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by samir shivajirao patil on May 16, 2008 11:24 AM   Permalink | Hide replies

Jaipur blasts: Terror email genuine

16 May 2008, 0036 hrs IST,Sachin Parashar, Pradeep Thakur & Pervez Iqbal Siddiqui,TNN



JAIPUR: The video sent on Wednesday by an outfit claiming to be Indian Mujahideen, which owned up to Tuesday's terror attacks in Jaipur, was no fake. The frame number of the cycle in the clip is the same as that of the one which was used for the blast at Choti Choupad Kotwali, one of the sites where the terrorists struck.

The Mujahideen, in the email to the media, had said that the cycle with the frame number %u2014 129489 %u2014 in the video clip was used in the Choti Choupad blast.The frame number was reported by TOI on Wednesday.

Speaking to reporters in Jaipur on Thursday, Rajasthan chief minister Vasundhara Raje acknowledged that the email with a video of some bicycles purportedly carrying bombs which were used in the serial blasts in Jaipur may have indeed been sent by those aligned with the gang which attacked the Pink City.

She suggested that the purpose of those operating in the guise of Indian Mujahideen could be not just to secure bragging rights for the mass killings but to mislead the investigators. But while she also highlighted the contradictions in the video clip sent from a cybercafe located at Sahibabad on Delhi's outskirts, Raje said that "we are not rejecting the email angle".

Police officers, however, were more emphatic about the linkage between the self-styled Mujahideen and the perpetrators of blasts, "The

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