Bhagavad Gita: Al Jazeera

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"Hello and welcome back to the program, my friends."

The diminutive man behind the desk smiled and gestured expansively. "I am Dr. Faisal Al-Qassem, the host of the Opposite Direction. Later in the show we will be joined by the famous British journalist and historian Robert Fisk, and the Scottish politician, author and talk-show host Mr. George Galloway, to discuss the events that are on everyone's mind right now."

The Syrian anchor's face assumed a somber mask as he gestured to the bright blue screen behind him. "First however, an al-Jazeera exclusive. We are able to bring to you the first inkling of the organization that has carried out an unprecedented operation within Indian-occupied province of Kashmir. These are their words..."

The camera panned until the grainy visage of a amateurishly taped video filled the screen, revealing a trio of figures, sitting crouched on a carpet of a darkened room.

Their faces concealed by the carefully tacked turbans, all were gripping an AK in one hand and a curved shamshir sword in another as they stared stoically into the camera. The pause stretched, until the man in the middle finally spoke, his gravely voice measuring out words with metronomic, dispassionate regularity.

"We declare our responsibility for what happened in Srinagar. We promise that it is but the beginning of the vengeance that Allah, the Allknowing, the Source of Peace, the Maker of Order will exact though us upon the unbelievers, the defilers of the House of Islam and the oppressors of the Faithful.

All those who collaborate with the criminals Musharraf, Singh, McKenna, Hu Jintao and their lapdog allies will face the heavenly justice of the Prophet's sword, hallowed be His name and Peace be upon Him.

Know that this is a response to the crimes that you have committed upon this world. Your insane ravages of the world will no longer be tolerated.

You love life and we love death, which gives an example of what the Prophet Muhammad said.

If you don't stop your injustices, more and more blood will flow and the will of Allah will manifest again, as it did yesterday, to strike fear in the hearts of the unbelievers through his gifted and devoted servants, if God so wills it.

We are not the weak-willed betrayers of Faith like Taliban. We shall make no peace with the enemies of God, we shall hound you to your homes and see your families dead and your children weeping.

Beware our wrath.

This is a statement by the military spokesman for the Sons of Bakr, Abu Jihad al-Afghani."

The tape ended, and the brightly lit studio was back on the screen as al-Qassem dabbed at his forehead with a hankerchief. "Well. That was certainly a string statement, from an apparently new group of separatists in Indian-administered Kashmir. It will certainly give our guests and myself much to talk about once we'll be back from our commercial break."