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Bijapur Encounter: Eight security personnel were killed and around 18 are still missing.
Raipur:
At least 22 security personnel have been killed in the line of duty after an encounter on Saturday with Maoists in Chhattisgarh s Bijapur district, about 400 km from state capital Raipur. A member of the security group is still missing.
On Sunday morning, Director General (Naxal Operations) of Chhattisgarh Police Ashok Juneja said the number of deaths have increased to eight; yesterday five security personnel had died in action.
On Saturday, separate joint teams of security forces, with over 2,000 personnel, launched a major operation from Bijapur and Sukma districts in the South Bastar forests, considered a Maoist stronghold. At around 12 noon, the Maoists laid an ambush, leading to an encounter that lasted for three hours.
just used red alert generically. if i were any secretary of state i ve ever seen with one of his or her facilities under attack with his personnel missing, or feared dead would have been at the state department all night if need be, would have been doing whatever they could be doing. would have been on the phone with the libyan government, with other governments to try and get help to in this case the consulate in benghazi. and yet we ve never heard anything about what the state department was doing, other than down at the mid level range, which i just find strange. again, it s the passive department and the administration as a whole think i think is inexplicable. gregg: you also find it strange if not inexplicable that the president keeps saying as he did yesterday at the news conference, well, you know, i really can t talk about this because it s under