New links found in Israeli attack

Mar 10, 2012 |

Rajnish Sharma

New Delhi

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India’s intelligence agencies probing the 13/2 magnetic bomb attack on Israeli diplomat Tal Yehoshua have found credible evidence that the Delhi blast was linked to similar attacks in Georgia and Bangkok. Intelligence sources confirm this was part of a wider international conspiracy against Israeli interests worldwide.

The bomb in Tbilisi, Georgia’s capital, was defused outside the Israeli embassy, while Iranians were caught for the Bang-kok bombings. Intellige-nce sources said the three attacks were well coordinated and deliberately done in quick succession. The attackers’ main aim, they said, was possibly to send Israel a “symbo-lic message” rather than to cause large-scale deaths.

Sources said it appeared the explosives used in the three IEDs in New Delhi, Tbilisi and Bangkok were procured locally. This explains why the Delhi bomb was not similar to the ones elsewhere. “It appears from the investigations that the outfits behind the these incidents probably wanted to send this signal to Israel that they too are vulnerable and their interests can also be targeted around the world. Since this is a classic example of how global or international terror network operates we have shared this information with other foreign agencies as well,” a senior intelligence official said.

According to sources involved in the investigations prima facie it appears that the explosives used in the three IEDs at Delhi, Tbilisi and Bangkok were all procured locally. This explains why the Delhi bomb was not similar to the ones used in the other two incidents.

According to forensic reports while potassium chlorate and nitrate was used for bombing the Israeli embassy car in Delhi, C-4, which is a military explosive was used in the triple blasts that rocked Bangkok.

The investigating teams are now trying to ascertain where the explosives were procured from and are questioning Syed Mohammed Kazmi, who has already been arrested in connection with the Delhi blast. It has also been learnt that apart from the actual bomber, who is believed to be an

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