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Three near-simultaneous explosions rocked Mumbai at rush-hour on Wednesday, 13th July 2011, killing at least 17 people and injuring 141 in another terrorist strike in the city. One blast hit the crowded neighborhood of Dadar in central Mumbai. The others were at the Zaveri Bazaar, which is a famed jewelry market, and the busy business district of Opera House, both in southern Mumbai and several miles (kilometers) apart. All three blasts happened from 6:50pm. to 7pm., when all the neighborhoods would have been packed with office workers and commuters. The blasts were not remotely triggered. And that ammonium nitrate was used along with reasonably sophisticated Improvised Explosive Devices (IEDs). Militant organisations hostile to India, especially Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) and Indian Mujahideen (IM), are being treated as possible suspects.
July 13th attack on Mumbai – Cycle of terror continues
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Why on 13th?
July 13 was 24th birthday of Ajmal Kasab, the terrorist who is facing death sentence for his terrorist attack on Mumbai. July 13 is also celebrated as the Martyrs day by those who support separating Kashmir from India, for paying homage to 22 Kashmiris who were killed in 1931 while fighting Dogra rulers in their attempt to establish Islamic rule in Kashmir.
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#1 - Fri Jul 15, 2011 12:40 PM EDTMotive
Jihadi organizations are aimed at separating Kashmir from India in the short term. In the long term, they have goals of extending Sharia, the Islamic Law, to the whole of India. They adopt terrorism to support Kashmiri separatists, Islamic interests in other parts of the country. They achieve the goal of highlighting their cause to the whole world at regular intervals. Terror actions are tactical victories in the long war against the enemies in their effort of Islamization. For this purpose, they collaborate with government agencies, other terrorist organizations, overground organizations.
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#2 - Fri Jul 15, 2011 12:41 PM EDTIndian Mujahideen hideouts raided for leads in Mumbai blasts probe
Investigators Friday searched a number of locations and picked up about a dozen suspected operatives of the home-grown Islamist terror organisation Indian Mujahideen as authorities were still looking for leads in the probe into the deadly triple blasts that hit Mumbai Wednesday.
As officials claimed that no definite clue was found two days after the bombings, informed sources told IANS that multiple raids were conducted following a suspicion that it may have been an operation of the Indian Mujahideen modules from Hyderabad, Karnataka and Jharkhand with the help of some local support.
They said 12 suspects of the terror outfit, which had previously owned up responsibility for similar terror strikes in Indian cities, were picked up from various locations across the country in the search operations.
The sources said the outfit may have formed a new module with recruits from varous cities after keeping a low profile in the past year. Police sources in Jharkhand capital Ranchi told IANS that a team of the National Investigation Agency (NIA) searched the home of Manzar Imam in connection with the Mumbai bombings that killed 17 people.
However, Imam, said to be in his 30s, had gone out for some treatment when the team from India's premier anti-terror probe agency searched his home. The sources said the NIA sleuths spoke to his family and searched his computer for information.
Imam, the sources said, is a neighbour and friend of Danish, whose name figured in the probe into the 2008 Ahmedabad serial bombings, in which at least 50 people were killed.
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