Posted on 08/26/2007 5:45:46 PM PDT by blam
Islamist extremists blamed for India bombings
By Peter Foster and Rahul Bedi in New Delhi
Last Updated: 1:21am BST 27/08/2007
Islamist extremists have been blamed for a double bombing in Hyderabad, the south Indian information technology hub, which left 42 people dead, including several women and children, and more than 50 injured.
Relatives of one of the victims of the bombings in Hyderabad on Saturday express their grief during his funeral yesterday
Security sources said militant groups with links to Pakistan and Bangladesh were behind the attacks, which were calculated to foment Hindu-Muslim sectarian tensions and strike at the soft under-belly of India's new economy.
Police later found a further 19 small devices in the city. They were left in public places including a cinema, a bus stop and a public water tap.
The attacks were the latest in a string of bombings in India over the last two years which is causing mounting concerns as militants seek "soft" economic targets in cities.
In July last year, India's commercial capital, Mumbai, was brought to a standstill by a targeted series of bombings on the city's packed commuter rail network which killed 186.
Hyderabad, an important centre for international investment in India's IT industry, was bombed as recently as May, when a blast at the city's Mecca Mosque killed 11 people, with a further five dying in the ensuing sectarian riots.
Saturday's twin bombs at a park and a popular fast-food centre were even more devastating. They were set off by timing devices shortly before 8pm just as many families congregated to enjoy a meal and a spectacular laser light show.
At the Lumbini Park, where an open-air auditorium was packed for the light show, the bomb exploded in the middle of a bank of seats. "I saw limbs flying around me and blood splattering," said one victim, Romanna, 29, who suffered chest wounds.
Paramilitary forces were deployed outside Hyderabad last night in case of sectarian violence. Forty per cent of the city's population are Muslim.
Senior Indian security sources said both of this year's bombings in Hyderabad were the work of a Bangladesh-based militant group, Harkat-ul-Jehad-i-Islami (HuJI).
Y S Rajasekhara Reddy, the chief minister of Andhra Pradesh state, which includes Hyderabad, said: "Available information points to the involvement of terrorist organisations based in Bangladesh and Pakistan. The victims are from all sections of society - they included Hindus and Muslims."
I’m shocked!
Muslims bombing something? Surely this is a joke. Islam is the religion of peace.
Just like the fires in Greece, don’t want to rush to any muskie conclusions. Might be charged with profiling or being racist even though muskie isn’t a race.
Tell me it isn’t so! Really? I never would have guessed that. Why Islam is just a religion of peace./sarc
Also based in Pakistan... hmmm.
Is anyone surprised?
And I was SURE it was the Bhuddists this time ...
Bush’s Fault? In fact somehow he should be held responsible for the Hindu-Moslem violence at the time of partition in 1947 (sarc).
Ping
Bastards...
There will be a day of reckoning and when muslim bodies begin piling up on the streets and in the countrysides, muslims will wail and wonder why. They'll know why.
They could have stopped what will be inevitable.
You mean, it wasn’t Buddists or Hindus who did it? Not even untouchables?! I’ll be darned! (/sarc)
Those fires in Greece are suspected to be arson.
You know who I suspected first off.
Burning in hell for eternity is too good for some people.
If enough countries agree to strike back, we could bring the force of 3 - 4 or more billion people against this rag tag collection of tribal cretins. We could insist they either join the 21st Century or be buried in their 7th Century.
Yes I do. It’s just too bad that there are so many in charge of security around the world who want to tiptoe around islamic terrorists.
Doesn’t anyone want an answer to who set the wildfires that hit California every time the San Ana winds blow with extreme dryness? Again, law enforcement doesn’t want to get into a lawsuit with the muslims over profiling or declaring actions as terrorist actions. I guess they don’t want the masses getting upset with muslims or they are afraid of terrorizing the public that there are actually terrorist cells among us. This will come back to haunt this nation when this ignorance will not be bliss.
Bump to Davey.
The photo is pure terror.
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