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January 1, 2006
India: Islamists DID Shoot Indian Scientist
On December 29, we asked "Did Islamist Shoot Delhi Scientists?" The answer today, according to the Deccan Herald and also Hindustan Times and New India Press, is yes, an Islamist did shoot mathematics professor M.C. Puri outside an auditorium of the Indian Institute of Science in Bangalore.
Central security services now claim that Lashkar-e-Taiba is the group behind the attack, which also injured four others. Lashkar-e-Taiba is a Pakistan-based Sunni Islamist group, which primarily aims to see Kashmir & Jammu state in India becoming free of Indian rule. It has committed gun attacks and bomb attacks within India.
So far, seven people have been picked up by police in Bangalore, in Karnataka state in southern India, but none have been charged. Three of those apprehended belong to the group Al Hadees, which is based in Bangladesh and Saudi Arabia and is partnered with Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT). Security sources, who are waiting for more information from Bangalore, have said that similar attacks were being planned for Mangalore, Chennai and Hyderabad.
One of those arrested is a citizen of Mangalore, 22-year old Altaf Ahmed, who had been earlier accused of an attack by Lashkar-e-Taiba upon a temple in Hyderabad.
Sify.com states that in the gun attack at the Indian Institute of Science, grenades had also been thrown.
The group Al Hadees was responsible for a bomb attack upon a bus in Ghatkopar in Mumbai on July 28, 2003, which killed four and injured 32. The chief minister of Maharashtra, Sushilkumar Shinde claimed that Al Hadees had been formed by ex-members of Students' Islamic Movement of India, after the group was banned in India. He said it was backed by Lashkar-e-Taiba
Keywords: Lashkar-e-Toiba, Lashkar-e-Taiba, Lashkar-e-Toyba
Posted by Giraldus Cambrensis at January 1, 2006 11:22 PM
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