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Massive Terror Attack in West India

Tue, May 13, 2008 at 3:31:23 pm PST

Police report 60 killed by bombs in western India.

NEW DELHI - A series of bombs exploded across the ancient city of Jaipur on Tuesday, killing at least 60 people and transforming busy markets, a jewelry bazaar and a Hindu temple into scenes of carnage.

All seven blasts were within the old walls of the western city known for its pink-hued palaces, and suspicion quickly fell on Islamic militant groups blamed for a string of attacks in India in recent years. Police said an eighth bomb was found and defused by police.

“Obviously, it’s a terrorist” attack, said A.S. Gill, the police chief of Rajasthan, the state where Jaipur is located. “The way it has been done, the attempt was to cause the maximum damage to human life.”

The explosions began around 7:30 p.m. One went off at a market near a temple dedicated to the Hindu monkey god Hanuman. Tuesday is the day of worship set aside for Hanuman, and the temple was crowded with people offering prayers on the way home from work.

Another bomb detonated near the Johari Bazaar, the city’s jewelry market that is a popular destination for tourists. The tourist season ended in March, however, and there were no immediate indication that foreigners had been caught in any of the explosions.

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#1 JammieWearingFool 5/13/08 3:32:28 pm 0

The Jaipur Amish, no doubt.

#2 song_and_dance_man 5/13/08 3:33:01 pm 9

Stan's little helpers are busy.

#3 Ma Sands 5/13/08 3:33:26 pm 0

West? ? ? I'd thought, since they essentially stuck over on the east, north borders........ohhhhhhhhhhhhh..... ):

#4 WhiteRasta 5/13/08 3:34:15 pm 0

....."and suspicion quickly fell on Islamic militant groups..."

You see?

The Joooooos and Mossad bomb India and the muslims get blamed for it.

#5 MandyManners 5/13/08 3:34:24 pm 2
“Obviously, it’s a terrorist” attack, said A.S. Gill, the police chief of Rajasthan, the state where Jaipur is located. “The way it has been done, the attempt was to cause the maximum damage to human life.”

No, chief. It was a militant attack according to AP.

#6 EC Marm 5/13/08 3:34:27 pm 0

Is conjecture allowed?

#7 Thanos 5/13/08 3:34:32 pm 5

This is too well coordinated to be anybody but Al Qaida, probably working through affiliated groups. Tops on my list are:
HuJI-B or P, LeT, JeM.

Of course, it could be the same guys with a new name. They tend to call themselves different things depending on the geography and the supposed cause.

This comes on the ten year anniversary of India's N test I believe.

#8 Fat Jolly Penguin 5/13/08 3:35:29 pm 2

re: #5 MandyManners

No, chief. It was a militant freedom fighter attack according to AP.

Ugh.

#9 JammieWearingFool 5/13/08 3:35:45 pm 0

They've obviously seen the early WV exit polls and aren't happy about their man taking such a beating.

#10 EC Marm 5/13/08 3:36:35 pm 0

re: #7 Thanos
I think BabbaZee had a question or two for you.

#11 MandyManners 5/13/08 3:36:42 pm 0

re: #8 Fat Jolly Penguin

suspicion quickly fell on Islamic militant groups

#12 bosforus 5/13/08 3:37:41 pm 0

re: #11 MandyManners

suspicion quickly fell on Islamic militant groups

Just when I was starting to lose my suspicion.

#13 MandyManners 5/13/08 3:38:03 pm 0

re: #12 bosforus

Just when I was starting to lose my suspicion.

Better than losing your head.

#14 Thanos 5/13/08 3:38:16 pm 0

Where at EC? It's been real busy here I haven't had much time to keep up with threads lately :(

#15 Nevergiveup 5/13/08 3:38:33 pm 0

re: #5 MandyManners

No, chief. It was a militant attack according to AP.

Yeah, it will not be a terrorist attack until one of the AP reporters or their family members is killed.

#16 brakes 5/13/08 3:39:28 pm 0

Damn it. Seems the little god allan hates just about everybody.

#17 Thanos 5/13/08 3:39:29 pm 0

Jaipur is heavily Hindu, more so than other areas they've bombed in the past.

