India's home minister said Wednesday that police had foiled an attack by suspected Islamic fascisti allegedly from the Pakistain-based Lashkar-e-Taiba...the Army of the Pure, an Ahl-e-Hadith terror organization founded by Hafiz Saeed. LeT masquerades behind the Jamaat-ud-Dawa facade within Pakistain and periodically blows things up and kills people in India. Despite the fact that it is
banned, always an interesting concept in Pakistain, the organization remains an blatant tool and perhaps an arm of the ISI...
(LeT) group who were caught with explosives at a rail station.
Home Minister P. Chidambaram told news hounds that two men were tossed in the clink at New Delhi's main station after a tip-off from intelligence agencies and work by three state police agencies.
"They were planning to detonate a bomb or more than one bomb in a crowded locality," he said, citing initial reports from the police investigation.
The pair is to be produced before a local court and jugged for 10 days.
An unspecified number of other suspects had also been jugged in connection with the alleged plot, Chidambaram said.
Chidambaram said it was "an important module" of the group that had been planning a "terrorist incident in Delhi".
Neither he nor the police, who also reportedly said an attack had been imminent, would disclose when the men were jugged.
The arrests, if followed by convictions, would be an intelligence coup for the Indian security forces which have been criticised for failing to prevent, or catch those responsible for, a string of blasts over the last few years.
New Delhi has been a frequent target for terror attacks.
In September, a bomb outside Delhi High Court killed 14 people, while in early February a kaboom badly maimed an Israeli diplomat in the heart of the city near the prime minister's residence.
A senior New Delhi police official, P.N. Agarwal, told news hounds that security forces had recovered material for making bombs from the suspects.
"We have recovered items required for making an IED (improvised bomb), passports and memory cards that show how to make a bomb and training in weapons handling," Agarwal said.
"We are expecting one or two more arrests."