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...squad of acting too slowly on intelligence tips that an attack was in the works. Speculation as to who was behind the attacks swirled wildly as investigators stayed silent, while the media filled the vacuum with rumors. For a few hours, India was transfixed by reports coming out of Kashmir. A man claiming to represent al-Qaeda said the group had set up in the disputed Himalayan territory, and it welcomed the bombings. Many analysts dismiss the call as a hoax, but the fear lingers that India may be highly vulnerable to international terrorist attacks, especially now that the government...
...working in concert with indigenous Indian Muslims from the banned Student Islamic Movement of India (SIMI). SIMI and LeT were accused of detonating eight bombs in Bombay in late 2002 and 2003, killing 70 people. Lashkar-e-Toiba, meaning army of the pure, has fought Indian rule in Kashmir since the early 1990s, and is believed to have links with al-Qaeda. Largely funded by Pakistan's Inter-Services Intelligence agency in the '90s, LeT was designated a foreign terrorist organization by the U.S. in 2001. It was subsequently banned by Pakistan, but it has nevertheless been implicated in several...
...almost every group has a grievance. The point is that not every group has someone mobilizing their grievances. Radical Muslims in India receive significant support and arms from outside." Though it has been accused by India of several attacks throughout the country, LeT has historically restricted its operations to Kashmir. However, the restoration of Islamic rule over all parts of the subcontinent remains part of its stated mission. Working with a group like SIMI, which has proven skilled at drawing urban youth to its cause, may enable LeT to extend its reach...
Even as the dead are still being counted in India's worst terrorist attack in more than a decade, suspicion has already fallen on Islamic terrorists - though not al-Qaeda. India is home to a Muslim insurgency in Kashmir, and earlier in the day militants killed eight people and injured 30 in five separate bomb attacks in the capital, Srinagar. And while no one said those same insurgents carried out Tuesday's rush-hour train attacks in Bombay - which police said killed at least 130 people and injured 260 - security sources told TIME they suspected a shadowy alliance...
...Today, much of this tension stems from India's rule over Muslim-dominated Kashmir in the face of strident Pakistani opposition. The war on terror and the 1998-2004 rule of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on a Hindu nationalist agenda - which also stoked a Hindu pogrom in Gujarat in 2002 in which 2,000 Muslims died - has lent further legitimacy to India's lurking anti-Muslim prejudice. In 2003, just before twin bomb blasts in August that killed more than 50, TIME spoke to "Umar," a SIMI operative, or Ansar ("guide"), who said his men were carrying...