[Reader-list] recovered bombs: impressive statistics

Aarti Sethi aarti.sethi at gmail.com
Mon Sep 29 22:41:43 IST 2008 

or, might I hazard another guess, that we need only turn to Lacan's mirror
to understand where the bombs come from and go ;)

On Mon, Sep 29, 2008 at 10:25 PM, Vivek Narayanan <vivek at sarai.net> wrote:

> 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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