16 Bombs Hit Ahmedabad, Gujrat Area

[khalsaforce]

AHMEDABAD, India (Reuters) - At least 16 small bombs exploded in the Indian city of Ahmedabad on Saturday, killing at least 29 people and wounding 88, a day after another set of blasts in the country's IT hub, officials said.

On Friday, eight bombs exploded in quick succession in the southern information technology city of Bangalore, killing at least one person and wounding six others.

Saturday's blasts were in Ahmedabad's crowded old city dominated by its Muslim community. One was in a metal tiffin box, used to carry food, another apparently left on a bicycle.

"The blasts occurred in 90 minutes, one in a hospital, others in the old city of Ahmedabad," Narendra Modi, the state's Hindu-nationalist chief minister told reporters.

There were two separate series of bombings, the first near busy market places. A second quick succession of bombs went off 20 to 25 minutes later around a hospital, where at least six people died, police said.

Several TV channels said they had received an email from a group called the "Indian Mujahideen" at the time of the blasts. The same group claimed responsibility for eight bombs that killed 63 people in the western city of Jaipur in May.

One television channel showed a bus with its side blown up, shattered windows and the roof half-destroyed. Another showed a dead dog lying beside a blown-up bicycle.

"The bus had just started when the blast happened," P. K Pathak, a retired insurance official who was traveling in nearby bus, told Reuters.

"Many people standing on the exit door fell down. There was fire and smoke all over. We got down from our bus and rushed to help them."

Ahmedabad is the main city in the communally sensitive and relatively wealthy western state of Gujarat, scene of deadly riots in 2002 in which 2,500 people are thought to have died, most of them Muslims killed by rampaging Hindu mobs.

ISLAMIST MILITANTS

Both states targeted in the bomb attacks are ruled by the Hindu-nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party and are among the country's fastest-growing.

Suspicion is falling on Islamist militants intent on destabilizing India by fanning tensions between Hindus and Muslims, and police were deployed in Ahmedabad on Saturday to maintain calm.

India has suffered a wave of bombings in recent years, with targets ranging from mosques and Hindu temples to trains.

It is unusual for any group to claim responsibility, but India says it suspects militant groups from Pakistan and Bangladesh are behind many of the attacks.

"The government had received a threat e-mail and we are probing into it," local state government Home Minister Amit Shah told Reuters.

So far, police say they have few leads into Friday's Bangalore bombings.

On Saturday, another unexploded bomb was found near a shopping mall in Bangalore, but it was unclear whether the bomb was newly planted or meant to have exploded during Friday's attacks, police said.

India's home ministry said on Friday it suspected "a small militant group" was behind the Bangalore attacks, while some police officials suspected the blasts could be the work of the banned Students Islamic Movement of India.

Some IT companies in Bangalore, known as India's Silicon Valley, were increasing security after bombs went off there. Each bomb had a similar explosive force to one or two grenades.

The city is a prominent software development centre and is also home to a major outsourcing industry.

Also nicknamed the "world's back office," Bangalore has more than 1,500 top firms, including Infosys, Wipro and the offices of global firms such as Microsoft Corp and Intel Corp.

"If such incidents continue, investors will fly away from the city," said state opposition politician Mallikharjuna Kharge.

[ocelot]

If these things has happened in Punjab, Police have arrested more then 50 innocent sikhs, have tortured them and posted that they have arrested terrorists.

[xHarinder_singh]

Killing civilians is an act of terrorism and shud be condemmed. Having said that, I feel that this bombing might be a response to the nuclear agreement recently signed by India. Attacking India's IT industry effects both India and US. US companies are greatly dependent on cheap indian labour force.

I have a feeling that this might just be the starting of something really terrible.

Muslims, China,Iran, Russia Versus USA,UK, India etc.

Terrible days ahead....

[ocelot]

China and Russia are both fighting with Muslims.

Russia is with India.

So there are lot of complexity.

The skills possesed by Indians in computer are so pathetic that you will see outsourcing work going to China in few years once they improve there English skills, that they are doing at rapid rate.

