Dears, Things are just getting worse. The Goa Police have erected a sand-bags bunker at the Santa Monica jetty from where the river cruises originate on the Mandovi, near the new Patto bridge. Last evening they had a mock "drill" of a terror attack in Patradevi [the suspended PI Nelson Albuquerque has since been reinstated and put in charge of Immigration and SPCA as per the latest flash at 10 P.M.He must have paid the arrears due higher up.]. Many vehicles damaged their clutch-plates crawling through traffic at Panaji, Mapusa and ...... Patradevi ...due to Police checks on photo identity to locate the "terrorists". I do not know if LeT or JuD issue ID cards that bear their names and identify the bearers as "Fidayeen" or "terrorist". The Police do not know, either ....but they hope to find out, at least before they die. ;-)
In the meanwhile Russia has issued an advisory to avoid Goa like plague. The cops are waiting for UK, Germany and Portugal to do likewise. Then they can sit in the beach shacks and relax with Kings beer ....with nary a tourist in sight, save the reported 1,300 sailors and marines on shore leave from the two ships of US Seventh Fleet at MPT and GSL, Vasco, where their ships are being serviced. Mog asundi Miguel Date: Fri, 12 Dec 2008 13:50:24 +0530 (IST) From: Miguel Braganza <miguelbraga...@yahoo.co.in> Subject: [Goanet] Bunkers or Bonkers? Message-ID: <433731.5307...@web8704.mail.in.yahoo.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Dears, Then the whole world went crazy. You bet it has scared away even the tourists who were courageous enough to stay back after the terrorist threat. Israel, which sends its conscripted Army recruits as tourists, has issued a Travel Advisory to withdraw from Goa by this weekend and NOT to stay in Goa "during the second half of December, 2008" according to the TTAG Chairman. We have do have have full-blooded 'Sardars' at the helm of affairs in Goa, but no Goan expected such a cruel joke on the mainstay of the State's economy: Tourism. Talk about furthering the cause of the LeT terrorists! Miguel -- -.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-. Miguel Braganza, S1 Gracinda Apts, Rajvaddo, Mhapsa 403507 Goa Ph 9822982676 miguelbraga...@yahoo.co.in -.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.