[Reader-list] OB vans in Mehrauli

Mon Sep 29 22:03:41 IST 2008

'Indian Mujahideen supporter' held in Lucknow

*Agencies* <http://www.ibnlive.com/news/agency/Agencies/>

*Lucknow:* A suspected member of the Indian Mujahideen, the group which has
claimed responsibility for several bomb blasts in the country, was arrested
in Lucknow on Monday.

The Anti-Terrorism Squad of Uttar Pradesh Police suspect Arif, who was
arrested after a tip-off from the Ahmedabad Police, is involved in the
Lucknow court blast in November 2007 and the blasts in Ahmedabad on July 26,
2008.

Vikram Singh, Director General of Police, told CNN-IBN Arif had confessed
that he was a member of the Indian Mujahideen and his arrest had established
that the group and Harkat-ul-Jehadi Islami were linked.

"He (Arif) is a key coordinator between the IM and the HuJI (Harkat-ul-Jihad
al-Islami) in eastern Uttar Pradesh and was living in Daliganj locality of
the city for the past three years," said Singh

Arif, who belongs to Sanjarpur village in Azamgarh district, was preparing
for pre-medical entrance examinations until his name came up during
investigations into the serial court blasts, police said.

IANS reports that Arif has allegedly revealed that the Lucknow court
explosions were planned at the behest of Saif, who was arrested from Jamia
Nagar of New Delhi after a shootout with police earlier this month.

While Atif and Sajid, along with a Delhi Police inspector, Mohan Chand
Sharma, were killed in the ambush, Saif was arrested.

"The initial interrogation revealed that it was on Saif's directive that he,
along with two others, bought bicycles from the Chowk locality in Lucknow
and placed the explosives on the court premises. However, the bomb
containing RDX was defused and there were no casualties here," Singh added.

PTI reports authorities in Uttar Pradesh had found that Hawala networks and
bank drafts were being used to organize terror funds.

In a related development as many as 15 crude bombs were recovered and
defused in Ahmedabad on Monday a day before the nine-day Navratri
celebrations begin in the city.

On 9/29/08, Aditya Raj Kaul <kauladityaraj at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> The Islamic Terrorists from Pakistan and Bangladesh of course.
>
>  17 crude bombs found in Ahmedabad    9/29/2008 11:02:56 AM
>  Link - http://www.timesnow.tv/Newsdtls.aspx?NewsID=17052
>
> A day before Navratri celebrations begin in Gujarat, seventeen crude bombs
> were found today (September 29) near the Kalupurdarvaja in Ahmedabad, police
> said. The bombs found were not sophisticated devices but crude explosives,
> police said. Further investigations are on, police said.
>
> This move comes just two days after the Mehrauli blasts, which was
> apparently triggered from a crude bomb. The same comes two weeks after the
> coordinated bombings in the capital on September 13 that killed 24 people
> and injured over a 100.
>
> Earlier this year, seventeen serial blasts rocked the city of Ahmedabad.
> Following which, investigators have been on a desperate hunt of explosives
> and bombs possibly planted in different parts of the country. Over twenty
> bombs were recovered from Surat, soon after the Ahmedabad blasts.
>
>
> On 9/29/08, Shivam Vij शिवम् विज् <mail at shivamvij.com> wrote:
>>
>> Well Partha, the NSG walas still did collect a lot of forensic
>> evidence. It was clear that it was a crude bomb without circuits or
>> ammonium nitrate. Had the police not cleared the blood with alacrity,
>> the TV cameras would have started drinking it.
>>
>> Talking of crude bombs, guess who's been caught making them in the
>> recent past???
>>
>> best
>> shivam
>>
>> On Sun, Sep 28, 2008 at 1:45 PM, Partha Dasgupta <parthaekka at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>> > What I found shocking was the reports that the Police washed the place
>> down
>> > with buckets of water before the NSG reached the site.
>> > As criminal as the oversight of not checking the entire building in the
>> > Arushi case and so much time being lost that the case broke down.
>> >
>> > Wish they would make a policy that is explained to all the police
>> people.
>> >
>> > Rgds, Partha
>> > .........................
>> >
>> > On Sun, Sep 28, 2008 at 1:41 PM, Kshmendra Kaul <
>> kshmendra2005 at yahoo.com>wrote:
>> >
>> >> Dear Shivam
>> >>
>> >> A good post. Thank you for recording these observations.
>> >>
>> >> Kshmendra
>> >>
>> >> --- On Sat, 9/27/08, Shivam Vij शिवम् <mail at shivamvij.com> wrote:
>> >>
>> >> From: Shivam Vij शिवम् <mail at shivamvij.com>
>> >> Subject: [Reader-list] OB vans in Mehrauli
>> >> To: "sarai list" <reader-list at sarai.net>
>> >> Date: Saturday, September 27, 2008, 10:59 PM
>> >>
>> >> Dear friends,
>> >>
>> >> I was in Mehrauli today for a few good hours. I don't have the
>> >> patience to write a long post. Just a few things.
>> >>
>> >> Firstly, Star News should be banned, like forever, for showing those
>> >> graphic images of part of a boy's head. If not for tom-tomming all day
>> >> how they were the first of the vultures.
>> >>
>> >> Secondly, all you illiterate TV journalists, you don't have to know
>> >> about Phoolwalon Ki Ser and what it's about. You can just ask the
>> >> locals, "Tell me a little about this area". If there's a bomb
>> >> blast at
>> >> the intersection of a Hindu and a Muslim colony, in a place that has a
>> >> syncretic culture maintained now for centuries, strengthened by Gandhi
>> >> and Nehru… surely, this is important background detail?
>> >>
>> >> Thirdly, all you idiotic TV camerawalas, no, I will not move, your
>> >> visual is not a bit more important than my observation.
>> >>
>> >> Fourthly, a police cordon is not meant to be jumped. If you jump it,
>> >> so will the rest of the wolves. And you will trample over the forensic
>> >> evidence that's being collected.
>> >>
>> >> Fifthly, all you TV reporters who used the words ammonium nitrate as
>> >> frequent as 'byte', the police never said there was any ammonium
>> >> nitrate. Stop talking on you effing live broadcasts. Stop and listen.
>> >>
>> >> Sixthly, all you TV reporters who crowded the small house of the boy
>> >> who died, it was not a public place just because it was a poor
>> >> labourer's house. When somebody says please leave, leave. You can't
>> >> force a mourning family to give the same byte for two dozen cameras
>> >> one after the other.
>> >>
>> >> And you don't have to run the camera over a washed pucca road and say
>> >> again and again, "There was blood all over here. There was blood all
>> >> over. All over." Your viewer will get the point even if you weren't as
>> >> excited about human blood.
>> >>
>> >> I have more to say but writing this much is enough to bring down my
>> >> blood pressure. Thanks but no thanks. May those graphic images never
>> >> let you sleep because during office hours you're a camera without a
>> >> brain.
>> >>
>> >> shivam
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