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Army had possible information on Assam blasts
Published on Mon, Nov 03, 2008 at 22:50 in Nation section
Tags: Assam Blasts, Indian Army , Assam
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Assam: A security review meeting reveals that Army has information regarding possibility of Guwahati blasts that killed more than 60 and injured hundreds.
Seven alleged Harkat-ul-Jihadi-Islami militants killed by the Army on 26th September in Lower Assam, an encounter carried out by the Army a month before the recent blasts.
In a security review meeting, the Army has told the Prime Minister that on September 17, it received "non-specific information" about possible attacks in Guwahati, Barpeta and Bongaigon.
A plan that was foiled on October 30, the message came from sister intelligence agencies and originated in "a foreign country".
If the army did have information, questions have been raised as to why was no action being taken, especially when the operational group of the Unified Command had killed 25 and arrested 89 after terror threats in September. The state government is on the defensive
"I didn't say we didn't have information. Yes, but it was not specific. They said, Guwahati, they said Bongaigon, they said Barpeta," says Chief Minister, Tarun Gogoi.
On 26th October the Army had killed 5 men allegedly belonging to ULFA's 709 battalion in Lower Assam. It was at this point the army was told to put a leash on its operations. The Forensic Science Laboratory says the blasts could not have been carried out without local support.
"I examined the tyre. It is very new, hardly one month old. Those things indicate that this was planned maybe within a month to three months time," says member Forensic Science Laboratory, Padmapani Mahanta.
Weapon recoveries like the one from Dhubri only second the allegations that groups in Bangladesh are involved. But the special task force remains tightlipped about investigations and the Army about forewarnings.
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