07-13-2006, 12:20 AM
Husky,
This transcript is from yesterday's Countdown programme link
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->OLBERMANN: It does not make the dead any less so. It does not reduce the horror, nor circumscribe the implications. But it may put our fourth story on the COUNTDOWN, terrorist bombings in the city we know asâhave known, anyway, as Bombay, in India, in some context.
<span style='font-size:14pt;line-height:100%'>The original terrorists, the ones who were duped or drugged into believing they would be rewarded with virgins in heaven if they carried out political murders, they were in a cult called the Hashishin, or the Assassins. Their reign of terror began in the 11th century. After it ended about 1272 A.D., the Assassins and their families began to call themselves instead Sojas (ph), or Maolas (ph), and their descendants today live throughout the Middle East but primarily in India.
And they acknowledge as their titular leader the Aga Khan of Bombay. That Indian city is now known as Mumbai, and it is at this hour still numb with horror, a series of eight bombs exploding on the cityâs commuter rail network at the height of the evening rush hour, killing at least 163, wounding more than 400.</span>
Authorities are calling it a well-coordinated terrorist attack, just the latest reminder in a matter of days that here at home, public transportation could be an easy target.
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This transcript is from yesterday's Countdown programme link
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->OLBERMANN: It does not make the dead any less so. It does not reduce the horror, nor circumscribe the implications. But it may put our fourth story on the COUNTDOWN, terrorist bombings in the city we know asâhave known, anyway, as Bombay, in India, in some context.
<span style='font-size:14pt;line-height:100%'>The original terrorists, the ones who were duped or drugged into believing they would be rewarded with virgins in heaven if they carried out political murders, they were in a cult called the Hashishin, or the Assassins. Their reign of terror began in the 11th century. After it ended about 1272 A.D., the Assassins and their families began to call themselves instead Sojas (ph), or Maolas (ph), and their descendants today live throughout the Middle East but primarily in India.
And they acknowledge as their titular leader the Aga Khan of Bombay. That Indian city is now known as Mumbai, and it is at this hour still numb with horror, a series of eight bombs exploding on the cityâs commuter rail network at the height of the evening rush hour, killing at least 163, wounding more than 400.</span>
Authorities are calling it a well-coordinated terrorist attack, just the latest reminder in a matter of days that here at home, public transportation could be an easy target.
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