6abc.com: 66 Killed in India Train Bombing — This situation is quite flaky and this will not help.
Two bombs exploded on a train headed from India to Pakistan, sparking a fire that swept through two coaches and killed 66 people in an attack that officials said Monday was aimed at undermining the peace process between the rivals.
Witnesses described a scene of horror as panic-stricken passengers were trapped in one of the burning cars even after the train stopped, just before midnight Sunday in a rural area in northern India. The screams of the victims filled the night, then were drowned out by the roar of the flames.
UPDATE: Apparently people couldn’t get out of the flaming cars because they were locked in for “security reasons.” I’m sure the prison bars on the windows were of no help.
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Suspect captured?
Someone better move the minute hand on the Nuclear Clock forward a few ticks.
If this started happening in our country, it might be time to start worrying.
I still think these 2 countries are your best best for the next nuclear exchange.
1 & 3 – Based on what analysis? The Presidents of both countries have decried this act of terrorism. The two countries continue to seek out better relations, and President Musharraf is even offering compromises on Kashmir.
I love those that WISH to create terror and pain and confusion.
the only questions they make, is WHY??
For some ODD reason,
I still cant get 1 idea out of my head.
That there is a cause in this world that WANTS to make the end, come quicker.
They want to control something that Will happen Anyway, the enevitable.
The only reasoning is that they have prepared something to get Themsleves PAST what they are creating to happen.
I cant believe so many are so:
Pissed for the past and what/who killed their GREAT uncle?
Doing things for political reasons?
Nations that have such disheartened citizians??
Religious reasons??
why cant some of these folks THINK for themselves, and the First thought is…”If this is a GOOD thing, Why hasnt the Mullah dont it?”
I love those that WISH to create terror and pain and confusion.
the only questions they make, is WHY??
For some ODD reason,
I still cant get 1 idea out of my head.
That there is a cause in this world that WANTS to make the end, come quicker.
They want to control something that Will happen Anyway, the enevitable.
The only reasoning is that they have prepared something to get Themsleves PAST what they are creating to happen.
I cant believe so many are so:
Pissed for the past and what/who killed their GREAT uncle?
Doing things for political reasons?
Nations that have such disheartened citizians??
Religious reasons??
why cant some of these folks THINK for themselves, and the First thought is…”If this is a GOOD thing, Why hasnt the Mullah done it?”
Off topic, but when an Internet interruption left my message on-screen looking unposted and I pressed the “Say it” button again, the blog caught the double entry. Yet I regularly see posts duplicated in this blog, such as ECA’s comment above. Is this related to the “slow down, cowboy” bug?\
About your comment, ECA, that a faction in this world must want the end to come quicker – I suspect there are more like that than you think, including nutjobs in both Muslim and Christian sects.
But this kind of outrage is more likely the work of someone who expects to reap personal benefits by raining chaos on those around him. It’s the old terrorist belief that change comes from chaos, not from peace, prosperity and good social order.
Here’s a follow up story on this developing issue ( http://tinyurl.com/yvrdfh ). It seems that there will be some good that comes from this horrendous act. Looks like terrorism fails again.
And in other fun news (read the second half while humming the tune of 12 days of Christmas)
Monday: 9 GIs, 82 Iraqis Killed; 19 GIs, 124 Iraqis Wounded
Updated at 6:45 p.m. EST, Feb. 19, 2007
Despite a security crackdown, violence continues unabated in Iraq. At least, 82 Iraqis were killed or found dead today and another 124 were wounded in various attacks around the country. Also, eight GIs and a National Guard member were killed in separate incidents; another 19 American soldiers were wounded in one of the attacks.
At a U.S. outpost near Baghdad today, two U.S. soldiers were killed and 17 others were wounded during a coordinated attack on them. Three soldiers were killed and two injured by a roadside bomb south of the capital today as well. The U.S. military also reported that a Marine was killed on Saturday, another Marine on Sunday, and a soldier died on Sunday, all three during separate combat incidents in Anbar province. Also, a National Guard member died from a non-combat related injury.
In Baghdad, Iraqi authorities are reporting that the security crackdown has netted the arrests or deaths of over a hundred militants since its inception; however, violence continues: Two roadside bombs killed six people and injured 40 more in the Zaafaraniya district. In the Karrada area, a bomb in a minibus killed seven and wounded 11 people. An evening mortar attack left 11 people dead and 10 injured in southern Baghdad neighborhood.
In Baiji, the governor of Salah ad Din province went uninjured during a roadside bomb attack which killed three of his bodyguards and wounded four more.
Thirteen members of a Sunni family were killed after suspected al-Qaeda members dragged them off a minibus near Falluja; the family, which included small children, was returning from a funeral. At an army barrack in town, soldiers repelled an attack; an unspecified number of casualties occurred.
Eleven were killed and four injured in Ramadi when two suicide car bombs exploded outside the home of a tribal leader.
In Dhuluiya, a suicide car bomber attempted to kill an army chief; the bomber killed five people and wounded 12 others.
At a checkpoint near Tikrit, gunmen killed three and wounded four. In town, seven militants were arrested in town and their cache of explosives detonated in a controlled explosion.
Eight dumped bodies were discovered in Mosul. Two policemen were gunned down in separate events.
Two dumped bodies were found near Mussayab.
A policeman was killed and three others were wounded during a search of a booby-trapped home in Tal Afar.
A car bomb killed six and wounded 30 others in Mahmudiya.
In al-Qura Ghawli, clashes broke out during a combined raid by U.S.-Iraqi forces. No casualties were reported, but scores of gunmen were arrested.
Coalition forces killed a man during a shootout in Basra.
Ten people were kidnapped in al-Katon.
Two bodies were turned in to the hospital at Khalis.
Four people were killed at eight wounded during an attack at a checkpoint in Anbar province.