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This one is not just going away. A final death toll has not emerged at this writing, but it has reached 200. Mumbai (Bombay), a city already battered by terrorism, is slowly coming to grips with the enormity of what happened. The horrific imagery of the blast rivals that of 9/11, and the comparisons have already begun: "Gruesome scenes from Tuesday's attacks dominated Indian television, which began referring to the day as 7/11. Images of a middle-aged man, his body severed in two, crying for help as his fellow passengers carried him away, were broadcast repeatedly." If the "falling man"...

Pakistan is suspected of involvement in Tuesday’s bomb attacks on trains in Mumbai, according to Indian government sources. Talks between the two sides planned for next week are likely to be delayed. These reports come as police probe phone calls made to Karachi and Dubai minutes before and after seven attacks on commuter trains, which killed 179 people and injured 772 others during the evening rush hour. Separately, the banned Students Islamic Movement of India or SIMI, one of several groups suspected in the attacks, denied responsibility. "SIMI condemns the killing of innocent people. Our name is being unnecessarily dragged...

Breaking News on Indian News programs in India: Top Indian Government sources say that Pakistan has an hand in the Mumbai blasts. They say that there is very clear evidence. They are looking at a spate of calls from Mumbai to Karachi, Pakistan right after the blasts. They are also tracing calls to Dubai. Indian government also says that all talks with Pakistan is off, all confidence-building-measures are off. Sources say that they are on the verge of getting concret proof of Pakistan's hand in the blasts. Sorry for the spelling mistakes....

As a child, I rarely fell asleep without listening to my grandmother narrate 'good-over-evil' stories from religious scriptures. Her dramatic story-telling ability held me enraptured as she described how gods took on the demons and crushed them. With 330 million gods to choose from and a near-perfect memory, her bank of stories was inexhaustible. At school, I learnt 'moral science,' which primarily consisted of religious tales of divine domination over wickedness. I was in love with these godly heroes as they vanquished the forces of evil, mercilessly mowing them down. It took me slightly longer to realise that the magnitude...

The latest grand Islamist atrocity was directed against the huge city of Mumbai, Tuesday. At least seven big explosions ripped through rush-hour commuter trains, along a string of stations on the principal north-south rail artery -- temporarily disabling the city's principal economic lifeline. It was a reprise of the Islamist attacks on Madrid's rail system, 28 months ago.As we must surely realize from recent arrests around Toronto, New York, Miami, London, Beirut, and elsewhere, the menace is hardly receding. For each Islamist cell police break up, they are dimly aware of several others. In Mumbai, the police anti-terrorist squad...

NEW DELHI/KATHMANDU: Just after the Mumbai blasts, a call from Karachi to Dhaka said: "Mubarakan, mubarakan (congratulations)" — a clear mission-accomplished message. Around the same time, a call from PCO near Juhu, Mumbai, went to an anxious "mother" in Karachi. The caller assured his mother that he was all right (salamat) but could not disclose his location and, saying he could not talk at length, hung up. An intensive intelligence operation involving central agencies and Mumbai police is on, trawling telecom gateways in Mumbai, Delhi and Kolkata to track calls which contain "footprints" to Tuesday’s serial blasts. The gateways route...

SRINAGAR, India — A man claiming to represent al-Qaida in Kashmir said the terror network had set up a wing in Kashmir and appealed to Indian Muslims to take up jihad, an Indian news agency reported Thursday. An official said the government said it was taking the claim "very seriously." The man, who identified himself as Abu al-Hadeed, told Kashmir's Current News Service that "who so ever has carried out the attacks in Bombay we express our gratitude and happiness." As word of the announcement spread, a senior intelligence official in Kashmir said the call had been placed from a...

Six explosions hit Bombay's commuter rail network during rush hour Tuesday evening, ripping apart train compartments and reportedly injuring dozens of people, police and Indian media said. Indian television news channels broadcast video of the wounded sprawled on train tracks and being carried through stations. The Press Trust of India news agency said six blasts occurred along the city's commuter rail network, which is among the most crowded in the world. India's financial center of Bombay and the capital of New Delhi were reportedly on high alert.

Islamabad: Terming the bomb blasts in Mumbai's trains that killed over 100 people as a "despicable act of terrorism," Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf and Prime Minister Shaukat Aziz have condemned the attacks. "Pakistan strongly condemns the series of bomb blasts on commuter trains in Mumbai. This despicable act of terrorism has resulted in the loss of a large number of precious lives," said a statement issued by the Pakistan Foreign Office spokesperson on Tuesday night. "The President and Prime Minister of Pakistan have also strongly condemned this terrorist attack and have expressed condolences over the loss of innocent lives. Terrorism...

Those injured in the Mumbai serial blasts need blood urgently.Some of the hospitals they have been admitted to are: Sion Hospital; KEM Hospital, Parel; Bhagwati Hospital, Borivali; V N Desai Hospital, Andheri; Bhabha Hospital, Bandra; S L Raheja Hospital, Mahim; Lilavati Hospital, Bandra; Cooper Hospital, Juhu and Holy Family Hospital, Bandra.Those interested in donating blood may also log on to www.indianblooddonors.com.

