The article is suggesting a link to Ayodhya. Come on now, don’t tell me Pakistan is involved in this as well. The Mosque issue is a matter of concern for Indian Muslims, you cannot deny that, so blaming Pak. would be scapegoating at this point. For once, I hope that Pakistan is not involved and STAYS out of the internal matters of India, as many Indian Muslim Guppies would like us to 
http://www.economist.com/agenda/displayStory.cfm?story_id=2019024
Death in Mumbai
Aug 25th 2003
From The Economist Global Agenda
Who planted two deadly bombs in India’s commercial capital, and why?
INDIANS are no strangers to terrorism, but they have rarely seen attacks as brutal and indiscriminate as those carried out in Mumbai (Bombay) on Monday August 25th. More than 65 people were feared killed and more than 100 injured when two explosions a few minutes apart ripped through busy areas of India’s commercial capital. At least 40 people died in a blast at a bullion market near the Mumba Devi temple, while upwards of 25 were killed near the Gateway of India, a popular tourist attraction. Police said both bombs had been placed in taxis. The national capital, Delhi, and other large Indian cities were put on high alert.
Who did it? It was not immediately clear, and no-one has claimed responsibility. What is clear, though, is that the massive, carefully co-ordinated attacks were the work of an established terrorist group. Suspicion fell on an Islamic militant group called Lashkar-e-Toiba. Police in Mumbai had named the group as being behind a spate of recent attacks, though they have produced substantial evidence to back this assertion up. Lashker-Toiba is one of the two groups the Indian government blames for an attack on the parliament in Delhi in December 2001
Lashkar-e-Toiba is based in Pakistan, whose government has been accused by India in the past of harbouring Muslim militants who stage attacks on Hindus. The attack on the Indian parliament drove the two nuclear-armed countries to the brink of war,** but relations have thawed in recent months, with both governments pledging to try to resolve their disagreements.** The biggest of these is over the disputed territory of Kashmir, where Muslim militants are fighting Indian rule in the Muslim-majority state.** The recent rapprochement may explain why, this time, Delhi did not rush to point the finger at Islamabad, and why the Pakistani government was quick to condemn the attacks.**
This week’s blasts are the latest in a series of attacks that have hit Mumbai in recent months. Three people died in December when a bomb exploded on a bus; 12 were killed in March by a bomb on a rush-hour train; and in July, two people died in a bus-bomb attack. Nobody claimed responsibility. These attacks led the city authorities to announce the creation of an anti-terrorist squad, modelled on the Indian army’s commando forces.
But Monday’s attacks were the worst in Mumbai since March 1993, when a series of bomb blasts on a single afternoon killed at least 260 people. Those attacks followed Hindu-Muslim riots sparked off by the destruction by Hindu extremists of a 16th century mosque in the northern Indian town of Ayodhya. Hindu hardliners say the mosque was built on the site of a Hindu temple. In the past decade, Ayodhya has become one of the main sources of tension between India and Pakistan. In 2002, more than 1,000 people, mostly Muslims, died in rioting over the sacred site.
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The timing of the blasts this week suggests a link with Ayodhya. The bombs went off on the day that a team of Indian government archaeologists filed a report claiming that they had found remains of a Hindu temple at the site. Hindu groups welcomed the report’s findings; they think it will strengthen their case to have a Hindu temple built at Ayodhya. But Muslims cast doubt on the report. Some claimed that the archaeologists were arm-twisted into their findings by India’s ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP). The squabble over Ayodhya is unlikely to end soon. Nor can India expect the horrific attacks in Mumbai to be the final outrage.**
