07-19-2006, 12:26 AM
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin--><b>Police ignored IB report, Mumbai paid with 200 lives </b>
Pioneer.com
Pramod Kumar Singh | New Delhi
The failure on part of Mumbai Police to appreciate an advance input sent by the Intelligence Bureau (IB) <b>on June 25 this year is being attributed as one of the reasons for the 7/11 serial blasts.</b>
<b>The IB had warned Mumbai Police about a group of anti-national elements who had managed to smuggle 10 kg of RDX into the city. The report carried the names and possible hideouts of this group. It has now emerged that Mumbai Police sat over the intelligence report and did precious little to locate the group armed with deadly RDX and other ammunitions.</b> When Mumbai was rocked with serial blasts in local trains on July 11, the authorities realised their folly.
Sources said that the Centre has conveyed it displeasure to the Maharashtra Government about the conduct of certain top police officials in this episode and has asked for disciplinary action against the erring policemen.
Sources said that the <span style='font-size:14pt;line-height:100%'>Central agencies are upset over the way the Mumbai Police tried to put the probe on a wrong track by claiming use of dynamite and ammonium nitrate behind the blasts.</span> <b>This led to confusion about the perpetrators and contradicted the findings of a central team of forensic experts who had visited blasts sites and were unanimous about RDX being used in the blasts, highly placed sources said on Tuesday</b>. A report about RDX use was submitted to the National Security Advisor (NSA) who in turn apprised the Prime Minister about it.
<b>The modus operandi and the precision with which the task was carried out pointed towards the involvement of Pakistan-based terrorist groups and Inter Services Intelligence (ISI). </b>
However, <span style='font-size:14pt;line-height:100%'>the flip flop by Mumbai Police to hide its own incompetence in a way negated the claims made by the Centre about the involvement of Lashkar-e-Tayyeba (LeT) and its local arm Students Islamic Movement of India (SIMI).</span>
After the Mumbai police floated the ammonium nitrate theory, Central team of forensic experts was again sent to examine the blast sites and the wreckage of train compartments.<b> The team stood by its earlier findings and gave its opinion about large quantity of RDX being used for triggering the blasts. Red faced Mumbai Police officers then accepted a combination of high grade plastic explosives (read RDX), ammonium nitrate, fuel oil and timers were used to trigger bombs on the suburban trains.</b>
Even Chief Minister of Maharashtra, Vilasrao Deshmukh accepted about the advance intelligence input provided by the IB.Â
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Pioneer.com
Pramod Kumar Singh | New Delhi
The failure on part of Mumbai Police to appreciate an advance input sent by the Intelligence Bureau (IB) <b>on June 25 this year is being attributed as one of the reasons for the 7/11 serial blasts.</b>
<b>The IB had warned Mumbai Police about a group of anti-national elements who had managed to smuggle 10 kg of RDX into the city. The report carried the names and possible hideouts of this group. It has now emerged that Mumbai Police sat over the intelligence report and did precious little to locate the group armed with deadly RDX and other ammunitions.</b> When Mumbai was rocked with serial blasts in local trains on July 11, the authorities realised their folly.
Sources said that the Centre has conveyed it displeasure to the Maharashtra Government about the conduct of certain top police officials in this episode and has asked for disciplinary action against the erring policemen.
Sources said that the <span style='font-size:14pt;line-height:100%'>Central agencies are upset over the way the Mumbai Police tried to put the probe on a wrong track by claiming use of dynamite and ammonium nitrate behind the blasts.</span> <b>This led to confusion about the perpetrators and contradicted the findings of a central team of forensic experts who had visited blasts sites and were unanimous about RDX being used in the blasts, highly placed sources said on Tuesday</b>. A report about RDX use was submitted to the National Security Advisor (NSA) who in turn apprised the Prime Minister about it.
<b>The modus operandi and the precision with which the task was carried out pointed towards the involvement of Pakistan-based terrorist groups and Inter Services Intelligence (ISI). </b>
However, <span style='font-size:14pt;line-height:100%'>the flip flop by Mumbai Police to hide its own incompetence in a way negated the claims made by the Centre about the involvement of Lashkar-e-Tayyeba (LeT) and its local arm Students Islamic Movement of India (SIMI).</span>
After the Mumbai police floated the ammonium nitrate theory, Central team of forensic experts was again sent to examine the blast sites and the wreckage of train compartments.<b> The team stood by its earlier findings and gave its opinion about large quantity of RDX being used for triggering the blasts. Red faced Mumbai Police officers then accepted a combination of high grade plastic explosives (read RDX), ammonium nitrate, fuel oil and timers were used to trigger bombs on the suburban trains.</b>
Even Chief Minister of Maharashtra, Vilasrao Deshmukh accepted about the advance intelligence input provided by the IB.Â
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See I told you. Who is covering who?