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Thursday, 20 November 2008 08:34 UK Bengaluru, India


 

Chips implicated in Indian bomb blasts

But what sort of chips?

By Examiner Staff @ Thursday, July 31, 2008 9:43 AM

 
 A front page splash in today's Times of India reckons that Al Qaeda was behind bombs that exploded in Bangalore and bombs that failed to explode in Surat.

Why? Because, said the newspaper, the hallmark of an Al Qaeda attack is that they use integrated circuits to trigger the explosions. What precisely the report means by this is unclear. Modern timers all use integrated circuits, but quite often mobile phones have been used to trigger explosions by terrorists in other parts of the world.

The bombs that killed 50 people in Ahmedabad in Gujarat did not use any type of IC timer, said the paper, which declined however to back up this claim with evidence. X
 
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