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India on alert after two days of bombings kill 46
(Agencies)
Updated: 2008-07-27 19:53 MUSLIM BACKLASH? Some analysts say there is evidence of local Muslim groups, for years seen as unaffected by the rise of global Islamist militancy, of taking up violence against India, where they are a poor and often neglected minority. They might be getting training and financial backing from Pakistan or Bangladesh. "Over the last few years, the dissatisfaction among Indian Muslims has hitched onto the wagon of the global/regional jihad," said C. Uday Bhaskar, a security analyst and former director of New Delhi's Institute for Defence Studies and Analyses. "If you have 150 million Muslims in India, only 0.01 percent of that figure would mean a militant nucleus of 15,000 people." Police raided one house in Mumbai where they believe e-mails from the Indian Mujahideen were linked, local media reported. India's home ministry said on Friday it suspected "a small militant group" was behind the Bangalore blasts, while some police officials suspected the attack could be the work of the banned Students Islamic Movement of India. Some IT companies in Bangalore, known as India's Silicon Valley, were increasing security. Each bomb had a similar explosive force to one or two grenades. The city is a prominent software development centre and is also home to a major outsourcing industry. |
