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| Journo linked to terror group |
| 2006-07-31 |
| Indian police on Monday arrested a journalist over his alleged ties to an outlawed Islamic group suspected of taking part in the Mumbai train bombings. However, investigator KP Raghuvanshi cautioned that the reporter, Danish Sheikh, who works for the Urdu Times, an Urdu language newspaper, is not suspected of playing any direct role in the July 11 bombings that hit Mumbai's crowded commuter rail network, killing at least 207 people. Rather, Raghuvanshi said he is suspected of assisting Students Islamic Movement of India, a banned Islamic group that authorities say may have played a role in the series of seven bomb blasts, along with militants based in Pakistan. Documents linking Sheikh with SIMI, as the group is known, were allegedly seized from his home, Raghuvanshi said. Sheikh was scheduled to appear in a Mumbai court later on Monday. |
| Posted by:ryuge |
| #3 Amusingly, when Mr. Wife was doing plant start-ups in India, he shocked the locals exceedingly when he he casually read shop signs and such written in Urdu -- being as he is American and all. Urdu is written in the Arabic alphabet, and he'd just spent several years developing products for the Arab-speaking world. I haven't bothered telling him about Mike the oilman's little ideas -- while he thoroughly enjoyed the Egyptians he worked with when he was there (so long as he didn't require them to actually accomplish much of anything beyond promises) and the charm and knowledge of the Moroccans, he came back from his first trip to Saudia Arabia convinced he'd been in the world's worst fascist regime, and he had/has no patience with those whose moral discrimination is stopped by receipt of Saudi blood-dripping gold. |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2006-07-31 15:01 |
| #2 Every terrorist group has: a "millitary" wing, a political wing, and a propaganda wing. Though, usually, members of the propaganda wing work for MSM and not directly for the terrs. |
| Posted by: gromgoru 2006-07-31 10:52 |
| #1 Damn... when I saw the headline, I had a mad thought that it was Fisk or Pilger. Ah, well, we can always hope. |
| Posted by: Sgt. Mom 2006-07-31 10:08 |