Sunday, December 26, 2010

Mumbai tense after terror alert

India's financial capital for a tense end of the year are strained after police said you are looking for perform four members of an Islamist militant group Mumbai attacks, are entered during the holiday season.

The four men are members of Lashkar-e-Taiba, the Pakistan-based militant group the police said that the Mumbai attacks in 2008 run that left more than 160 people dead. The attack frosted already tense relations between India and Pakistan have fought three wars since its independence in 1947.

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Police, the late Thursday said Musa, perform the Christmas Noor Abdul Ilahi and Mehfooz Alam in Mumbai attacks Walid Jinnah, Abdul Karim and snuck had, holiday period. Published a sketch of Mr Jinnah, called him the leader of the Pack. A police officer in Mumbai's crime said Friday the information store that specifically referred to its intention to carry out "violent attacks."

The warning follows a bomb earlier this month a Hindu temple in the religious city of Varanasi, one killed and several others injured. In February a bomb on a bakery in the Western City of Pune about 15 people and wounding scores. Studies in both the blasts will continue.

A member of the group the 2008 attacks conducted Mumbai was sentenced to death. Pakistan has seven people for involvement in these attacks, including members of Lashkar-e-Taiba, charged but not anyone convicted has.

Lashkar-e-Taiba was in the 1990s to fight militants Indian forces in Kashmir to train set up and was founded in 2002 by President Pervez Musharraf under pressure from the United States banned but its cadres have continued, with the other Pakistan-based religious organizations operate, say Indian officials.

India says it has evidence that Lashkar-e-Taiba were militant in contact with members of Pakistan's inter-service powerful Intelligence Directorate spy agency to plan the Mumbai attacks. Pakistan denies any official links with Lashkar-e-Taiba and says it can be made out of the ground responsible for any terrorist attack planned.

-Tom Wright contributed to the article.

Write toRomit Guha at romit.guha@dowjones.com


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