BBC NEWS India arrests bomb 'mastermind'
Police in India say they have arrested the mastermind behind last month's bomb attacks in the holy city of Varanasi. Vali Ullah, a resident of northern Uttar Pradesh state, ran a religious school and was associated with a famous seminary in the state, the police said. Fourteen people were killed and over 100 others hurt in the twin blasts at a Hindu temple and a railway station. The police said the blasts were conducted with the help of a Bangladesh-based extremist group. He was the mastermind of the whole operation which was conducted with the help of a Bangladesh-based group called Harkatul Jihadi Islami Jag Mohan Yadav Inspector General of Police Senior Uttar Pradesh police official Jag Mohan Yadav told reporters that Mr Ullah was arrested in Gosaiganj near the state capital, Lucknow. "He was the mastermind of the whole operation which was conducted with the help of a Bangladesh-based group called Harkatul Jihadi Islami," Mr Yadav, who is inspector general of police, said. No group has claimed responsibility for the attacks. Senior Superintendent of Police SK Bhagat alleged that Bangladesh was being used as a transit route by militants. "It appears that such groups are using Bangladesh as a route for infiltration since the route from Kashmir and Rajasthan is effectively sealed." There was no immediate comment from the Bangladeshi authorities. Pilgrims The police had earlier freed two men they arrested in connection with the blasts. A wedding party took the brunt of the attack at Varanasi's famous Sankat Mochan temple. Nine people were killed in the temple attack and five at the city's Cantonment railway station. Varanasi, also known as Benares, is about 670 km (415 miles) south-east of Delhi. It is the religious capital of Hinduism and is usually packed with Indian pilgrims and foreign tourists. Story from BBC NEWS: http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/pr/fr/-/2/hi/south_asia/4878416.stm Published: 2006/04/05 09:45:54 GMT C BBC MMVI [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] -------------------------- Want to discuss this topic? Head on over to our discussion list, [EMAIL PROTECTED] -------------------------- Brooks Isoldi, editor [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.intellnet.org Post message: osint@yahoogroups.com Subscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] *** FAIR USE NOTICE. This message contains copyrighted material whose use has not been specifically authorized by the copyright owner. OSINT, as a part of The Intelligence Network, is making it available without profit to OSINT YahooGroups members who have expressed a prior interest in receiving the included information in their efforts to advance the understanding of intelligence and law enforcement organizations, their activities, methods, techniques, human rights, civil liberties, social justice and other intelligence related issues, for non-profit research and educational purposes only. We believe that this constitutes a 'fair use' of the copyrighted material as provided for in section 107 of the U.S. Copyright Law. If you wish to use this copyrighted material for purposes of your own that go beyond 'fair use,' you must obtain permission from the copyright owner. For more information go to: http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/107.shtml Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/osint/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
