Saturday, February 13, 2010
At least 9 killed, 45 injured in Pune blast
This ends the 14-month lull that followed 26/11.
The popular café is located across the road from the Osho ashram in Pune’s tony Koregaon Park area and is metres away from Jewish prayer house Chabad House. One of the targets of the November 2008 Mumbai strikes was the Nariman House Jewish centre.
The explosion came only a day after India and Pakistan agreed to meet for foreign secretary-level talks in New Delhi on February 25. India suspended the fragile peace process with Pakistan after the Mumbai attacks.
5-7kg of explosives was used to make the improvised bomb.
IMO: Information is that those involved may have included David Coleman Headley, who is in the custody of the US Federal Bureau of Investigation, who had surveyed the area, including the Osho ashram, during his India visits in 2007-8. According to the Pakistani "Spectator" Headley was allegedly a CIA agent and of course the (rather dodgy anyway) CIA seem to say that if so, he has 'gone rogue'. Whatever the facts are, they are certainly grim for India and the USA. Never mind failed state Pakistan which seems so corrupt anything may happen, and which both India and the US, in their very different ways, seem to want to pull out of its problems.
The popular café is located across the road from the Osho ashram in Pune’s tony Koregaon Park area and is metres away from Jewish prayer house Chabad House. One of the targets of the November 2008 Mumbai strikes was the Nariman House Jewish centre.
The explosion came only a day after India and Pakistan agreed to meet for foreign secretary-level talks in New Delhi on February 25. India suspended the fragile peace process with Pakistan after the Mumbai attacks.
5-7kg of explosives was used to make the improvised bomb.
IMO: Information is that those involved may have included David Coleman Headley, who is in the custody of the US Federal Bureau of Investigation, who had surveyed the area, including the Osho ashram, during his India visits in 2007-8. According to the Pakistani "Spectator" Headley was allegedly a CIA agent and of course the (rather dodgy anyway) CIA seem to say that if so, he has 'gone rogue'. Whatever the facts are, they are certainly grim for India and the USA. Never mind failed state Pakistan which seems so corrupt anything may happen, and which both India and the US, in their very different ways, seem to want to pull out of its problems.
# posted by uv : 4:34 PM
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