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2006-09-30 India-Pakistan

Islamic rebels warn India against executing militant

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Posted by Steve White 2006-09-30 00:00|| || Front Page|| [5 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Uh oh, "dire consequences". I'll wait for john's assessment...

Posted by .com 2006-09-30 01:57|| 2006-09-30 01:57|| Front Page Top

#2 Who are these fuckwits and how is it that they think to steer an entire nation's policy via threats of violence? This extortion writ large and the regions or countries which harbor such terrorist organizations should begin facing retaliation every time these assholes pipe up with such twaddle.

Posted by Zenster">Zenster 2006-09-30 02:34|| 2006-09-30 02:34|| Front Page Top

#3 India doesn't execute many people. The Indian Supreme Court says that sentences should be "rare", for particularly gruesome crimes.

Killing or attacking Indian leaders is a sure way of ensuring that you go to the gallows.

India values its democracy and sees the murder of leaders as an attack on the integrity of the state itself.

The assassin of Mahatma Gandhi was hanged even though the disciples of the Mahatma begged for his life.

The assassins of Indira Gandhi were likewise hanged, the last time the gallows in Tihar Jail were used.

Only Nalini, one of the killers of Rajiv Gandhi was spared, on request of Sonia Gandhi, his widow, because executing both her and her husband (also a killer) would leave their child an orphan. It was decided that no act of the Indian state should deprive a minor citizen of their parents.

Out of all of the attacks on India, the one attack (which killed just a handful of people) that caused India to mobilize its army for an invasion was the parliament attack. This attack nearly wiped out the entire Indian political class. The Indian VP was seconds from death.

They are not going to forgive this.

Posted by john 2006-09-30 07:07|| 2006-09-30 07:07|| Front Page Top

#4 Oh, all right, then. Go and execute the imam in his hometown mosKKK, and all the instructors in his Madrassa. Fair trade?

Posted by Jackal">Jackal 2006-09-30 16:01|| http://home.earthlink.net/~sleepyjackal/index.html]">[http://home.earthlink.net/~sleepyjackal/index.html] 2006-09-30 16:01|| Front Page Top

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