Posted on 04/03/2007 3:44:15 AM PDT by sukhoi-30mki
Terror group's threat raises Dalai Lama alert
Bruce Loudon, South Asia correspondent April 03, 2007
SECURITY surrounding the Dalai Lama has been tightened after reports of an attempt by the al-Qa'ida-linked terrorist organisation Lashkar-e-Toiba to assassinate the exiled Tibetan spiritual leader.
A three-tier security ring has been thrown around the 72-year-old Buddhist head, who lives at Dharamsala, in the Himalayan foothills, Indian police spokesman Prem Lal said. All those approaching the exiled Tibetan chief will be closely watched by highly trained Tibetan security guards as well as heavily armed deployments of Indian police.
Visitors are being body-searched before being allowed to approach him.
The Dalai Lama is scheduled to make a widely anticipated 11-day visit to cities and regional centres across Australia in early June, making both free and ticketed appearances at public lectures, blessings and teaching sessions. Before that, he will visit the US.
Superintendent Lal said police had been alerted by central intelligence agencies to the reported plot by Lashkar-e-Toiba to kill the Dalai Lama "on the directions of a foreign organisation", which he declined to name, but is assumed to be al-Qa'ida.
In a recent document, Osama bin Laden denounced "pagan Buddhism" as part of his general attack on anything not Islamic.
The assassination threat picked up by Indian authorities is thought to be based on bin Laden's denunciation and the extremist jihadi movement's hatred for anything and anyone that is not Muslim.
Lashkar-e-Toiba is believed to be al-Qa'ida's agent in South Asia and has been involved in virtually every major terrorist attack in India.
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The Dalai Lama has always been under threat from Chinese crazies, as well as from your garden variety loose nuts.
In a documentary of a year or so back, these were several shots of the DL being flanked by 4 to 6 big guys in his entourage wearing suits and ties, all with those small Uzi machine pistols (or equivalent) tucked under their jackets. They looked like serious characters.
The Dalai Lama has more than 2 layers of protection.Starting with specially trained Tibetan guards,local Indian police as well as Indian central Intelligence agencies.
& probably these folks too
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special_Frontier_Force
But without the vest.....
Isn’t the Dalai Lama always lecturing the West that we over react to such threats?
He routinely lectures everyone(which people wisely ignore).But to be frank,he is more nuanced than the usual candle lighting leftist brigade.Sort of person you might have differences with,but some fundamental respect for at the same time.
I think they mean thoroughly frisked non-invasively. I doubt that body cavities are being searched.
Here is a photo of one of the DL's personal guards scan leftmost for photo, (its flash):
http://www.kagyu.org/ktd/presskit/gallery/empowerment/index.html I know how their security set up works, and I can assure you it is very thorough, and extremely aware of its surroundings.
I would be very surprised that al-Qa'ida would get to the Dalai Lama, unless a long range sniper is used, or perhaps a bomb. These two possibilities will be giving the DL's guards nightmares for sure.
Why does al-Qa'ida have a fatwa aginst the DL? If anyone knows, please post here or e-mail me privately.
The Tibetan people have been tremedously wronged, and they did not resist as a nation. This is whatt the US liberals want us to do, fold in the face of Islamofascism, like the Tibetans did for Mao Tse Dung.
We MUST not allow Pelosi and her fools to lead the USA into the same kind of mistake.
I'm kind of surprised that you would say that.
Participants in the Lhasa Uprising included Tibet’s little army of 3,000 men; about 10,000 Khampas who had fled to Lhasa; most of the 20,000 Buddhist monks in Lhasa; and thousands of members of the general public. The Chinese had to kill more than 87,000 people to suppress the Lhasa Uprising.
That being one small part of their resistance. It seems to me that they resisted, with well over one million dead, until it became clear that it was suicidal to keep pressing it. The DL himself said, fairly recently, that his reason for not supporting armed resistance was the futility of it.
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