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Politics : Bush Administration's Media Manipulation--MediaGate? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: steve harris who wrote (7092)	6/1/2006 6:22:28 PM
From: Proud_Infidel	Respond to of 9838

Three 'militants' killed in India (BBC short for Muslim terrorists) BBC ^ \| June 1 2006 \| BBC Police in India say they have killed three suspected militants who were planning an attack on the headquarters of a Hindu right-wing organisation. Officials said the militants were targeting the headquarters of the Rashtriya Shyamsevak Sangh (RSS) in western Nagpur city early on Thursday. Police said the attackers belonged to an unspecified Islamic group. The RSS is the ideological fountainhead of various Hindu groups including the main opposition Bharatiya Janata Party. Police officials told the BBC that the police intercepted the militants, who were armed with hand grenades and assault rifles, near the RSS headquarters in Maharashtra state at 0400 on Thursday. Two policemen were also injured in the five-minute-long gun battle. Potential target Officials said the men, who were dressed in police uniform, came in a car and fired upon the policemen who stopped them for questioning outside the organisation's headquarters. Nagpur police chief SDS Yadav said that security was tight at the RSS headquarters as it had always been a potential target for militants. Security at all RSS offices in the country has been tightened after the incident, the BBC's Zubair Ahmed reports from Mumbai. "We will be cautious. We have asked RSS offices all over the country to be on guard," RSS spokesman Ram Madhav said. The 81-year-old RSS is India's oldest Hindu nationalist organisation with an estimated 1.3 million members. The organisation came into existence in 1925 in Nagpur with an avowed objective to make India a Hindu nation. Some RSS members take part in military drills and exercises - a guiding principle of the organisation is that India should be Hinduised and militarised. Critics of the organisation say that its hardline ideology is based on intolerance towards religious minorities. Mahatma Gandhi was assassinated in 1948 by a militant Hindu who was said to have been influenced by an RSS member.

To: steve harris who wrote (7092)	6/1/2006 6:26:23 PM
From: Proud_Infidel	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 9838

Official Apologizes For Saying Bush Should Be Shot Between Eyes POSTED: 2:27 pm EDT June 1, 2006 UPDATED: 5:28 pm EDT June 1, 2006 wnbc.com NEW YORK -- State Comptroller Alan Hevesi publicly apologized Thursday for a "beyond dumb" remark about a fellow Democrat putting "a bullet between the president's eyes." Hevesi called a mea culpa press conference hours after putting his foot in his mouth at the Queens College commencement. "I apologize to the president of the United States" and to the fellow state politician, Sen. Charles Schumer, Hevesi said. "I am not a person of violence. "I am apologizing as abjectly as I can. There is no excuse for it. It was beyond dumb." At the news conference, a contrite Hevesi repeated what he recalled saying in the speech. The comptroller said he was merely trying to convey that Schumer has strength and courage to stand up to the president on major policy issues. According to a videotape of the speech, Hevesi said: "The man who, how do I phrase this diplomatically, who will put a bullet between the president's eyes if he could get away with it. The toughest senator, the best representative. A great, great member of the Congress of the United States." Hevesi said he hadn't been in touch with the White House but he hoped his apology reached President Bush. Hevesi, a longtime professor of government and politics at Queens College before becoming comptroller, also referred to his comments as "remarkably stupid" and "incredibly moronic." "I do speak extemporaneously," he said. "And I've never said anything like this." Schumer spokeswoman Risa Heller said the senator was satisfied with Hevesi's apology. "Comptroller Hevesi was trying to make a point," Heller said. "He went way too far, and it was inappropriate and wrong. He has apologized to both the senator and the president, and we believe that ends the matter." At least one Republican seized on Hevesi's words. "Threats against the president are no joke, and this incident raises real concerns about Alan Hevesi's fitness to hold public office," GOP Comptroller nominee J. Christopher Callaghan said during his acceptance speech at the Republican state convention in Hempstead, N.Y.