Uri
(Jammu & Kashmir), Sept 18 (PTI) — In the worst attack on the army in many
years, heavily armed militants suspected to be from Pakistan-based
Jaish-e-Mohammed (JeM) stormed an army base in Uri in Kashmir killing 17 jawans
early today, prompting Prime Minister Narendra Modi to assert that those
responsible "will not go" unpunished. Located barely a few kilometres
from the Line of Control (LoC) and some 70 km from Srinagar, the base was
subjected to the brazen attack by four terrorists at around 5.30 AM, causing
heavy casualties in the Dogra regiment which lost 17 of its men.
The attack on the army base comes at the lunar eclipse of
Sept. 17. A chart for the eclipse has it
placed very significantly on the meridian at Uri. The eclipse is square Mars
which is conjunct the stars Lesath and Shaula. The two stars; upsilon (υ)
Scorpius, Lesath, along with Shaula, lambda (λ) Scorpius; are at the tip of the
tail of the Scorpion and right on the sting. About the Scorpion, the ancient
Roman astrologer Manilius wrote:
"By virtue of his tail armed with its powerful
sting, wherewith, when conducting the Sun's chariot through his sign, he
cleaves the soil and sows seed in the furrow, the Scorpion creates natures
ardent for war and active service, and a spirit which rejoices in plenteous
bloodshed and in carnage more than in plunder. Why, these men spend even peace
under arms; they fill the glades and scour the woods; they wage fierce warfare
now against man, now against beast, and now they sell their persons to provide
the spectacle of death and to perish in the arena, when, warfare in abeyance,
they each find themselves foes to attack. There are those, too, who enjoy
mock-fights and jousts in arms (such is their love of fighting) and devote
their leisure to the study of war and every pursuit which arises from the art
of war." [Manilius, Astronomica, 1st century AD, p.239-240]
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