Ahmedabad bombs camouflaged as Ghee products

Ahmedabad Bomb Bangalore flower pot bomb

By U Sudhakar Reddy

The boat-shaped bombs used to trigger blasts in Ahmedabad were packed in cartons of milk and ghee products to escape detection.
Ammonium nitrate mixed with emulsifier (slurry) resembles ghee and cheese, and this helped terrorists to use cartons of a private dairy in Gujarat to pack them.
“They kept them in the cartons to claim that they were ghee and cheese in case they were checked,” said a senior police officer working with anti terror unit said. “It was a major deception.” Terror suspects in Surat, who had used two stolen Wagon R cars, had hidden the bomb under cloth bundles.
“In this instance, they were pretending to be cloth merchants,” said the police officer. “Anyone who peeps into car will think that they are cloth bundles. This is all done to avoid checking at the police posts.
Police officers who visited Gujarat also found that one of the unexploded bombs had been wrapped in an English newspaper dated May 21.
Earlier, they found another bomb wrapped in a Gujarati newspaper of May 17, the day before the first anniversary of Mecca Masjid blasts.
“This makes it clear that the terror operatives prepared the bombs in May itself for use in Ahmedabad,” said the cop.
Meanwhile, sleuths are analysing the e-prom chips used in Bengaluru and Surat bombs.
Police confirmed that the bombs used in Hyderabad twin explosions, Ahmedabad and Surat are similar.
In AP the terrorists had wrapped the bombs as gift packets

Two incidents changed face of terror in South India

By U Sudhakar Reddy

Terror recruiters are using the death of Mohammed Mujahid Saleem of Saidabad in a police firing in front of DGP’s office and the arrest of Tehrek Thafuz Shaer-EIslam president Moulana Naseeruddin by Gujarat cops to rope in city youth for their cause.
These two incidents have changed the face of terror in South India and acted as catalysts for the youth to join terror modules, according to the police.
Seditious CDs seized by police and confessions made by the accused in terror related cases have made it clear that propaganda on these two issues was affect ing many youth and turning them into terror operatives.
Muqeemuddin Yasir, son of Moulana Naseeruddin, who was arrested on July 15 in 2008, also told the police that it was the killing of Saleem that provoked him.
Yasir, an MBA dropout, is now lodged in city jail. Karnataka police is likely to question him to get leads on Bengaluru blasts, sources said.
“After Babri Masjid demolition and Gujarat riots it was the killing of Saleem that has provoked many youth in the city to join terror network,” said a senior police officer. He added that Raziuddin Nasir, another son of Naseeruddin, and Naziullah, grandson of Darsgah Jihad-O-Shahadat chief Mehboob Ali, went to Pakistan for training angered by the killing.
Naseeruddin was arrested in 2004 in connection with the murder of Gujarat former Home Minister, Mr Haren Pandya.
When the Gujarat police came to city to execute the non bailable warrant of Naseeruddin, SIMI activists lead by Saleem, his brother Mohatsim Billah, Raziuddin Nasir, and Mohammed Rayeesuddin attacked them.
The cops then opened fire and Saleem succumbed to bullet injuries. During the funeral procession of Saleem, mourners attacked police by pelting stones.
They also damaged vehicles in Saidabad. Police said several youth took oath on the body of Saleem to avenge his killing. SIMI leaders including Safdar Nagori and Toukheer also visited the city. “Following the death of his brother Saleem, Billah intensified his activities,” said a police officer.
“He is out on bail now. Adnan of Karnataka visited Hyderabad often and he distributed seditious magazines to these youth.” During the Task Force suicide bombing in 2005 too police found material protesting the arrest of Naseeruddin and terming Saleem a ‘martyr’.
A trust was also started in the name Saleem at Pahadi Shareef. “Motives will change from time to time,” said the Commissioner of Police, Mr B. Prasada Rao.
“The nuclear deal with the US could also be a reason.”

AP Detonator used in Bangalore blasts

By U Sudhakar Reddy

Hyderabad, July 27: The bombs which exploded in Bengaluru on Friday have ‘AP’ marked on them. Anti-terror experts of the State, who visited the IT city on Saturday, said the detonators used in the unexploded bomb in Bengaluru were manufactured in the AP Explosives Limited of Hyderabad.
“APEL detonators are available in many places since the company has a distribution network across the country,” said a police officer. “So we can’t say for sure they were purchased here.” Forensic experts said the attackers used cement moulds resembling flower pots so that the bombs could not be easily identified. “But the use of cement moulds decreased the impact,” said the expert.
Dry Ammonium Nitrate powder was mixed with diesel, unlike the mix of slurry, Ammonium Nitrate and emulsifier used in the twin blasts in Hyderabad in 2007.
In the Mecca Masjid blast an iron container with grooves was used. And unlike in AP, where clocks and mobile phones were used to trigger the bombs, an electronic circuit chip was used as special timer in Bengaluru. Experts are analysing the chip.