Sunsets in India are nicer !...

34 warships sent from US to protect Obama in India

The heart of the White House will move to India though the building of the White House will continue to stay in Washington when President Barack Obama lands in Mumbai on Saturday. The majority of the White House staff with their communications set-up, nuclear button, a fleet of limousines and will be in India accompanying the President on his three-day visit to Mumbai and Delhi.

A fleet of 34 warships, including an aircraft carrier, which will patrol the sea lanes off the Mumbai coast during his two-day stay there beginning Saturday will be in India to protect the President, particularly in view of the Mumbai attack in 2008 carried out by Pakistani terrorists from the sea.

Arrangements have been made for emergency evacuation, if needed.

Obama will fly by a helicopter -- Marine One -- from the city airport to the Indian Navy's helibase INS Shikra at Colaba in south Mumbai.

From there, he will be taken to the nearby the Taj Hotel.

Two jets, armed with advanced communication and security systems, and a fleet of over 40 cars will be part of Obama's convoy.

Around 800 rooms have been booked for the President and his entourage in Taj Hotel and Hyatt.

The President will have a security ring of American elite Secret Service, along with the India's National Security Guards (NSG) and personnel from central paramilitary forces and local police in Mumbai and Delhi.

Similar arrangements are being made in Delhi, with the Air Force One to be kept in all readiness throughout Obama's stay here from Sunday afternoon to Tuesday morning.

Maurya Hotel, where the President will be accommodated has already been swarmed by American and Indian security personnel and protective measures have been put in place.

Security drills are already been carried out at the hotel as well as Rajghat which he will visit.

In Mumbai and Delhi, all the high rise buildings along the roads by which the entourage of the President will be travelling are being sanitized by the security agencies.

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Midnight,

Mohandas Gandhi, the Mahatma, “the Great Soul”, was never awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. This has been a perennial source of unhappiness for those Indians inclined to view Gandhi as by far the most deserving candidate of the twentieth century, and the hand of Britain, and the imperial West more generally, is seen as having been instrumental in depriving Gandhi of this “great honor”. Many Nobel Laureates in Peace are themselves agreed that Gandhi should have been honored before they were honored.

Obama's trip to India isn't just a 10-days “roots searching” expedition that includes Indonesia in Southeast Asia where Obama learned the Krayon!...

As an Infidel, I see the wider picture ! It is the strange and mysterious way used by the "Holly Providence" to do finally justice with the Mahatma and bring him the Nobel Medal ! If the "Flotilla" is necessary to guard it from the pirates, I would add the whole sixth fleet and all the US nuke submarines to it !!!

Alex.

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