Indians pin blast carnage on Kashmir rebels
AFP, November, 2005
NEW DELHI (AFP) — A lack of hard evidence has not sidetracked Indian investigators from a firm belief that well-organised Kashmiri separatists planted the bombs that killed 62 people a week ago in the capital New Delhi.
Full forensic reports were still expected -- although much evidence was tarnished by the milling crowds at the two market areas devastated by the October 29 blasts.
But investigators say traces of the military explosive RDX and the modus operandi of the killers point to hardline Kashmiri militants.
The Islamic Inqilabi Mahaz (Islamic Revolutionary Group -- IIM), which claimed responsibility for the blasts, is closely linked to the better known Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) -- the prime suspect in India's eyes.
A chorus of denials from Pakistan-based rebel groups such as LeT and Jaish-e-Mohammad has not swayed India.
Security experts say the denials may even have been "sponsored" by Pakistan's military ...