UPDATING AND ADDING links to post no. 423:
http://www.jihadwatch.org/archives/020307.php
(RTT NEWS)
March 15, 2008
“Mumbai police: Jihadists intended to target stock exchange, atomic research center”
ARTICLE SNIPPET: “(RTTNews) - The two suspected Harkat-ul-Jihadi Islamic terrorists gunned down in an encounter in Thane in Mumbai on Wednesday intended to target the Bhabha Atomic Research Centre-BARC and the National Stock Exchange-NSE, Mumbai police said on Thursday.
The Pune and Mumbai anti-terrorist units carried out the joint operation after intelligence reports emanated that two Islamic terrorists of Bangladeshi origin had crossed the border into India and entered the financial capital, Mumbai with a plan to strike at sensitive installations.
One of the dead militant gunned down on Mira Road in Thane, was identified as Mohammed Ali from the passport recovered at the site.
“It is a major success for us. We are investigating their links,” special inspector general of police and ATS chief Hemant Karkare said on Thursday, the 15th anniversary of the 1993 serial blasts that killed over 250 people in Mumbai. The Bombay Stock Exchange was among the 12 places where RDX-triggered bombs exploded on March 12, 1993. The 14-year trial wound up last July.
“We can say they were on a planned mission. Sensitive nuclear installations and the National Stock Exchange were some of their targets,” he said.
Karkare said fake Indian currency worth Rs. 10 lakh, 2kg explosives, suspected to be RDX, and two firearms, including a Smith and Wesson pistol, were seized from the militants. The seized fake currency, in thousand-rupee notes, will be sent to the Reserve Bank of India for analysis. The explosives have been sent for forensic tests.”
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Previously...
http://www.jihadwatch.org/archives/020283.php
(INDO-ASIAN NEWS SERVICE)
March 13, 2008
“India: Police in Mumbai on alert for sleeper cells of jihadists”
http://www.satp.org
TERRORISM UPDATE
Note: The following news brief is a quote:
http://www.satp.org/satporgtp/detailed_news.asp?date1=3/14/2008#10
Pakistan
Al Qaeda and Baitullah Mehsud prime suspects in Lahore suicide attacks
A meeting of security agencies on March 13 named al Qaeda and pro-Taliban commander Baitullah Mehsud as the prime suspects in the twin suicide attacks in Lahore on March 11, according to Daily Times. Sources privy to the meeting said representatives of intelligence agencies, the Federal Investigation Agency, Punjab Police and the Crime Investigation Department said Lahore was being targeted because it housed the regional headquarters of various security agencies. Investigators said at the meeting that Lahore was not a new target as intelligence had arrested 48 suspects including seven would-be suicide bombers from the provincial capital and seized 640 kilograms of explosives before Muharram.
Meanwhile, the Punjab Police on March 13 arrested 15 more suspects in connection with the bombings. Police also conducted several raids in southern Punjab, sources said.