India Suspects Pakistan-Based Terrorists in Deadly Bombings
By Patrick Goodenough
CNSNews.com International Editor
July 12, 2006
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(CNSNews.com) - 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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The LeT is a Sunni, Wahhabi organization which was founded in Pakistan in the late 1980s, and signed up to bin Laden's 1998 fatwa forming the International Islamic Front for Jihad Against Crusaders and Jews.
The group has been fighting to end Indian rule in part of disputed Kashmir, but has been increasingly linked to attacks seen as forming part of the broader al-Qaeda campaign against the West and its allies.
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Adrian Wainer
12-07-2006, 02:54 PM
India Suspects Pakistan-Based Terrorists in Deadly Bombings
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