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...Terrorist attacks have become distressingly familiar in India. Since 2005, more than 520 people have been killed, and hundreds more injured, in 12 major bombings around the country. Claims of responsibility are rare, and Indian defense and intelligence analysts have long assumed that large-scale, coordinated bombings like the Ahmedabad attack are the handiwork of international, or Pakistani, terror networks. But experts are now coming to accept that the volume of recent attacks would not have been possible without a significant number of local recruits. "They are increasingly acquiring their own expertise," says B. Raman, former head of counterterrorism...
...That was the disquieting reality India awoke to on July 27, after a coordinated series of bomb blasts rocked Ahmedabad, an elegant, ancient city in the western state of Gujarat. Coming just a day after eight blasts hit Bangalore, the center of India's thriving technology industry, the attack seemed, as Prime Minister Manmohan Singh said during a visit to Ahmedabad, to target India's cosmopolitan, secular social fabric. The whole country seemed to sense the threat, as India's major cities immediately set up checkpoints and metal detectors. At least 17 more unexploded bombs were defused on July...
...Ahmedabad bombings indeed appear domestic in origin. Minutes before the first of 22 bombs went off, a group called Indian Mujahideen sent a 14-page manifesto to Indian news organizations asserting that the attack was "planned and executed by Indians only." They claimed "sole responsibility" for the bombs, which have killed more than 40 people so far, and, as if offended at the idea that they needed outside help, admonished groups with links to Pakistan "for the sake of Allah, not to claim the responsibility for these attacks...
...sequence in bus stations, temples and markets. The latest attacks used explosives delivered in the most mundane possible ways - on bicycles left casually near a fruit stand, or in a stainless-steel tiffin carrier, the ubiquitous lunchbox of Indian commuters, left under the seat of a bus. But, in Ahmedabad, the terrorists were also more ambitious than in previous bombings, striking at many more sites than in any other recent attack...
...group's biggest grievance by far, however, is the unresolved business of the 2002 anti-Muslim violence centered in that same city, Ahmedabad. After an attack on Hindu pilgrims in another part of the state, up to 2,000 Muslims were targeted and killed, many of them tortured, burned or raped, according to reports by local and international human-rights groups. The Chief Minister of the state, a BJP hard-liner named Narendra Modi, was widely criticized for failing to stop the attacks. Modi has denied those claims, has never faced any charges and, despite the criticism, has twice been...