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Kashmir - Dental surgeon beheaded in broad daylight
Daily Excelsior ^ | Oct 9 2006 | Ahmed Ali Fayyaz

Posted on 10/09/2006 11:59:06 AM PDT by swarthyguy

SRINAGAR, Oct 8: Taking advantage of the losing grip of Police, BSF as well as Army in Sopore, militants have kidnapped and mercilessly slaughtered a young dental surgeon within 24 hours of beheading a Territorial Army recruit in the apple-rich north Kashmir township. More confident this time, militants have slit the throat of the young dental surgeon and father of three kids with seven shaving blades in broad daylight after subjecting him to untold brutality for about two hours.

Civilian sources revealed to the EXCELSIOR that the local Police Station responded to a report and recovered the dead body of 35-year-old Dr Mushtaq Ahmed Shah S/o Masoom Shah R/o Zachaldara (presently Braripora, Handwara) from corn fields in Nopora Kalan locality of the appletown of Sopore in the morning today. They said that unidentified militants, armed with AK-47 guns and pistols, had tied the surgeon in captivity to a tree and mercilessly tortured him for about two hours from 2.00 p.m to 4.00 p.m on Saturday. According to these sources, some people working at the nearby fields had approached the militants with an appeal of mercy after hearing the shrieks and screaming of the dental surgeon but the militants shouted them to retreat. They finally slaughtered the doctor with sharp shaving blades.

While senior Police officials in Sopore did not respond to phone calls, their juniors confirmed that seven blood soaked shaving blades were recovered from the site of occurrence. They said that Police learned about the gruesome killing last evening but went to recover the dead body today. According to them, the surgeon had been almost decapitated and his head was attached to the torso with just an inch of skin. They said that a note, purportedly scribbled by a militant outfit, was also found on the dead body.

After a decade-long semblance of normality, militants are currently in the process of regaining control over the all-important Sopore town, which had been a stronghold of Hizbul Mujahideen and other guerrilla groups in 1990-94 period. It was during this period that--- with the massive support of alienated people, particularly those from pro-Pakistan Jamaat-e-Islami---the Hizb militants like late Majeed Dar and a Sudanese Jihadi Ibn-i-Masood had enjoyed total control on Sopore. After security forces eliminated a large number of militants here in 1993-94, few incidents of violence were witnessed in Sopore. However, after striking on their combat and civilian targets with hit-and-run grenade attacks for several months this year, militants in Sopore have now begun to act in broad daylight. They have killed the young dental surgeon within 24 hours of beheading a Territorial Army recruit whose head was taken all the way to the center of the town and dropped there.

In follow up to a broad daylight drive of moral policing, in which several people were stripped and paraded on streets for their alleged offences of promiscuity and gambling, militants have enacted today's brutality just furlongs away from the guarded residence of the naked mystic, Ahad Sahib, who survived a grenade attack earlier this year. Two devotees had died and 15 others sustained injuries in that attack on June 22.

An investigation by Excelsior revealed that after completing his BDS, Dr Mushtaq Ahmed Shah had been appointed as a junior dental surgeon by State Health Department. Within a couple of years of his appointment, he went to Saudi Arabia and worked there as a dental surgeon for about seven years. It was during this period that he shifted his residence from Zachaldara and raised a Rs one-crore house in Braripora outskirts of Handwara town near Fruit Mandi. With his wife, Kulsoom, and three young children (an eight-year-old son and two young daughters), Dr Shah had been living at this house after returning from Saudi Arabia about a year ago. His services in Health Department had been terminated but he had been reinstated and posted at Public Health Centre Langet. Informed sources said that on Saturday he had left for duty as usual in his own car but before reaching Langet requested an acquaintance over telephone to record his leave for a day.

