[Reader-list] recovered bombs: impressive statistics
Vivek Narayanan
vivek at sarai.net
Mon Sep 29 22:25:13 IST 2008
Not to say anything new or anything, but I'd just like to register my
sense of wonder. Amazing, isn't it? These Gujarat police recover bombs
like nobody's business. Everywhere else, they turn up a bomb here, a
bomb there, but only in Gujarat do they turn up dozens of these things,
some of them apparently hanging around conveniently like ripe fruit for
the plucking, like a bird on a wire, in the course, it would appear, of
a single day. Either
a) the terrorists in Gujarat are much stupider than terrorists in other
states, or
b)the Gujarat police have been endowed with superhuman powers thanks to
the prayers and poojas performed by their Chief Minister being answered or
c) there is some creative accounting that has been going on with regard
to counting bombs recovered or
d) the Gujarat police have some well-wishers and friends in the know,
whispering in their ears.
Now which one is it?
Vivek
Aditya Raj Kaul wrote:
> The Islamic Terrorists from Pakistan and Bangladesh of course.
>
> 17 crude bombs found in Ahmedabad 9/29/2008 11:02:56 AM
> Link - http://www.timesnow.tv/Newsdtls.aspx?NewsID=17052
>
> A day before Navratri celebrations begin in Gujarat, seventeen crude bombs
> were found today (September 29) near the Kalupurdarvaja in Ahmedabad, police
> said. The bombs found were not sophisticated devices but crude explosives,
> police said. Further investigations are on, police said.
>
> This move comes just two days after the Mehrauli blasts, which was
> apparently triggered from a crude bomb. The same comes two weeks after the
> coordinated bombings in the capital on September 13 that killed 24 people
> and injured over a 100.
>
> Earlier this year, seventeen serial blasts rocked the city of Ahmedabad.
> Following which, investigators have been on a desperate hunt of explosives
> and bombs possibly planted in different parts of the country. Over twenty
> bombs were recovered from Surat, soon after the Ahmedabad blasts.
>
>
> On 9/29/08, Shivam Vij शिवम् विज् <mail at shivamvij.com> wrote:
>
>> Well Partha, the NSG walas still did collect a lot of forensic
>> evidence. It was clear that it was a crude bomb without circuits or
>> ammonium nitrate. Had the police not cleared the blood with alacrity,
>> the TV cameras would have started drinking it.
>>
>> Talking of crude bombs, guess who's been caught making them in the
>> recent past???
>>
>> best
>> shivam
>>
>> On Sun, Sep 28, 2008 at 1:45 PM, Partha Dasgupta <parthaekka at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> What I found shocking was the reports that the Police washed the place
>>>
>> down
>>
>>> with buckets of water before the NSG reached the site.
>>> As criminal as the oversight of not checking the entire building in the
>>> Arushi case and so much time being lost that the case broke down.
>>>
>>> Wish they would make a policy that is explained to all the police people.
>>>
>>> Rgds, Partha
>>> .........................
>>>
>>> On Sun, Sep 28, 2008 at 1:41 PM, Kshmendra Kaul <kshmendra2005 at yahoo.com
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>> Dear Shivam
>>>>
>>>> A good post. Thank you for recording these observations.
>>>>
>>>> Kshmendra
>>>>
>>>> --- On Sat, 9/27/08, Shivam Vij शिवम् <mail at shivamvij.com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> From: Shivam Vij शिवम् <mail at shivamvij.com>
>>>> Subject: [Reader-list] OB vans in Mehrauli
>>>> To: "sarai list" <reader-list at sarai.net>
>>>> Date: Saturday, September 27, 2008, 10:59 PM
>>>>
>>>> Dear friends,
>>>>
>>>> I was in Mehrauli today for a few good hours. I don't have the
>>>> patience to write a long post. Just a few things.
>>>>
>>>> Firstly, Star News should be banned, like forever, for showing those
>>>> graphic images of part of a boy's head. If not for tom-tomming all day
>>>> how they were the first of the vultures.
>>>>
>>>> Secondly, all you illiterate TV journalists, you don't have to know
>>>> about Phoolwalon Ki Ser and what it's about. You can just ask the
>>>> locals, "Tell me a little about this area". If there's a bomb
>>>> blast at
>>>> the intersection of a Hindu and a Muslim colony, in a place that has a
>>>> syncretic culture maintained now for centuries, strengthened by Gandhi
>>>> and Nehru… surely, this is important background detail?
>>>>
>>>> Thirdly, all you idiotic TV camerawalas, no, I will not move, your
>>>> visual is not a bit more important than my observation.
>>>>
>>>> Fourthly, a police cordon is not meant to be jumped. If you jump it,
>>>> so will the rest of the wolves. And you will trample over the forensic
>>>> evidence that's being collected.
>>>>
>>>> Fifthly, all you TV reporters who used the words ammonium nitrate as
>>>> frequent as 'byte', the police never said there was any ammonium
>>>> nitrate. Stop talking on you effing live broadcasts. Stop and listen.
>>>>
>>>> Sixthly, all you TV reporters who crowded the small house of the boy
>>>> who died, it was not a public place just because it was a poor
>>>> labourer's house. When somebody says please leave, leave. You can't
>>>> force a mourning family to give the same byte for two dozen cameras
>>>> one after the other.
>>>>
>>>> And you don't have to run the camera over a washed pucca road and say
>>>> again and again, "There was blood all over here. There was blood all
>>>> over. All over." Your viewer will get the point even if you weren't as
>>>> excited about human blood.
>>>>
>>>> I have more to say but writing this much is enough to bring down my
>>>> blood pressure. Thanks but no thanks. May those graphic images never
>>>> let you sleep because during office hours you're a camera without a
>>>> brain.
>>>>
>>>> shivam
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