Sunday, September 19, 2010

Indian Mujahideen on Wikipedia

Indian Mujahideen (Hindi: इंडियन मुजाहिदीन, Urdu: انڈین مجاہدین) is a home-grown Islamic terrorist group in Pakistan, that has claimed responsibility for several attacks against innocent targets in India.[1]

Believed to be a "shadow amalgam of the SIMI and Lashkar-e-Toiba", the Indian Mujahideen have been declared a terrorist organization.[2] However, no decision had been made to ban the organisation as of 28 September 2008.[3]

Investigators believe that Indian Mujahideen is one of many groups composed of lower-tier SIMI members. According to the Indian Intelligence Bureau, SIMI took new titles because the top leadership of SIMI have been detained and would be available for interrogation.[4] The change in names is also believed to signal a change in tactics as SIMI-affiliated militants attempt to garner more support from India's Muslim community rather than be seen as a group consisting of foreigners.[5]

Two days after the 13 May 2008 Jaipur bombings, the Islamic extremist group[6] sent an e-mail to Indian media in which they claimed responsibility for the attacks[7] and said they would "demolish the faiths (all religions apart from Islam) of the infidels of India".[8]

The biggest and boldest attack to date by the group was the 2008 Ahmedabad serial blasts, where it gained national notoriety with a casualty count towards 50.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indian_Mujahideen

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