Nepal - 2 events, could they be related?

[housewolf]

Nepal is in the news this week...


This may be stretching it a bit...
but could these two events be related somehow??


Rumor of a UFO crash in Nepal China border
Anupam Ghosal, Special Correspondent
January 31, 2005

In Darbhanga district of Bihar that borders Nepal, tourists returning from Nepal are talking about a possible UFO crash in Nepal. The rumor is also rampant in Kathmandu, capital of Nepal and other Nepali cities. The crash site is in deep Himalayan border of Nepal and China.
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=111&topic_id=42158

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With a Royal Push, Democracy Falls Off the Roof of the World
By John Norris
John Norris is special advisor to the president of the International Crisis Group.
February 4, 2005


Just 10 days after President Bush boldly proclaimed Washington's "ultimate goal of ending tyranny in our world," he was presented with a fascinating test case — not in Iraq but in the Himalayan kingdom of Nepal.

This week, Nepal's King Gyanendra sacked the democratically elected Prime Minister Sher Bahadur Deuba, placed senior politicians under house arrest, declared a national state of emergency, closed the international airport and cut off phone services and media Internet sites while deploying troops in the streets of the capital. The king rather brazenly justified his action as necessary to "protect democracy," but he acknowledged that it would be at least three years before he considered a return to civilian rule.

Sadly, the king's move is likely to cast Nepal further down the vortex of its already deadly civil war. Since 1996, Nepal has battled a frustrating and lethal insurgency by Maoist rebels that has claimed more than 10,000 lives, most of them civilians.
http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/commentary/la-oe-norris4feb04,0,3400287,print.story?coll=la-news-comment-opinions

[politicaholic]

1. Are you crazy?...of course they're related...

When aliens say "take me to your leader" and you take them to your democratically elected official, what the hell is the king supposed to think? huh?

Jealousy boils over and the next thing you know there's a curfew and you're being harvested for food.

[htuttle]

2. If Nepal suddenly becomes the next world superpower,

...we'll know they found something interesting.

[rooboy]

3. I can't say how I heard this...

but I was told that there is suspected to be a fairly major CIA/US Intelligence facility in Nepal. I don't know if the political machinations of the last few months/years have anything to do with it.