http://www.expressindia.com/fullstory.php?newsid=81662
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin--><b>Train blasts a deliberate act of terrorism: US</b>
Press Trust of India
Posted online: Monday, February 19, 2007 at 1418 hours IST
New Delhi, February 19: Describing the blasts in Samjhauta Express as "a deliberate act of terrorism", the United States on Monday said such acts could only strengthen the resolve to defeat terror and achieve peace.
"The US Government is shocked and deeply saddened by the tragic loss of lives caused by a deliberate act of terrorism early Monday morning on the Samjhauta Express, linking Delhi and Lahore", a US Embassy statement said here.
"Such acts can only strengthen the resolve of all well-intentioned people to defeat terror and achieve peace", it said.
The US government extends its condolences to the victims of this "criminal act" and their families, the statement added.<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->
There's a section of Pakistan that's been starting to think Partition was a mistake. Some of them have even been hinting at this in newspapers - sometimes clearly, sometimes it's between the lines. And Ramana also indirectly referred, or so I understand, to a gradually increasing closeness from the Paki end when writing:
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->My next prediction is the berating of evil South Indians who want to keep the land together and prevent rapprochment with TSP!<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->The rest of the Pakistanis are incredibly afraid that India and their country might merge again (and as long as Pakistan is islamic, that should never happen IMO).
[As an aside: Ramana's prediction that Indians, N or S, are trying to prevent rapprochement with TSP does seem to be the way the pseculars are trying to spin this terrorist attack.]
Either way, TSP's official overtures to India - matched by the sick reciprocated infatuation of the Congress government - can't be promising to the Kashmiri separatists. (Though it could for the Mughalistanis.)
Kashmiri j-hadis would definitely see any Indo-Pak friendship as treason by their ally Pakistan and as a threat to their objectives, so I wonder to what extent if any this fear was a factor in this here train affair. Could it have been an additional motive, as Arindam says in #45, to remind Pakistan of what they ought to be focussing on rather than its continued flirting with India (only officially, unofficially TSP is still terrorising).
I feel two things make this event special:
(1) Numerous islamic people dead. Muslims do that when they consider other muslims anti-islamic: as in, the other muslims are not doing their duty, they're not fighting for the global (or local) islamic cause.
Kashmir would still count as a local islamic cause, and Kashmiri j-hadis might well be feeling betrayed and abandoned by their helper TSP.
That recent bomb in a mosque didn't harm anyone, because it wasn't meant to. It was only meant to throw suspicion off islamics as a group being potential terrorists.
But in this case, the Pakistanis on the Samjhauta are trying to befriend kafir India instead of opposing the 'oppressors' of their brethren in Kashmir. So anti-Indian islamoterrorists could find such Pakistanis expendable (as they consider moderates in Kashmir also).
(2) Numerous islamics dead are of Pakistani nationality no less. This is an attack on a symbol of Indo-Pak relations: the friendship train. As Rajesh_g says, this must be significant.
Now, from the other side: Congress also benefits from this event that covers both (1) and (2) above. They could be looking to sell this as:
- Islamics dead, so 'it could not have been islamics, therefore it must be the Hindoos' which fits (1).
- And then, 'Hindoos are trying to sabotage the Indo-Pak friendship. Citizens of India, wouldn't you rather side with improved Indo-Pak relations than with obscurantist Hindoo fundamentalists who are trying to destroy that?' which covers (2)
Or all this superficial and trite 'analysis' (this post) is merely childish thinking. In any case, neither TSP nor Congress are to be trusted. And no-one regular person in India was for trusting LeT anyway.
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin--><b>Train blasts a deliberate act of terrorism: US</b>
Press Trust of India
Posted online: Monday, February 19, 2007 at 1418 hours IST
New Delhi, February 19: Describing the blasts in Samjhauta Express as "a deliberate act of terrorism", the United States on Monday said such acts could only strengthen the resolve to defeat terror and achieve peace.
"The US Government is shocked and deeply saddened by the tragic loss of lives caused by a deliberate act of terrorism early Monday morning on the Samjhauta Express, linking Delhi and Lahore", a US Embassy statement said here.
"Such acts can only strengthen the resolve of all well-intentioned people to defeat terror and achieve peace", it said.
The US government extends its condolences to the victims of this "criminal act" and their families, the statement added.<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->
There's a section of Pakistan that's been starting to think Partition was a mistake. Some of them have even been hinting at this in newspapers - sometimes clearly, sometimes it's between the lines. And Ramana also indirectly referred, or so I understand, to a gradually increasing closeness from the Paki end when writing:
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->My next prediction is the berating of evil South Indians who want to keep the land together and prevent rapprochment with TSP!<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->The rest of the Pakistanis are incredibly afraid that India and their country might merge again (and as long as Pakistan is islamic, that should never happen IMO).
[As an aside: Ramana's prediction that Indians, N or S, are trying to prevent rapprochement with TSP does seem to be the way the pseculars are trying to spin this terrorist attack.]
Either way, TSP's official overtures to India - matched by the sick reciprocated infatuation of the Congress government - can't be promising to the Kashmiri separatists. (Though it could for the Mughalistanis.)
Kashmiri j-hadis would definitely see any Indo-Pak friendship as treason by their ally Pakistan and as a threat to their objectives, so I wonder to what extent if any this fear was a factor in this here train affair. Could it have been an additional motive, as Arindam says in #45, to remind Pakistan of what they ought to be focussing on rather than its continued flirting with India (only officially, unofficially TSP is still terrorising).
I feel two things make this event special:
(1) Numerous islamic people dead. Muslims do that when they consider other muslims anti-islamic: as in, the other muslims are not doing their duty, they're not fighting for the global (or local) islamic cause.
Kashmir would still count as a local islamic cause, and Kashmiri j-hadis might well be feeling betrayed and abandoned by their helper TSP.
That recent bomb in a mosque didn't harm anyone, because it wasn't meant to. It was only meant to throw suspicion off islamics as a group being potential terrorists.
But in this case, the Pakistanis on the Samjhauta are trying to befriend kafir India instead of opposing the 'oppressors' of their brethren in Kashmir. So anti-Indian islamoterrorists could find such Pakistanis expendable (as they consider moderates in Kashmir also).
(2) Numerous islamics dead are of Pakistani nationality no less. This is an attack on a symbol of Indo-Pak relations: the friendship train. As Rajesh_g says, this must be significant.
Now, from the other side: Congress also benefits from this event that covers both (1) and (2) above. They could be looking to sell this as:
- Islamics dead, so 'it could not have been islamics, therefore it must be the Hindoos' which fits (1).
- And then, 'Hindoos are trying to sabotage the Indo-Pak friendship. Citizens of India, wouldn't you rather side with improved Indo-Pak relations than with obscurantist Hindoo fundamentalists who are trying to destroy that?' which covers (2)
Or all this superficial and trite 'analysis' (this post) is merely childish thinking. In any case, neither TSP nor Congress are to be trusted. And no-one regular person in India was for trusting LeT anyway.