Monday, March 13, 2006

bombing us into submission?

The bomb blasts in Varanasi seem to have started a trend of bombs showing up every where. Hoaxes happen every day, and tragic bombings by the Naxals hardly create a flutter in the hearts of the higher ups. The Delhi blasts happened, and see, quietly died down. Now there is a new bomb blast to focus our media attention on.

Recently, police defused bombs discovered in Mumbai. Incidently, it is only a day before the 13th anniversary of the Mumbai bomb blasts. Apparently the terrorists have not learnt a lesson, and how can they, when our own establishment is unwilling to come up with a lesson plan.

Similarly, terror was averted in Goa when more RDX was discovered and defused.

Theres a trend I have noticed in the political establishment, that of completely disregarding the IB reports that must be frequently coming in. I think its simply because such warnings do not fit well in their immediate plans of raping the country and their state, and then, if poo does happen, relax, there are dozens of other entities to put the blame on. Besides, this is Indian society we are talking about. Our ability to cope with tragedies is amazingly high. People lose their lives and then its time to move on.

Varanasi redux avoided in Mumbai

Close on the heels of the Varanasi strike, a low-intensity crude bomb was recovered from a public toilet on platform no 2 of Byculla railway station on Saturday morning.

The incident took place a day before the 13th anniversary of the Mumbai serial bomb-blasts, which claimed 256 lives. Although Mumbai police commissioner A N Roy said the device was “not complete in itself” to cause an explosion on human contact, what is worrying the law enforcing agencies is the similarity of the improvised explosive device with the bombs used in the temple town.

Besides, the Intelligence Bureau had alerted the state authorities way back in December that terrorist elements from Kashmir were likely to infiltrate into Mumbai.

“This could have been part of a larger plan coming on the eve of Holi,” Roy said, adding that the Varanasi bombs also contained ammonium nitrate besides RDX.

In Goa too, possible terrorist strikes at popular tourist locations were prevented when the state police, acting on intelligence inputs, arrested a militant possessing explosives, including one kg of RDX, and firearms from Margoa railway station, 30 km from Panaji.

Even as the IED was being defused, the police received a call saying a bomb has been planted at a Ganesh temple in Virar’s Jeevadani complex. It turned out to be a hoax.

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I dont know if we are able to see through the game plan of the enemies of the state, but there is a concentrated effort to scare us into submission. We often hear of such rhetorics as terrorists unleasing a reign of terror or making us 'pay' for our mistakes, but till now our nation has been much stronger than these cowards. I dont know if we can hold on longer, considering we either have traitors, or pussies as our leaders.

Meanwhile, all the people rounded up after the blasts have apparently been released, and the investigation seems to be back on the first rung. Ah, another blast, another round of incompetence all around. Kudos, Govt. of India. I would think at least you would have more sense and balls than the petty state politicians. But no, I suppose its better to be a butler in the Gandhi household.

Probe back to square one


THE PROBE into the Varanasi bomb blasts is back to square one, with the release of two suspects, who were brought to the city on Saturday, and six others.

Sources expressed the apprehension that the present case may meet the same fate as two other unsolved blasts cases.

Sources said the blasts case had become as difficult as the Shramjivi Express blast that claimed at least 14 lives at Singaramau in Jaunpur district on July 28, 2005 and the Dashaswamedh Ghat blast that claimed seven lives on February 22, 2005.

Though the sketch of the Shramjivi Express blast was released, no headway has been made in the case so far. The fate of the Dashashwmedh blast case was similar.

“Even scanning of telephone calls of March 7 to and from Varanasi had not yielded much,” intelligence sources said.

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