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Delhi Blasts : The complete story

Posted by sushant kumar on September 16, 2008

The 2008 Delhi bombings were a series of five synchronized bomb blasts that took place within a span of few minutes on September 13, 2008 at various locations in Delhi, India. The first bomb exploded at 6:10 pm IST (1240 UTC), and four other blasts followed in succession,1 with at least 30 people killed and over 100 injured.

Three bomb attacks had already occurred the same year in India. The first of these was on 13 May in Jaipur. The series of nine blasts over a span of 15 minutes claimed 63 lives, and injured 216. The second series of nine bomb blasts took place on 25 July in Bangalore, and claimed 2 lives, while injuring 20.5 The next day, on 26 July in Ahmedabad, a spurt of 21 blasts killed 56 people and injured over 200. Read more>>

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Ahmedabad bomb blasts video

Posted by speakindia on July 27, 2008

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Terrorists are targetting BJP ruled states

Posted by speakindia on July 27, 2008

The deadly serial bomb blasts on consecutive days in Bangalore and Ahmedabad have shown that the terrorists are confident of striking at will. But what’s the message they are trying to send?

Strategic analysis expert B Raman says that the blasts seem to be directed against the BJP-ruled states.

“The next series of blasts could possibly be carried out in Madhya Pradesh. It is no coincidence that SIMI cadres were arrested in Indore and Ujjain recently,” he says. Earlier blasts this year were carried out in Rajasthan and Karnataka, both BJP-ruled states.

Five minutes before Saturday’s blasts, a television channel received an email from a terror group claiming to be Indian Mujahideen.

In the past one year, this group has owned responsibility for several other strikes. They seem to nurse a grudge against the country’s criminal justice system.

“The innocent Muslims arrested in the (Mumbai) bomb blast case are being tried for years and years,” it says. There is no reference to Kashmir in the email. Read the rest of this entry »

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Ahmedabad Blasts : 38 killed as death toll rises

Posted by speakindia on July 27, 2008

AHMEDABAD: The toll in the serial blasts that rocked the city climbed to 38 on Sunday and is expected to rise further, police said.
Apart from the 38 dead, 90 people were injured in the coordinated blasts on Saturday in various places here including two hospitals, they said, adding that the toll is expected to rise.

The injured are admitted in several hospitals including Vadilal Sarabhai Hospital, Civil Hospital and LG Hospital.

Terrorists triggered 16 serial blasts in a span of 60 to 70 minutes on Saturday evening in crowded market areas of the city leaving at least 38 dead and over 90 injured.

The areas where the blasts occurred were at Maninagar, Isanpur, Narol circle, Bapunagar, Hatkeshwar, Sarangpur bridge, Sarkhej, Odhav, Sardar Patel market, Civil hospital, Juhapura, Ambur tower building, Raipur and Gowribhadi.

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Mukesh Ambani on target: Terror group

Posted by speakindia on July 26, 2008

Terror outfit says we did it, promises to target Mukesh Ambani, politicians

New Delhi, July 26 (IANS) A little known terror outfit, Indian Mujahideen, claimed to have taken “revenge of Gujarat in the land of Hind” by orchestrating multiple serial blasts in Ahmedabad Saturday that claimed at least 14 lives and left more than 70 injured, and vowed to target industrialist Mukesh Ambani, and Maharashtra politicians Vilasrao Deshmukh and R.R. Patil in the future.

In a 14-page e-mail sent to select television channels titled “The Rise of Jihad, revenge of Gujarat”, the Indian Mujahideen claimed responsibility for the serial blasts in Gujarat’s main city.

“You agitated our sentiments and disturbed us by arresting, imprisoning, and torturing our brothers in the name of SIMI (Students Islamic Movement of India) and the other outfits in Indore, Ujjain, Mumbai, and in other cities of Karnataka. Read the rest of this entry »

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War against India

Posted by speakindia on July 26, 2008

The terrorist groups have waged a war against India. As if the destruction and the internal problems weren’t enough, a group “Indian Mujahidden” pops out of now where, trying to terrorizing the minds of innocent people who are working for the country. There could be a possibility that the Indian Mujahideen attacks be linked to the signing of Nuclear deal and victory of the congress on the trust vote. The surprising fact is that two serial blasts have taken place. One on Bangalore and the other on Ahmedabad and both within a gap of 24 hours. A war against India has begun and such precision attacking of the development centers of modern India could be threatening on the minds of the Indians. They are playing with the psychology this time. Earlier it used to be attack and hide policy by the terrorists but this time they are playing a attack and attack game.
Our intelligence have been outsmarted or to simply say they aren’t smart enough to save such tragic incidents from happening. The security in India is far from satisfactory as it very easy to infiltrate and strike. More over there are groups that are openly challenging the government whereas sonia and manmohan singh are busy over other issues and using all their time and energy in criticizing the opposition in every way possible. I am not saying that L K Advani isgood, he is the worse of them all. In times of crisis he is blaming the center for the attacks. It is just that he has lost his sense of right and wrong, after all old age, what to do. Manmohan Singh is also a victim of it. Sonia Gandhi has his remote. In this politics, who looses, the common man, popularly know as Aam Aadmi by Laaloo prasad yadav. Where was he when this happened, Delivering a proverbial speech or searching such speeches. 31 innocent people lost their lives in two days of terror. More than 200 families were in grief because their loved one had die and countless have been terrorized. It is often said in war that a half dead victim can be more useful than killing him. Same has been done in the twin serial blasts. I just hope are dumb headed low thinking politicians get over their bickering ways and do some good for the people and country.

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Ahmedabad Blasts:29 killed

Posted by speakindia on July 26, 2008

Ahmedabad (PTI): Terror struck Ahmedabad when 16 coordinated serial blasts ripped through the city on Saturday night killing 29 people and injuring nearly 90 sending a wave of panic, a day after multiple explosions rocked Bangalore in another BJP-ruled state.

Fourteen crowded areas in the Gujarat capital including market places were hit in the synchronised “low-intensity” explosions in a space of 60 to 70 minutes after the first blast hit Maninagar at 6.45 pm. The bombs placed in tiffin boxes were strapped on to bicycles. Some of the blast sites were in sensitive areas in the old city but the situation was peaceful as the night wore on.
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Bangalore Blasts: Embedded system used

Posted by speakindia on July 26, 2008

as the Bangalore police are trying to ascertain the people behind the serial blasts which rattled the city on Friday, investigation has revealed that embedded chips were used as a timer to trigger all the explosions.

Police on Saturday defused a live improvised explosive device (IED) at Koramangala in the city’s IT corridor and subsequently found that all the IEDs, which exploded on Friday, were planted at least three days in advance.
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