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| India among world's most terror |
| India among world's most terror afflicted nations: US
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| UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
, 1-May-2009
2:28:27 AM |
| Ranking India among the world's most terrorism-afflicted countries, the United States on Friday said that none of the perpetrators of the major terrorist attacks in that country last year have yet been prosecuted.
Besides the 26/11 Mumbai attack, the annual "Country Reports on Terrorism 2008" of the US State Department has listed seven other major terrorist attacks in India during 2008 - prominent among them being the Jaipur bombings, attack on Indian Embassy in Kabul and the terror strikes in Ahmedabad, Delhi and Assam.
"In addition to the Mumbai attacks, the rise in terrorist attacks and their coordinated nature throughout India suggested the terrorists were well-funded and financially
organised," the report said.
As for the Mumbai attack, the report said Indian authorities believe that the terrorists used various funding sources including credit cards, hawala, charities, and wealthy donors. Illicit funding sources that may have been exploited to finance terrorist operations were being closely investigated, it said
According to the report, Indian government assessed that Islamic extremist groups including Lashkar-e-Toiba, Jaish-e-Mohammad and Harakat-ul-Jihad-i-Islami (Bangladesh) as well as indigenous groups were behind major terrorists
attacks.
India believes these attacks were aimed at creating a break-down in India-Pakistan relations, fostering Hindu-Muslim violence within India and harming India's commercial centres to impede India's economic resurgence, the report said.
Observing that the Mumbai terrorist attack was the most recent in a long list of lethal terrorist incidents in 2008, the US said local and state police proved to be poorly trained and equipped and lacked central control to coordinate an effective response.
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