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New Delhi, Nov 17 (IANS) Investigators probing the Red Fort bomb blast that took the lives of 13 people have got a new shocking twist; Jaish-e-Muhammad suicide bomber, Dr. Umar Muhammad Nabi, may have taken the classic “shoe-bomber” move from a terrorist playbook.
Inside the charred remains of Doctor Omar’s Hyundai i20, hidden under the driver’s seat near the right front wheel, police found a single shoe.
Forensic teams found a strange metallic residue inside it – something that looks an awful lot like a bomb’s trigger component.
Both shoes and car tires tested positive for TATP (triacetone triperoxide) – the infamous “mother of the devil” explosive that explodes if you sneeze.
It seems that Dr. Omar may have hidden the detonator in his shoe and pressed (or pressed) it to commit suicide.
The bomb itself was a dirty cocktail of TATP mixed with ammonium nitrate, and investigators say Jaish had stockpiled the material in large quantities for a bigger operation.
Scraping under the rear seat revealed more explosive traces, suggesting that the car was originally a rolling bomb factory. An amount of Rs 20 lakh was allegedly sent to the terror cell through the arrested woman doctor Shaheen, who had allegedly played the role of a banker for the Delhi strike.
The whole setup – explosives in the shoes, TATP as the star ingredient – sounds like a carbon copy of Richard Reid’s failed 2001 shoe-bomb plot on that Paris-to-Miami flight.
The agencies are quietly admitting that the similarities are uncanny.
Sources say the busted Jaish module, codenamed “D-6”, had a bigger nightmare in mind; Double waves of attacks in many cities.
Plan A was scheduled for the anniversary of the Babri Masjid demolition and ended, and Plan B was to blow up Delhi.
The investigation is still ongoing, with teams now trying to figure out how Dr. Omar converted his shoe into a dead man’s switch.
–IANS
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