New Delhi (dpa) - Indian security agencies Tuesday night launched an investigation to identify the terrorist outfit behind the deadly serial blasts in Mumbai, and to determine whether it was linked to grenade attacks in India-administered Kashmir earlier in the day, officials said. Police in India-administered Kashmir had claimed that the Lashkar-e-Toiba(LeT) group was behind the grenade blasts that killed eight people Tuesday afternoon. Indian Home Ministry officials told the NDTV network that investigators suspected the LeT group had carried out both attacks. But Home Minister Shivraj Patil told reporters that the security agencies had some leads and could not...

0711dv-india-blasts Eight bombs hit Bombay's commuter rail network during rush hour Tuesday evening, killing at least 147 people and wounding more than 400 in what authorities called a well-coordinated terrorist attack. There was no immediate claim of responsibility in the bombings, which came in quick succession - a common tactic employed by Kashmiri militants. The blasts came hours after a series of grenade attacks by Islamic extremists killed eight people in the main city of India's part of Kashmir. India's major cities were put on high alert. Prime Minister Manmohan Singh convened an emergency Cabinet meeting and said that "terrorists"...

THRISSUR, India (CNS) -- The Catholic Bishops' Conference of India deplored the July 11 deadly bomb blasts in Mumbai that claimed more than 130 lives and injured more than 200 people. "It is a blatant act of aggression on harmless people, and this must be countered with courage and determination by all concerned," the bishops said in a statement. "We appeal to all the affected people to maintain calm and equanimity at this hour of sorrow and grief so that the nefarious designs of the anti-social elements can be defeated."

MUMBAI (Reuters) - Police stepped up security across India on Wednesday after bombs killed more than 160 people and wounded hundreds in packed commuter trains and stations in the financial hub, Mumbai. "I urge people to remain calm, not to believe rumors and carry on their activity normally," Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh said, calling the seven explosions that took place during the evening rush hour on Tuesday a "shameful act". There was no immediate claim of responsibility for the attacks but suspicion was likely to center on Muslim militants fighting New Delhi's rule in disputed Kashmir, who have been...

BOMBAY, India (AP) - 0711dv-india-blasts Eight bombs exploded in first-class compartments of packed Bombay commuter trains Tuesday, killing 190 people and wounding hundreds in a well-coordinated terror attack on the heart of a city that embodies India's global ambitions. Suspicion quickly fell on Kashmiri militants who have repeatedly carried out nearly simultaneous explosions in attacks on Indian cities, including bombings last year at three markets in New Delhi. Pakistan, India's rival over the disputed territory of Kashmir, quickly condemned Tuesday's bombings. Even so, India alleges that Pakistan supports the Muslim militants, and analysts said a Kashmiri link to the blasts...

Muslim militants fighting against Indian control in Kashmir are the prime suspects for the bloody terrorist bombings on trains carrying rush-hour commuters in Bombay. Dozens of groups, mostly based in neighbouring Pakistan, have been responsible for a string of attacks against targets in India over the past decade with two organisations, Lashkar-e-Toiba (Soldiers of the Pure) and Jaish-e-Mohammad (Army of Mohammad), regarded as the most effective and deadly. Although there were no immediate claims of responsibility for today's bombings, Western intelligence experts had been anticipating a new wave of attacks in India by militants. Shivraj Patil, the Indian Home Minister,...

Press Trust of India Posted online: Wednesday, July 12, 2006 at 1013 hours IST Updated: Wednesday, July 12, 2006 at 1025 hours IST New Delhi, July 12: Police suspect Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) and banned Students Islamic Movement of India (SIMI) to be behind the serial blasts in suburban trains in Mumbai that claimed 190 lives and left over 600 injured. The magnitude of the sychronised blasts have conclusively pointed to the use of RDX by the attackers, official sources said in Mumbai on Wednesday. Seven synchronised blasts in subruban trains in Mumbai on Tuesday evening have killed at least 190 people...

New Lashkar module maybe behind blasts July 12, 2006 12:42 IST The Mumbai police suspect that a new module of the Lashkar-e-Tayiba that may have penetrated Mumbai recently, could be responsible for yesterday's serial bomb blasts that killed over 190 people and left over 600 injured. Mumbai crime branch officials, who probed the blasts conducted by the Lashkar in Mumbai in 2002 and 2003, told PTI that the entire LeT module involved in those blasts had been exposed. Two to three LeT operatives from the module, who are absconding, do not seem to be involved in yesterday's blasts, they said....

BOMBAY, India (AP) -- Indian stocks rose a surprising 3 percent Wednesday, despite predictions of a sell-off following a series of train bombings the previous day that rocked the country's financial capital. Upbeat earnings from software company Infosys Technologies Ltd. helped lift the market, boosting investor confidence in the country's technology and outsourcing industries. The benchmark index of the Bombay Stock Exchange, the 30-share Sensex, rose 314 points, or 3 percent, to finish at 10,928. The index initially dipped 0.3 percent as trading opened, but soon recovered and continued to climb throughout the day. The market's performance surprised analysts who...

Maharashtra tops jihadi target Pioneer News Service | Mumbai 148 killed 8 blasts in 11 minutes ---- It was like a chronicle of a tragedy foretold. Mumbai was always a soft target. The heart of the Indian economy, the tinsel metropolis, which Prime Minister Manmohan Singh wanted to turn into Shanghai has had several close shaves with terror in the last few months. The signals should have been enough to keep intelligence agencies on high alert, round-the-year, round-the-clock. Not just Mumbai. Indeed, the whole of Maharashtra was perched on a tinderbox with reports of explosives seizure pouring in on a...