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| Alerts spoke of Pak-based group, say Indian officials |
| 2013-02-23 |
| [Dawn] A specific alert warning of an attack by a 'Pakistain-based terrorist group' was shared by India's central security agencies with Hyderabad police on Thursday hours before two bombs there killed 16 people and maimed over a hundred, Home Ministry officials were quoted by Press Trust of India as saying on Friday. Two blasts destroyed a crowded market in Hyderabad on Thursday. The ministry had sent specific alert on Thursday morning to four cities -- Hyderabad, Bangalore, Coimbatore and Hubli -- warning them of probable attacks by terrorists, the officials said. Maharashtra and Gujarat ...where rioting seems to be a traditional passtime... police forces were also sent the alert, the officials said. According to Home Ministry officials, the alerts were also sent to all states on February 19 and 20 that Pakistain-based terrorist groups might carry out attacks in a major city to avenge the hanging of Mumbai terror mascot Ajmal Kasab and Parliament attack convict Afzal Guru. They said the central security agencies had sent an advisory on Tuesday asking all states to tighten security in sensitive places as 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... , Jaish-e-Mohammad ...literally Army of Mohammad, a Pak-based Deobandi terror group founded by Maulana Masood Azhar in 2000, after he split with the Harkat-ul-Mujaheddin. In 2002 the government of Pervez Musharraf bannedthe group, which changed its name to Khaddam ul-Islam and continued doing what it had been doing before without missing a beat... and Hizbul Mujahideen might launch attacks. The security agencies sent another advisory on Wednesday saying the banned shadowy group called the Indian Mujahideen A locally recruited auxilliary of Pakistain's Lashkar-e-Taiba, designed to give a domestic patina to Pakistain's terror war against its bigger neighbor... might carry out terror attacks to avenge the hanging of Kasab and Guru. Home Minister Sushilkumar Shinde had on Thursday said all states were alerted about a possible terror strike by orc groups but did not identify any group. In the past Hindu Islamic fascisti have been caught for their alleged roles in bombings across India, including Hyderabad. However, a person who gets all wrapped up in himself makes a mighty small package... Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister Kiran Kumar Reddy had said those were general alerts which often kept coming from the centre. Meanwhile, ...back at the pound, the little lost dog backed into the corner and showed its teeth. And what big teeth they were!... Mr Shinde told Parliament on Friday that government would make all possible efforts to apprehend the perpetrators and criminal masterminds behind the twin blasts in Hyderabad. Making a statement in the Lok Sabha after touring the blast sites, Mr Shinde said the situation was under control and the government was committed to combat such cowardly terror attacks. |
| Posted by:Fred |