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was tossed up in the air and it got caught in the electrical wires. Panicked senior Delhi Police officials rushed to the blast site to assess the situation. The explosive here was believed to have been kept near a Maruti car. Several vehicles were badly damaged due to the impact of the blast, police said. The explosive in the blast near Nirmal Towers was apparently kept in a dust bin. The blast sites showed that low intensity ammonium nitrate tied to integrated circuits had caused the blasts. The intelligence and security agencies could do very little to prevent the blasts though they claimed that they had information from interrogations from Bangalore and Ahmedabad blasts of July 24 and 25 that the terrorists were planning to target Delhi and Chennai. Two arrests were made within hours, said Police sources. As many as four live bombs were recovered and defused preventing higher casualties. The first unexploded bomb was recovered near India Gate, while another found from a dustbin at Regal cinema in Connaught Place, Joint Commissioner of Police Ajay Kashyap said. A third live bomb was found in Connaught Place’s Central Park and the fourth at the Parliament Street. Explosive experts of National Security Guard have rushed to the sites and defused the bombs. The Saturday serial blasts in the national were the fourth serial blasts in the country this year alone, after blasts in Jaipur, Bangalore and Ahmedabad. Delhi’s last deadly serial blasts were on October 29, 2005 when three explosions shook the city in which over 60 persons were killed while more than 200 were injured. A shaken Manmohan Singh government announced Rs three lakh as compensation to the next of kin of those killed in the blasts. Earlier, Delhi Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit had announced a compensation of Rs 5 lakh to those killed. (Deccan Herald 14/9/08) Indian Mujahideen: 'Capital' strikes for publicity New Delhi (PTI): Indian Mujahideen, which surfaced on the country's terror radar 10 months ago, has once again managed to shake the country by exploding five bombs in three busy markets in the heart of the nation and experts feel that important places were being made targets for media attention. The militant group first emerged on the national front when it send an email to some media groups on November 23, 2007, minutes before bombs exploded in buildings of three trial courts in the northern state of Uttar Pradesh, one of them situated in Lucknow, the state's capital. Former Intelligence Bureau Chief A K Doval feels the group is targeting major cities, mainly "Capitals" because it wants "Global Media Attraction." "They want to terrorise people and terrorism thrives on publicity. So, they target such areas from where they would get maximum media attention," Doval said. Echoing his thoughts, former RAW Secretary A S Dulat said the motive is to gain publicity. (The Hindu 14/9/08) BJP vows to bring back Pota, CPM slams govt (12) BANGALORE/NEW DELHI, Sept. 14: The BJP today promised to bring back Pota, besides taking other tough measures to check terrorism within 100 days of coming to power at the Centre, including seeking of Presidential assent for state specific anti terror laws. According to the party, these measures are necessary as the spate of serial blasts in major cities recently, including the national Capital last evening, had clearly indicated that terrorism's local roots had spread wider. Equally disconcerting, according to Mr LK Advani, BJP's Prime Ministerial candidate, was the open support that terrorism was receiving in certain sections of the political class, a totally new development in the country. Addressing the national executive meet of the party on the concluding day here, Mr Advani attacked the UPA government for not implementing the Supreme Court's verdict and convicting a terrorist to death sentence .Of equal concern, he said were the utterances of two Cabinet minister who had publicly defended Simi, the banned militant organisation ,without even being reprimanded by the Prime Minister. All these were dangerous portents underscoring the heightened responsibility of his own party making it all the more determined to set right the situation in the event it came to power. The CPI-M too, today demanded that the government announce what anti-terror measures it has taken even as it condemned yesterday’s serial blasts. The party’s Politburo in a statement here said the Central government should convene a Parliament session immediately and table a report. “Why have the Intelligence and security set up failed to identify and dismantle the terrorist groups that are operating,” the party asked. (The Statesman 15/9/08) Patil rejects necessity of Pota like laws (12)
