Indian police keep watch at one of the explosion sites in Ahmedabad, India, Sunday, July 27. From Time Magazine:
A day after major Indian cities were placed on high alert following blasts in the IT city of Bangalore, as many as 17 blasts ripped through Ahmedabad, capital of the affluent western Indian state of Gujarat. Some 30 people were killed, some at hospitals where bombs were timed to go off when the injured from other blasts were being brought in. (Later, in Surat, a center for the world's diamond industry, a bomb was defused near a hospital and two cars packed with explosives were found in in the city's outskirts.) Investigators pointed fingers at the usual Islamist suspects: Pakistan-based Lashkar-e-Toiba (LeT), Bangladesh-based Harkat-ul Jihadi Islami (HUJI) and the indigenous Students' Islamic Movement of India (SIMI). But even as the police searched for clues, the Ahmedabad attacks were owned up by a group calling itself the "Indian Mujahideen."
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My Comment: This article is a good summary of India's terrorism problems. We are not talking about small groups and communities, we are talking about communities that number in the tens of millions. How India is going to confront this problem is going to dictate how Hindus and Muslims can live together.
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