Posted on 10/29/2005 11:49:25 PM PDT by Gengis Khan
New Delhi (dpa) - Police raided hotels and guesthouses and detained several people on Sunday seeking leads about the serial blasts in New Delhi that claimed 59 lives and triggered panic among thousands ahead of Diwali, the Hindu festival of lights.
India's Home Ministry said 114 people had been injured in the Saturday's blasts. Two bombs exploded at busy marketplaces while another exploded outside a bus in the Indian capital.
Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh condemned the attacks as "dastardly acts of terrorism" that were meant to create disaffection among communities in the festive season.
Diwali is to be celebrated on November 1, followed by the Moslem festival of Eid later on in the week.
"We shall defeat their (terrorists') nefarious designs and not allow them to succeed," he said.
Major cities across the country were placed on high alert after the blasts. Delhi was on "red alert" and its borders had been sealed.
No militant outfit has claimed responsibility for the attack thus far, but local media reported that the Delhi police had secured definite clues into the attack.
Police and security agencies had combed the blast sites throughout Saturday night to determine the nature of explosives used in the attacks.
At least 12 people have been detained since Saturday evening. The IANS news agency reported that over 50 people were also being questioned by the police.
Police suspect that Pakistan-based militant groups Lashkar-e-Toiba and Jaish-e-Mohammed behind the blasts, the NDTV network reported.
At Sarojini Nagar, which was worst-affected by the blasts, daybreak revealed the magnitude of the tragedy. Debris and charred remains lay strewn across the market where nearly 40 people lost their lives. People frantically searched the blast sites and hospitals for their missing relatives.
Shiv Narain Pandey, who runs a cigarette shop in Sarojini Nagar said, "My relative was visiting me from my native place and was at the market when the blast took place. I have gone to at least three hospitals through the night but there is no trace of him."
Shopkeepers at Paharganj market where the first blast took place were defiant. "We will not bow down to terrorists. The market association has decided to keep the shops open and the market will function as normal," Raj Kumar Chawla, a shopkeeper said.
However, Delhi residents were clearly shaken by the attack. Not many people ventured into markets on Sunday morning. Sunday is "Dhanteras" when Hindus do the bulk of their shopping for Diwali.
The Dhanteras day is considered auspicious for buying metal utensils, jewellery and other items.
Right on. No government anywhere has the guts to address the Saudi madrassas and mosques issue, and they are rampant everywhere from Pakistan to Thailand to Africa and even to the USA. I wonder if the Saudis are paying off all the politicians. It is the only explanation that makes sense to me.
First the Muslims will build their mosques closest to your Temple or Church. And then their "azzans" will be blairing from loudspeakers as loud as possible. They will do it deliberately to create disturbance and if you raise objections to the loud noise, they will accuse you of intolerance and anti-Muslim hatred.
What a silly saying. I've never seen a candle do that.
Nonetheless, Death To Islam. Stupid Moos.
Actually, candles do, or they used to - the wick would grow long as the candle wax was consumed and the liquid wax that pooled up at the bottom would make it flare up a bit at the very end. However, modern candles (which are made of a much harder substance and not beeswax or tallow) don't seem to do this.
On the other hand, I wish I believed that this was Islam's death gasp, but sadly, I think it means that the Muslims are just revving up. They are feeling very empowered because they have seen that terrorism works in many cases, and that in no case will modern non-Muslim states or entities target Islam, call it what it really is (an insane death cult), and fight back. Maybe this will happen some day, but right now all the non-Muslim countries are tiptoeing around the real issue, and the Muslims are getting stronger and more violent.
It is very arrogant, you're right. There are some cities in the US now where the Muslims have come and built mosques in places where they know they will intrude on the lives of the non-Muslim citizens. But of course, we let them get away with it. Places that would not even allow church bells to ring now allow Muslims to broadcast their cacaphonous "call to prayer" several times a day.
I personally suspect the Presbyterians.
no, no, no....it's Bush's fault don't you know. Or Halliburton's, I can't keep this stuff straight.
They need some killin'...is that what you mean?
But the LLL/moonbats will continue to say it's all the fault of the US/Israel.
Not in my town. Not yet. But it is coming, unless all of us who are infidels wake up to the fact that Islam cannot and will not co-exist with us peacefully. This is the ultimate clash of civilizations, one we must win if we are to preserve our Judeo/Christian traditions and our democratic republic way of life.
Bingo
But but but the saudis are our allies! (Bush told me so)...
(Islamic)Group Said to Be Behind India Blasts
Got in a hurry, AP is burying this deep.
The group that claimed responsibility calls itself the "Islamic Inquilab Mahaz" (Islamic revolutionary group) but its just a front of the Lashkar e Toiba.
Its time US, India and Isreal come together and take out the Islamic bomb in Iran and Pakistan.
If the muslims who are not terrorists or terrorist supporters would just research their own history, they would see that somewhere along the line their great/great/great etc grandparents were forced into Islam. They should find their roots and return to the religions of their forefathers.
Most would be Hindu, some Buddhist, Jain, or Christian.
That reminds me of the Alamo where the Mexican army band, on orders of Santa Anna, played Deguello to demoralize the defending Texicans and Americans.
Apparently, the song Deguello was from the period when the Moors (read muslims) ruled over Spain.
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