"Suspicion is already falling on Islamist militants intent on destabilizing India by fanning tensions between Hindus and Muslims..."
Breaking reports point to higher casualties and more bombs than reported below. "Seven bombs hit India's Ahmedabad, two killed," by Rupam Jain Nair for Reuters, July 26:
AHMEDABAD, India (Reuters) - At least seven small bombs exploded in the western Indian city of Ahmedabad on Saturday, killing at least two people and wounding 55, just a day after another set of blasts in the country's southern IT hub, officials said.
On Friday, eight bombs exploded in quick succession in the southern IT city of Bangalore, killing at least one person and wounding six others.
Saturday's blasts were in the Ahmedabad's crowded old city dominated by its Muslim community. One was left in a metal tiffin box, used to carry food, another apparently left on a bicycle.
"We have been told of seven to eight blasts," the central government's junior home minister Shriprakash Jaiswal told the Sahara news channel.
"These were low-intensity bombs," he said. "This has been done by some terrorist group which wants to destabilize the country."
Another junior home minister, Shakeel Ahmad said at least two people had been killed and 55 wounded and taken to hospital.
"The government had received a threat e-mail and we are probing into it," local state government Home Minister Amit Shahe told Reuters.
One television channel showed a bus with its side blown up, shattered windows and the roof half-destroyed. Another showed a dead dog, with blood nearby, lying beside a blownup bicycle.
Ahmedabad is the main city in the communally sensitive and relatively wealthy western state of Gujarat, scene of deadly riots in 2002 in which 2,500 people are thought to have died, most of them Muslims killed by rampaging Hindu mobs.
Both states targeted in the bomb attacks are ruled by the Hindu-nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party and are among the country's fastest-growing.
Suspicion is already falling on Islamist militants intent on destabilizing India by fanning tensions between Hindus and Muslims, and police were swiftly deployed in Ahmedabad on Saturday to maintain calm. [...]
So far though, police say they have few leads into Friday's Bangalore bombings.
On Saturday, another unexploded bomb was found near a shopping mall in Bangalore, but it was unclear whether the bomb was newly planted or meant to have exploded during Friday's attacks, police said.
"Special squads have been formed to find out who is behind the blasts. We have not got any conclusive leads yet," Bangalore's Additional Commissioner of Police M.R. Pujar told Reuters on Saturday.
India has suffered a wave of bombings in recent years, with targets ranging from mosques and Hindu temples to trains.
It is unusual for any group to claim responsibility for attacks, but India says it suspects militant groups from neighboring Pakistan and Bangladesh of helping to plan and carry out many of the attacks.
India's home ministry said on Friday it suspected "a small militant group" was behind the Bangalore attacks, while some police officials said they suspected the blasts could be the work of the banned Students Islamic Movement of India....
Dick Wolf blames the radical Christian elements, of course.
Muslims also bombed two buses in southwest China last week. This article was from a local paper.
Bus blasts kill at least 2 in downtown Kunming
By Chen Qian and Lydia Chen
2008-7-21
AT least two people were killed and 14 others injured in two separate bus explosions in downtown Kunming, capital of southwestern China's Yunnan Province this morning, Yunnan.cn reported today.
The first blast, which killed a woman surnamed Wang, and injured 10, occurred on Bus No. 54 near a hospital gate on Renmin Road W. about 7:10am, the official news Website portal of Yunnan said.
Witnesses heard a loud explosion and said it was a chaotic scene, according to the report. All windows on the bus were shattered in the
explosion, the report said.
Another bus exploded while driving at the intersection of Changyuan Road and Renmin Road W. about 8:05am, the report said.
As of 9:50am, one person was killed and four were injured in the second blast, the report said.
Police are now investigating the cause of the explosions, it added.
Yunnan Province has a substantial population from the Muslim Hui minority and has long been a center of unrest.
Kunming suffered at the hands of rebel leader Du Wenxiu, the Sultan of Dali, who attacked and besieged the city several times between 1858 and 1868. Little of the city's wealth survived the 1856 Islamic Panthay Rebellion, when most of the Buddhist sites in the capital were razed.
Many Hui Muslims claim that the Chinese Government is carrying out a policy of swamping the Hui with non-Muslim Han Chinese immigrants. In recent years there have been sporadic attacks by Muslim insurgents across Yunnan Province. However, local government officials promise to deal harshly with any terrorists.
Here are some links to the China story. The Washington Post article has much more details and mentions the terror connections to the East Turkestan Islamic Movement:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/07/21/AR2008072100523.html?hpid=topnews
http://www.shanghaidaily.com/article/?id=367599
http://virtualreview.org/china/zoom/654839/mystery-bus-blasts-kill-three-in-china-ahead-of-olympics
Muslims only know how to create terror and chaos. Bangalore getting bombed is a prime target to drive out international companies in setting up offices. It is both a economic and Islamic supremacist agenda of Muslims.
I like this article about, “No Substitute for Victory”
The Defeat of Islamic Totalitarianism.
http://www.theobjectivestandard.com/index.asp
India needs to do more to shutter radical mosques. How many Hindu temples are in Pakistan?
This will be the scene all around the world in the days to come, Islamist ideology will never allow any place to remain in peace. India is very soft in approach to terror and there has to be political will to handle the problem on a war footing. Terror has to be taken into their homes, so they understand the meaning of pain. China on the other hand is harsh on any kind of crime and will deal harshly with terror as they promise. These morons only know terror and violence give what they ask for!!!
