India is at war but who cares
February 1, 2009 by Amitabh Tripathi
Filed under Amitabh Tripathi, SAF blog
In 20 years history of Islamic terrorism in India it was first time when two major cities of country were targeted in span of 24 hours. First, Indian IT city and the most renowned outsourcing place as identity of IT sector Bengaluru was targeted on 25th of July 2008 with eight serial blasts with low intensity killing one woman and injuring more than dozen people. Government of India as well as intelligence agencies with counter terrorist experts were busy in deciphering these blasts and before they could have reached to some conclusive results another string of blasts were waiting for them and this time Islamic terrorists targeted another economic hub and growing economic capital of Gujrat. Unlike Bengaluru here blasts were intended to kill more people with a shift in terrorist strategy. Blasts in Bengaluru and Ahmedabad had some similarities as both were serial blasts and in both of these places low intensity bombs were used indicating that they were home made explosives with no more high quality explosives as RDX etc. Read more

