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| India blames Pak, Lashkar-e-Taiba for slum attack |
| 2002-07-14 |
| India blamed Pakistan on Sunday for an attack by suspected Islamic guerrillas on a crowded slum in Jammu-Kashmir state that killed at least 27 Hindus. Pakistan, which India accuses of harboring and backing the militants, also denounced Saturday's attack, saying it seemed designed to raise tensions between the nuclear-armed neighbors. I'd have to agree with Pak on that. Things have gotten entirely too calm for the fundos... The top panel on security from India's Cabinet met to discuss how to respond. Afterward, Deputy Prime Minister Lal Krishna Advani traveled to the massacre site Sunday and was to report back to the prime minister later in the day. "It is clear that all this is being carried out with the inspiration of Pakistan. It was a gruesome attack," Foreign Minister Yashwant Sinha told private Aaj Tak television. The attack comes ahead of a visit by Secretary of State Colin Powell to both capitals this month in a bid to ease tensions. Which was yet another reason for the Bad Guys to try something spectacular. If you can't stand the idea of peace, you'll do anything to avert it. India's junior interior minister, I.D. Swamy, also linked the guerrillas to Pakistan. "Pakistan arms them, helps them and sends them. We believe it is Lashkar-e-Taiba that carried out yesterday's attack," he said, referring to the most feared of more than a dozen Pakistan-based Islamic groups fighting for Kashmir's independence from India or merger with mostly Muslim Pakistan. "Elections are about to happen, and militants' groups are trying to create terror." While I have no illusions about Pakland and its involvement in Kashmir, I think the remaining Bad Guys in the area are and have been loose cannons that Islamabad can't control. They'd as soon turn on Perv as fight against the Infidel Hindoos. The difference is that India sees them as enemies and Pak tries to pretend they're friends. Their purpose is to drag the two sides into a war so they can pick up the pieces when it's over, and they don't give a hoot about either Pak or India, instead reserving their loyalties for the impending Khalifate. |
| Posted by:Fred Pruitt |