Delhi bomb: High Court explosion kills nine

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Source: BBC

A bomb outside the Indian High Court in the capital Delhi has killed nine people and injured 47, Home Minister P Chidambaram has said.

Speaking in parliament, he said the government condemned "this terrorist act". He said Delhi was a "target of terrorist groups".

Police said the bomb was apparently placed in a case outside the main gates leading to the reception at the court.

The area was busy with lawyers and witnesses waiting for day passes.

Read more: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-14816492

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2. India bomb: Delhi High Court explosion kills 11

Source: BBC

A bomb outside the high court in the Indian capital, Delhi, has killed 11 people and injured at least 61.

Prime Minister Manmohan Singh called it a "cowardly act of a terrorist nature". The bomb was apparently placed in a case near the first security checkpoint at the court, where people were queuing for passes, officials said.

Investigators said they were taking seriously an email claim by the extremist group Harkat-ul Jihad al-Islami (Huji) that it planted the bomb."It would be very premature to make any comment on the mail at this stage, but yes, that mail has to be looked at seriously, because Huji is a very prominent terrorist group," SC Sinha, Director General of India's National Investigation Agency, told reporters.
The email reportedly demands that a man sentenced to death for involvement in an attack on the Indian parliament 10 years ago should not be hanged.

Read more: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-14816492

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My condolences to the victims and their families.

Religious fundies at it again. Bomb blast to prevent Justice being done to a Bomber who killed many 10 years ago! ain't that rich.
There cannot be any negotiation with religious extremists, because its impossible to reason with people drugged on fundamentalism (regardless of religion).

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Al-Qaida affiliate suspected in Delhi court briefcase blast
Read more: http://www.ottawacitizen.com/news/Qaeda+affiliate+suspected+Delhi+court+briefcase+blast/5361535/story.html#ixzz1XI8mxs9Y

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4. The suspected culprits

The government is investigating an email allegedly sent by the Pakistan-based terrorist group Harkat-ul-Jihad Islami (HuJI) claiming responsibility for the blast at the Delhi high court that killed at least 12 people and injured 62 others on Wednesday, a senior security official said.

HuJI, in an email sent to the media, wrote, "We own the responsibility for today's blasts at Delhi high court. Our demand is that Mohammed Afzal Guru's death sentence should be repealed immediately else we would target major high courts and the Supreme Court of India."

Harkat-ul-Jihad-al-Islami (Arabic: حركة الجهاد الإسلامي‎, Ḥarkat al-Jihād al-Islāmiyah, meaning "Islamic Struggle Movement", HuJI) is an Islamic fundamentalist organization most active in South Asian countries of Pakistan, Bangladesh and India since the early 1990s. It was banned in Bangladesh in 2005. The operational commander of HuJI, Ilyas Kashmiri, was reportedly killed in a U.S. Predator drone strike in South Waziristan on June 4, 2011.<1> He was linked to the February 13, 2010 bombing of a German bakery in the Indian city of Pune. A statement was released soon after the attack which claimed to be from Kashmiri; it threatened other cities and major sporting events in India.<2>

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HuJI first limited its operations in Afghanistan to defeating the Communists, but after the Soviets retreated, the organization exported jihad to the Indian state of Jammu and Kashmir. HuJI's footprint was extended to Bangladesh when the Bangladesh unit was established in 1992, with direct assistance from Osama bin Laden.

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On August 6, 2010 the United States and the United Nations designated Harakat-ul Jihad al-Islami as a foreign terror group and blacklisted its commander Ilyas Kashmiri. State Department counterterrorism coordinator Daniel Benjamin asserted that the actions taken demonstrated the global community's resolve to counter the group's threat. "The linkages between HUJI and Al-Qaeda are clear, and today's designations convey the operational relationship between these organizations," Benjamin said.

typical jihadists.

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