#18 MandyManners 5/13/08 3:39:34 pm 8

re: #15 Nevergiveup

Yeah, it will not be a terrorist attack until one of the AP reporters or their family members is killed.

Or, someone in Vietnam hands out a pamphlet.

#19 Occasional Reader 5/13/08 3:39:49 pm 0

Our thoughts with the people of Jaipur. (Except of course for the terrorist scum who did this.)

#20 pat 5/13/08 3:40:21 pm 1

And this accomplishes what?

#21 MandyManners 5/13/08 3:40:26 pm 0

re: #17 Thanos

Jaipur is heavily Hindu, more so than other areas they've bombed in the past.

The Muslims seem to be sending the message that they can deep in Hindu territory.

#22 Nevergiveup 5/13/08 3:40:42 pm 2

The more Muslim terror is directed at India, the closer their relations become with the State of Israel. Israel is now the largest supplier of high tech weapons to India.

#23 Thanos 5/13/08 3:40:43 pm 0

Oh, and the Hindus are pissed -- they could be trying to inspire more of the Hindu v Muslim rioting in the north again.

#24 MikeySDCA 5/13/08 3:40:57 pm 0

It is amusing the the AP calls Jaipur "ancient", since ir was founded in 1727.

#25 eaglewingz08 5/13/08 3:41:19 pm 0

Obviously if only India reached a comprehensive peace settlement with their oppressed pfakistinian population, these attacks would never have happened. I wonder what 'sore' that country has allowed and how the Obamanation will heal it.
Oh, wait, wrong country, though they do both begin with I.

#26 storagemanager 5/13/08 3:41:46 pm 0

What do militant's look like anyway?

#27 rabidfox 5/13/08 3:42:01 pm 0

Pat: It accomplishes murder. Mass murder. What else were they after?

#28 Psaturn 5/13/08 3:42:19 pm 3

I hope Medeira does not mind me saying this...but I suspect the Muslim extremists?

Bhuddists are very low on my suspect list...

#29 EC Marm 5/13/08 3:42:26 pm 0

re: #14 Thanos
She just asked me a WP question in an e-mail and I thought you might be better able to answer her. I suggested she drop a line to you at your blog.

#30 Nevergiveup 5/13/08 3:43:22 pm 3

re: #26 storagemanager

What do militant's look like anyway?

Before or after the Boom?

#31 Thanos 5/13/08 3:43:39 pm 0

re: #29 EC Marm

Ok thanks, I will check it out, think she has my email already tho

#32 jcm 5/13/08 3:44:27 pm 5

re: #16 brakes

Damn it. Seems the little god allan hates just about everybody.

Alan is Stan.
Stan does hate everyone.

#33 song_and_dance_man 5/13/08 3:44:50 pm 0

re: #26 storagemanager

What do militant's look like anyway?

Ask the pseudo rock.

No, on second thought don't talk to it.

#34 Ojoe 5/13/08 3:45:12 pm 1

Will you now please rescind your Islam is a religion of peace comment Mr. Bush?

#35 aunursa 5/13/08 3:45:30 pm 4

This is obviously the result of our pro-Zionist policy. If we would just throw Israel under the bus, global terrorism would end, and the Indians and the Pakistanis would be singing "kumbaya" together.

#36 Shug 5/13/08 3:45:52 pm 0
suspicion quickly fell on Islamic militant groups

Islamophobia ! Prepare for Backlashes !

/CAIR

#37 MandyManners 5/13/08 3:45:52 pm 0

re: #26 storagemanager

What do militant's look like anyway?

Like everyone else.

#38 Ojoe 5/13/08 3:46:00 pm 0

re: #26 storagemanager

Large expanding balls of hot gas

#39 storagemanager 5/13/08 3:46:01 pm 0

re: #34 Ojoe

Will you now please rescind your Islam is a religion of peace comment Mr. Bush?


