The torch lights a path, onto Japan with the goons. Nothing new here, just more organization. The cadre knows it can't hide. It is spending money to keep the flunkies and help in line.
I am speaking with WSJ Peter Wonacott from Delhi on Sunday night about the India governments frailness on the Torch. The Dalai Clique, not satisfied with controlling Minnestoa, also controls Delhi.
Hundreds arrested as Olympic torch makes Indian passage
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NEW DELHI (AFP) — Hundreds of Tibetan demonstrators were arrested in India and neighbouring Nepal Thursday as thousands of police and soldiers defended the Beijing Olympic torch on a suffocating run through New Delhi.
The heart of the Indian capital was sealed off for the most sensitive leg of the protest-hit global relay to date, with security personnel far outnumbering the schoolboys and the other few select onlookers allowed to watch.
India is home to 100,000 Tibetan refugees, including the Dalai Lama and radical youth groups, and authorities wanted to ensure that chaotic protests like those seen in Paris and London did not mar the event.
The scaled-back 2.3-kilometre (1.5-mile) relay lasted little more than 30 minutes, and there were no disruptions to the event itself.
Relay participants were tightly marshalled by tracksuited Chinese security guards, and allowed to run only a few metres each.
An estimated 16,000 police, soldiers and even elite commandos were deployed to throw up a huge security cordon around the central thoroughfare between the presidential palace and India Gate, two of New Delhi's main landmarks.
"We have around 170 to 180 people in custody," a senior police official told AFP after a day marked by a string of protests and shrouded in a fortress-like atmosphere featuring tracker dogs, bomb disposal units and metal detectors.
The Tibetan Youth Congress, a radical activist group that spearheaded attempts to disrupt the event, said as many as 530 of its supporters had been arrested in the past few days..............
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