Calling Out The Enemy

A man called a local news agency in Indian Kashmir to say the militant Islamic Inquilab Mahaz, or Front for Islamic Uprising, staged the bombings, which police said killed 59 people and wounded 210.

The caller, who identified himself as Ahmed Yaar Ghaznavi, said the bombings were "meant as a rebuff to the claims of Indian security groups" that militants had been wiped out by security crackdowns and the Oct. 8 earthquake that devastated the insurgents' heartland in the mountains of Kashmir.

A senior police officer in India's Jammu-Kashmir state said the caller's name was not familiar to intelligence agencies, and New Delhi's deputy police chief, Karnail Singh, said the group had not been very active since 1996.

However, while Singh refused to comment on the claim of responsibility, he said the group is linked to the Pakistan-based Lashkar-e-Tayyaba, the most feared of the dozens of Kashmiri militant groups.

So, we get a claim of responsibility from an Islamic terrorist group, but the headline simply reads Militant-Linked Group Claims India Blasts. Militants linked to whom? Militant Quakers? Atheists? The headline conveys absolutely no useful information whatsoever. Did the blasts kill anyone? And if a militant-linked group claims the blast, wouldn't that make the group claiming the blast a terrorist organization, and a militant one at that? After all, the terrorists killed 59 people and wounded 210 in the multiple blasts that rocked India's capital of New Delhi.

No, this is another offshoot of another Islamic terrorist group claiming responsibility for killing dozens of people who were busy buying food, browsing through stores and shops, and enjoying life.

UPDATE:
The Jawa Report has more.