Hi friends,

FEEL THE TERROR OF DEATH…!!!

An e-mail is sent to all national news channels on Saturday, July 26, 2008; at around 6:30 p.m. from an anonymous e-mail id, alarbi_gujarat@yahoo.com. The mail contains, at the end of it, the title of this article …Feel the Terror of Death…!!! It is an open challenge to the authorities – Stop It If You Can. But the time this mail gives to take up this challenge is only 5 minutes. In 5 minutes, the police has to save hundreds of people roaming around on the streets of Ahmedabad…! And…before anybody can do anything, just after 5 minutes of reaching that mail, it is BANG...BANG...BANG...!!! The otherwise peaceful city of Ahmedabad experiences the most ghastly of all terrorist attacks in the history of India…!!! The serial bomb blasts in various areas of the city leaves over 55 people dead in Ahmedabad. The mail-sender had succeeded in sending tremors of terror all around the nation…! The mail was allegedly sent from ‘Indian Mujahiddin’, a home-grown terror outfit of SIMI (Students’ Islamic Movement of India), a banned Islamic student organization. SIMI is banned for promoting terror activities in India.

It was just another busy day on the streets of old fort city of Ahmedabad. Various areas of the old city were crowded with people as usual. Nobody knew that after some time the place, where they were standing and bargaining for fruits and vegetables, was going to get converted into their cremation center. At around 6:40 or something, the first blast took place in the Maninagar area, Chief Minister Narendra Modi’s constituency, leaving all the people frightened and rushing to take cover…! And then it was a series of bomb blasts, like what we generally see in the time of Diwali while bursting crackers, that simply left the city and the nation trembled…!!! One could see the Tandav Nritya of terror and death in just a short span of time! Many areas of the city were covered in this act of terror, such as Maninagar, Bapunagar, Isanpur, Raipur, Narol, Hatkeshwar Circle, Sarangpur, Thakkerbapanagar, and Sarkhej. Just look at these statistics: -

• 18 Bomb blasts
• Only in about 50 minutes
• Over 55 Dead
• Over 225 Injured
• Around 8 areas covered
• 2 hospitals also attacked

Any rock-hearted person can shudder by looking at these statistics. They left nobody untouched, be it women, be it children, be it old-aged, be it Hindu, be it Muslim! First time in the history of terror attacks, one thing was noticed in this particular incident that the terrorists attacked the hospitals, ripping apart all the possibilities of getting them back on the tracks of humanity. It is sure the terrorists have completely turned into monsters, carriers of terror, and the flag-bearers of death...!!!

By looking at the series of events that happened on Saturday and from the subsequent news, I could locate a few things in this horrifying event. The same type of incident happened in Jaipur, Malegao, Hydrabad, Varanasi, and latest to join the list was Bangalore on Friday. I think it was the modus operandy that was observed in this incident: -

• Use of crude and low-intensity home-made domestic bombs
• Use of timers to explode the bombs at the desired time
• Use of ball bearings and gelatin nuts to cause more damage
• Use of cycles, the common men’s vehicle, as the ‘death carrier’ so as to seem innocent
• Exploding the bombs in the crowded areas so as to incur heavy casualty

I think the blasts in Bangalore the day before were only a laboratory test before hitting Ahmedabad. The original target was probably Ahmedabad. We all study management in our MBA course. But, I think this time unfortunately the terrorists proved to be the better ‘managers’ than our authorities when it came to planning, strategizing and implementing their plans. The mastermind behind this attack must have planned the whole thing much before and that too in a full-proof manner. From the happenings, I could find a few things that can lead to discovering the dangerous strategy adopted by the mastermind: -

• Selection of crowded areas, and that too the busy markets, so as to create maximum casualty.
• Selection of the perfect evening time slot when all the vegetable markets are crowded.
• Strategizing twin blasts. One blast for grabbing attention; and then the other blast at around 10 meters distance when people out of curiosity gathered at the site of first blast (e.g. Hatkeshwar circle twin blasts). The time difference between the two blasts was kept only 20-30 seconds.
• At several places it happened that one bomb was planted at one location and the other bomb was planted at the Exit route which was to be accessed by most people to save life (e.g. Raipur twin blasts).
• Attacking the hospitals where the victims of the blasts are taken to.
• Selection of two main hospitals of the eastern city, LG Hospital and Civil Hospital; because most of the victims will be rushed to these heavens-in-disguise due to their proximity to the affected areas.
• Timing of the bombs in hospitals: bombs in the LG and Civil exploded after 20-25 (approx.) minutes of explosion of bombs in residential areas. The timing was perfectly set on an assumption that this will be the time taken by the victims to reach the hospitals.
• Exploding blasts in Bangalore so as to divert the attention, so that the attack on Ahmedabad becomes comparatively easy to execute.

