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Tuesday, July 29, 2008

Navi Mumbai, the new terror hub

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How a wifi link was stolen investigations into Saturday's Ahmedabad serial bombings have thrown up the first clues: the terror operations were likely planned in Navi Mumbai and other parts of Maharashtra.

It is now emerging that someone logged in to American manager Kenneth Haywood's Wi-Fi connection - installed in his apartment in Navi Mumbai - to send the e-mail warning of a terror strike, minutes before the first bombs went off, intelligence officials told the Hindustan Times on condition of anonymity .

Three of the four car-bombs in Gujarat were stolen from Navi Mumbai and the fourth was traced to an area near Nashik, said officials of Maharashtra's Anti-Terrorist Squad (ATS) in Mumbai. The findings came on a day when the death toll crossed 50, a bomb was defused in Surat, and tense Indian cities were flooded with bomb hoaxes.

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Wednesday, May 14, 2008

Terror Strikes Pink City

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At least 80 people were killed and over 150 injured in seven explosions that took place on Tuesday evening in some of the most crowded areas of Jaipur. The eighth bomb was found and defused.

"We have information that 80 people have died," Rajasthan Home Minister Gulab Chand Kataria was quoted by AFP as saying. Earlier, Chief Minister Vasundhara Raje told reporters that 60 people had died and 150 were injured.

State police chief A.S. Gill said, "Obviously it's a terrorist plot. The way it has , been done, the attempt was to cause maximum damage." He did not rule out the use of RDX and timer devices.

Though no one has claimed responsibility yet, security and intelligence sources said the explosions could be the handiwork of the Bangladesh-based Harkat ul Jehadi Islamia or the Pakistan-based Lashkar-i-Tayyeba.

The home minister said one suspect had been detained and was being investigated.

This was Rajasthan's second brush with terrorism in recent years - the last being a bomb blast at the Ajmer Sharif dargah of Moinuddin Chisti on October 11, 2007 that killed three devotees.

The Tuesday terrorist strike in Jaipur started at 7.25 pm. There were seven explosions at six places - Manak Chowk, Sanganeri Gate Hanuman Mandir, Johri Bazaar, Tripoliya, Chauti Chaupar (two explosions) and Chandpole Hanuman Mandir. Police said another bomb was defused at Chandpole Hanuman temple.

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Monday, May 12, 2008

Terror Returns To Jammu

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In a dastardly attack, the biggest in Jammu region since 2002, militants struck in the border town of Samba, killing five people, including a woman hostage and a photojournalist.

Two militants holed up in a house were killed on Sunday evening after a fierce, 13 hour encounter. The militants had taken six people, including women and children, hostage.

The attack, the first major terror strike since the one on Raghunath temple in November 2002, came close on the heels of an infiltration bid three days ago, which the Border Security Force claimed to have foiled. Police believed that some militants did manage to sneak in and the location of Sunday's encounter site, close to the Jammu Pathankot highway, indicates that infiltrators were indeed able to negotiate the fence and other monitoring devices.

Inspector General of Police K. Rajendra confirmed to Hindustan Times that both the militants had been killed and that the operation was over.

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