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...Living in the shadow of 9/11, it's easy to forget that India suffered its own historic terrorist strike nearly nine years earlier. Between 1:28 and 3:35 p.m. on March 12, 1993, a group of terrorists and gangsters trained in Pakistani camps detonated 10 bombs across Bombay. Among the targets: the local stock exchange, crowded marketplaces, a double-decker bus, hotels, offices and the airport. The toll: 257 people killed or missing, 713 injured and a city of 14 million temporarily paralyzed with fear. The similarities to the attacks that would come later...
...Books: Bombay's Own 9/11
...conspiracy from a single telephone call that was made to Mafia supremo Dawood Ibrahim by his handlers in the Pakistani secret service to a December 1992 meeting in Dubai between Dawood's lieutenants and Islamic terrorists to the smuggling of explosives into deserted coves along the coastline south of Bombay. What is most remarkable is the speed with which India's most devastating terror strike was assembled by a handful of amateurs guided only by improvisation and furious zeal: just eight weeks elapsed from the first phone call to the day of the bombings...
...Zaidi, a crime correspondent at Bombay's Mid-Day newspaper, portrays the city's cops and their investigation as thoroughly professional, despite a wealth of independent evidence to the contrary. He glosses over their lapses?detectives took 48 hours to discover that the bombers' car was owned by a Mafia don?and all but ignores their imprisonment (and sometimes torture) of hundreds of innocent Muslims. In one typical partial passage, Zaidi describes how on March 15, "after three days of running around furiously," one investigator, Rakesh Maria, "was hoping to spend most of the day at home" but was suddenly...
...Books: Bombay's Own 9/11