By K.N. Pandita
In a belated but significant move the US has named Indian Mujahideen IM to its official blacklist of foreign terrorist organizations. India has not done it till now. Since 2005, this organization has been central to a number of bomb blasts at different places, mostly crowded ones and economic centres, in the country that took hundreds of innocent civilian lives. Its primary method of attack is multiple coordinated bombings in crowded areas against economic and civilian targets to maximize terror and casualties, the States Department’s anti-terrorism coordinator said. IM had carried out a 2010 bombing of a popular German bakery in Pune, frequented by tourists, killing 17 and injuring over 60 people, and another attack in Delhi in 2008 that killed 30 people. IM was also responsible for 16 synchronized bomb blasts in crowded urban centres and a local hospital that killed 38 and injured more than 100 in Ahmedabad, and played a ”facilitative role” in the 2008 Mumbai attack carried out by LeT that killed 163 people, including six Americans. Continue Reading…