Updating the Mumbai (Bombay) Bombings

The latest death toll stands at 183, with more than 400 injured.

A senior police official said investigators had some leads and were looking into a possible link with Lashkar-e-Tayyaba, a Kashmiri militant group that earlier Wednesday denied any role.

"It is difficult to say definitely as this stage, but Lashkar-e-Tayyaba can be involved going by the style of attack," said P.S. Pasricha, the director general of police for Maharashtra state, where Bombay is located.

Suspicion quickly fell on Kashmiri militants after the eight blasts struck seven trains within minutes of each other on Tuesday. Lashkar is among the Kashmiri groups that have in the past employed near-simultaneous explosions to attack Indian cities.

But other Indian officials, speaking on the condition of anonymity because the investigation was just getting under way, cautioned that it was too early to point fingers at a specific group.

One former senior intelligence official, Ajit Doval, said the blasts were too sophisticated for the Kashmiri groups to have carried out on their own.

"This is the work of groups which are targeting India as a whole and are not Kashmir specific and are pursuing the larger jihadi agenda," said Doval, who maintains strong contacts in the intelligence community. "They are targeting countries and societies, particularly democratic ones, which they consider to be the antithesis of their version of Islam."

Pakistan, India's rival over the disputed territory of Kashmir, quickly condemned the bombings, but analysts said a Kashmiri link could slow — or even derail — the peace process between the nuclear-armed neighbors.

Investigators are poring over the wreckage of the trains for clues that could lead them to who carried out the attacks.

UPDATE:
CNN reports (and no verification elsewhere as yet) that investigators have found timers hidden within pencils, and the explosives used appear to be RDX, which is a military grade explosive. If confiumed, this has the potential of limiting which groups could be involved. We're not talking about TATP here. This is some serious stuff. Who has the ability to get their hands on RDX?

UPDATE:
Gateway Pundit rounds up the news out of Mumbai. Varnam has a roundup as well, and notes that investigators appear to have sketches of suspects. Were the attacks revenge for the Gujarat riots? There are also questions about who funded the terrorists who carried out this attack. There are signs that Pakistan, UAE, and Saudi Arabia may have been involved.