India Terror Attacks Reveal Assistance Of Outside Terror Groups

The horrific bombing attacks in northern India this week have revealed a sophistication that has officials suspecting that local terrorists had help from outside terror groups. Here's some of the details from Breitbart:

The level of sophistication in the bombings that killed at least 76 people in northeastern India indicate that local militants had help from other terrorist groups to carry out the attacks, officials said Friday.
The scale and planning behind Thursday's 13 coordinated blasts in Assam state surprised authorities, who struggled to determine who was behind the attacks—among the worst ever in a region plagued by separatism and ethnic violence.

Now, I am no terror expert by any means and initially, most were looking at United Liberation Front of Asom as the party responsible but their spokesman denies involvement...but I agree with the experts now that say this would have been way beyond even a ULFA. Let's be candid, these were 13 COORDINATED ATTACKS! I only know if one group that is renowned for coordinated bombings and that is al Qaeda. Now, I don't know if al Qaeda itself was involved in these attacks in India but I would bet that whoever was, is al Qaeda trained.

Sophisticated attack leaves 77 dead in India

GAUHATI, India (AP) - The level of sophistication in the bombings that killed at least 76 people in northeastern India indicate that local militants had help from other terrorist groups to carry out the attacks, officials said Friday.
The scale and planning behind Thursday's 13 coordinated blasts in Assam state surprised authorities, who struggled to determine who was behind the attacks—among the worst ever in a region plagued by separatism and ethnic violence.
The death toll in the explosions rose to 77 on Friday after more than a dozen people died from their injuries overnight, said Subhas Das, the state's home commissioner. More than 300 people were wounded.
Bhaskar Jyoti Mahanta, Assam state inspector general of police, said the state's largest separatist group, the United Liberation Front of Asom, was the main target of the investigation, but he added that the sophistication of the blasts suggested the rebel group was "assisted by a force who has adequate expertise in such attacks." He did not elaborate.
Anjan Borehaur, a spokesman for the United Liberation Front of Asom, denied his group had any role in the blasts.
"We are not behind these blasts in any way and it is the work of the Indian occupation forces," he said in an Assamese language e-mail sent to reporters.
The separatist group has never carried out an attack of this size and complexity, which closely resembled bombings that have rocked other Indian cities this year. Those attacks were blamed on well-financed and well-armed Islamic militant groups.
Federal investigators and forensic experts sifted through the rubble of the blasts Friday for clues.
Mahanta said that preliminary investigations indicated the militants had used PE-3, a complex plastic explosive.
On Friday, police fired rubber bullets to disperse angry mobs who took to the streets of the state capital, Gauhati, stoning and attacking vehicles and buildings, said C.K. Bhuyan, a local magistrate.
Similar incidents had taken place on Thursday.
A curfew was imposed in parts of the city on Friday, Bhuyan said, adding that no one was injured when police fired rubber bullets.
The bombs were planted in cars and rickshaws, and the largest explosion took place near the office of Assam's top government official, leaving bodies and charred, mangled cars and motorcycles strewn across the road.
Bystanders dragged the wounded and dead to cars that took them to hospitals. Police officers covered charred bodies with white sheets in the street.
India's northeast—an isolated region wedged between Bangladesh, Bhutan, China and Myanmar with only a thin corridor connecting it to the rest of India—is beset by dozens of conflicts. More than 10,000 people have died in separatist violence over the past decade in the region.