 (KUNA) -- The Mumbai police Wednesday night said they have found a credible Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) link in Tuesday's serial blasts that killed 190 people and injured 625 in the city. "Evidence suggests the LeT has a strong link with the blasts," city police told reporters Wednesday evening, news agency Indo-Asian News Service reported. "In January the police had unearthed Lashker's efforts to rebuild its terror network in Mumbai. The matter came to light with the arrest of three Kashmiri men with LeT links and a cleric," the police added.
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They said: "The LeT module in Mumbai has developed a well-knit network of terror sleepers. In fact the Mumbai network has become the most lethal, with tentacles spread across the subcontinent." The Mumbai module was set up four years ago with the coming together of the LeT and local activists of the banned Students Islamic Movement of India (SIMI), the police claimed. "We may have had intelligence inputs on terror targets, but it is not always possible to pin down the outfits or learn the exact nature of their plans. Sometimes we are successful, at other times we are not," the police said. "The patterns of the blasts also point out the involvement of the SIMI in the blasts." |