2008 A group calling itself the Deccan Mujahideen claimed responsibility for coordinating deadly attacks in southern Mumbai, India, but security analysts know next to nothing about the group, and some discount its claim. One highly placed intelligence official who has been briefed on the attacks said that the head of the operation is a Bangladeshi and that the militants are Indians, Kashmiris and Bangladeshis. A U.S. counterterrorism official said the level of sophistication in the attack leads officials to believe that it might be tied to Lashkar-e-Tayyiba (LeT), an Islamic extremist group that has carried out previous attacks in India. LeT is thought to have been responsible for a string of bombs that ripped through packed Mumbai commuter trains and platforms in July 2006, killing more than 200 people.VideoVideo: 2103 Deccan Mujahideen hand suspected in Dilsukhnagar twin blasts
Deccan Mujahideen
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