"A sizable amount of arms and ammunition was discovered in the house."
"Indian police battle Islamic militants in capital," by Matthew Rosenberg for the Associated Press, September 19:
NEW DELHI - Indian police battled suspected Islamic militants holed up in a house in the country's capital Friday, killing two and arresting one before the others escaped, police said.
The gunbattle in a southern part of sprawling New Delhi put the city back on edge days after five coordinated bombings in the capital's markets killed 21 people — attacks credited to homegrown Islamic militants.
A senior New Delhi police officer, Karnal Singh, told reporters at the scene of Friday's firefight in the Jamia Nagar neighborhood that there were five gunmen. Two were killed, one was arrested and two escaped, he said.
Police spokesman Rajan Bhagat said two policemen were wounded in the fighting.
"A sizable amount of arms and ammunition was discovered in the house," said Bhagat. "The area has been cordoned off, and we are continuing our investigation."
Soon after the gunbattle broke out around noon Friday, scores of police officers, many in riot gear, could be seen fanning out through Jamia Nagar, a leafy lower middle-class neighborhood. The scene was chaotic with authorities trying to get civilians out of harm's way while subduing the militants.
A group calling itself the Indian Mujahideen has claimed responsibility for the New Delhi attacks. It also said it was behind bombings that killed 61 people in the western city of Jaipur in May and July blasts in the western state of Gujarat that killed at least 45.
Police apparently zeroed in Friday on one New Delhi house after interrogating a man detained after the Gujarat bombings, The Press Trust of India news agency reported.
The man, identified as Abu Basher, said the home in quiet Jamia Nagar was used as a safe house by Islamic militants plotting attacks around India.
The Indian Mujahideen was little known before this year's bombings, and police believe it may be a front for the Students' Islamic Movement of India, or SIMI, which was banned in 2001.
India has routinely blamed Pakistan or Bangladesh-based militant groups for dozens of attacks in the last three years.
But as the death toll has mounted this year, evidence has pointed to the involvement of Indian Muslims, raising difficult questions for the government about growing anger among India's large Muslim minority.
More on that "anger" here.
maybe we should get with India and go get them pakistani nukes...
The Islamic barbarians. What more can be said. Looking at all the Islamic countries there is no peace there, they are in a constant state of violence and the Mohammedans continue their Jihad against infidels. Yet they keep saying Islam is peace when in reality all UMMAH countries are in a state of chaos and decay. Mohammedans bring that mess into peaceful well run countries and the whole cycle of Islamic degradation begins. Once thriving civilizations end up as decrepit waste lands and death, misery, and human bondage begins to flourish. Bunch of lowlife screw balls. Just like their pathetic thug and pedophile, rapist, and thief-prophet Mohammad.
Go India!
Kick the bastards hard.
From the Guardian
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2008/sep/19/india
This is absolutely crazy. Indian Hindus have been living in "peace" with Muslims for a thousand years. Surely the police should know, that using force to catch Jihadis near a mosque, is grossly insensitive, and will hurt the feelings of peaceful and moderate Muslims. Now these peaceful Muslims are outraged, which will cause them to join terrorist cells.
savsiv
Too damned true - Islam is a destroyer of civilisations.
theygottago,
India has its own nukes. Are they safe from the mujahideen?
The escapees are somewhere in India. Somewhere, probably right in New Delhi, there is a "peaceful" Muslim who knows their identities and what they are doing and is keeping quiet.
You can bet this isn't the only "safe house".
Who owns the house? They should lose it.
It was a genuine encounter.(Not a fake !!)
"Police inspector who led Delhi encounter dead"
http://in.news.yahoo.com/20/20080919/1416/tnl-police-inspector-who-led-delhi-encou.html
There are no moderate Muslims. If they are then they are 'apostates'. Sooner this fact sinks in in 'infidles',better it is .
Finally things have come to the point where Indian pols can no longer just point to Pakistan or Bangladesh, nor ignore the Mohammedan elephant in the Indian room (or Mohammedan camel in the Indian tent?) and what do they do? Indulge in the sort of self-flagellation that probably the Shia would admire. Like I said last week, it'll take an Indira Gandhi assassination style jihadi attack on Indian pols before they wise up. (They will - while the blood of average Infidel citizens is dispensable, that of Indian politicians is sacred)
Indian Hindus need to unit with other non muslim Indians and kick out islamists and take down the mosques. turn them into musuems, showing how bloody history they produced into their lives.
Congratulations to the Special Unit of Delhi Police for uniting two jihadists with their 72 virgins and 28 boys in heaven! Keep it up, Delhi Police. Sadly, one of the injured police officers has died in the hospital.
I TOTALLY agree with some of the posts here.
"maybe we should get with India and go get them pakistani nukes..."
Posted by: theygottago
Entirely agree with you. Years ago, Israel had wanted to take out Paki nuclear facilities with minor help from India. They just wanted landing and refuelling facilities at Indian Air Force(IAF) bases. They did not ask for IAF participation. The then government, always lacking in balls, refused. Nonetheless, there is still a chance to pull this off both against Iran and Pukistan since they would be closer for Israel Air Force.
savsiv, your comment is brilliant. I could not have said it better. Samuel Huntington's comment in his book that "Islam has bloody borders" sums it up nicely and accurately.
"Go India!
Kick the bastards hard."
