Suspect Says Varanasi Bombings Were Revenge
From Times Wire Reports
The alleged mastermind of deadly bombings last month in Hinduism’s holiest city said the attacks were carried out as revenge for the 1992 destruction of a 16th century mosque by Hindu mobs in the town of Ayodhya.
Wali-Ullah was among six suspects arrested in the March 7 bombings at a temple and train station in Varanasi, India. The blasts killed 20 people.
S.K. Agarwal, a Home Ministry official in Uttar Pradesh state, said the suspects were members of an offshoot of the separatist Jaish-e-Muhammad.
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