Hitler admirers on the rampage.
**Hindu hardliners attack magazine **
Hardline Hindus have ransacked the office of an Indian news magazine in protest over an article that described their leader as a villain, police say. An accompanying Outlook cartoon showed Shiv Sena leader Bal Thackeray dressed as German war leader Adolf Hitler. Some 12 members of the Shiv Sena party attacked the offices of the Outlook magazine in the financial centre of Mumbai (Bombay), police said. They smashed windows and damaged computers but no-one was hurt. Mr Thackeray has spoken approvingly of Hitler in the past. Outlook editor Vinod Mehta said that six men - who said they belonged to the Hindu nationalist party - carried out the attack. “It’s a clear and blatant attack on the freedom of the press. It was an ugly scene. The men broke windows and intimidated and threatened staff,” Mr Mehta told the AP news agency. He said that the chief minister of Maharashtra, Vilasrao Deshmukh, has promised to take action against the attackers. “The staff is traumatised because these guys threatened to come back. We have demanded police action, not just against these foot soldiers but against the person who masterminded the attack,” he said.