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2008-12-22 India-Pakistan

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Posted by john frum 2008-12-22 00:00|| || Front Page|| [9 views ] Top

Posted by GolfBravoUSMC 2008-12-22 01:18|| 2008-12-22 01:18|| Front Page Top

#2 "...have grilled for over nine hours Mohammad Ajmal Amir 'Kasab..."

Mmmmm...grilled Kasab.

Posted by DepotGuy 2008-12-22 08:26|| 2008-12-22 08:26|| Front Page Top

#3 Porterhouse - the best part of any cow.

Posted by no mo uro 2008-12-22 08:55|| 2008-12-22 08:55|| Front Page Top

#4 Ya right! With a DOJ a$$ standing over him making sure the poor terrorist' feeling are not hurt.

Posted by 49 Pan 2008-12-22 10:21|| 2008-12-22 10:21|| Front Page Top

#5 49Pan - I don't think so, not in India. The Indians have a very realistic view of terrorism and anti-terror operations. I'm sure Kasab is wishing he'd never been born.

Posted by Old Patriot">Old Patriot 2008-12-22 13:22|| http://oldpatriot.blogspot.com/]">[http://oldpatriot.blogspot.com/] 2008-12-22 13:22|| Front Page Top

#6 "I'm sure Kasab is wishing he'd never been born."

He's not the only one wishing that, OP.

Posted by Barbara Skolaut">Barbara Skolaut 2008-12-22 14:14|| http://ariellestjohndesigns.com/]">[http://ariellestjohndesigns.com/] 2008-12-22 14:14|| Front Page Top

#7 He is in the custody of the Mumbai ATS, who have lost their chief in the attack and are out for revenge.

The ATS have been accused in open court of torturing Lt. Col Purohit, who is still in their custody. If they can do that to a serving Indian army officer, Kasab is dog meat.

Kasab has a date with Scotland Yard then with Interpol.

Then he gets his date in court... waging war against India brings a death sentence, so the gallows awaits...

The British left a fine infrastructure for hanging, including boiled hemp ropes from Bihar state.

Posted by john frum 2008-12-22 15:16|| 2008-12-22 15:16|| Front Page Top

#8 John, wasn't it the British that introduced hanging to India? As in some British officer who, when told that suttee (pushing widows into the funeral pyre) was the Indian "custom", said something to the effect that the British also had a custom - of hanging people who killed innocent women. So the Indians could build their funeral pyres, and the officer would have his soldiers build gallows right next to them.

Posted by Rambler in Virginia">Rambler in Virginia 2008-12-22 22:16|| 2008-12-22 22:16|| Front Page Top

#9 Originally the British regulated sati. It could only be undertaken with their permission. This was the procedure adopted previously by the Delhi sultans and the Mughal emperors.

Both the Emperors Humayun and Akbar had banned sati.

The British, under Lord Bentinck banned it in 1829 after a rise in the numbers in Bengal - to about 60 a year.

Posted by john frum 2008-12-22 22:57|| 2008-12-22 22:57|| Front Page Top

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