When his father Masoom Shah was lodging a missing report at Handwara Police Station today, Sopore Police communicated to Handwara Police that Dr Mushtaq Ahmed Shah's slaughtered body had been spotted and recovered from a locality in the town. Later today, Dr Shah's body was buried at his ancestral village in Zachaldara. His brutal killing, that happened in the holy month of Ramazan, spread shockwaves in a vast locality but for obvious fear of militant reprisals nobody dared to register protest in public.

Inquiries revealed that Dr Shah was a close friend of the separatist People’s Conference leader, Sajjad Lone, whose veteran politician father, late Abdul Gani Lone, had long back got the Government job of a forest guard to Shah's father Masoom Shah. The Shahs had multiple political connections but they had never associated themselves with militants, counter-insurgents or security forces. One and all in Handwara area insisted that it was not a political killing. While Dr Shah's father continues to be the Vice President of Rajwar Block in the mainstream National Conference, his Handwara-based wife, Kulsoom, happens to be a not-so-distant relative of the former Forest Minister and MLA Handwara, Sofi Mohiuddin. Residents said it was Sofi who had got him from Saudi Arabia and also got him reinstated on the terminated Government job.

Meanwhile, official sources in north Kashmir said that some young children found an explosive device and began fiddling with it near Chitti Bandi hamlet in Bandipore today. It exploded, causing injuries to three young students, namely Ashfaq Ahmed Mir S/o Mohammad Yusuf Mir, Altaf Ahmed Mir S/o Zakarullah and Aijaz Ahmed Mir S/o Abdul Ahad Mir. They were evacuated to a local hospital. Critically injured, Aijaz Ahmed Mir was referred to a Srinagar hospital. He was responding to treatment till late this evening.


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KEYWORDS: india; jihad; kashmir; ramadan2006; swarthyguy; swarthyguyisback
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To: Brilliant

Swedes.


41 posted on 10/09/2006 1:14:26 PM PDT by Unicorn (Too many wimps around.)
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To: Unicorn

Yeah... I'm part Swedish, so I can tell you that Swedes don't like dentists. I bet they did it.


42 posted on 10/09/2006 1:15:26 PM PDT by Brilliant
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To: Shermy

Look what I dug up.

http://www.jihadwatch.org/archives/001556.php

FORT WORTH - Federal prosecutors believe that security screeners at Dallas/Fort Worth Airport foiled a Pakistani national's attempt last March to evade and test airport security for potential terrorist aims.
Authorities found 32 double-edged razor blades tucked in a coiled belt inside a cardboard box in Fazal Karim's carry-on luggage March 5, 2003.


43 posted on 10/09/2006 1:21:51 PM PDT by swarthyguy
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To: swarthyguy

Is it possible that these people have studied ancient Iriquois methods of treating captives?


44 posted on 10/09/2006 1:22:07 PM PDT by arthurus (Better to fight them over THERE than over HERE)
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To: livius

It is beginning to occur to lots of people that followers of the ROP are to say the least, very strange. So, what did/do these barbarians want? To run the world?

Soon, the Democrats will control at least the House; let's just see what their plans for dealing with animals like this are?


45 posted on 10/09/2006 1:23:27 PM PDT by kjo
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To: arthurus

>>tied the surgeon in captivity to a tree and mercilessly tortured him for about two hours

Perhaps. I'd kinda tend to doubt it, but you never know. I suppose we should be thankful the details of those two hours were not described.


46 posted on 10/09/2006 1:26:37 PM PDT by swarthyguy
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To: livius
I assume it means that this unfortunate dentist was a non-lethal Muslim who was being punished by his co-religionists for the sin of simply wanting to live his life and do his job? Or is it more?

No, it's not any more complicated than that.

To the maniacal fanatics, just living a normal life and doing your job is not an acceptable option for Muslims. You must be a fanatical suicide bomber or at least a airline hijacker to satisfy the true believers of Islam. Hell can't be heated hot enough for those murderous fiends.

47 posted on 10/09/2006 1:27:31 PM PDT by epow ("An unarmed man can only flee evil, and evil is not overcome by fleeing from it." ...Jeff Cooper)
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To: firebrand

Well then I did not think of that - that is a good reason to make fun of someone being tortured to death.