GUWAHATI: Sept. 14: Union home minister Shivraj Patil here on Sunday rejected the necessity of tougher law to tackle the terror network while arguing that Parliament and Mumbai was attacked when the Pota was in place. Mr Patil who was here for an aerial survey of the flood-hit areas told reporters, "We are working out strategies for a long-term measure to tackle the situation." Mr Patil said, "The Subsidiary Intelligence Bureau and RAW can not tackle the situation alone." In reference to remarks of Opposition political parties, the home minister said, "Let us not make it a political issue." (Asian Age 15/9/08) Manmohan: we need to strengthen anti-terror laws (12) NEW DELHI: Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Wednesday hit out at the role of Pakistanbased terrorist groups in the recent serial bomb blasts, but said the involvement of local elements added a new dimension to the terrorist threat. “We have reports that certain Pakistan-based terrorists outfits are constantly seeking to set up new terrorist modules within our country. This is a matter of the utmost concern. We have increased vigilance on our borders … But in view of the growing involvement of local elements, this is not enough,” he said. Favouring further strengthening of anti-terror laws, Dr. Singh noted that security and intelligence agencies had been successful in thwarting and pre-empting several terrorist attacks. “But as the recent blasts in Jaipur, Bangalore, Ahmedabad, Surat and Delhi indicate, there are still vast gaps in intelligence. These need to be overcome.” The Prime Minister, addressing the Governors’ Conference on its concluding day, focussed on Left-wing extremism, terrorism and his government’s approach to tackling the menace. The theme of internal security and terrorism also figured in President Pratibha Patil’s inaugural address on Tuesday. She voiced concern at the emerging “metroterrorism” and favoured firm action against those who followed the path and culture of the gun.Emphasising that there was no question of the government being soft on terrorism, Dr. Singh said the “issue is really one of examining the efficacy of the totality of the systems and the mechanisms that we have to deal with terrorist incidents.” He said it was unfortunate that the public debate on terrorism tended to get driven by politics and centred on certain laws enacted or repealed by governments of different political persuasions. “Our government has no fixed, inflexible, or ideological view in this regard,” Dr. Singh said. He said the government was considering legislation to further strengthen the substantive anti-terrorism law in line with the global consensus on the fight against terrorism. (The Hindu 18/9/08) Delhi blasts: 'Hang my son if he is guilty' (12) Mumbai, September 17: The mother of Abdus Subhan Qureshi alias Tauqeer, prime accused in the Delhi and Ahmedabad serial blasts, asked her son to surrender before the authorities irrespective of whether he is innocent or not. "If my son is found guilty by the court and authorities, then I would not stop them from punishing him. He could be hanged before our eyes," a tearful Zubeda Qureshi said. Addressing a press conference in south Mumbai, Zubeda said Abdus would never commit such an act considering his upbringing. "We come from a very good family and have good traditions," she said. "Our children have been brought up well and are living in peace with members of all communities," Zubeda, clad in a black burqa (veil), said. She also said her son had been staying with his wife separately since 2001 in suburban Mira Road and they had no idea about what activities he was involved in. "We do not want any more trouble for our family because of him," Zubeda said. None of the other members of the family was present at the press conference fearing action against them, the family's lawyer Mubin Solkar said. Tauqeer was named by the Gujarat police as being one of the masterminds behind the Ahmedabad serial blasts. He is also accused of having sent the threatening emails for Terror group Indian Mujahideen from Mumbai. In a written statement signed by Abdus' parents, Usman and Zubeda, they said following the Blasts in Ahmedabad and Delhi they found "to their horror" that their son was accused of being involved in the dreadful act. "We wish to state that given the values and principles with which we have brought up our children, it is impossible to believe that Abdus Subhan would ever indulge in such acts of violence and terrorism," they said. His parents said Abdus had studied and worked with people from different communities and therefore it was unlikely that he had hatred for them. Pleading with him to surrender, they said that by concealing himself Abdus would only make himself more prone to further accusations and would become a "soft target" in the event of any other terrorist act in future. "It is very painful that the media has
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