While India screams Pakistan please check this out

[malaise]

from last Sunday
http://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/world-news/india-uncovers-hindu-terror-group-that-carried-out-bombings-blamed-on-islamists-14076306.html
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India is in something of a state of shock after learning from official sources that its first Hindu terror cell may have carried out a series of deadly bombings that were initially blamed on militant Muslims. The revelation is forcing the country to consider some difficult questions.

At least 10 people have been arrested in connection with several bomb blasts in the Muslim-dominated town of Malegaon in the western state of Maharashtra in September, which left six people dead. But reports suggest that police believe the cell may also have carried out a number of previous attacks, including last year's notorious bombing of a cross-border train en route to Pakistan, which killed 68 people. Among the alleged members of the cell are a serving army officer and a Hindu monk.

The near-daily drip of revelations from police has also caused red faces for India's main political opposition, the Hindu nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), ahead of state polls and a general election scheduled for early next year. The BJP and its prime ministerial candidate, Lal Krishna Advani, have long accused the Congress Party-led government of being soft on terrorism that involved Muslims. However, the BJP has refused to call for a clampdown on Hindu groups, and last week Mr Advani even criticised the police over the way they questioned one of the alleged cell members, a woman called Sadhvi Pragya Singh Thakur.

[ColbertWatcher]

1. Does this make it more like our Oklahoma City bombing? n/t

[malaise]

3. We don't know who did this one

What we know is that there are also militant Hindus.

[ColbertWatcher]

9. OK. Thank you for answering. n/t

[ayeshahaqqiqa]

2. Mumbai is a multi-cultural city

It has,for example, the largest population of Zoroastrians (Farsi) of any city. But I doubt if they were behind it. But who knows? It could be anyone who was behind it.

[bemildred]

4. That works. It works real well.

But how are we going to explain it to Amurkans?

[malaise]

5. The smart ones already know

The others? I have no time to waste. :fistbump:

[panader0]

6. Where's Gandhi when you need him?

He did so much to stem sectarian violence when India and Pakistan were formed.

[Pharaoh]

7. Gandhi reincarnated

He goes by the name Barack now...............

[malaise]

8. I hope the BJP lose the election

They are bad for India.

[jberryhill]

10. Radical Hindu Maharastran Separatists

...they want Maharastra to be an independent country from India.

Keeping India in one piece is a headache within a headache.

People think the US has a diverse population. Our diversity is nothing next to theirs.

[lib2DaBone]

11. How come when the right-wing Conservatives get involved we get death and destruction?

[malaise]

12. Everywhere

That's the absolute truth.

[eridani]

13. Another possibillity

http://www.alternet.org/audits/109061/?page=entire

Why the timing of this raid, on the dawn of Thanksgiving in America? The leader of India's opposition and former deputy Prime Minister L. K. Advani had long sought Dawood's extradition from Pakistan, a move opposed by the then military government in Islamabad. With the restoration of civilian rule, the new Pakistani prime minister (Gillani) consented to New Delhi's deportation request.

Washington and London both agreed with the India's legal claim and removed the longstanding "official protection" accorded for his past services to Western intelligence agencies. U.S. diplomats, however, could never allow Dawood's return. He simply knows too much about America's darker secrets in South Asia and the Gulf, disclosure of which could scuttle U.S.-India relations. Dawood was whisked away in late June to a safe house in Quetta, near the tribal area of Waziristan, and then he disappeared, probably back to the Middle East.

As in the case of America's Afghan war protégé Osama bin Laden, the blowback to U.S. covert policy came suddenly, this time with spectacular effects in Mumbai. The assault on the Taj Mahal Palace Hotel will probably go down as the first lethal blow to the incoming Obama administration. The assailants, who spoke Punjabi and not the Deccan dialect, went to a lot of trouble to torch the prestigious hotel, which is owned by the Tata Group. This industrial giant is the largest business supporter of the U.S.-India nuclear cooperation agreement, and Tata is now planning to become a nuclear power supplier. The Clintons, as emissaries of Enron, were the first to suggest the nuclear deal with New Delhi, so Obama inherits the Mumbai catastrophe even before he takes office.

Dawood, ranks fourth on Forbes' list of the world's 10 most wanted fugitives from the law. After the new round of attacks that killed more than 100 people and laid waste top five-star hotels, Dawood can now contend for the No.1 spot in the coming months and years. In contrast to the fanatic and often ineffective bin Laden, Dawood is professional on all counts and therefore a far more formidable adversary. Yet some in Pakistan's military intelligence agency say that Dawood is dead, killed in July. This version of events is much the same as a variation of the bin Laden story. If true, then his underlings are carrying on the mission of an outlaw transfigured into a legend.