Bihar (Islamist/Other Conflicts): Timeline (Terrorist Activities) -2018

The designated teams of the Central Intelligence agencies and the National Investigation Agency (NIA) on January 20 have reached the Bodh Gaya Pilgrimage Centre in Gaya District of Bihar after a low-density bomb exploded and two ‘alive’ bombs were recovered from the temple’s premises on the previous night, reports Daily News and Analysis. It will be too early to name any terror outfit that carried out this act but the characteristics of the explosives points to untrained Rohingyas that might be used by Pakistan-based terror groups to carry out attacks at the Buddhist temple complex in Bodh Gaya, said an unnamed senior officer of NIA. Read less...

The Indian security agencies suspect the involvement of Bangladesh-based terror outfit Jama’atul Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB) in planting three improvised explosive devices (IED) in Bodh Gaya to avenge the atrocities on Rohingya Muslims in Myanmar by the Buddhists, The Times of India reports on January 28. An officer involved in the investigation of the blast followed by recovery of two IEDs close to the Tibetan monastery on January 19, 2018 said it was the handiwork of JMB. The banned terror outfit backed by Pakistan's Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) has active cadres in West Bengal (WB) and Assam. It's several members are suspected to be hiding in West Bengal. The JMB has not been involved in any major terror attack in India.The officer said the evidence strongly indicates JMB's involvement in the failed terror attack, which had aimed to kill Buddhist monks and foreigners present in Bodh Gaya to listen to the sermons of Buddhist spiritual leader the Dalai Lama. "A series of calls were made to some locations in West Bengal from Bodh Gaya just before and after planting the three IEDs," the officer said, adding, "Calls were made to locations known to Indian security agencies as covert bases of JMB operating in WB for the past several years." He also said the technique used in making the three IEDs is far different from that by Indian Mujahideen (IM) in Bodh Gaya and Patna in 2013 or other places in the country in the past. Read less...