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| India-Pakistan |
| Terror email signed on Wed, sent on Sat |
| 2008-08-07 |
| 'Indian Mujahideen' claimed responsibility for the serial blasts in UP, Jaipur and Ahmedabad on July 26. But then who was responsible for the blasts in Bangalore the previous day? Security analyst and former additional cabinet secretary B Raman has analyzed the emails claiming responsibility for the serial blasts in three towns of UP on November 23 last year, Jaipur on May 13 and in Ahmedabad last week. The UP email was drafted as if the message was from the leader of 'Indian Mujahideen' to explain why they had launched 'jihad' and the originator of this message identified himself as 'Guru al-Hindi' . "This gave rise to an interpretation that the leader of the group had assumed a 'kuniyat' or pseudonym after Mohammad Afzal Guru," says Raman. According to Raman, organizations like the Palestine Liberation Organisation (PLO), the Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) and Al-Qaida take their 'kuniyats' from the holy Quran and not from living persons. The Jaipur and Ahmedabad emails too have 'Guru al-Hindi ' as the originator. There are more quotations from the holy Quran in the Ahmedabad email, similar to the ones seen in the messages of Osama Bin Laden and his deputy Ayman al-Zawahiri. The Jaipur blast email did not carry the signature of 'Guru al-Hindi' . In the 26/7 email, the word 'Alarbi' is written in capital letters on the left of the signature. According to Raman, 'Al Arbi' or 'Al Arabia' means Arab but it has not been used in that sense. Rather, in Arabic language, Wednesday is known as 'Al Arbi' or 'Al Arbia' , meaning the fourth day of the week. 'Guru al-Hindi ' seems to have been hand-written , indicating that the message was signed on Wednesday, July 23. "The message itself was sent by email shortly before the 26/7 blasts. But if the message was drafted on July 23, why did it not give any advance warning of the Bangalore blasts which happened on July 25. Were the Bangalore blasts carried out by a different group?" questions Raman. |
| Posted by:Fred |