[xHarinder_singh]

source: http://www.rense.com/general15/chinasupports.htm

China Supports bin Laden

And The Taliban

By J. R. Nyquist

Financial Sense.com

10-10-1

On Sept. 28 Bill Gertz reported in the Washington Times that China was helping the Taliban by installing a telephone system in the Afghan capital. Previously Beijing denied its companies were assisting the Taliban. "China does not have any kind of formal relations with the Taliban," insisted the Chinese Foreign Ministry. To be sure, the Chinese were lying. According to Gertz, "[American] Defense and intelligence officials said Beijing appears to be following a dual-track policy of voicing official support for U.S. efforts against terrorism while maintaining ... ties to the Taliban militia." According to Gertz's intelligence sources, bin Laden called for "good relations" between Afghanistan and China last August. And why not? China openly preaches against U.S. global dominance, threatening war and destruction if the U.S. should interfere with a future PLA invasion of Taiwan. At the same time, Beijing is supporting North Korea's massive military buildup along the DMZ, which has U.S. and South Korean military officials worried. When all is said and done the Chinese communists hate the United States. That is why they have allied with Russia. That is why they are making nice with communist Vietnam. Consider, as well, Beijing's growing military ties with Cuba and Beijing's support for Hugo Chavez in Venezuela. The Chinese see America as their main enemy. A secret Chinese alliance with Osama bin Laden and the Taliban is therefore something we ought to expect. This may seem unbelievable, but as far back as 1998 the Iranian official press said there was a secret defense agreement between China and the Taliban. The West ignored this story, as it has ignored other bad Chinese behavior. And now it is time to reap the whirlwind. After the terrorist attacks of last month, the London Sunday Telegraph reported significant Chinese troop movements toward the Afghan border. "Convoys of Chinese military trucks roared along the Karakoram Highway last week," claimed the Telegraph. Nobody in the West thought these movements were significant. Western pundits speculated that the Chinese were eager to protect their Central Asian frontier, to prevent terrorist infiltrators from crossing into China (as if China, which genuinely represses Muslims, would ever be targeted by bin Laden). What were these troop movements all about? According to Debka File, a leading intelligence publication, a convoy of 3,000 PLA (Peoples Liberation Army) troops crossed into Afghanistan last Friday, Oct. 5. Three additional PLA Convoys were said to follow. According to Debka File's sources, Beijing's troops are ethnic Muslims sent to reinforce the Taliban. If Debka File is correct, the total Chinese reinforcement of the Taliban may amount to 15,000 troops. Anticipating America's October 7 airstrikes against the Taliban, Beijing probably hopes to stem the deterioration of Taliban morale with a show of support. Beijing thereby hopes to check U.S. progress against bin Laden and his Afghan allies. Already the Chinese have seen the Kitty Hawk battlegroup and the U.S. 3rd Marine Division pulling away from the Far East. They also see that the U.S. 25th Infantry Division has been sent from Hawaii to the Persian Gulf. The East Asian communists may be tempted by the present vulnerability of Taiwan and South Korea. Why not extend that vulnerability by bolstering the Taliban with four PLA regiments? This strategy makes perfect sense once we realize that the Chinese leadership hates the United States and privately cheers the destructive attacks of Sept. 11. Readers should be reminded, in this context, of an August 1998 document from the Chinese Central Military Commission that was sent to all corps commanders of the Peoples Liberation Army. According to this document, which leaked out of China last year, the United States is vulnerable and could not withstand even a limited nuclear strike from China. Despite the possession of great power America remains unwilling to sacrifice cities in a <banned word filter activated>-for-tat war. On the other side, the Chinese are fully prepared to sacrifice their cities. Therefore, Beijing could outface Washington if hostilities erupted over Taiwan. That is the logic of China's Central Military Commission. On Sept. 13 two leading Chinese military strategists were interviewed by China's state-owned Ta Kung Pao newspaper. Senior Col. Qiao Liang and Col. Wang Xiangsui credited themselves with predicting the Sept. 11 terror attacks in their 1999 book, "Unrestricted Warfare." The terrorists used no military weapons, said Qiao and Wang, yet the attacks were more effective than those resulting from open warfare. The two Chinese experts said that those killed in the Twin Towers were the victims of U.S. foreign policy, plain and simple. "September 11, 2001 probably marks the beginning of U.S. decline as a superpower," said the Chinese colonels. "The attacks demonstrated the U.S. fragility and weakness and showed that, basically, it is unable to withstand attacks. The National Missile Defense system cannot save it." Asked about the adverse effects the attacks may have on the Chinese economy, the two colonels admitted that a short-term negative impact was to be expected. "However, from a long-term viewpoint, the attacks could be favorable to China," they said. American observers should not be surprised at Chinese strategic moves in relation to the Sept. 11 events. China is our enemy. Therefore, China is sure to align itself with America's other enemies, wherever they might be. In light of this, it was foolish for Nixon to go to China. It was blameworthy to finance China's modernization program, and it was short-sighted to establish trade relations with the Beijing communists. It has to be understood, in the final analysis, that the People's Republic is run by gangsters who dream of America's destruction. It has to be admitted that we have supplied them with the means to strike us by our own complacency and greed. Think of the situation in purely moral terms: It did not concern American businessmen that millions languished in the Chinese prison camps, that Christians were brutally persecuted, that protesters were crushed by tanks. None of this bothered those who were eager to build factories in the People's Republic of China (PRC) in order to make a profit. Yet consider the long term consequences. The unanimous and bipartisan report of the House Select Committee on U.S. National Security and Military Commercial Concerns with the People's Republic of China (i.e., the Cox Report) stated the situation in plain terms: "The PRC's massive potential consumer market is the key factor behind the willingness of some U.S. businesses to risk and tolerate technology transfers. Some of these transfers could impair U.S. national security, as in the cases of Loral and Hughes...." The United States is a country that has made serious mistakes in its economic and security policy. We have supported countries that should have been blockaded and isolated. And now we face a deadly combination because the enemy we face is not merely the terrorist, Osama bin Laden. The enemy we face is in Beijing and Moscow, Pyongyang and Hanoi, Havana and Pretoria.

