TERROR STRIKES AGAIN!!!!!!!! CONDEMN!!!! PROTEST IN YOUR OWN WAY!

[Sambuddha Duttagupta]

Gunmen fire on Lankan team in Lahore, 7 injured

Unidentified gunmen opened fire on a bus carrying Sri Lankan cricket team as they were on their way to Gadaffi stadium in Lahore on Tuesday morning, Dawn news channel reported. The channel showed footage of two gunmen opening fire. Four policemen are reported dead, seven players have been reported injured.

In a daring raid reminiscent of the Mumbai attack, terrorists in Lahore targeted the Sri Lankan cricket team that is currently touring Pakistan on Tuesday morning.

Unidentified gunmen, believed to be 12 in number and armed with Kalashnikov rifles and rocket launchers, opened fire on the bus carrying the cricketers to Gaddafi stadium in the city, Dawn news channel reported.

Initial reports said the attackers came in a white car and reportedly surrounded the bus at Liberty Chowk in the heart of the city and first fired rockets at the bus. They then resorted to indiscriminate firing with automatic firearms.

The attackers then started firing at a police van which was providing security to the Lankan team.

City police chief Haji Habibur Rehman said five policemen died in the attack.

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A Pakistani Cricket Board official said six players were injured and admitted to a hospital.

The players reported injured are Thilan Samaraweera, Kumar Sangakkara, Ajantha Mendis, Mahela Jayawardene, Tharanga Paranavithana and Chaminda Vaas. Vaas was reportedly carried off on a stretcher while Samaraweera and Tharanga Paranavithana were reportedly shot at.

A Lanka team spokesperson has now said that both Tharanga and Samaraweera are out of danger.

Six policemen are reported dead. The van carrying the umpires was also attacked. Assistant coach Paul Farbrace has also been reportedly injured.

The Sri Lankan tour has been officially called off.

[Mari]

Once again, a few cowardly, aimless crackpots have opened fire on non-combatant individuals and run away in fear for their own lives.
I am going to take a wild guess and assume that they were all males. My humble submission of a form of protest against these murderous bullies is this: Women, everywhere, stop feeding, sleeping with, serving and obeying recalcitrant, cruel and belligerent men! Hell, they're going to kill you and your daughters, anyway, if they feel like it, because they are that deluded and falsely empowered by their peers. STOP caring for these men. They are not worth it. Like rogue elephants in the wild, they must be run out of villages and communities where decent, civilized people dwell and create peaceful lives for all. It's the only non-violent way to neutralize bad boys on a killing spree.

Thanks, Sambuddha, for your rallying call to action against terrorism.

PEACE- For EVERYBODY'S sake,
Mari

[Quandary121]

Personally i think the CIA have more to do with these sorts of attacks whether funding or training or even disguising themselves to cause false flags i mean there a Secret Service this is what they do they are not ment to be nice ppl they do this in the defense of their realm and so called protect us in the long term.this artical shows how more operations have been overbroard since 2004 .?


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http://www.usatoday.com/tech/news/surveillance/2008-10-26-cia-gadge...
Post-9/11 CIA has shifted its emphasis for foreign ops
By Peter Eisler, USA TODAY

LANGLEY, Va. — The CIA has more than doubled the number of science and technology officers sent overseas to support foreign spy operations since the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001.

"Hundreds" of the specially trained officers have moved abroad to provide eavesdropping and communications devices, disguises and other high-tech support for field agents as the CIA has re-emphasized intelligence collection from human sources, according to agency information provided in response to a USA TODAY inquiry.

The CIA said the increase represents a 150% hike in overseas staffing for its Directorate of Science and Technology (DS&T), which fills the role made famous by "Q" in James Bond films. The agency won't disclose the exact number of officers involved because its budget and staffing are classified, but the figures represent a rare public acknowledgement of the heightened pace of its foreign operations. The shift also reflects an increased emphasis on "close access" programs, in which information is collected directly from sources on the ground, as opposed to remotely via satellite or aircraft.

The intelligence community's needs for high-tech equipment have "changed fundamentally" since the start of the war on terrorism and "demand … has increased dramatically," says Stephanie O'Sullivan, the deputy CIA director who heads the Directorate of Science and Technology. For example, she adds, "there was a big explosion after 9/11 in the need for tracking and locating technology" to hunt leaders of al-Qaeda and other terrorist groups.

