Very Bad News on Pakistan-India Train |
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Feb 19th, 2007, 12:01
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| Maha Guru Member  Join Date: Sep 2001 Location: Land that shakes and bakes.
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| Very Bad News on Pakistan-India Train Quote:
The News Item from the BBC Last edited by Nick-H; Feb 19th, 2007 at 13:21.. Reason: Added the quote and tidied the link | |
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Feb 19th, 2007, 12:16
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| Already mentioned by someone elsewhere on the forum, but still a valid newsitem. What this BBC report doesn't mention is that the passengers, for security reasons, were locked in. Very odd... can't find that thread now. |
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Feb 19th, 2007, 12:21
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 | This one's gonna have some repercussions, my gut tells me 
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Feb 19th, 2007, 12:34
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| Infidel Sufi  Join Date: Sep 2005 Location: styx
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| It seems the target is the Indo Pakistan talks or the 'improving relations' between the 2 countries. The bomb blasts in Pakistan over the last few days had rung alarm bells in the mind, too.
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Feb 19th, 2007, 12:49
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Feb 19th, 2007, 13:24
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| The BBC does mention that some passengers may have been locked in. How absolutely dreadful. |
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Feb 19th, 2007, 15:12
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| Maha Guru Member  Join Date: Sep 2005 Location: Nouakchott
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| oh dear... |
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Feb 19th, 2007, 16:35
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| If I remember correctly, the train was/is used for smuggling too. One of the ways is to simply throw the contraband out of the train once you cross the border and then collect payment at the station. Once you collect the cash, you throw it out once again on the return journey for your henchmen to pick up. This might have been the rationale for locking up carriages. There was a newspaper/TV article about this. Since this involves border crossing, I'm sure bags are examined BEFORE you get on the train,so it's interesting that this thing happened. I understand the train slows down at different places, slow enough for people to climb on, hence the additional need to lock doors. rank speculation, this.
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Feb 19th, 2007, 17:45
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| Naan.tering Nabob  Join Date: Sep 2005 Location: Abode of Glooscap
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| It's funny after first reading the heading of this post I assumed it was a "train to India" but after reading the article, I now realize that it was a "train to Pakistan" .... no matter what country's gremlins are at work - the significance of the transportation medium used in the blast will undoubtedly strike deeply at the nerves of this age-old conflict. 
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Feb 19th, 2007, 19:07
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| Psychopaths I saw in the last week that a member of the Red Brigade/Anarchist terrorist group, the Baader-Meinhof Gang, is to be paroled after many years in prison. Those psychopaths convinced themselves that murder was good for who knows what. I thought back in the seventies when that gang caused mayhem they were overindulged rich kids. It appears that disturbed and deluded folk (or governments) anywhere may take up a cult of arson and murder. Seems like the Thuggees of old. I doubt if the motive this time was political. |
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Feb 19th, 2007, 20:32
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Feb 20th, 2007, 02:50
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| In an act of arrogance top story on cnn.com is about 3 missing mountain climbers. Nothing about train blast in India on front page! BBC.com has top story as train blast. Is US that far out of loop? as far as world events are concerned? I think George Loony Beans Bush has succeeded beyond even his wildest dreams. |
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Feb 20th, 2007, 02:58
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| Well, the good news is actually that this isn't a bigger story. There are train explosions and lethal derailments in India more often than you realize. This one only made the news because of the Pakistani connection--but the good news is that there isn't a Pakistani connection and the politicians are not insinuating one. The bombs were gasoline, not military explosives (RDX). No one is suggesting that either government had a hand in the blasts. This is a far cry from other events in the not so distant past--the attack on parliament in Delhi and on the American cultural center in Kolkata, and the market and train blasts in Mumbai. In this case, as far as we know, troops are not repositioning along the Line of Control, ambassadors are not being recalled, and the phone lines between Delhi and Islamabad are still open. |
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Feb 20th, 2007, 03:13
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Feb 20th, 2007, 03:21
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| Yes it is on Yahoo, but CNN is main news organisation, I would have expected them to headline the news, the way BBC did. And the way they done London train bombing. (correction: Now they have the story as third lead) |
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