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Keyword: akshardham

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  • Arrested Fidayeen reveal terror route, LeT hand

    11/28/2008 12:41:57 AM PST · by MyTwoCopperCoins · 57 replies · 3,434+ views
    Rediff ^ | 28 Nov., 2008 | Rediff
    The arrest of three Pakistani nationals hailing from Multan in connection with Mumbai siege has once again revealed the role of Lashkar-e-Tayiba in terror strikes in India after the Akshardham attack in 2002. Police and central security personnel have arrested at least three Pakistanis, including Ajmal Amir Kamal, a resident of Faridkot near Multan in Pakistan's Punjab province. All the three belong to the suicide squad of Lashkar-e-Tayiba. The terrorists told interrogators that 12 of them had left in a merchant vessel from the port city of Karachi, which was on its way to Vietnam, from which they got down...
  • Temple attack: 'They made a kid say 'Vande Mataram', then shot him'

    09/26/2002 4:23:10 PM PDT · by knighthawk · 18 replies · 464+ views
    Sify News ^ | September 26 2002
    Farmer Nareshbhai Bariyar ran for his life as two clean-shaven youths turned into cold-blooded killers at the Akshardham temple in Gandhinagar, watching helplessly as his pregnant sister was cut down by machinegun fire. Bariyar, 33, and five other family members were performing their devotions at the Akshardham Temple in Gandhinagar on Tuesday afternoon when they heard a commotion. "There were loud sounds like gunshots and I saw people running like wild cattle here and there, from one room of the complex to another shouting atankwadi agaye, atankwadi agaye (terrorists have come, terrorists have come)," Bariyar told AFP. "I panicked at...