Presidential directive

Overall staffing within the directorate has grown "a little bit … by a couple of hundred," O'Sullivan says. Many of the science and technology officers moved abroad were reassigned from domestic duties, she adds.

The changes follow a 2004 presidential directive to re-emphasize "human intelligence" collection at CIA and add 50% more operatives and analysts.

The growth in overseas postings of science and technology officers is a reflection of how you attack (today's) targets," says Jeffrey Richelson, author of The Wizards of Langley: Inside the CIA's Directorate of Science and Technology. Working against terrorists, "you need more reliance on … the planted listening device or the (hidden) video camera that can photograph comings and goings in a particular area," adds Richelson, a senior fellow at the National Security Archive, a George Washington University research center in Washington.

The directorate usually gets more attention for developing disguises, bugged pens and other gadgets, but the DS&T's scientists and engineers are at least as likely to be working on advanced computer applications or analyzing a video released by al-Qaeda.

In a 2005 assignment, a CIA operative sent in a sketch — a letter-size sheet of paper with a line drawing that was meant to show the design of an improvised explosive device he saw in Iraq. "He said, 'I was working … with this guy, and he's building IEDs, and here's what I saw,' " O'Sullivan recalls. The sketch, she adds, "is what comes back to us."

It was enough.

DS&T's analysts soon found a match in their files. O'Sullivan pulls out a photo of the real device, and the battery, wiring and switches are arranged identically.

"Our experts … pulled (this) from their archives and said, 'That's this design,' " she says.

Based on that, they were able to provide information about where the bomb builder got his materials and training.

'More integrated'

The directorate now has 30% of its staff working in offices outside the CIA. DS&T technicians help on aerial reconnaissance work at the Pentagon, for example.

"The community is infinitely more integrated than it used to be," O'Sullivan says. "There are things that we do today that the community couldn't have pulled off … even five years ago."

The CIA says demand for the directorate's services has grown anywhere from two to 10 times since the terrorist attacks in 2001. Much of that has been driven by the increased emphasis on counterterrorism missions.

Traditional intelligence operations tend to be longer-term missions aimed at uncovering "the intentions and capabilities of your adversaries … so you can develop your own policies to address them," says Robert Wallace, a former CIA operations officer and co-author of Spycraft. "With the terrorist, your premium is speed … find the terrorists, know what the next attack is and prevent it."

That translates into new demands on the CIA's science and technology staff, Wallace says.

Congress and several independent commissions on intelligence reform also have pushed the CIA and other intelligence agencies to better incorporate cutting-edge technology into their operations.
"The intelligence community … must lead the way in developing new sensors, analytical enablers, knowledge management tools and other capabilities to provide the nation's policymakers and war fighters with an information advantage," the Senate Intelligence Committee said in a report this year.

Some in Congress see the DS&T's growing workload as a good sign.

"It is one section of the CIA that is producing solid results," says Rep. Pete Hoekstra, of Michigan, who is the top Republican on the House Intelligence Committee. "DS&T has demonstrated ingenuity and initiative."

[DR. PRAVINBHAI SHAH]

today UNO with help of all country members together should have some special system to fight this terrorism activity
any corner of the world to put end forever
it is shameful for every nation to see innocent people dying by terrorists for no reason
every powerful resources should have stronger spirit than terrorists to fight against them with a
powerful result that it doesn't happen again
WE MUST HAVE PEACE EVERY CORNER OF THE WORLD
DR. PRAVIN C. SHAH
MBA MCA MSC MPHIL PHD

[swami prem vimalgit (fredrick stockton)]

.....for every action, there is an opposite reaction. So it is in the physical world.....so it is in the spiritual world....and there is no duality...both are One. These governments that are depended on to stop this terrorism.....have been the greatest terrorists in history. Did not the government of England kill indiscriminately....innocent men, women and children at Amritstar?....did not the Americam government drop nuclear bombs on innocent people....with the excuse that it would save lives?....do you feel that these actions.....do not have reactions? This is a "seeming" problem of the individual (if there are some).......fighting fire with fire......makes more fire!! If the individual does not witness his own "terrorist".....there is no possibility of needed change.....yes change is Eternal....but not if it's suppressed....

....love....
vimal :)