WASHINGTON - MILITANT groups that waged war on Mumbai last week planted a total of five bombs during the attacks, two of which were 'sophisticated,' the US television network ABC News reported, quoting police in India on Tuesday.
Attacks probe discussed
Mr Menon met Deputy Secretary John Negroponte and Under Secretary Bill Burns to discuss 'our continuing cooperation to find and bring to justice the perpetrators of the Mumbai attacks', said Mr Gordon Duguid, a department spokesman.
'They also discussed a wide array of bilateral issues, including space cooperation, and talk about implementing the US-India Civil Nuclear Initiative,' he added in a statement.
At least two of the bombs 'used sophisticated timers unlike anything India had seen until this year', ABC said.
Two bombs exploded on Wednesday night in taxis in seperate Mumbai suburbs, while one was found outside at the Oberoi/Trident hotel and two outside the Taj Mahal Palace hotel.
Both of the Taj bombs were discovered to have a sophisticated electronically-programmed timing device, similar to those in bombs planted in July in the western Indian city of Surat.
Police defused one of the bombs outside the Taj, which a bomb squad determined had been set to explode early on Thursday.
'I think they wanted to blow up the maximum number of people, including security forces, media people, and any guests evacuated from the hotel,' Steven Anthony, top investigator for the Mumbai police bomb squad, told ABC.
Fellow bomb squad officer Sachin Gawade said that some of the bombs appeared to contain around 17 pounds of a 'greasy, black' RDX explosives 'very similar to the explosives found in the bombs used during the 1993 Mumbai blasts', which killed 257 people. -- AFP
WASHINGTON - INDIAN Foreign Secretary Shivshankar Menon met with US officials here on Tuesday to discuss the investigation into the attacks in Mumbai, the State Department said.
