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To: Nadine Carroll who wrote (21650)	3/18/2002 8:24:59 PM
From: BigBull	Read Replies (1) of 281500

India moving with a bit more alacrity than our European friends in passing anti-terror legislation: timesofindia.indiatimes.com Responding to criticism of the Bill, law minister Arun Jaitley said an effective law was required to blunt the edge of the terrorist campaign which had claimed more lives than the four full-scale wars the country had fought since Independence. ‘‘In the four wars we lost 45,468 lives, and the toll of terrorism in the past 15 years has been 61,031,’’ he said during the discussion. He added six lakh people had been rendered homeless by terrorism in different parts of the country. The cost of fighting cross-border terrorism, according to him, was an estimated Rs. 45,000 crore. The volume of explosives seized by the security forces from terrorist elements in recent years was a startling 48,000 tonnes, he said. ‘‘With that kind of explosives in terrorist hands every inch of India would have been taken care of,’’ the minister said, claiming an extraordinary situation would require an extraordinary response. --------------------------------------------------------- Perhaps they feel the need of a wee bit more urgency? ;o}

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