From this revealing of the facts, one can easily determine that the terrorists have got support in the form of intelligent and educated young people who can plan maximum damage with the use of mind power in strategizing attacks.

However, there are a few things which are considered to be the reasons for the blasts: -

• The blasts are considered as revenge for what happened to the Gujarati Muslims in the post-Godhara riots in Ahmedabad
• Just have a look at the selection of areas by the extremists. (1) Bapunagar, VHP leader Dr. Praveen Togadia’s gadh; (2) Maninagar, CM Narendra Modi’s Constituency; (3) Sarkhej, Home Minister Amit Shah’s Constituency; (4) Raipur, Gujarat Assembly Speaker Ashok Bhatt’s Constituency; among others. All these stalwarts are said to be Hindu protagonists.
• The first serial blasts of this kind happened in Jaipur last year. On Friday, it was the turn of Bangalore. And now, Ahmedabad. Just look at the pattern. The States that have been attacked are Rajasthan, Karnataka, and Gujarat, respectively. All these States have BJP, allegedly Hindu party, in ruling.
• Some also say that the next target can be Indore, a city of Madhya Pradesh, another BJP-ruled State.
• The blasts are considered to be an answer in-the-face to Modi’s challenge to the terrorist groups to execute any act of terror in Gujarat.

Many of the numerologists have started giving their share of opinions by citing the date 26 as a very inauspicious one. Even though this might be just a co-incidence, it is interesting to have a look at their claim: -

• 26^th December – Tsunami
• 26^th January – Gujarat Earthquake
• 26^th February – Burning of the Sabarmati Express coach that lead to the riots in Gujarat
• 26^th June – Terrible Flood in Gujarat
• 26^th July – Serial blasts in the local trains of Mumbai last year
• 26^th July – Serial blasts in Ahmedabad on Saturday

As I am writing this, the news has come that Anti Terrorist Squad (ATS) has seized another explosive material and the carrier of this material, Maruti Wagon-R, from Surat. One theory is also moving around that the strategy of the terrorists was to double the number of blasts in consecutive three days. That means, in Bangalore the number of blasts was 9, in Ahmedabad, it was 18; and in Surat the number was supposed to be 36. Horrifying…!!!

Hats off to our police and the ATS team for preventing another mind-boggling incident happening!

Also we need to thank the News Channels for their unstopped coverage of the incidents in Ahmedabad, and Bangalore. Just one thing which is irritating me is that the news channels are blaming the Police and the Jawans for not being proactive. I think this is not the time to find scapegoats. We should not blame our Jawans when they are working day and night for the citizens of the two cities, because they are ultimately the toys for our politicians to play with…! We should rather encourage them and not demoralize.

Also hats off to the people of Ahmedabad for taking the terror attacks with positive mind frame and courage, and showing the all famous never-say-die fighting spirit…!

If anybody is to be blamed, it should be our ill-willed contaminated politicians of this country. You know what? The other countries in the world are thinking of us as an impotent country and laughing their heart out to us! They think that India is just an elephant with loads of fat (here population), but don’t possess the killer instinct…! Whenever any such incident takes place anywhere in the nation, our politicians will start the same old recorded tap, “This is a very horrible act of terror…the investigations are going on…whosoever is behind this will not be forgiven…we will take harsh actions against them…blah…blah...!” This has been the standard response of all those bullshit f**king politicians. I am sorry I am using such offensive language, but keep your hand on your heart and tell me. Don’t you feel like shooting all these politicians to death at one stroke? My anger may be a result of my young blood. But can we tolerate what we recently saw in Parliament (the vote-for-money scam), the entire stage-show? If they can sell their soul and morale for money, they can sell anything, including our motherland, India. After each attack, we always have seen them holding high-voltage meetings which have turned out to be fruitless. So, if anybody has to be blamed, they are our politicians and nobody else. I think we as young India will have to take up the responsibility and initiative. We need to be in Police & Army, we need to be IAS officers, and we need to take active part in the Indian politics. One may ask what the hell then I am/we are doing in MBA. My answer to them is that we MBAs are serving/will serve the nation in our own way. We will take forward the brand India, and the India Inc ahead in the world. We are the intellect lot of the young India. I know I have gone off the track, but this was my fury and antagonism which needed to come out…

At the end, we collectively pray to God for people who died in this act against humanity and mankind. May their soul rest in peace and May God give courage to the relatives and families of the victims to bare the loss...!

So, this is the account of what happened in Ahmedabad on Black Saturday and what I believe about the happenings. If anybody has something else to share, please write your views on the subject in terms of comments. Show your love and respect for your motherland...!!! And yes, don't forget to give your opinion to the above mentioned question...! Yes, there at the top...!

Keep sending in your raves and rages as always. See you in the next post. Till then, live and lead a safe and happy life.

Asta-la-vista, friends!