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Bangalore, Surat bombs have Qaida imprint
31 Jul 2008, 0021 hrs IST, Vishwa Mohan ,TNN
NEW DELHI: Al-Qaida may not have a presence in India but its footprint was
visible in the bombs used in Bangalore and Surat, according to intelligence
officials.
For the first time in India, Integrated Circuit (IC) chips were used to
assemble bombs in Bangalore and Surat - a technique perfected by the
Qaida-linked Indonesian terror group Jemaah Islamiyah (JI). Besides using
the technique to bomb different places in Indonesia, JI - which aims to
establish Islamic state in southeast Asia - has also exported it to
Philippines where terrorists have used it effectively in a number of
incidents. ( See Ninan
<http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/articleshowpics/msid-3310318.cms> 's
cartoon )
Referring to the technique being put to use in India, intelligence officials
said some local terrorists could have visited Indonesia for training via
Bangladesh - a fact which the Special Task Force (STF) of Uttar Pradesh
police had first got wind of during interrogation of Lashkar-e-Toiba (LeT)
operatives last year.
"Links of LeT and Jaish-e-Mohammed (JeM) with Al Qaida is not a secret, and
this leads to strong possibility of linkages of their Indian modules with JI
in southeast Asia," said an official, adding that the IC explosive device -
similar to the ones used by JI - found in Bangalore and Surat had only
confirmed the suspicion.
While the jehadis were successful in their first attempt to use IC explosive
devices in Bangalore on July 25, they could not make a similar impact three
days later in Surat, where the chips used in the bombs had some fault.
None of the bombs in Surat exploded, averting another disaster. "It
indicates origin of consignments from two different places for Bangalore and
Surat - even though it could be the handiwork of a single group using
different terror modules," said a senior official of the National Security
Guard (NSG) which has sent its forensic experts to Gujarat.
The bombs in Ahmedabad were, however, of a different make. Timer devices
were used there and the design was strikingly similar to those used to bomb
courts in three UP cities - Varanasi, Faizabad and Lucknow - in November
last year and in Jaipur on May 13 this year. Incidentally, a group calling
itself Indian Mujahideen claimed responsibility for all three attacks by
sending emails to media organisations prior to the blasts. "Different modus
operandi followed in these three cities and in
<http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/India/Bangalore_Surat_bombs_have_Qaida_i
mprint/articleshow/msid-3307797,curpg-2.cms#> Bangalore and Surat should not
be misconstrued as it being the handiwork of different groups," a senior
intelligence officer said.
He added that the timing of operations in Bangalore, Ahmedabad and Surat was
an indication of meticulous planning and conspiracy by a single command
structure from across the border which used different modules in different
Indian cities comprising local contacts.
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