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USED: On July 26, minutes before the Ahmedabad blast, the Indian Mujahedeen sent a threat e-mail to the media using US national Ken Haywood's WiFi connection |
> A polythene sack with the words US Mail and US Postal service was used to cover 13 kg of explosives near Bangalore
> Chips made by a US company are used in the Bangalore and Surat bombs
With a US connection emerging in all three cases, the police are sure that the terrorists had intended to send out warnings to both India and the US. A high-ranking police officer confirmed this, saying, "It is very difficult to carry out terror attacks in America, so the terrorists have used an American and things from the US to send a message to them and the Indian governments. They want to tell the US that they continue to remain the number one target. To the Indian government, they want to say that India will be targeted if we continue to co-operate with the US."
The story so farâ¦
Some of the explosives found at Channapatna after the Bangalore blast on July 25 were not only wrapped in a polythene sack with the words US Mail and US Postal service on it, the bag also came from a US garment manufacturer. Gopal Hosur, joint commissioner of police, Bangalore, however, refused to elaborate on the US connection.
Meanwhile, on July 26, minutes before the Ahmedabad blast, the Indian Mujahedeen sent a threat
e-mail to the media using US national Ken Haywood's WiFi connection. The police have been questioning him and have also seized his computers and laptop. According to ATS officers, they have not found anything fishy about Haywood yet, but everyone related to the case is still a suspect.
The 24 live bombs found in Surat and the few that were defused in Bangalore used chips made in the US and Thailand. The chips have been sent for forensic testing.
