India Points Finger at Pakistani Group for Mumbai Bombings

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July 14, 2006 11:00 AM

Investigating agencies in India claim they have information on members of a Pakistani militant group and their possible role in serial train blasts in Mumbai earlier this week. Over 200 people were killed in the bomb explosions Tuesday on Mumbai's suburban trains during the rush hour.

Intelligence sources in Mumbai say they have identified three terror cells of the group Lashkar-e-Toiba in the suburbs of Mumbai. LET is a Pakistan-based terrorist group that seeks independence for the disputed Kashmir region.

The police chief in Mumbai, P.S. Pasricha, has said that authorities have put these cells under surveillance and have already "got some special clues." Pasricha said they have identified three people as Lashkar operatives that are suspected to have planned the train blasts.

A senior police official in Mumbai says that following intensive intelligence operations over the past three days authorities are examining two telephone calls made after the bombings. The first call was made on a mobile phone from Karachi to Dhaka, Bangladesh, and the second was made from a telephone booth in Mumbai. This information was gleaned after the intelligence agencies trawled telecom gateways route calls to Pakistan and Bangladesh.

Meanwhile, a new militant group has been launched in Indian-occupied Kashmir calling itself  "Al-Qaeda Jammu and Kashmir," but the intelligence agencies say they have no clue on whether it is actually a wing of the organization led by Osama Bin Laden.