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Generational Dynamics Web Log for 31-Oct-05
Coordinated terrorist bomb blasts across New Delhi kill 60+

Web Log - October, 2005

Coordinated terrorist bomb blasts across New Delhi kill 60+

An Islamist Kashmiri separatist group has claimed credit.

Prime Minister Manmohan Singh called for calm in the wake of a major terrorist attack at 6 pm on Saturday in India's capital, New Delhi. New Delhi now joins New York, London, Madrid, Moscow and Bali as sites of major terrorist attacks.

There were three different but nearly simultaneous blasts at three widely separated marketplaces crowded with shoppers. Over 60 people were killed, but the toll is likely to rise. Many more were wounded.

The markets were mobbed because of shopping for the Festival of Lights, or Diwali, the most popular festival in India. It's celebrated throughout India by Hindus, Jains and Sikhs alike to celebrate life and strengthen relationships. The date varies from year to year, but it always falls on a dark night, when there's a new moon. This year it falls on Tuesday, November 1.

India, Pakistan, Bangladesh and Kashmir. <font size=-2>(Source: Peter N. Stearns)</font>

India, Pakistan, Bangladesh and Kashmir. (Source: Peter N. Stearns)

A group called Islamic Inquilabi Mahaz, or Islamic Revolutionary Group has claimed credit for the bombings. That group is little known, but is believed to be linked with Lashkar-e-Taiba or Lashkar-e-Toiba (LeT), a known Kashmiri separatist group with an agenda to convert all of India to Islam.

If the link to Kashmiri separatists is confirmed, that would link the bombing to the July 7 London suicide bombers whose ancestral home was Kashmir and who were trained in Kashmir.

In a related story, Bangladesh has also stepped up security, especially around the capital, Dhaka, where a regional summit meeting is to be held later this week. It was just two months ago that Islamist terrorist conducted a spectacular Islamist terrorist attack across Bangladesh.

From the point of view of Generational Dynamics, the significance of this terrorist attack is that it's another step in the linking up of Islamist terrorist groups throughout Africa, the Mideast, through Asia and Southeast Asia. As we described a month ago after the terrorist bombing in Bali, Indonesia, the third in three years, Islamist terrorist groups are using similar methods in Indonesia, Thailand, Bangladesh, India, Pakistan, Iraq, Saudi Arabia, and Palestine/Israel. The intent is to trigger a new "clash of civilizations" world war, and Generational Dynamics predicts that such a war will occur, most likely beginning within 2-3 years. (31-Oct-05) Permanent Link
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Coordinated terrorist bomb blasts across New Delhi kill 60+