There are very significant differences between
Friday's bomb blasts in Bangalore and Saturday's explosions in
Ahmedabad. It is likely that they were carried out by different groups,
although both probably belong to the many off-shoots set up by former
members of the Students Islamic Movement of India (Simi), that too in
the last couple of years.

There was no email warning for the
Bangalore blasts, unlike the 14-page email sent to media organisations
just before the Ahmedabad explosions. There are several puzzling
features about the email sent to TV channels.

The IP (internet
protocol) address was traced to an apartment rented by American
nationals in Navi Mumbai. But no one would be so na and #239;ve as to
send a terror threat from his home computer with an IP address
registered with a local ISP (internet service provider), VSNL in this
case.

Either his IP address was spoofed, which requires the
terrorists to possess a certain degree of knowledge about the workings
of the internet, or the computer was hacked into, as claimed by the
American national. A terrorist would either use a cybercaf and #233; in
another city (warnings of the earlier blasts in UP and Jaipur were
traced to cybercafes in East Delhi and Ghaziabad respectively, but then
the trail went cold), or use an insecure WiFi network to ride on
someone else's internet account.

Or he would go through
'Anonymiser' servers or use a peer-to-peer network such as Tor. It is
significant that in another incident, an innocent person had to spend
ten months in jail because the ISP provided an incorrect IP address to
the police.

But the earlier emails sent by the Indian Mujahideen
regarding the May 2008 blasts in Jaipur and the November 2007
explosions in various courts in UP were probably authentic. These
included the picture of one of the bicycles used in Jaipur, with the
number visible, which was found to be authentic.

These emails
were sent from cybercafes in Ghaziabad and East Delhi respectively. The
throwaway web email accounts used for sending all the warning emails
are all very similar - guru_boys2000@ yahoo.

com, guru_alhindi@yahoo.fr , alhindi_jaipur@yahoo.

co.uk , guru_alhindi_jaipur@yahoo.

co.uk .

It is significant that the Indian Mujahideen asked the
Lashkar-e-Tayyeba (LeT) not to claim credit for the Ahmedabad
explosions. This follows little-known organisations claiming credit for
various attacks - Inquilabi Group for the October 29, 2005, attacks in
Delhi; Lashkar-e-Qahar for the Mumbai train blasts of July 2006; and
Tehriq-e-Qasas for the Akshardham attack in September 2002.

Not
much is known about these organisations, and it is suspected that they
have been set up by former members of Simi. The Lashkar-e-Tayyeba
earlier used to claim credit for its suicide attacks, it has stopped
doing so after it was proscribed by the Pakistani government.

Significantly, the original Lashkar-e-Tayyeba never carried out bomb
attacks in civilian areas since its proclaimed philosophy was that it
was only against the Indian government and not against the Indian
people. So it would only attack Indian troops or Indian government
establishments in suicide gun attacks, but would take care not to
attack Indian civilians.

Attempts to create factions in the LeT
caused it to depart from its original doctrine. Another puzzling factor
about the email is that the senders referred to themselves as
'terrorists' rather than as 'freedom fighters' or 'liberators'.

Moreover, the perpetrators of the Ahmedabad blasts rented the bicycles
rather than buying them outright. It would require much more
interaction with the bicycle vendors to rent a cycle, leading to
greater chances of detection.

The Indian Mujahideen is probably
an off-shoot of Simi, set up after several members of the top
leadership of Simi were captured in Madhya Pradesh and Karnataka. Since
the email referred to the UP and Mumbai blasts but not to the Bangalore
ones, it is possible that the Bangalore blasts were carried out by an
entirely different organisation, totally unaware of what was going to
happen in Ahmedabad.

Likely suspects are Al Ummah or Al Badr, or
any of the various Kerala groups such as the Islamic Swayamsevak Sangh.
In fact, the Bangalore blasts bear an uncanny resemblance to the 400
small blasts that occurred in 63 of the 64 districts of Bangladesh on
August 17, 2005, in that they were intended more to intimidate than to
actually kill, with the perpetrators wishing to send a message to the
authorities that they can strike anywhere.

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