"Islam is a noble religion" President Bush

[deleted] 5/13/08 3:46:09 pm 0
#41 Thanos 5/13/08 3:46:09 pm 7

Eight serial blasts rocked the city of Jaipur at 7:35 PM on Tuesday evening

60 dead, 200 injured

Injured taken to the Sawai Mann Singh hospital

Blasts at Manas Chowk Police Station area, Johari Bazar, Tripolia Bazar, Badi Choupal, Choti Choupal, Kotwali area

Eighth bomb diffused

The bombs exploded within a span of 12 minutes of each other

Bombs were made of iron ball bearings, alarm clock circuit

Bombs were planted in bicycles

Speculation is rife that this could be the handiwork of Lashkar-e-Toiba, SIMI

SIMI is unlikely, they are all pretty busted up and infiltrated, and mostly rookies / students. This was a veteran attack - just my humble opinion.

#42 madisonsfriend 5/13/08 3:46:11 pm 0

re: #28 Psaturn

I hope Medeira does not mind me saying this...but I suspect the Muslim extremists?

Bhuddists are very low on my suspect list...


Yeah, what about the Jains or the Parsis? Every time there is an Islamic fundie terrorist attack, we blame the Islamic fundies.

#43 Shug 5/13/08 3:47:03 pm 0

re: #26 storagemanager

What do militant's look like anyway?

Like this

[deleted] 5/13/08 3:47:20 pm 0
#45 Ps2 5/13/08 3:47:58 pm 0

OT

The below linked video of the Egyptian food riots shows again that Muslims do not truly care about the welfare of their fellow Muslim (the ummah).

Their oil rich "brethren contribute hardly nothing to preserve life (remember the pitiful amount given to aid their Muslim brothers who suffered in the tsunami?)

The Muslim will, however give generously to take life...of the non-Muslim and Muslim in the "cause of Allah"... that being killing an destruction.

[Link: cosmos.bcst.yahoo.com...]

#46 pat 5/13/08 3:48:46 pm 0

re: #26 storagemanager

What do militant's look like anyway?

[Link: www.weaselzippers.net...]

#47 buzzsawmonkey 5/13/08 3:49:00 pm 1

re: #35 aunursa

This is obviously the result of our pro-Zionist policy. If we would just throw Israel under the bus, global terrorism would end, and the Indians and the Pakistanis would be singing "kumbaya" together.

Israel must be thrown under an Egged* bus with a "Palestinian" suicide bomber on board, of course.

****************
*Egged is the intra- and inter-city bus service of Israel, whose buses have routinely been targeted by suicide bombers.

#48 wanumba 5/13/08 3:49:06 pm 0

There are more than one group which have put bombs out in India before. So, wait for more info. There are rebellions (Naxalites etc) So, it may be the usual suspects, might be a more local act.

#49 madisonsfriend 5/13/08 3:49:10 pm 0

re: #44 savage_nation

The Jains? Those people freak out when they accidentally inhale an insect!

True and they are notably non-violent - however, I think the AP, the Beeb and the AFP will be looking at them - surely we don't want to think this is an attack by the ROP!

#50 storagemanager 5/13/08 3:50:37 pm 3

My sister'n'law said...we need to win against the bad Islam...I just looked at her and said..Islam is Islam...as per the PM of Turkey.

#51 Thanos 5/13/08 3:51:12 pm 2

re: #46 pat

[Link: www.weaselzippers.net...]

Boooooo! I coulda gone all night without that... where's the eyebleach?

#52 Thanos 5/13/08 3:52:22 pm 0

re: #48 wanumba

There are more than one group which have put bombs out in India before. So, wait for more info. There are rebellions (Naxalites etc) So, it may be the usual suspects, might be a more local act.

This is too well coordinated for the naxalites, they are more like bandits and thugs, they come in usually with RPG's and guns, shoot up the place, rob people and run.

#53 ploome hineni 5/13/08 3:52:31 pm 3

can they blame the USA?

can they blame Israel?

o well, nevermind

ZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz

#54 Ojoe 5/13/08 3:52:55 pm 1

extra obnoxious to have used that beneficent invention, the bicycle

#55 Slumbering Behemoth 5/13/08 3:53:26 pm 2
Obviously, it’s a terrorist” attack, said A.S. Gill, the police chief of Rajasthan, the state where Jaipur is located.

As horrible as this event is, it is also refreshing to hear of a police officer who has no problem putting a finger on the issue.

Too often we seem to hear the psycho-babble of "We (police) don't know what the motives were, but we've ruled out terrorism".

