented a charter of demands to him on behalf of nearly one lakh families of militants killed in the troubled state.
“The prime minister assured me that the Centre would be sending a package for the orphans,” she said.
From: Central aid for J&K slain militants’ kin, July 30, 2008.
Item # 2:
Saudi Arabia’s religious police have announced a ban on selling cats and dogs as pets, or walking them in public in the Saudi capital, because of men using them as a means of making passes at women, an official said on Wednesday.
Othman al-Othman, head of the Commission for the Promotion of Virtue and the Prevention of Vice in Riyadh, known as the Muttawa…said the commission was implementing a decision taken a month ago by the acting governor of the capital, Prince Sattam bin Abdul Aziz, adding that it follows an old edict issued by the supreme council of Saudi scholars.
The reason behind reinforcing the edict now was a rising fashion among some men using pets in public “to make passes on women and disturb families,” he said, without giving more details.
Othman said that the commission has instructed its offices in the capital to tell pet shops “to stop selling cats and dogs”.
From Saudi religious police ban pet cats and dogs
* With apologies to Ripleys.
P.S. I am still woking on the post detailing steps to counter terrorism…Hope to have it finished latest by weekend.
Related Posts:
Who are these “militants”?
The great joke that is Indian Media” series: Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4 and Part 5.
July 31st, 2008
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Excerpts from a great article by Prof Walid Phares, “The Deobandi Fatwa Against Terrorism Didn’t Treat the Jihadi Root” underscoring some of the points I had made in an earlier post (Thanks to Krishen-ji for alerting me to this)
*** Excerpts Begin (emphasis mine) ***
Many in the West and in other regions of the world were impressed by the issuing of a fatwa (Islamic theological edict) condemning Terrorism by one of the leading religious centers in the Muslim world, the Darool-Uloom Deoband in India. An Islamic seminary said to have ‘inspired’ the Taliban has, according to the said document denounced “terrorism” as against Islam, calling it an “unpardonable sin.”
…The Deobandi School, a classical third branch for Salafi Islamism (along with Wahabism and Muslim Brotherhood), has significant weight in the South Asia Theater. Its teachings based on a strict interpretation of Islamic law have reached many countries, including Afghanistan and Britain, where they are said to have indoctrinated the Taliban. “If they change course, al Qaeda and the Taliban are finished,” I heard in Europe and the United States.
So the question now is have they changed doctrinal direction and is this fatwa the evidence? I regretfully conclude that it is not the case yet.
Keep Reading…
July 29th, 2008
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In an eerily prescient post a few weeks back, I had written: Our Kurukshetra is approaching fast.
The terrorist attacks in Ahmedabad and Bangalore are merely the latest consequences of a mis-guided, half-hearted approach to tackle terrorism and ignoring the root of the problem - which is the ideology of “Jihad”…and Islamism…This is the ideology that led to 9/11, the massacre of Beslan and numerous attacks since then - a disturbingly large number of them in Bharat.
As long as we don’t recognise this, we will be fighting the wrong enemy (not terrorists but innocents)…on the wrong front (not at the level of ideas, but at the level of physical force)…and with the wrong weapons (not better policing and quick, efficient justice but Dharnas, Bandhs, Satyagraha etc..)
The FIRST STEP though has to be the realisation that this is WAR - nothing less.
At least someone has realised this…
Terror attacks are a war against India…
I salute Shri Modi for having the courage to speak out.
He at least has more spine than the hundreds of others who claim to represent India. But as Radha-ji of Vigil pointed out in an email to me: “His spine is not in question here, it is his understanding of the nature of the threat - jihad…” I think she has hit the nail on its head.
As I had promised to myself, I will say no more on this until such point when I have some idea of how to deal with this menace.
In the meantime, here are some extracts from a letter written by a concerned father* (in teh US) to his sons back in 2004. Pl. read and think (emphasis mine).
*** Excerpts begin **
…To get out of a difficulty, one usually must go through it. Our country is now facing the most serious threat to its existence, as we know it, that we have faced in your lifetime and mine (which includes WWII).
The deadly seriousness is greatly compounded by the fact that there are very few of us who think we can possibly lose this war and even fewer who realize what losing really means.
Keep Reading…
July 27th, 2008
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Most of you must have heard about the attack in Ahmedabad by now… (17 blasts; 15 killed, many injured)
I am NOT going to write about it…
It is time to say NO MORE…
For the next few day(s), I am going to put all my energies and thinking in trying to find an an answer…finding a way to stop this madness…finding a way to offer something more than empty words and condolences to the unfortunate…the maimed and the dead…it could have been me - or you…
My feelings at the moment are summed up in the title of this post I wrote more than 2 years ago, just after the blasts in Varanasi… Anger, tears and despair
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A Roll Call of Terror:
Dec ‘05: New Delhi: Four Years, Two Attacks, One Story
Mar ‘06: Varanasi: Anger, tears and despair
Jul ‘06: Mumbai: Blasts? What Blasts?�Yeh to hota hi rahta hai
Aug ‘07: Hyderabad: Another day, another blast - “Kuch nayee baat batao yaar”
May ‘08: Jaipur: Jihadi attack in Jaipur?
Jul ‘08: Bangalore: Blasts in Bangalore…3 killed already
July 27th, 2008
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It is all your fault:
The Centre had forewarned the Karnataka and Andhra Pradesh governments that terrorists could target Bengaluru and Hyderabad, Minister of State for Home Sriprakash Jaiswal said on Friday.
“The Intelligence Bureau had received inputs that terrorists could target the cybercities of Hyderabad and Bengaluru. Both the state governments were told to be on high alert,” he said.
Did anyone notice that he has also mentioned Hyderabad? This is the same Sh Jaiswal who memorably said last year:
“One terrorist group or the other is certainly involved in the blasts in Hyderabad” [ link ]
This time, it may not be a terrorist group…and not militants either
The Bangalore police…insisted it was a “small group trying to create panic” and not a conspiracy to target the technological establishment.
But Madam Gandhi believes otherwise…
“This is a cowardly act and people who want to disturb the peace of the country are behind it”
…and apparently the IB knows something that they have not told Bangalore Police…
SIMI and LeT may be behind the serial blasts that rocked Bangalore on Friday afternoon…Intelligence Bureau sources said
So tragic and surreal…
Related Posts:
Blasts in Bangalore: Pearls of Wisdom
Another day, another blast - “Kuch nayee baat batao yaar”
Blasts? What Blasts? “Yeh to hota hi rahta hai”
July 26th, 2008
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India’s Home Minister Shivraj Patil said
“Such incidents will not deter the government from pursuing its policy of dealing with anti-national elements in a resolute manner,”
Intelligence Bureau sources said…”they could be retaliatory in nature”.
Retaliation for what? 
the ready-made statement from Hon PM:
Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh condemned the serial blasts and urged Bangalore’s residents to “remain calm and maintain communal harmony,”
Now wait for the drama to unfold:
The Attack √
The Appeal for calm √
The Condemnation √ (see below)
The suspected “Foreign Hand“ - waiting
The Arrests - waiting
Special honourable mention for of any reader who gathers the links to Condemnation, Foreign Hand and Arrests before anyone else.
July 25th, 2008
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