48 posted on 10/09/2006 1:28:40 PM PDT by SF Republican
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To: firebrand

It may be that you have gotten used to the bland and colorless prose used by most reporters or enforced by the editors.

This guy and newspaper don't mince words. The syntax and phrasing seem to harken to a earlier era, perhaps the result of an English style education or, the writer is translated from Kashmiri, or a combination of both.

If this same event was described in one of the wider circulation Indian newspapers, most of those details are left out.

I don't mention most of the western press, since they routinely ignore these little "incidents" far, far away.

--A local dentist was found dead in a Kashmir village, allegedly killed by militants according to local police authorities, fighting against the Indian occupation.

Better?


49 posted on 10/09/2006 1:36:18 PM PDT by swarthyguy
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To: kjo
So, what did/do these barbarians want? To run the world?

Duhhh, of course, that's the whole idea behind jihad.

If they don't want to run the entire world they aren't obeying the orders of the demonic "god" of their fanatical death cult religion.

Islam has to be spread by the sword, because no sane person would voluntarily put himself or herself under the rule of a brutal false "god" like Allah.

50 posted on 10/09/2006 1:41:21 PM PDT by epow ("An unarmed man can only flee evil, and evil is not overcome by fleeing from it." ...Jeff Cooper)
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To: SF Republican

I'm sorry if my post offended you.


51 posted on 10/09/2006 1:48:43 PM PDT by Still Thinking (Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?)
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To: SF Republican

The issue that caught my attention was that folks gathered and pleaded for mercy...instead of an armed populace picking off the razor boys. Its much easier to intimidate the unarmed.


52 posted on 10/09/2006 2:09:59 PM PDT by DustyWestTexas
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To: swarthyguy

Thank you for the information.

Back in the 70s, some Americans were attracted to Sufism - probably in many cases after having done so many drugs that being afflicted with vertigo was pretty normal to them, or at least judging by the person I knew who was involved in it. It was definitely not-your-Saudi´s Islam, in any case.


53 posted on 10/09/2006 4:08:15 PM PDT by livius
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To: livius
No, he wasn't punished by his co-religionists ~ in Kashmir they have Hindu gangs who chop heads too.

Beyond that they have people who are simply criminals who will kill anybody for any reason.

Kashmir is a tough place.

54 posted on 10/09/2006 8:52:48 PM PDT by muawiyah
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To: swarthyguy
The multi-headed cobra symbol used in Hinduism is frequently represented as having 7 heads.

I'd suspect this gang was sending a message.

55 posted on 10/09/2006 8:55:10 PM PDT by muawiyah
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To: bboop
Guy has Moslem names. He was killed by folks who used 7 razor blades. See the story of Ma-Nu for a reference to the meaning of "7".

These guys were not Moslems.

56 posted on 10/09/2006 8:56:16 PM PDT by muawiyah
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To: muawiyah; swarthyguy; Admin Moderator

I wonder why you have't been banned yet for all your nonsense.


57 posted on 10/09/2006 9:00:54 PM PDT by Gengis Khan
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To: Gengis Khan
Gengis, if we need nonsense we have only to wait on you to show up.

You know very well that populations still overlap throughout Kashmir, particularly in the areas nearest the lines of control (a substitute for a real border), and you can encounter some pretty nasty folks in that area, with either secular or religious motives.

I think your little friends were sending a message with the 7 razor blades ~

In fact, you could go back to the time of partition (and independence for India and Pakistan) and find many similar stories ~ with all your friendly neighborhood Hindus burning and killing with abandon just like they were Moslems.

So, let me ask, why haven't you been banned permanently ~ you're always trying to cast blame for every event on your current "most hated group"?

58 posted on 10/09/2006 9:04:33 PM PDT by muawiyah
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To: epow

What in the hell is going on in this world?


59 posted on 10/09/2006 9:05:13 PM PDT by lndrvr1972
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