Indian Express: “An 88-year-old Nazi war criminal identified as Johann Bach (italics my own) was airlifted to Berlin after he was tracked down to the Goa-Karnataka border by German and Indian intelligence agencies on the basis of information provided by an Israeli group involved in the search for war criminals and investigations in Goa.
Though local police and intelligence agencies in Karnataka said they were “unaware” of the operation, Karnataka Additional DGP for Intelligence, Shankar Bidari, said his office had received information of the arrest on Saturday morning. He also said the alleged war criminal had been moved to Germany.
Officials at the German embassy, when contacted, said they had received no information of the arrest in Goa. The German consulate in Mumbai had also not received any information, embassy officials said.
Reports from Hubli and Goa quoting a press release issued by Perus Narkp, said to be the intelligence wing of the Berlin-based German Chancellor’s Core, said Bach had been involved in the killing of nearly 12,000 Jews at the Marsha Tikash Whanaab concentration camp in East Berlin under Adolf Hitler’s Nazi regime”
Similar news has been reported by TOI, HT, Telegraph, Dainik Jagran, Deccan Chronicle and just about every newspaper save (Thank God!!) the Hindu. Please go over the italicized information. See if any of it looks odd to you – do Germans name camps Tikash Whanaab, for instance? Can it be found on a Google search, when all camps have been well-documented and so forth? Does Perus Knarp sound odd (You’ve interned in Germany)? Is there a Chancellor’s Core? And so forth.
When you are done, please go here. PLEASE PLEASE I BEG OF YOU. GO HERE AND READ THE SHOCKING TRUTH OF MARSHA TIKASH WHANAAB AND THE 88 YEAR OLD BACH.
If the earth should swallow me up tomorrow, I will be happy and sad. Sad, not to have done something like this myself. Happy that I got to read of (a) the stupidity of our national editors (b) people with the balls to show ‘em up so.
ARUN
(NOTE: Also putting this up on movingoncallingcharlie and my own blogsite)
July 11, 2008 at 10:41 pm
Haha, Awesome! I read this article in the newspaper when it was published (DC). I must accept, I did believe what was written. Nice prank.
July 24, 2008 at 1:40 pm
Obviously, things dont change at all, inspite of such coups.. The other day in the parliament, voting was on course for the no-confidence motion. Many of the MP buggers voted electronically, others used the paper-system. With the result of the paper votes still pending, news-channels all over flashed headlines that the UPA govt. already withstood the motion….
That was when 54 votes were pending, mind you, and UPA could have lost the motion too.. there is a disgustingly great hunger in our media for news, and that is not a good sign for its credibility.. goes without saying why id prefer to watch the cnn or bbc to aajtak!