Just a matter of time before US malls are targeted.
Bruce http://www.khaleejtimes.com/DisplayArticleNew.asp?xfile=data/subcontinent/20 06/November/subcontinent_November170.xml§ion=subcontinent Shoppers targeted in deadly double bombing By Zarir Hussein in Guwahati, India November 06, 2006 05:25am Article from: Agence France-Presse AT least 12 people, mostly shoppers, were killed and more than 40 injured in two simultaneous bomb attacks in the northeastern Indian city of Guwahati, police said today. The Press Trust of India (PTI) put the number of those injured at 52 and said 15 of those were in critical condition following the two attacks. Police said the first bomb ripped through the upscale Fancy Bazaar shopping arcade in the heart of Guwahati, the largest city in the nation's strife-torn state of Assam. "We have eight people killed in first blast which took place at around 6.40pm (Sunday local time, 12.40am AEDT today)," said Deepak Narayan Dutt, Assam's police chief. "And some 40 people are injured in the two attacks." Half of the injured victims were shoppers and vendors at the marketplace, Guwahati deputy police chief Rajan Singh said. The popular Fancy Bazaar complex was crowded with people when the first explosion occurred. "An IED (improvised explosive device) caused both the blasts," Mr Singh said, as military and police explosives experts fanned into other city markets and malls, trawling for concealed bombs. Several cars were damaged in the explosion at Fancy Bazaar, which sells everything from vegetables to electronics and clothes, Mr Singh said. The second bomb went off almost simultaneously in Patharkuwari on the city's outskirts, leaving at least four civilians dead, state police chief Mr Dutt said, updating the earlier toll by one. PTI said 45 of the victims were injured in the market blast while seven were hurt in Patharkuwari. Federal officials suggested the target of the second bombing was sensitive installations of the state-owned Indian Oil Corporation in Patharkuwari. In the past month, 10 people including some Indian soldiers have died in a dozen bomb attacks in oil and timber-rich Assam, which borders Bangladesh. Indian troops moved into Guwahati and cordoned off the city and launched a manhunt for the attackers, witnesses said. Police were using cranes to remove the damaged cars and debris from the partly damaged Fancy Bazaar, they said. So far none of Assam's various outlawed rebel forces have claimed responsibility for the two attacks but Singh said police suspected the region's dominant United Liberation Front of Asom guerrilla group was behind the twin blasts. The attacks come four days after security chiefs in India's seven northeast states called for a joint strategy to combat the twin threats of separatist insurgencies and Islamic militancy that afflict the troubled region. India's resource-rich northeast, wedged between Bangladesh, Bhutan, China and Myanmar, is home to more than 30 rebel armies with demands ranging from secession to greater autonomy. More than 50,000 people have lost their lives to insurgency in the northeast since India's independence in 1947. [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/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/osint/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> 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/
