The Hindu quoting AP police sources reported that IEDs that were used in the Mecca Masjid and Ajmer blasts were fabricated in Hyderabad. According to sources, a HuJI activist named Abu Hamja prepared eight IEDs in Hyderabad in May of last year and the explosive material was smuggled into the city from Bangladesh by an alleged LeT operative called Shaik Abdul Nayeem1.

• 1. “Mecca Masjid, Ajmer blast bombs made in Hyderabad,” The Hindu, January 13, 2008, at http://www.hindu.com/2008/01/12/stories/2008011250010100.htm