NEWS: Serial Blasts in Mumbai & Srinagar - Page 7

Bombs tear through Indian trains; 147 dead


BOMBAY, India - Eight bombs hit Bombay's commuter rail network during rush hour Tuesday evening, killing at least 147 people and wounding more than 400 in what authorities called a well-coordinated terrorist attack. There was no immediate claim of responsibility in the bombings, which came in quick succession -- a common tactic employed by Kashmiri militants.

they just confirmed half hour back..its not 8

there took place 7 blasts only

wao
thanks for sharin
cool info 😉

why dont they call the army for further security, theres no guarantee of what they're gonna do ahead.

They knew mumbai was to face sumthing like this before hand

tab army nahi laye

to ab khak layenge 😡😡

leave army ....they r still nt confessing that it made the city go under shock n still r saying ...everything is under control...huh?? 😡

British intelligence anaylst Richard M Bennett says the serial attacks in Mumbai were masterminded by outfits from abroad.

According to him, "The level of sophistication and organisation needed to carry out such a widespread and tightly coordinated attack is beyond the known capabilities of any of the Islamic groups operating in either Kashmir or elsewhere in India."

In an e-mail to rediff.com immediately after the blasts, he said, "This has all the hallmarks of a Special Forces/Intelligence operation... it may have been carried out by expendable extremists, but those who were the promoters and brains have military training."

"The Mumbai blasts is an attack on India's soft underbelly," said Ajit Doval, former director, Intelligence Bureau.

Doval too agrees with the views of the British expert. "From my experience I think that the blasts are not an indigenous effort. It is the exported variety of terrorism. The blasts of Mumbai have a foreign origin and it is obvious that a lot of effort has gone behind its execution."

Doval, who extensively investigated fugitive gangster Dawood Ibrahim's involvement in the March 12, 1993 Mumbai bomb blasts, said, "The saboteurs are telling India that they are alive, kicking and have the capacity to strike at any place in India, at a time of their choosing."

"India must give a counter message," Doval said. "We must prove that we have the capacity to hound them wherever they are. Terrorists must get the message that the threshold level of patience of Indians is not infinite. If we don't do something now then the enemies of India will keep surprising us."

"Today's blasts must have involved more than 25 people who might have knowingly and unknowingly participated. It is very likely that the masterminds are not in India. The actual perpetrators may not be more than four or five but these guys must have got help from many people. The infrastructure for these blasts must have been quite big. Motor vehicles, local agents, people who provided cover to terrorists and people who planted the devices must have been involved. They should be and will be found out."

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Zenab if you don't have condolences to offer us Indians , please don't call this horrific act and the death of 100's cool info. and make it even more frivilous with your wink smiley !!

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Was local neta the pointman?



Intelligence agencies say he recruited over a thousand people from UP in the past six months



Mumbai Mirror Bureau



The central intelligence agencies and the Anti-Terrorist Squad of the Mumbai police believe a politician with considerable following among the minorities in Mumbai may have played a crucial role in Tuesday's serial blasts.

The blasts, a senior ATS officer said, seemed to be a reprisal for the death of two members of a minority community in police firing in Bhiwandi last week.

The politician, whom the ATS sleuths are likely to call for questioning soon, had played a key role in fomenting trouble in the aftermath of the Bhiwandi firing incident.

According to the information available with ATS, this politician recruited over a thousand people from Uttar Pradesh in the past six months. The recruits, an ATS officer said, are now part of several well-knit terrorist sleeper cells in Mumbai. The ATS had held two back-to-back meetings with the state and central intelligence agencies after the trouble in Bhiwandi. The ATS for the past several months has also been tracking the flow of funds to this Mumbai politician from mysterious sources in the Gulf.

"A sleeper cell can be activated in as short a notice as 24 hours. As per the intelligence collected so far, the serial blasts of Tuesday might be a reaction to what happened in Bhiwandi last week," said a senior IB official in Mumbai.

Just last month, the ATS had busted a couple of sleeper cells and arrested 13 men from Malegaon and Aurangabad with RDX and guns.

According to an officer of the Inspector General rank, Tuesday's blasts could be the handiwork of some local groups who knew about the important role the Western line plays in keeping the city on the move.

The officer added that the people who executed the blasts appeared to have good understanding of the functioning of the local train network and the train time tables. "The fact they picked the evening rush hour also indicates local knowledge," he said.

This is so terrifying. Leave our Country alone you cowards !!!!!.😡😡

I send my Indian brothers and sisters our condolences.😭😭😭 And i hope our goverment tightens the security and learns we are too soft on the terrorists.