http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=D9265NJO0 <http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=D9265NJO0&show_article=1> &show_article=1 <http://www.breitbart.com/images/common/dot.gif> India detains 30 in bombings that killed 45 <http://www.breitbart.com/partner.php?source=ap> <http://www.breitbart.com/images/common/dot.gif> Jul 27 07:24 AM US/Eastern By R.K. MISRA Associated Press Writer <http://www.breitbart.com/images/common/dot.gif> <http://www.breitbart.com/images/common/dot.gif> <http://www.breitbart.com/images/common/dot.gif> AHMADABAD, India (AP) - Authorities scoured a western Indian city Sunday for those behind a series of bombings that killed at least 45 people, reportedly rounding up more than two dozen residents. It was the second series of blasts in India in two days.
A little-known group claimed responsibility for the attack. "In the name of Allah. the Indian Mujahideen strike again! Do whatever you can, within 5 minutes from now, feel the terror of Death!" said an e-mail from the group sent to a number of Indian television news stations just minutes before the blasts began. The e-mail's subject line said "Await 5 minutes for the revenge of Gujarat," an apparent reference to 2002 riots in this western state which left 1,000 people, most of them Muslim, dead. The historic city of Ahmadabad is the capital of Gujarat and was the scene of much of the 2002 violence. State government spokesman Jaynarayan Vyas said 161 people were wounded when at least 16 bombs went off Saturday evening in several crowded neighborhoods. The Saturday attack came a day after seven smaller blasts killed two people in the southern technology hub of Bangalore. Another unexploded bomb was found and defused early Sunday, the city's police commissioner, O.P. Mathur, said. He said police had detained 30 people in their investigation. Cities around the country were put on alert and security was stepped up at markets, hospitals, airports and train stations. Indian Mujahedeen was unknown before May, when it said it was behind a series of bombings in Jaipur, also in western India, that killed 61 people. Saturday's e-mail, sent from a Yahoo account and written in English, was made available to The Associated Press by CNN-IBN, one of the news outlets that received the warning. In its e-mail, the group did not mention the bombings in Bangalore and it was not clear if the attacks were connected. Some television channels reported Sunday that police in Mumbai, India's business hub, had traced the e-mail to an address in the city but officials denied this. "An e-mail was received by many news organizations. We are inquiring into that. We haven't traced it yet," city's police chief A.N. Roy said. The Saturday bombs went off in two separate sequences. The first, near a busy market, left some of the dead sprawled beside stands piled high with fruit, next to twisted bicycles. The second went off near a hospital. The side of a bus was blown off and its windows shattered while another vehicle was engulfed in flames. Most of the blasts took place in the narrow lanes of the older part of Ahmadabad, which is tightly packed with homes and small businesses. Bomb-sniffing dogs scoured the areas that were hit. Distraught relatives of the victims crowded the city's hospitals. One of the wounded was a 6-year-old whose father was killed in the blasts. He lay in a hospital bed with his arms covered in bandages and wounds on his face. Narendra Modi, the chief minister of Gujarat state where Ahmadabad is located, called the blasts "a crime against humanity." He said the bombings appeared to have been masterminded by a group or groups "using a similar modus operandi all over the country." "Anti-national elements have been trying to create panic among the people of our country. Today's blasts in Ahmadabad seem to be part of the same strategy," federal Home Minister Shivraj Patil told reporters in New Delhi. India has been repeatedly hit by bombings in recent years. Nearly all have been blamed on Islamic militants who want to provoke violence between India's Hindu majority and Muslim minority, although officials rarely offer hard evidence implicating a specific group. The perpetrators also rarely claim responsibility-a fact that raised doubts about the Indian Mujahedeen when it first appeared in May to take credit for attacking Jaipur. Adding to the misgivings about the claim was its origin. It was e-mailed from a French Yahoo account but was written in English by a person who signed the note Guru al-Hindi, or "Teacher of Indians." That blend of Arabic and Hindi was also considered unusual-South Asia's Muslims traditionally speak Urdu, not Hindi, which is historically associated with north Indian Hindus. But the fears that an attack could spark religious riots are nonetheless real in India, which has seen sporadic violence between Hindus and Muslims since independence from Britain in 1947. Those fears were amplified by the history of Ahmadabad, where in 2002 riots between Muslims and Hindus left about 1,000 people, most of them Muslims. The violence was triggered by a fire that killed 60 passengers on a train packed with Hindu pilgrims. Hindu extremists blamed the deaths on Muslims and rampaged through Muslim neighborhoods, although the cause of the blaze remains unclear. Ahmadabad is also known for the elegant architecture of its mosques and mausoleums, a rich blend of Muslim and Hindu styles. 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