'Sophisticated' Bombs Used(Mumbai Attacks)

[tekisui]

WASHINGTON - MILITANT groups that waged war on Mumbai last week planted a total of five bombs during the attacks, two of which were 'sophisticated,' the US television network ABC News reported, quoting police in India on Tuesday.

At least two of the bombs 'used sophisticated timers unlike anything India had seen until this year', ABC said.

Two bombs exploded on Wednesday night in taxis in seperate Mumbai suburbs, while one was found outside at the Oberoi/Trident hotel and two outside the Taj Mahal Palace hotel.


Both of the Taj bombs were discovered to have a sophisticated electronically-programmed timing device, similar to those in bombs planted in July in the western Indian city of Surat.

Police defused one of the bombs outside the Taj, which a bomb squad determined had been set to explode early on Thursday.

'I think they wanted to blow up the maximum number of people, including security forces, media people, and any guests evacuated from the hotel,' Steven Anthony, top investigator for the Mumbai police bomb squad, told ABC.

Fellow bomb squad officer Sachin Gawade said that some of the bombs appeared to contain around 17 pounds of a 'greasy, black' RDX explosives 'very similar to the explosives found in the bombs used during the 1993 Mumbai blasts', which killed 257 people.

http://news.asiaone.com/News/Latest%2BNews/Asia/Story/A1Story20081203-105127.html

[jeff30997]

1. It's the damned CIA that's behind that again. n/t

[frylock]

5. the whole LSD thing sure raises some red flags

[stillcool]

2. Something is hinky..

why are we hearing nothing about this?

South Asia
Nov 22, 2008

Faith in India's army shaken by blasts
By Sudha Ramachandran

BANGALORE
- Investigations into recent bomb blasts in India have led to the arrest of several Hindus and for the first time ever, a serving officer of the Indian army.

The arrests have triggered heated debate on whether the arrests indicate the existence of "Hindu terrorism". More worryingly, the probes point to the possibility of the hitherto secular and apolitical Indian army being infected by the communal virus.

Six people were killed and over 80 injured in blasts on September 29 in the Muslim-dominated town of Malegaon, about 260 kilometers from Mumbai. A few hours later, a bomb went off near a mosque in Modasa town in Gujarat, where Muslims were offering special Ramadan prayers, killing two people.

Investigations have led to the arrest of about 10 people, including Ajay Rahirkar, Sameer Kulkarni, Rakesh Dhawade (all members of the Hindu extremist organization, the Abhinav Bharat), Dayanand Pandey (a self-styled Hindu "guru") Sadhvi Pragya Singh Thakur (an "ascetic" who is a member of the Durga Vahini - the women's wing of the Vishva Hindu Parishad - and the Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad - the students' wing of the Bharatiya Janata Party - BJP).
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But even as Indians are heatedly debating whether "Hindu terrorism" exists, another worrying issue has been thrown up by the investigations. Three men arrested in connection with the Malegaon blasts are from the armed forces. They include one serving officer, Lieutenant Colonel Prasad Shrikant Purohit, and two retired officers, Major Ramesh Upadhyay and Colonel Shailesh Raikar.

http://www.atimes.com/atimes/South_Asia/JK22Df03.html

[tekisui]

3. That is interesting.

Hindu terrorists. I wonder if that was a retaliation or something unrelated. Very strange things are happening in that area of the world. It is hard to even know what is happening, and we have no journalist or media willing to ask.

Also, there was a bombing in Assam, today:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=389&topic_id=4574191&mesg_id=4574191

[stillcool]

4. yeah..that

story is from November 22..I'm not understanding why a few weeks ago there were no allegations made of Pakistani involvement.