India: The Terrorists Within

time.com ^ | July 27, 2008 | MADHUR SINGH

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A day after major Indian cities were placed on high alert following blasts in the IT city of Bangalore, as many as 17 blasts ripped through Ahmedabad, capital of the affluent western Indian state of Gujarat. Some 30 people were killed, some at hospitals where bombs were timed to go off when the injured from other blasts were being brought in. (Later, in Surat, a center for the world's diamond industry, a bomb was defused near a hospital and two cars packed with explosives were found in in the city's outskirts.) Investigators pointed fingers at the usual Islamist suspects: Pakistan-based Lashkar-e-Toiba (LeT), Bangladesh-based Harkat-ul Jihadi Islami (HUJI) and the indigenous Students' Islamic Movement of India (SIMI). But even as the police searched for clues, the Ahmedabad attacks were owned up by a group calling itself the "Indian Mujahideen."

Several TV news stations received an email five minutes before the first blasts in Ahmedabad. The message reportedly had the Indian Mujahideen proclaiming the fact that they were based within the country, claimed sole responsibility for the attacks and asked other organisations like LeT not to take credit. The email purportedly cited a list of grievances against India's Hindu majority, and hinted at more attacks to come. The same group had claimed responsibility for blasts that had killed 63 people in the northwestern city of Jaipur in May this year, as well as serial blasts in the northern cities of Varanasi, Faizabad and Lucknow, in which 13 people were killed in November 2007.

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