JAIPUR, INDIA, May 19, 2008: Tens of thousands of Bangladeshi migrants were last night earmarked for expulsion from India following the terror bomb blasts in the tourist city of Jaipur, while startling new evidence emerged about the motives behind the jihadi attack. Details of a five-page “manifesto for jihad” were attached to an email from a previously little-known organization calling itself Indian Mujahideen – which claimed responsibility for the Jaipur blasts. Intelligence experts said the email provided unprecedented insight into the motives and objectives of jihadi terrorists who have caused almost 4000 deaths across India in the past four years.
The document that has emerged since the Jaipur bombings chillingly spells out the intention of its authors to “demolish the faith” of the “infidels of India.” It echoes the rhetoric used frequently by Osama bin Laden about India. Significantly, given that the “Pink City” of Jaipur ranks with the Taj Mahal as a magnet for tourists from across the world, the document says that in addition to seeking to “demolish your faith in the dirty mud (Hinduism),” the bombings were carried out to “blow apart your tourism structure.” It warns that Western visitors to India “will be welcomed by our suicide attackers.”
Indian intelligence officials believe the document is authentic. Attached to the document was a photograph with a clearly identifiable serial number, of one of the pushbikes primed with a bomb taken before last Tuesday’s synchronized attacks in which more than 60 people were killed and almost 200 injured.