#56 MandyManners 5/13/08 3:53:52 pm 0

re: #54 Ojoe

extra obnoxious to have used that beneficent invention, the bicycle

Mohammed invented it just for situations like this.

#57 Shug 5/13/08 3:54:14 pm 0

re: #54 Ojoe

extra obnoxious to have used that beneficent invention, the bicycle

I told you they were Amish

[deleted] 5/13/08 3:55:20 pm 0
#59 Ojoe 5/13/08 3:56:02 pm 0

re: #56 MandyManners

Leonardo invented it.

Leonardo's bicycle

#60 Slumbering Behemoth 5/13/08 3:56:52 pm 0

re: #46 pat

Debunked: fauxtoghraphy.

#61 MandyManners 5/13/08 3:56:53 pm 0

re: #59 Ojoe

Leonardo invented it.

Leonardo's bicycle

Don't be silly. He stole it from Mo.

[deleted] 5/13/08 3:57:04 pm 0
#63 storagemanager 5/13/08 3:58:09 pm 1
(IsraelNN.com) Hamas protesters in Gaza's Jabalya slums accused the Fatah-run Palestinian Authority in Judea and Samaria of kidnapping political prisoners' wives.

"The protesters strongly denounced this behavior and considered it a cowardly act and departure from the ethics and traditions of the Palestinian people," a Hamas web site reported.

Protesters accused Fatah of doubting the effectiveness of armed attacks on Israel at all times and hoped that Fatah would soon admit that questioning the place of "resistance" is futile.


cowardly act and departure from the ethics and traditions of the Palestinian people," a Hamas web site reported.....It's not like having a brother kill his own sister...or strapping a bomb on a child...the Twilight Zone in Arabic. [Link: www.israelnationalnews.com...]

#64 Crepuscular Prick 5/13/08 3:58:24 pm 0

I'm guessing the Pasupata sect, the Atimargika, Kapalika or Kalamukha.

/But then again it could have been the Methodists.

#65 loflyer 5/13/08 3:59:28 pm 0

re: #62 savage_nation

A song for today.....

Evening Savage! Don't tell me you are a closet Moody Blues fan also?

#66 WhiteRasta 5/13/08 3:59:44 pm 0

re: #54 Ojoe

The followers of the pedophile, false "prophet" seem to turn many Western inventions into the means of killing people.

Aircraft. Cellphones. Cars. Trucks. Bicycles.

I'm waiting for the skateboard suicide bomber, next.

[deleted] 5/13/08 3:59:53 pm 0
#68 rabidfox 5/13/08 4:00:12 pm 2

The Indians have been dealing with muslims for a long, long time. That tends to offset any PC they might feel

#69 Ojoe 5/13/08 4:00:44 pm 0

re: #66 WhiteRasta

Skateboarders are too into freedom for that to ever happen IMHO.

#70 storagemanager 5/13/08 4:00:52 pm 0
US President George W. Bush has boarded Air Force 1 in Washington Tuesday night, en route to Israel.

Bush is expected to attend the Israeli Presidential Conference in Jerusalem. He is scheduled to meet several senior politicians, as well as address the Knesset. This is President Bush's second visit to Israel in the last four months.


Dr.Condi Rich...big smile on her face...said..don't worry folks..he packed the carving knife. [Link: www.ynetnews.com...]

#71 hayseed 5/13/08 4:01:10 pm 0

OT kos got stung by a jelly fish...poor jelly fish....

"Checking in from sweltering El Salvador, where the family news isn't so great, and where a brief trip to the beach for my baby girl led to having half my right leg fried by a jelly fish. So a little political talk will prove a nice distraction."

I must be a red neck....who in the heck goes to El Salvador on vaca

[Link: www.dailykos.com...]

#72 WrathofG-d 5/13/08 4:01:45 pm 1

This would never have happened if not for:
(a) Their support for Israeli"occupation".
(b) Their occupation of "Palestinian" land.
(c) Their involvement in the illegal invasion of Iraq.
(d) Their cowboy deplomacy.
(e) Their being George W. Bush
(f) Their stealing of Arab/Muslim oil.


Something to think about the next time we hear these justifications and excuses for Terrorism done against the United States, Britian, or Israel.

It the Islamistism stupid!

