Thursday, July 13, 2006

Train Bombing in India

I didn't even make the connection with the date Tuesday but it was July 11:

Indian intelligence specialists are investigating whether a series of deadly bombings in Mumbai (Bombay) Tuesday were the work of an al-Qaeda-affiliated, Pakistan-based terrorist group.

Police sources told several Indian media outlets Wednesday that the coordinated attacks were probably carried out by Lashkar-e-Toiba (LeT), with the help of Indian Islamists attached to a banned Muslim students' group, SIMI.

The view concurred with that of security analyst Bahukutumbi Raman, who suspects LeT as well as elements in SIMI and individuals linked to a fugitive Mumbai criminal underworld figure, Dawood Ibrahim.
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More than 170 people were killed in at least seven powerful blasts, occurring within minutes of each other on the commercial capital's commuter train network during evening rush-hour. A Mumbai police spokesman said more than 460 people had been injured.
Read the rest of the story here.

When I heard of the bombing I immediately thought of al Qaeda. I wonder what India did to provoke the terrorists? Exporting their values through to the world through their films? (That was a sacrastic reference to recent comments made as to why America is the target of terrorists.)

BTW, I wrote this 24 hours ago and I'm just posting it today. That's what my day was like yesterday.