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India faces threat from home-grown militants

AFP, New Delhi
Traditionally focused on' the threat from rival Pakistan, India must now deal with an apparently homegrown Islamist group, experts said yesterday after deadly bombs hit New Delhi.
The Indian Mujahideen, which claimed responsibility for bomb blasts on Saturday in which at least 20 people died, has also said it was behind bombings in Ahmedabad and Jaipur cities earlier this year.
Security experts say the formation of the outfit may be an effort to create a fresh identity for groups banned by the Indian government over the past few years such as the Students' Islamic Movement of India (SIMI).
SIMI, founded over 30 years ago. was outlawed in 2001 over its alleged terror links and is currently challenging the ban in the Supreme Court.
“Since SIMI is making efforts before the courts to have the ban lifted, it is trying to create a separate armed wing, " Ajai Sahni of the New Delhi-based Institute for Conflict Management told AFP
The Indian Mujahideen, which also calls itself "the militia of Islam," first came to public attention last November following serial blasts in Varanasi, Faizabad and Lucknow in Uttar Pradesh in which at least 13 people died.
"We were presuming before the Uttar Pradesh blasts that all terrorist strikes must be the work of Pakistan-based Lashkar-e-Toiba or the Bangladesh -based Harkat-ul-Jihad-al-Islami," security expert B. Haman said.
"Since November last, we have been focusing on SIMI. It is possible
that elements from all these organisations are involved," Haman wrote in the Hindustan limes on.Sunday.
The Indian Mujahideen also sent an email to media outlets after the Jaipur blasts in May when 63 people died, announcing it had launched an "open war" against India tor supporting the United States.
The outfit warned of more attacks against tourist sites.
Just minutes before blasts in Gujarat's main city of Ahmedabad killed 45 in July, the group sent emails to TV news stations warning that people would "feel the terror of death."
It said the Ahmedabad blasts were revenge for riots which swept Gujarat in 2002 in which at least 2,000 people, mainly Muslims, were hacked, shot and burnt to death.
SIMI activists were suspected to be involved in the Ahmedabad
attacks and have been linked with almost every bomb attack in I lindu majority India In recent years.
Officials say they have strong evidence against the group's involvement in terrorism, but no suspects have yet been charged.
"It is certain dial since the blasts in Uttar Pradesh. Indian radical Islamic groups are now directly involved in terror attacks targeting India," said a Western intelligence official in New Delhi.
"We used to take comfort in the fact that there was a 'foreign hand', but now a domestic terrorist group is a very serious threat," security expert Uday Bhaskar told AFP.
Experts called for stringent security measures and said India was poorly equipped to deal with such well-coordinated large-scale attacks.