[ocelot]

Also read, that chinese think muslims terrorists as a major threat to Olympics.

Chinese oppression of Muslims in XinXiang.

So politics is a dirty game.

[xHarinder_singh]

Both china and russia have some muslim problems but there is a much bigger game going on and in that game, both china, russia and the muslim world(iran, taliban, alquida) have a common enemy and that is USA and its friends.

In this larger game, china, russia and muslim world are already joining hands.

On the other hand, USA is trying to use India to keep a check on the growing power of China.

Yes, I agree its all a dirty game. But poor civilians are going to suffer GREATLY in this dirty game. Infact I feel the biggest disaster of human history(last 4 yuggs) is just about to start.

[khalsaforce]

the united states already gave a kind of a warning at the united nation about iran...if the UN doesnt take any steps the United States will be taking harsh steps.....so pretty sure before the elections bush might go to war with iran....

[xHarinder_singh]

the united states already gave a kind of a warning at the united nation about iran...if the UN doesnt take any steps the United States will be taking harsh steps.....so pretty sure before the elections bush might go to war with iran....

But does US afford another war ? Can the present economy of USA suffer the blow of another war ? USA is entirely dependent on oil for its existance and standard of living and oil is a finite resource which I feel has peaked. So USA has no place of go, it wants oil to maintain its power and by doing so it is making lots of enemies and since one day the oil is going to run out, all these enemies of USA are going to ruin USA to ashes.

AMERICA FOR SALE

http://www.businessweek.com/investor/conte...opStories_ssi_5

[khalsaforce]

dude i am pretty sure we have found oil in the dakota territories in the north and thats a new ball game for the united states.....most of the land owned by poor farmers is being bought out in millions of dollars by small oil companies in the united states and its booming the economy a little bit for the poor farmers but once the oil started to come out in high quantity then the economy will boom like crazy, wont expect nothing like it...