Shoot in SikhTemple

VIENNA - Sikhs brandishing knives and a pistol attacked two preachers to a rival temple in Vienna in a brawl which left one of the victims died Monday and at least 15 others wounded, police said. A confrontation broke out later in northern India.

According to witnesses, a group of men with beards and turbans attacked religious leaders at the temple in the Austrian capital on Sunday and moved their followers to defend them.

The preachers were among the six people who suffered serious injuries and were identified by Indian diplomats and police and Niranjan Sant Rama Nand Das.

Both were first described in a satisfactory state after operations by gunshot wounds. But a police officer who refused to identify himself on the phone, in line with Austrian custom, said Monday that the beginning of the statement of Nand, 57 subsequently worsened and he died shortly after midnight.

Spokesman Michael Takacs Police earlier said the scene was "like a battlefield." Six suspects are in custody, more arrests possible, "he says.

Mohnder Ram, a stalwart who said he had lived in Vienna for decades and has attended services at the temple every Sunday, said he is managed by the followers of Shri Guru Ravida, 14th century founder of a Sikh sect called Dera Sach Khand.

In India, fighting between Sikhs and followers of the main guru erupted in the northern city of Jalandhar several hours after the shock of Vienna, in what residents there described as a reaction to the apparent body body in the Austrian capital. Sanjiv Kalra, a senior police officer in Jalandhar, said the demonstrators had set fire to a number of vehicles and erected several roadblocks throughout the city. It gave no other details.

Witnesses spoke in Vienna, chaos.

"Everyone was praying, and then he started with knives and a pistol," said Singh Nermal, barefoot, shirt bloodied and his head bandaged from what he said was a knife wound.

Ram, 72, said: "I heard four or five shots in the temple. "People started screaming, crying like children were running out.

"It was like war. There was a lot of blood everywhere. "

Ram also spoke of "blood everywhere," adding: "People have been beaten with a knife and stabbed.

BIML Lalka, who lives in an apartment in ground floor in front of the building housing the temple, said she saw seven or eight men with long beards and dark blue and orange turbans fleeing the building.

It is not clear whether some of the weapons used were kirpans, the ceremonial daggers worn by Sikhs. Police said kirpans May legally be worn by Sikhs in Austria.

Takacs, spokesman for the police, said six people in a serious condition, four were "definitely the perpetrators." The most serious injuries were caused by gunshots to the abdomen and head.

The possibility that not only the aggressors, but also some of the faithful were armed was under investigation, "said Takacs. He denied reports that church leaders had asked in vain for police protection after threats by phone last week, saying such requests have been received.

Segall Bernhard medical services in Vienna said that one of the most seriously injured had to be resuscitated several times on the site. He described the injuries as of Indian origin and between 30 and 50 years.

According to witnesses, the perpetrators were Sikh fundamentalists of a higher caste, who had accused any of preachers to be disrespectful of the Holy Book. Indian news reports said the attackers were incensed that one of the preachers was given a ceremony seen as a shawl Sikh high honor.

Ram said about 400 people were in service during the brawl broke out in the temple in a residential building of the working class district of Vienna. Police, the number between 150 and 300.

Four ambulances and three helicopters for medical transport of victims to hospitals.

The temple is located in Rudolfsheim-Vienna, the capital of the 15th arrondissement, near Westbahnhof, Vienna is one of the main train stations. Police cordoned off the area.

The sect Dera Sach Khand includes most Sikhs belonging to the lower caste Dalits.

There are several of these Deras in the northern state of Punjab. Although there are disagreements between the Deras and Sikh religious leaders, violent clashes are rare.

Sikhs comprise less than 2 percent of India, 1.1 billion people, the vast majority of them are Hindus.

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Demo against Bush war

President Bush can expect a warm welcome from his old friend, the charismatic Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi and Pope Benedict XVI during his visit to Rome. This is not what has been found in the streets, however, where anti-Bush sentiment on the war in Iraq remains.

