India detains 30 in bombings that killed 45

http://www.townhall.com/ ^ | Sunday, July 27, 2008 | By R.K. MISRA

[ThreePuttinDude]

Authorities scoured a western Indian city Sunday for those behind a series of bombings that killed at least 45 people, reportedly rounding up more than two dozen residents. It was the second series of blasts in India in two days.

A little-known group claimed responsibility for the attack.

"In the name of Allah. the Indian Mujahideen strike again! Do whatever you can, within 5 minutes from now, feel the terror of Death!" said an e-mail from the group sent to a number of Indian television news stations just minutes before the blasts began.

The e-mail's subject line said "Await 5 minutes for the revenge of Gujarat," an apparent reference to 2002 riots in this western state which left 1,000 people, most of them Muslim, dead. The historic city of Ahmadabad is the capital of Gujarat and was the scene of much of the 2002 violence.

[grey_whiskers]

And the response of the Indian authorities to the email was -- "All Your Base Are Belong To Us"

Glad they caught 'em.

[Lonesome in Massachussets]

Why doesn’t Obama just fly over to Bangalore, give a speech and make all that unpleasantness stop?

[jpl]

Islam: a religion of pieces.

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

pingaroo!

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

The death count keeps going up....earlier accounts....from the Long War Journal:

29 killed in second day of bombings in India

The aftermath of the bombing of a city bus in Ahmedabad. Photo by the Times of India.

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Terrorists have struck inside a major Indian city for the second day straight. At least 26 Indians were killed and more than 100 wounded in a series of bomb blasts in the city of Ahmedabad.

Sixteen blasts took place at 13 different sites throughout Ahmedabad in the span of 90 minutes, The Times of India reported, causing chaos in the city. Bombs were planted at two hospitals, in a theater, and on a bus and other vehicles.

The string of deadly bombings in Ahmedabad comes just one day after an identical attack occurred in the city of Bangalore. Six people were killed and more than 20 wounded after thirteen bombs were detonated nearly simultaneously throughout the city.

Police said that yesterday's smaller bombs were assembled by professional bomb makers who used timing devices set to detonate within 15 minutes of each other. During a follow-up investigation, police found a large, undetonated bomb at a mall in Bangalore.

A group called the Indian Mujahideen took credit for the attacks in Bangalore, but no group has taken credit for the Ahmedabad attacks at this time. The mode of attacks makes it certain the same group conducted both strikes.

The Indian Mujahideen took credit for the May bombings in Jaipur and said the attacks were intended to disrupt the tourist economy. The group sent videos to the media using an e-mail address that is nearly identical to the one used to announce the attacks in Uttar Pradesh in November 2007. The Jaipur blasts killed more than 60 and wounded more than 200, while the Uttar Pradesh attacks killed 14 and wounded more than 50.

But India's Intelligence Bureau denies that the Indian Mujahideen exists. Instead the Bureau claims the terror group is a creation of the Bangladesh-based Harkat ul Jihad al Islami, or HuJI-B, an al Qaeda affiliate. HuJI-B created the Indian Mujahideen to confuse investigators and cover the tracks of the Students Islamic Movement of India, or SIMI, which provides logistics for the attacks.

India officials said the HuJI-B and SIMI were behind the Jaipur and Uttar Pradesh bombings, and some officials believe the Pakistani-based Jaish-e-Mohammed terror group assisted in the attacks.

The Bangladeshi branch of HuJI, was established in 1992 "with assistance from Osama bin Laden’s International Islamic Front," according to the South Asia Terrorism Portal.

"HuJI aims to establish Islamic Hukumat (rule) in Bangladesh by waging war and killing progressive intellectuals," the South Asia Terrorism Portal stated. "It draws inspiration from bin Laden and the erstwhile Taliban regime of Afghanistan. At one point of time, the groups issued a slogan, Amra Sobai Hobo Taliban, Bangla Hobe Afghanistan (We will all become Taliban and we will turn Bangladesh into Afghanistan)."

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks E. I’d prefer more headlines, “shot dead while trying to resist arrest” though. ;’)

[Marine_Uncle]

It appears to many goons forget, assuming they ever had any history lessons, Pakistan was set up for Muslims to live.

[AmericanInTokyo]

Swarms of them.

Every damned last one of them, a terrorist in training.

They even have a functioning website in India you can go to. These were the guys who apparantly planted those bombs over the weekend in Western and Southern India.

Talk about a target rich environment. Radical Moozlims. Yecchh!

[AmericanInTokyo]

terrorist group in India

One might have to go "cache" mode to see these buzzards.