M.K. Narayanan: 800 terror cells unearthed; Ahmedabad police: Brain behind serial bombings held
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  • Indian intelligence agencies have reportedly unearthed as many as 800 terrorist cells across the country operating with ‘external support’. National Security Adviser M.K. Narayanan told Straits Times in an interview in Kuala Lumpur on August 12 that New Delhi was concerned about the “great deal of external inspiration and support…1

    With the arrest of Abul Bashar Qasmi, the alleged mastermind behind the Ahmedabad serial bombings, from a village in Azamgarh in Uttar Pradesh on August 16, the Gujarat police claimed that they had unraveled the conspiracy that led to the bombings.
    Announcing the breakthrough at a press conference in Ahmedabad on August 16, the Gujarat Director-General of Police P.C. Pandey stated that Qasmi was arrested by a joint team of the Uttar Pradesh and Gujarat police2.

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