Jihadists hide in house in Jammu, take civilian hostages

Feel the love. "House siege second major attack in three months," from the Times of India, August 28 (thanks to Ravtish):

JAMMU: The fidayeen took care to save their ammunition, even as army officers chalked out strategies to neutralize them without harming the civilians during the stand off on Wednesday.

By 7 pm, another terrorist had been shot dead. Around 5.30 am, the terrorists, who had sneaked into India from across the border near Kanachak sector in Akhnoor, about 20km from Jammu, on Tuesday, riding a goods carrier fired at an army checkpost in the Domana-Mishriwala area. Junior commissioned officer V V Prakashan of 6 Madras was hit. He later succumbed to his injuries.

The infiltrators then hijacked a three-wheeler, fired indiscriminately killing the auto driver, local milkman Shabir Hussain, a motorcyclist Nasib Singh and an armyman Vijay Kumar, posted in Jaipur, who had come home on leave. Some locals traveling on motorbikes and a policeman were also fired at and injured.

The terrorists took shelter in the house of Billu Ram. His entire family — wife Sunita Devi, 35, Sheetal 9, Arishal 7, Kajal 4, Vipan 3 — was trapped alongwith with the terrorists. A visitor, Ashok Kumar (27), was also with them. Billu Ram was not at his home because he was being treated for a snake bite in hospital.

IGP (Jammu Zone) K Rajendra said that the terrorists were suspected to be the same infiltrators who had cut through the concertina wires on the border. They had taken advantage of the cover fire provided by Pakistani troops. "A high alert has been sounded in Jammu due to the terrorist infiltration from across the border," he said.

Once the hostages are rescued, there will be a "final onslaught", said an army officer, which in military terms means blowing up the building with rocket launchers or explosives. "This (civilian hostages) is what is holding us up from launching final onslaught. We are ready for that," he said....

| 14 Comments
Print this entry | Email this entry | Digg this | del.icio.us |

14 Comments

Can anyone answer me this question?

How much loyalty can the Indian Army expect from it’s Muslim soldiers?
I am aware that the number of soldiers they have who are Sikhs is disproportionatly high but how many are Muslims?

Some time ago an Asian guy I knew told me that the Army Officer in charge of the operations in Kashmir was a Muslim.
Is that true? How much loyalty do theses fellows extend to India?

The story repeats across globe, what in common is Islam.... but it is politically incorrect to say a wild-pig a wild-pig.... ignoring that wild-pig is destroying the entire civilization

The story repeats across globe, what in common is Islam.... but it is politically incorrect to say a wild-pig a wild-pig.... ignoring that wild-pig is destroying the entire civilization

This act of taking children as young as 2 years old as hostages shows the respect these Jihadis have for human lives. The whole world needs to condemn such acts and should get together to fight them where ever they are. Smoke them out and make the world a safer place

All these terrorists feed from the same (pig) trough...the Koran and the Prophet Mohammad.

islam is the world's enemy ....

the world has to rise to crush the quran praising terrorists ...

crush islam ...

# Odyessus

yes, its possible... after 2006 Mumabi blast, Leftist lead government had make a special preverted case study to find out.. why Muslim are turning towards terrorism...

so the special report was passed, name sachar samiti report, which placed a reason that due to high illiteracy and lack of job oppurtunies is the main reason behind Muslims becoming radicals...

by now 20% of indian defense forces are Muslim, in-fact the figure use to be 4% 2 years back.... the story does not ends here, indian implemented historic Islamic banking again... ignoring the fact that islamic banking last time contributed in around 3 million deaths during indian partition genocides....

anyways you can ignore the logic, when you are discussing with leftist that appeasement never works...

and i am a descendent from a family, which had seen the implementation of Islamic banking, but haven"t understood last time what that all is about... and later suffered heavily during indian partition genocide loosing 60% of beloved family memebers,

Islam is a religion of convenience….you can keep seven women…and then leave any one any time…..and so on…. all the thieves and thugs who would not have achieved anything in their entire life took to Islam…..
In fact what is surprising is that Mohammed was illiterate and could not read or write but still he managed to write KORAN which in my opinion is a cheap thriller and destructive novel….. So Islam is illiterate religion written by illiterate Mohammed and has illiterate followers.

I've read somewhere the UN's human-rights commissioner is after India for its abuse of Human rights of the terrorists.

>>Can anyone answer me this question?

>>How much loyalty can the Indian Army expect from it’s Muslim soldiers?
I am aware that the number of soldiers they have who are Sikhs is disproportionatly high but how many are Muslims?

>>Some time ago an Asian guy I knew told me that the Army Officer in charge of the operations in Kashmir was a Muslim.
Is that true? How much loyalty do theses fellows extend to India?

hi,

Muslims in Indian army ( IA) are only 3% compared to ~18% population.

IA is a secular institution and it's members have to go through rigourous routines which instill nationalist pride in the country. There are no separate muslim armies, they are very much diluted and can not form groups and foment disturbances. As such they are not a serious threat ( wrt treason ). Treason and things like that are taken far more seriously in the East than in the West. I do not recall anything like this happening in the last 5 yrs unlike what happened to American muslim soldiers in Iraq.

The officer in charge of Kashmir may be Muslim I don't know but of the top 15 leadership only 1 is muslim.

Also you must remember that many of the muslims of India are Shias and Barelvis which have their own pet grievances against Pakistan.

>>by now 20% of indian defense forces are Muslim..

That's not for the army, it is for the CRPF and suchlike but yes it is worrisome.

#infidel_Hindu

>>That's not for the army, it is for the CRPF and suchlike but yes it is worrisome.

well its more then CRPF ... check this article !!

http://www.ibnlive.com/news/lalus-railways-a-laggard-in-hiring-muslims/67046-3.html

it says ..
>>Till February 2008, of the 67 departments and ministries under the Union Government, Home Ministry has been the best performer with central paramilitary forces recruiting 20 per cent minorities.

Regardless of a Muslim army leader or regular's particular Islamic sect, if they don't put Islam before the national interests of the country they serve come crunch time, they would understand they are hell-bound Islamic apostates.
They can't rat out a fellow Muslim to the kafir, even for murder, for example.

PS
Same allegiance to ISLAM FIRST, applies to U.S. House representative Keith Ellison, and Zalmay Khalilzad the U.S. ambassador to the U.N., for example.