"India needs to do more to shutter radical mosques. How many Hindu temples are in Pakistan?"
How many churches? How many Sikh temples, of which there were many before the partition?
In India, however, every time you turn around, there stands a mosque, where after their Friday prayers/instructions, the mob is out killing the innocents.
Do the powers that be, not see that????
India along with other nations need to identify the enemy and its islamists. perhaps they can send them over to the pak. take down mosques will be a good start.
Sorry the link above is wrong this is the correct one:
http://www.theobjectivestandard.com/issues/2006-winter/no-substitute-for-victory.asp
India needs to take a more radical approach towards Islamic extremists. For once, India needs to document any extremists activity inside its territory under the guise of Islam.
Mosques need to be under investigation if any member of the congregation is found involved in any kind of terrorist activity. These people aren't born terrorists, they are MADE terrorists. And mosques are the number one recruiting ground.
The death toll in the two sets of bombings has reached 40.
Islam is a tired, defeated, decripit, regressive, has-been civilization. Look at the last few centuries, not a single invention, no progressive thoughts, just a blank. The Hindus have progressed from being a beaten country to one which is challenging the biggest economic powers. One would have thought Islam would learn some lessons from the Hindus. If this continues, after a few centuries they would have re-converted themselves to nothing better than aborigines
And still nothing on Drudge.
Gandhi's pigeons coming home to roost.
The great peacemaker Gandhi, ( to me he was a fool), made sure that the muslims of India stayed in india while handing over large chunks of india over to other Indian muslims, who promptly started calling themselves " pakistanis", and started a war with the new India. These pakistanis also ethnically cleansed their new country of most of the hindus and sikhs and are in the process of decimating their christan neighbors. So what to make of these islamic bombs from the hindu's beloved muslim Indians? obviously the muslims want to impose their will on the hindu population and they know they have strong allies in the comgress led government as well as their large demographic numbers.
This is also going on in Lebanon where the muslims are making the christians bow to their will.
ebonystone
here's more on the jihad terror bombings in Ahmadabad, from Australian national news. I have added some comments.
http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2008/07/27/2315683.htm
'Death toll rises after India bomb blasts
'Police in India say the death toll from a series of bomb blasts in the western city of Ahmedabad has risen to 38.
'More than 100 people were injured by the 16 explosions, which targeted crowded markets, public transport and hospitals.
'The crudely made devices were packed with nuts and bolts to cause maximum damage.
'Officials say the bombs were detonated with timer devices and all went off in the space of 36 minutes.
'A little-known Islamist group calling itself the "Indian Mujahedeen" {in other words: Indian Jihadists - dda} has reportedly claimed responsibility for the attack.
Ahmedabad is an ethnically diverse city {more correctly: ethnically and *religiously* diverse city - dda} which has suffered from political instability {for 'political instability' read 'Muslim aggression' - dda} in the past.
Two and half thousand people were killed there in 2002 when riots broke out between Hindus and Muslims. {Note: riots did not just 'break out' for no reason - as I understand it, Muslims began it by attacking Hindus and killing them, on a train? - dda}.
The Indian Union Home Minister, Shivraj Patil, has appealed for understanding and calm. {Comment: in other words, he is telling Hindus they *must not* complain about, or react to, this act of blatant Muslim aggression - just as the US president fell all over himself, after 9/11, telling Americans not to attack Muslims, and PM Blair was terrified UK citizens would react to the dastardly Muslim aggression on 7/7 2005 - dda}.
My sincere condolences to all Indian posters and lurkers here, especially anyone who may have friends or relatives or workmates affected by the jihad terror bombs in Bangalore and in Ahmedabad.
It should be noted that one of the Ahmedabad jihad terror bombs went off near a crowded market, and one near a hospital
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080727/ap_on_re_as/india_explosions;_ylt=AiK22aBg7nVUy0kcOEfarhJn.3QA
I am absolutely disgusted by anyone who sets off a huge bomb next to a hospital.
I do hope that kafir governments, in India and in all our kafir lands, are bearing grimly in mind that the jihadist assassins *love* soft targets where they can kill as many defenceless and vulnerable kafir as possible.
Sir,
When the Jehadies attacked Indian Parliament, it was viewed seriously enough to mobilise forces to attack Pakistan.
Killing 60,40 or even 5 innocent civilians donot evoke any rsposnse from Indian government.We have one of the worst Home Minister of Independent India.Our PM in waiting from BJP can only talk of POTA.
The killers are suspected to be belonging to trained cadres who were charged and released recently in coimbatore and Hyderabad blasts.
India MUST GO FOR THE JUGULAR. SAUDI ARABIA I REPEAT SAUDI ARABIa. nOT PAKISTAN BUT SAUDI ARABIA AND ITS OIL WELLS. It must ask them to stop funding Indian Madrassas and maulvies who propagate hate and wahabism. It must bring back its workers from middleast and face the economic consequences.
As an Indian, I can't help but notice that these blasts are occurring immediately after the Indian govt passed legislation to approve a major strategic pact with the USA (called the "123 Agreement")
So the Jihadists are now seeing red because of that, and are looking to turn Indian soil red with blood.
The Indian bombings have gone almost completely unreported in the British media. So too did the bombings in Gaza yesterday. That's because the bombings were all by muslims so they can't blame the Israelis. The British media wants to keep as many people as possible ignorant of the actions of the 'Religion of Peace'.
More details about this on http://edgar1981.blogspot.com/