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2005-10-31 Afghanistan-Pak-India

Al-Qaeda, allies, are primary suspects in New Delhi booms

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Posted by Dan Darling 2005-10-31 00:12|| || Front Page|| [11130 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 More Allies. Good.

Posted by plainslow 2005-10-31 08:30|| 2005-10-31 08:30|| Front Page Top

#2 Strangely, it seems the CPI President has had better relations with the US than Vajpayee's BNP. To bad we can't get Mansoor Ijaz on Rantburg he'd answer all my questions.

Posted by Rightwing 2005-10-31 09:05|| 2005-10-31 09:05|| Front Page Top

#3 "One possibility is that the Al Qaeda and IIF might be targeting India because of its open alignment with the US on matters affecting the vital interests of the Islamic Ummah," he added.

Or maybe it's because muslims killed off the majority of Hindus and Buddhists and ruled all of India untill the British came. Now they plan to do it again. Now give me my consulting fee.

Posted by ed 2005-10-31 10:37|| 2005-10-31 10:37|| Front Page Top

#4 sorry ed

buh my athiest indian roommate, here for a college education says "no basis or backing.. simply untrue"

Posted by Dcreeper 2005-10-31 14:00|| 2005-10-31 14:00|| Front Page Top

#5 Link

In a significant breakthrough, Delhi Police has apprehended the "overground activists" of the terror network, which carried out Saturday's serial blasts in the Capital. Those apprehended are being interrogated by police and intelligence to identify other local components involved in the attack and to piece together the loose ends.

Police teams have been sent to Western UP, Rajasthan and Jammu and Kashmir to nab "Sleeper Agents" and those who plotted in the triple blasts. The police are confident of unraveling the entire conspiracy since they have a clear idea of the people involved.

A senior Delhi Police officer directly involved in the investigation said eyewitness accounts and the modus operandi indicated the involvement of locals. The manner in which a bomb was planted in the Outer Mudrika bus in Govindpuri area bolstered the theory. Police believe a local "agent" had picked the particular bus as workers of the Okhla Industrial areas used it after their 5 pm shift. This knowledge could have only been available with locals.

Following this tip, a massive hunt was launched in adjoining areas especially Zakir Nagar. Interestingly, Zakir Nagar had once played host to top operatives of Students Islamic Movement in India (SIMI) and the probe hinted towards their involvement.

Sleuths have also scanned thousands of cellphone calls made before and after the blasts. The movement of certain suspects was being verified to find out whether they were in touch with those who wanted to create mayhem in the city during Deepawali festivities. An analysis of the data has helped police in zeroing in on the culprits.

The teams of Special Cell, Crime Branch and the nine districts have questioned a large number of people. "We are proceeding on the basis of the clues and material evidence and a scientific investigation was being conducted. There are many angles to the conspiracy and efforts are on to arrest those who were the masterminds. And off course the inputs from the central intelligence agencies have also proved to be highly useful. The Commissioner of Police himself was monitoring the entire investigation," the police officer added.

Meanwhile, the forensic examination of the debris has confirmed that RDX was used in the Improvised Explosive Devices (IEDs) to cause maximum damage. Experts at Central Forensic Sciences Laboratory (CFSL), Delhi and Chandigarh and National Security Guards (NSG) have found traces of RDX. It was used to make the bombs more lethal. It also denotes that those who planted the explosives were well versed in assembling IEDs.

One puzzling aspect was the mechanical timers used in the bombs. The bomb, which was planted in the bus in Govindpuri was fitted with a clock and the detonator was mechanically attached to the clock. Lashkar-e-Tayyeba is known to employ such technique while planting and detonating IEDs. In 1997 when LeT carried out serial blasts, similar IEDs were used.

There was a definite pattern in the triple blasts and it has now been confirmed that a single module carried out the attack. Police teams are scouring the length and breadth of Western Uttar Pradesh to hunt out the suspects believed to be hiding in peripheral towns, the officer added.

Posted by john 2005-10-31 16:12|| 2005-10-31 16:12|| Front Page Top

#6 An aritlce on the WSJ Ed page today says the reason Indiahas the highest number of terrorist attacks is because it does the least about them. If this keeps up, we may see India become the place where anti-Muslim vigilantism erupts, though the "youths" of Paris are doing their best to give that honor to France.

Posted by Thaing Clemble9982 2005-10-31 17:19|| 2005-10-31 17:19|| Front Page Top

#7 Thailand's definitely in the running, as well, thanks to Toxin's on-again, off-again, limp-wristed response.

Posted by .com 2005-10-31 17:26|| 2005-10-31 17:26|| Front Page Top

#8 Dcreeper,
What does your roommate state there is no basis or backing? At the time of the main muslim conquests of India (Buddhist and Hindu area of what is Afghanistan, Pakistan, India, Bangladesh, etc), it had a population of about 100 million. The world population at that time was about 350 million. The muslim invasions began in 997 with Mahmoud, but the deadliest was after 1200. The Hindu and Buddhist death toll for that era is estimated to be 50-60 million and caused a dip in the world population graph. For example, 15-20 million died (Hindus, Buddhists, most muslims were spared) just during the 35 year period of Tamerlane's conquests. http://users.erols.com/mwhite28/warstat0.htm#Timur

Wikpedia: Islamic conquest of South Asia
The historian Will Durant wrote in The Story of Civilization (1972) that the Mohammadan conquest of India was "probably the bloodiest story in history." Prof. K.S. Lal calculated in his book The Growth of Muslim Population in India that between the years 1000 AD and 1500 AD the population of Hindus decreased by 80 Million.

Mughal Empire in India

Posted by ed 2005-10-31 19:43|| 2005-10-31 19:43|| Front Page Top

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