BOMBAY — Police charged four persons yesterday with terrorist acts in India's financial hub, accusing them of setting off three bombs that killed 55 persons to avenge the death of Muslims in religious riots last year.
The suspects — including a married couple and their teenage daughter — were arrested under India's terrorism law and could face the death penalty.
The Hindus have reacted way way WAY more civilized than they had a right to about this.
I'm impressed, but saddened. It just emboldens the islamic enemy of the world to do more.
WEll, the civilised world is just that, 'civilised'. The only thing the barbajinsky understand is force. Remember, the Roman Empire did not face problems during Emperor Trajan's time as he wasn't content with meeting the barbarian GErmans and Dacians at the gates to the Empire, he went out and crushed them. Hail Caesar!
New breed behind India blasts
From AFP
September 05, 2003
http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,5744,7171242%255E2703,00.html INVESTIGATIONS into a series of blasts in Bombay in recent months show the new breed of bombers in India are graduates, doctors and software experts with similar profiles to those who carried out the September 11 attacks in the US.
"If you look at the nature of terrorism – the profile of the September 11 attackers or those detained for the Bombay blasts – it is part of globalisation that the terrorist is no longer the shadowy stereotype, the underworld criminal, but from the educated middle class," said C.U. Bhaskar, deputy director of the Institute of Defence Studies and Analyses in New Delhi.
His view was echoed by former Bombay police chief Julio Ribeiro, who said those involved in the Bombay attacks were not mercenaries but educated people fighting perceived injustice.
The Indian Express newspaper this week profiled 10 men who had been detained or arrested for their alleged involvement in blasts across India's western financial hub since last December.
About 70 people have been killed in the bombings, with 52 of the deaths coming from lunchtime twin car-bomb explosions on August 25.
According to the paper, all 10 men were university graduates, with some having degrees in forensic science, medicine, business management or computer software.
By contrast, Bombay police believe a series of blasts 10 years ago in Bombay – although allegedly planned by Pakistan's military intelligence chiefs and facilitated by underworld leaders – were carried out by "misguided" unemployed youths.
The Hindustan Times in a weekend article noted that sectarian riots in the western state of Gujarat in March-April last year had been a watershed for terrorism.
The riots were sparked by a mob of Muslims torching a train carrying Hindu activists and devotees in Gujarat's Godhra town on February 27 last year.
The attack sparked anti-Muslim riots that raged across Gujarat for three months and left about 2000 people dead, most of them Muslims.
According to the Times, Abdul Mohammed Mateen, 28, a specialist in forensic medicine who was arrested over a bomb blast in Bombay last December, was motivated to carry out the attack by the Gujarat violence.
Police said four Muslims arrested for last week's car bombings – a man and wife and their 17-year-old daughter as well as another activist – were all members of the Gujarat Muslim Revenge Group, a splinter of the hardline Lashkar-e-Taiba.