#73 GeeWiz 5/13/08 4:01:46 pm 1

re: #38 Ojoe

Large expanding balls of hot gas

Like our politicians?...

#74 Dianna 5/13/08 4:02:06 pm 1
and there were no immediate indication that foreigners had been caught in any of the explosions.

Which makes it so much better.
/

Somehow, I'm about as angry, reading that sentence, at the writer as I am at the bombers. It's not reasonable, but here I am.

#75 Ojoe 5/13/08 4:02:40 pm 1

re: #73 GeeWiz

Faster and hotter, though.

#76 goddessoftheclassroom 5/13/08 4:03:20 pm 0

re: #32 jcm

Alan is Stan.
Stan does hate everyone.

You know, I think Stan hates himself the most and just feels contempt for human beings. To him, we're not worthy of the emotion hatred takes; he just delights in our hating each other.

#77 Ojoe 5/13/08 4:03:22 pm 1

re: #74 Dianna

All those killed were loved by God

#78 loflyer 5/13/08 4:03:30 pm 0

re: #67 savage_nation

I am!


Well heres some thing for you! Hope you find what you are looking for! Moodies

#79 Shug 5/13/08 4:03:48 pm 3

Global cooling alarms 1975

Meteorologists disagree about the cause and the extent of the (global ) cooling trend, as well as over its specific impact on local weather conditions. But they are almost unanimous in the views that the trend will reduce agricultural productivity for the rest of the Century

To sumarize : Forecasts of global cooling and warming are useless

#80 jetprop 5/13/08 4:04:39 pm 1

Terrorists in India..huh..go figure. Couldn't be the ROP.

And all the while, Moonbats had me thinking the only terrorits were the ones GWB created in Iraq for his illegal unjust war for oil so Haliburton can make obscene profits to fund the military industrial complex.
/s

#81 goddessoftheclassroom 5/13/08 4:05:41 pm 0

re: #64 Crepuscular Prick

I'm guessing the Pasupata sect, the Atimargika, Kapalika or Kalamukha.

/But then again it could have been the Methodists.

{Crepuscular Prick}

I've FINALLY remembered what your nic means!

#82 storagemanager 5/13/08 4:07:30 pm 0

The moderate President Bush is on his way to Israel...with a sharp carving knife...save us from moderates.

#83 Dianna 5/13/08 4:08:03 pm 0

re: #77 Ojoe

Thanks.

But so is the writer.

#84 song_and_dance_man 5/13/08 4:08:04 pm 0

Not to diminish the atrocity committed, but worshiping a monkey seems a bit evolutionary.

#85 Render 5/13/08 4:08:56 pm 0

[Link: abclive.in...]

Reports that Radix plastic explosive was used.

File under 48 hour rule.

DIGGING,
R

#86 Thanos 5/13/08 4:09:17 pm 1

arghh.. I am in computer hell ... my wife just go a new computer. So now I load it, then hand it down to one of the kids, load it, hand their computer down to the parents, load it... I'm gone for the night it appears, later lizards.

[deleted] 5/13/08 4:09:22 pm 0
#88 loflyer 5/13/08 4:09:52 pm 0

re: #84 song_and_dance_man

Not to diminish the atrocity committed, but worshiping a monkey seems a bit evolutionary.

Dying for 72 raisen's is extreme devolution!

[deleted] 5/13/08 4:10:02 pm 0
#90 mikeinmd 5/13/08 4:13:15 pm 1

re: #89 savage_nation

Gag.

#91 Render 5/13/08 4:13:52 pm 0

re: #71 hayseed

Kos is from El Salvador. His family is still very rich and somewhat powerful thereabouts.

[Link: truth-about-kos.blogspot.com...]

ALL
SEEING
EYE,
R

#92 Shug 5/13/08 4:14:37 pm 2

Please, those of you with high blood pressure, do not read this

Somali student threatens to kill a service dog named Emmitt. The black lab is trained to protect a fellow student when he has seizures.

The threat came from a Somali student who is Muslim, according to ____ St. Cloud State and school district officials.
The Muslim faith, which is the dominant faith of Somali immigrants, forbids the touching of dogs.

“I think this is part of the growth process when we become more diverse"

#93 Atweber 5/13/08 4:15:01 pm