Anti-war activists and hundreds of other demonstrators marched through the Italian capital on Wednesday that Bush has arrived for a visit that was to include meetings on Thursday with Berlusconi and the pope on Friday.

The president, as usual, held on his business. His encountered few signs of protest on his motorcade on the road Thursday.

At the elegant Villa Aurelia hill, part of the American Academy in Rome, Bush met with Italian entrepreneurs and encouraged young people to come to "the first truth about America." He disputed that ' he called misinformation and propaganda on the USA.

"We are a compassionate, open cares about people ... We love the entrepreneurial spirit, "said Bush.

Security is extremely tight for Bush two-day stay in Rome. The commercial flights were banned over the city. Dozens of buses and trams were diverted. Thousands of police were deployed as part of a plan to monitor new protests if Wednesday, March drew far fewer protesters than previous visits by Bush.

Slovenia and Germany, the first two stops on the trip of Bush, were devoid of demonstrators. This is proof that the transatlantic relations on the fractured US-led invasion in Iraq, are on the repair, as European leaders have moved beyond their anger about the war. The Rome protests are proof that the Italian public still opposes the Bush administration.

Unlike other European leaders, like former German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder and former french President Jacques Chirac, Berlusconi supported Bush on Iraq from the outset. The 71 years of media magnate defied domestic opposition and sent about 3000 troops in Iraq after the fall of Iraqi president Saddam Hussein.

These troops came home, and Berlusconi, who was recently elected to his third shift in power since 1994, has pledged not to send any return.

More than 2000 Italian troops, however, are deployed under the NATO-led mission in Afghanistan.

Italy, with Germany, France and Spain, have limited their troops to less dangerous areas in northern Afghanistan. This has caused a break because other NATO members are deployed in the most violent regions of the nation. The Italian government is currently reviewing the restrictions and Berlusconi's office said the prime minister talk to Bush about this during their meeting.

Bush's wife, first lady Laura Bush on Wednesday pledged $ 10.2 billion on behalf of the USA in the reconstruction of Afghanistan. She spoke at an international donors conference in Paris, where the president himself will be headed on Friday.

Berlusconi and Bush were also asked to consider the interests of Italy to join with the five permanent members of the United Nations Security Council and Germany who are a diplomatic push to get Iran to abandon what the West sees as an effort to develop nuclear weapons. It may seem unusual for Italy, which has recently overtaken Germany as Iran's largest trading partner.

But for Italy show strong opposition to Iran suspected nuclear ambitions, Berlusconi and his government has refused to meet with Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, who was in Rome for a UN-sponsored Food Summit.

Bush will meet with the pope on Friday before returning to Paris to continue his European tour farewell. It will be Bush's third meeting with Benedict. The two last met in April at the White House in Washington.

The suspend was suspended

The Iraq qualification World Cup against Australia will go ahead as planned this weekend after FIFA decided to temporarily lift their suspension.

The match was put in doubt after FIFA announced on Monday it was suspending the champions of Asia that prevailed in their response to the government's decision to dissolve their National Olympic Committee.

However, FIFA has decided to revoke the ban after the Iraqi government has provided written assurances that it had not dissolved the Iraq Football Association (IFA).

FIFA issued a statement confirming on Thursday, he lifted the ban, to Sunday World Cup qualifier to proceed warned Baghdad but that only provisional and conditions attached.

FIFA said it still had concerns about the Iraqi government tries to control its national federations and requested a delegation of the Asian Football Confederation (AFC) and the IFA to join him in Zurich to discuss these questions.

"This letter is a positive step, but it was not entirely satisfy all the concerns of FIFA on governmental attempts to control the federations of Iraq and the Iraq National Olympic Committee," FIFA statement.

AFC President Mohamed Bin Hammam, who led the push to suspend Iraq as part of its firm stance against political interference in sport, welcomed the Iraqi government to the letter but said it also necessary to reverse its decision to dissolve the country's National Olympic Committee.