Posted by: LazarOfSerbia
My sentiments exactly. Lazar, I know you guys in Serbia have faced the same problems from Muslim thugs as we have. So, we stand in solidarity with the Serbs. What these barbarians have done to Christians in Kosovo makes my blood boil.
ZenaWarriorPrincess, you beat me to it! I wanted to say the same thing.
As usual, Muslim deception has started with the neighbourhood Muslims crying about a "fake encounter" and attack on a mosque. The mosque is close to the house where the slimes were hiding but there was no attack on the mosque.
dp111, savsiv
as regards Islam, the destroyer of civilisations, it may be useful at this juncture, when there may be new readers (especially from India) coming to this site, to share two Classic Quotations concerning Islam, by great men writing in the English tradition. Regulars here just about know them by heart, but new visitors may find them helpful, and might like to spread them to others.
First, here is the judgement of the great English Christian and preacher to the poor, John Wesley (1703-1791):
"Ever since the religion of Islam appeared in the world, the espousers of it...have been as wolves and tigers to all other nations, rending and tearing all that fell into their merciless paws, and grinding them with their iron teeth;
"that numberless cities are raised [sic: razed] from the foundation, and only their name remaining;
'that many countries, which were once as the garden of God, are now a desolate wilderness;
'and that so many once numerous and powerful nations are vanished from the earth!
'Such was, and is at this day, the rage, the fury, the revenge, of these destroyers of human kind".
From "The Doctrine of Original Sin", Works (1841), ix. 205.
I am sure that for Indians who know what Islam has done to their country historically (and is still doing), or who are just beginning to find out, John Wesley's words about the Mohammedans having been "as wolves and tigers", 'rending and tearing', will have powerful resonance.
Our second Famous English-Language Quote about Islam comes from the American statesman and anti-slavery campaigner, John Quincy Adams.
“In the seventh century of the Christian era, a wandering Arab of the lineage of Hagar [i.e., Muhammad], the Egyptian, combining the powers of transcendent genius, with the preternatural energy of a fanatic, and the fraudulent spirit of an impostor, proclaimed himself as a messenger from Heaven, and spread desolation and delusion over an extensive portion of the earth.
"Adopting from the sublime conception of the Mosaic law, the doctrine of one omnipotent God; he connected indissolubly with it, the audacious falsehood, that he was himself his prophet and apostle.
"Adopting from the new Revelation of Jesus, the faith and hope of immortal life, and of future retribution, he humbled it to the dust by adapting all the rewards and sanctions of his religion to the gratification of the sexual passion.
"He poisoned the sources of human felicity at the fountain, by degrading the condition of the female sex, and the allowance of polygamy;
"and he declared undistinguishing and exterminating war, as a part of his religion, against all the rest of mankind.
"THE ESSENCE OF HIS DOCTRINE WAS VIOLENCE AND LUST: TO EXALT THE BRUTAL OVER THE SPIRITUAL PART OF HUMAN NATURE (Adam's capital letters)….
'While the merciless and dissolute dogmas of the false prophet shall furnish motives to human action, there can never be peace upon earth, and good will towards men.”
And in the same essay collection (unearthed by Andrew Bostom a few years ago), Adams gives his advice on how to respond to the Jihad:
“As the essential principle of his [Mohammed's] faith is the subjugation of others by the sword; it is only by force, that his false doctrines can be dispelled, and his power annihilated."
Counsel of this sort, coming from a man like Adams - who was deeply humane, civil and civilised, and who fought against slavery with passionate conviction - must carry considerable weight.
Politicians and citizens in India, Israel, Thailand, and the Philippines, in particular, would do well to learn by heart Adams' words about the nature of Islam, and heed his sober - and sobering - counsel.
"The Indian Mujahideen was little known before this year's bombings, and police believe it may be a front for the Students' Islamic Movement of India, or SIMI, which was banned in 2001."
well just ....Duhhhhhhh...
It is clear to see India's draconian gun control laws are not working well...
"Closer home take the case of the Godhra carnage and the anti-Sikh riots of 1984. Would wanton mobs have slaughtered so many innocent people with such disregard to consequences if their potential victims had been armed and ready to defend themselves? A serious consideration should be given to an armed civilian population as a solution to religious and racial riots as well as other crimes. Since all criminals are instinctively driven by self-preservation allowing legal ownership of firearms by law abiding citizens would act as a serious deterrent. This will make sure that if the Govt. fails to do its duty to protect the life and liberty of its citizens (as it has so often done in India's recent past), citizens will be able to protect themselves. "
of course, armed citizens should be prepared to use the weapons....
India's citizenry have long been banned from owning guns and have too long refused to fight when attacked by marauding Muslims...But times are changing...Indian should be mobilizing its people for a future fight that is surely coming their way...
as the old adage goes...when guns are banned only the criminals will have guns.....and this is the truth..absolutely..the truth..
A close friend of mine, it was her father's colleague who was the inspector who died in the encounter as I talked to her on the phone this morning.
He was highly decorated and had fought terrorists on several occasions.
We need more people like him and the Indian public needs to wake up and clean up.
-Ayo Gorkhali
The whole incident shows a very dangerous picture.
It is naive to believe that 5 terrorists got a "safe house" in a crowded place like Jamia Nagar without any of the locals knowing their true identity. Which in turn demonstrates how terrorists are winning wider base of sympathy among local homegrown muslims.