Posted on 11/20/2006 12:32:42 PM PST by DrGunsforHands
CALCUTTA, India: A bomb exploded and ripped through two cars of a passenger train Monday in a remote area of eastern India, killing at least eight people and wounding about 60 others, officials and Indian media said.
Suspicion of responsibility for the blast in West Bengal state quickly fell on two groups: communist rebels active in wide swaths of rural India or militants fighting for an independent homeland in the neighboring state of Assam.
A spokesman for Northeastern Railways, T. Rabha, told The Associated Press that the bomb had been planted in one of train's cars and the explosion occurred about 6:20 p.m. near the Belacoba station, about 550 kilometers (345 miles) north of Calcutta.
The blast was so powerful it blew away the side and roof of one of the cars, the Press Trust of India reported.
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Let me guess, those militant, little old ladies that use walkers have struck again!
If it weren't Muslims, they'd say so. Sort of like the rule that when some politician gets in trouble, it's only a Republican if they say so... Otherwise, it's a Democrat.
I think the Assam "militants" are RoPers.
those lil ole ladies with walkers.....LOL
They aren't. Actually one of the Assam terrorist groups apparently has ties to some Baptist groups.
I see only one option for India, war with Pakistan.
Death toll at 10 now, with 60 injured. Can I edit my initial headline or is that not possible?
http://www.thenews.com.pk/update_detail.asp?id=13228
Pakistan has less than nothing to do with any problems India has in Assam.
They initially said the same thing the last train bombing and then traced it back right to Pakistani Intelligence. Pakistan has been trying to create instability in India for years now and I bet they step up the effort since India just test fired a couple Nuke capable missiles.
Damn them...
Really? Wow! You learn something new every day, if you're not real careful.
Baptists again?
I'll go for the "or"
"Reports also suggest that Pakistan’s Inter Services Intelligence (ISI) is assisting terrorist groups, including the KLO, to commit subversion along the Siliguri Corridor of West Bengal."
Wait, don't tell me.
Was it the Hare Kirsna's? NO?
How about the Little sisters for the poor? NO?
Um, the Mormons? Still wrong?
Gee, I give up, who could it have been?
In 1986, ULFA first established contacts with the then-unified National Socialist Council of Nagaland (NSCN) and the Kachin Independence Army (KIA). It learnt the rudiments of insurgency tactics from the KIA, which is believed to have charged Rs.100,000 per trainee. Subsequently, links were established with Pakistan's Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) and the Afghan mujahideen. Reports indicate that at least 200 ULFA activists received training in Pakistan and Afghanistan.
ISI largesse is believed to have enabled ULFA to buy arms from Cambodia, paying for these in hard currency routed through Nepal. Apart from training ULFA personnel at camps run by Islamist groups such as the Harkat-ul-Jihad Islami, the ISI also introduced ULFA to the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) transporters who, for a fee, undertook to transport arms from South-East Asia into Myanmar. In April 1996, Bangladesh seized more than 500 AK-47 rifles, 80 machine guns, 50 rocket launchers and 2,000 grenades from two ships off Cox's Bazaar (in Bangladesh). Four ethnic Tamils were among those arrested.
ULFA returned the ISI favour by announcing support for Pakistan during the Kargil war. It described the Pakistani intruders - primarily Pakistani Army regulars and Afghan mercenaries - as freedom fighters.
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