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Kashmir Korpse Kount
SRINAGAR, India - Thousands of demonstrators joined grieving relatives carrying coffins Friday to protest against a grenade attack that killed two people and hurt 50 outside a school in revolt-hit Indian Kashmir.

Police hurled teargas to quell stone-throwing demonstrators in the busy commercial centre of Lal Chowk in Indian Kashmir's main city, Srinagar, where Thursday's blast occurred.

The protest in which demonstrators shouted "We want freedom, long live Islam," came as 10 more people died Friday in fresh violence in the region where Islamic rebels have been fighting a 15-year battle against Indian rule. The victims included a Muslim man and his two children killed when a "gift" bomb exploded in their faces.
"Hiya Mahmoud, long time no see! How's the wife and kids?"
"Great, just great Ahmed. Lovely house you got! I love what you've done with the gun rack and the goat barn! And here's a gift for you and the kiddies!"
"Thankee, thankee, let me just gather the kids around and open this up .. [BOOM] "
The bombing has mystified police who say the family had no political links.

The demonstrators also chanted prayers for the Muslim woman and her daughter slain in the attack near the missionary school in Srinagar, the urban hub of the revolt. The attackers hurled the grenade at a security vehicle and missed, and the device exploded outside the school gates, killing the two people and injuring 50, including 20 school children, police said.
Grenade throwers must have been Hek-trained ...
The Jihad Council, an alliance of over one dozen rebel groups, based in Pakistan-administered Kashmir condemned the attack and blamed the blast on "Indian agencies and state-controlled police."

"We need to find out who did this," said Imtiaz Ahmed, a relative of Thursday's dead victims, urging an independent probe. "We can't just take the government's word."
"Why is everyone looking at us?"
Indian intelligence "agencies are carrying out such cowardly acts in response to our successful strikes," the Jihad (Holy) Council said in a statement released in Srinagar.

A police spokesman termed the allegations "idiotic" "demented" "typical Moose-limb gibbering" "absurd," adding, "militants have done this in the past and they did it Thursday too."
Posted by: Steve White 2005-05-14
http://www.rantburg.com/poparticle.php?ID=119119