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From: "hariomdas"
Date:
Sat Nov 30, 2002 1:14 pm
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Dear All,
Because it relates to a situation where lives may even be saved,
I invite both former devotees and
devotees to access News on
www.exbaba.com: then
click on the entry for Monday, November 25:
Christmas Time.
Westerner Time! A Time for a Terrorist Puttaparthi/
Whitefield
Strike? then, having fetched this article, click on the
entry
for Thursday, November 28: Letter of a prominent sai devotee
leader to Barry Pittard, and his response.
In these
pieces, I set out why I think that Puttaparthi or
Whitefield -
wherever ssb happens to be around any Christmas time -
is, for a
number of reasons, a very vulnerable 'soft' target for an
Islamic extremist terrorist attack. Devotees need to realise
that a
great deal of information is suppressed by the Asram
Management,
Central Trust, etc. At some stage, the more
questioning devotees may
have to seriously question why it is
that the terrorist
potentialities of Puttaparthi/Whitefield
(especially around Christmas
time) had first to appear on the
former devotee side!
Possibly the greatest danger lies in
being uniformed, unquestioning
and naive. Does disseminating
such information give terrorists ideas.
Like millions who live
in India, they cannot be unaware of the huge
traffic of
westerners to visit sai baba. It is more likely to be the
potential victims who need to be far better informed about the
risks
they run.
Surely, it is time for each of us to
write and urge our governments
around the world to investigate
and rate the risks in traveling to a
sai baba ashram at this
specific time, and consider the posting of a
Travel Advisory,
warning of heightened.
It is all too easy to imagine, for
example, American devotees (even
though vast numbers of
Americans, since September 11, do not now
travel abroad),
thinking "Why fear when he is here," and risking
their lives
foolishly and unnecessarily.
I trust that both current and
former devotees will ensure that these
submissions are as widely
distributed as possible. One line of
distribution open is
represented by the many friends and family of
former devotees.
Information as important as this, with thoughtful
distribution,
should spread very widely. It has already gone to
various ssb
leaders. I shall seek the permission of the one who wrote
to me
to allow his name to be published on the www.exbaba.com website
and other appearances of this exchange of views.
I have
also sent some documentation to a number of governments (and
their terrorism experts) who are deeply implicated in the
so-
called 'war against terrorism,' and whose citizens visit ssb
around
this time, including the USA, UK, Australia, France,
Germany, Israel,
etc. (You will note that Chanukah, the Jewish
Festival of Lights
comes right at this time too, and I can
recall it being celebrated as
long ago as 1977, as well when I
last visited Puttaparthi in 1997-
1998, and Jewish devotees from
around the world visit his ashram at
this time).
Love to
all on both sides of the Great Divide,
Barry
Pittard
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