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WHY DID MUSLIMS BOMB INDIA?

By Pankaj Mishra

Sept. 15, 2003

Soon after arriving at the site of the bomb explosions in Bombay that killed more than 50 people last month -- the sixth and most lethal in a recent series of blasts in the city La Krishna Advani, the deputy prime minister in India's Hindu nationalist government, blamed terrorists based in Pakistan. This was to be expected: the ruling Bharat Jana-ta Party routinely describes India as besieged by Muslim terrorists backed by Pakistan and based there or in the disputed valley of Kashmir, where Indian security forces have fought a Muslim insurgency for more than a decade. This time, however, Mr. Advani's accusation was swiftly contradicted by the Bombay police. The four people arrested this month in connection with the attacks were Indian Muslims, part of a new group called the Gujarat Muslim Revenge Force. They may have received logistical support from a Pakistani militant outfit with links to Al Qaeda, but they were Indian citizens.

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