Indian Mujahideen a cover for international groups

New Delhi: November 23, 2007: Serial blasts in Varanasi, Faizabad and Lucknow killed 13 people. A mail was sent from the email ID guru_alhindi@yahoo.fr indicating the involvement of an unknown terror group called the Indian Mujhaideen. The email was sent to a private news channel just minutes before the blast.
May 8, 2008: Serial bombing in Jaipur City killed 63 people. A day after, an email was recieved from guru_alhindi_jaipur@yahoo.co.uk which too pointed to the involvement of Indian Mujhaideen.
July 26, 2008: 18 serial blasts in Ahmedabad killed 46 people and once again, a familiar name is doing the rounds through an email sent minutes before the blasts from the email ID, alarbi_gujarat@yahoo.com.
The Indian Mujhaideen has also claimed responsiblity for the Ahmedabad blasts, but is it a real organisation or just a name being used to deflect attention from internation terrror outfits?
Union Home Minister Sri Prakash Jaiswal says, "The idea is to disturb peace. The name of Indian Mujhaideen has cropped up earlier too, but it's just a cover organisation."
Intelligence officials say that the Indian Mujhaideen is just a front to deflect attention from international terror groups as well as an effort to show that terrorism in India is now home grown and localised.
Former RAW Official Colonel RSN Singh says, "Be it HUJI, or the HUm or the Indian Mujhaideen, they are all the same. There is a lot of coordination between them and they work with the help of local people."
According to intelligence sources different sleeper cells are doing different tasks. One purchases materials required in making explosives, while the other manufactures the bombs and a third group is involved in doing a recce of the location and placing the bombs in pre-determined locations.
Intelligence sources have informed CNN-IBN that the 408 Detachment of ISI based in Karachi - which oversees terror operations in Maharashtra, Goa and Gujarat - is behind the floating of Indian Mujhaideen.
So, while local terror agents did the job, the planning and nerve control may have happened from the 408 Detachment of ISI in Karachi.

It would have been more correct to say Indian Mujahideen and all the other sundry terrorist organisations are a cover for Islam.