The three strikes claimed by IM reveal the same objective and modus operandi as that of SIMI, he added. Raman, however, doesn’t rule out the existence of a homegrown outfit which had so far managed to skip the radar of the intelligence agencies.
"There may be some elements that did not come to notice in the past," he said.
Intelligence officials also don’t discount the possibility of Al-Umma, a TN-based outfit that was behind the 1998 Coimbatore blasts, and SIMI forming a pool of dedicated, homegrown terrorists. Al-Umma, also known to have a presence in Bangalore, shares the ideology of SIMI.
The serial blasts in UP courts raised suspicion that IM was nothing but a loose coalition of LeT and JeM that had intimidated the legal fraternity for the lawyers’ unwillingness to represent terror suspects.
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