ஜெய்ப்பூரில் தாக்குதல் நடத்தியது நாங்களே- இந்தியன் முஜாஹிதீன் என்ற அமைப்பு அறிவிப்பு

இதுவரை தெரிந்திராத புது அமைப்பான இந்தியன் முஜாஹிதீன் என்ற அமைப்பு தானே ஜெய்ப்பூரில் இந்துக்களை தாக்கி கொன்றதாக அறிவித்துள்ளது.

ஜெய்ப்பூரில் டூரிஸத்தை ஒழிப்பதுதான் முக்கிய நோக்கம் என்றும் அது அறிவித்துள்ளது.


'Blasts meant to derail tourism'
15 May 2008, 0307 hrs IST,Pradeep Thakur & Sachin Parashar,TNN

JAIPUR/NEW DELHI: A little known outfit, Indian Mujahideen, has claimed responsibility for carrying out the fatal blasts in Jaipur on Tuesday. And to buttress its claim, it sent video clips to the media of a cycle strapped with a bag that it claimed held the bomb. It also sent an email to announce the blasts with three attachments showing the cycles strapped with explosives.

Spewing venom at the religious beliefs and deities worshiped by the majority community, the Mujahideen said that the choice of Jaipur was deliberate and meant to cripple the state's tourism industry. It also launched a diatribe against Muslims who do not support terrorism, calling them a "bunch of cowards", and vowing punishment to them unless they sought forgiveness.

The video reached the media just after Rajasthan cops launched a massive manhunt for a man in his mid-20s who bought one of the cycles used in Tuesday's serial blasts, just hours before the lethal devices they had planted at different places in the city. The youth is said to be 6 feet tall and stockily built. He had a wheatish complexion and spoke Hindi with a Bengali accent: something that will reinforce the assumption about a Bangladeshi connection.

As the police moderated the death toll, saying that it stood at 63, the investigators were trying to get a handle on the plot, releasing the sketch of the youth who bought the cycle. The inputs for the sketch came from the owner of a cycle shop in Kishanpole locality, the only person to have come face to face with one of the bombers.

Police reached the shopkeeper with the help of the number etched on the frame of an Atlas cycle which remained intact because the bomb fastened to it did not go off. The vital detail helped them reach the wholeseller and, then, the shopkeeper.

There was no breakthrough yet, with the investigators trying to build upon the leads they have gathered. Rajasthan home minister Gulab Singh Kataria said in an interview that ball bearings and parts of horse shoes were used as splinters in the bomb. The minister said that police was trying to locate factories that manufacture such ball bearings. He added that 9 volt batteries were used in the 8 devices.

There was lack of clarity on the kind of explosives used. Rajasthan DGP A S Gill claimed that a blend of RDX and ammonium nitrate was used. But central agencies were not so sure about RDX, saying that ammonium nitrate made up the explosive fastened to cycles. The fact that the cycle was bought by the terrorist on the same day he had chosen to execute his macabre plan highlights his determination not to leave anything to chance.

Speaking to TOI , Gill said that the live bomb had about a kg of RDX besides ammonium nitrate, sharpnells, ball bearings and a Samay make timer device that triggered the blasts. Since the police could manage to lay their hands on one live bomb, they suspect seven other bombs that went off too could have been of a similar make.

The design of the bomb was highly sophisticated giving it a curve shape from the front to throw the sharpnells at a maximum distance, even more than 100ft, from the place of the blast — an expertise only a few terrorist outfits such as LeT and HuJI, with a proven expertise for serial explosions, have mastered. Sources said investigators may take the help of the pujari of the Hanuman temple at Chandpol, where the maximum casualties had occurred, to look for suspects of the blasts among 15 unidentified bodies lying at hospitals without any claimants so far.

Coming soon after serial blasts in UP courts in Faizabad, Lucknow and Varanasi and Malegaon, where the explosives had been carefully strapped on a bicycle like in the case of Tuesday's Jaipur blasts, jehadis had taken extra precaution not to buy more than one cycle from a shop just not to arose any suspicion in the minds of the shopowner.

The Rajasthan police chief said that investigators are trying to map the modus operandi of the terrorists, but initial facts suggest there may be a single mastermind who had coordinated the entire operation yet keeping secret the entire operation from the footsoldiers who had been used to procure the cycles, plant the explosives in busy market place and execute the blasts. Quite likly that not a single person could have been used for all the work involved into exploding the devices.

Though the DGP did not rule out presence of SIMI cadres in Jaipur, he has no facts to substantiate any linkages of the blasts with the arrest of SIMI's general secretary Safdar Nagori in Indore recently. He, in fact, said that the state has presence of SIMI cadres and the police is keeping a close watch. Gill confirmed that Thar Express is being used by international syndicates to smuggle fake currency from across the border and that some consignments had also been seized in recent years but, to his knowledge, there was no seizure of RDX in the state.