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e-mail threat to Deshmukh, R.R. Patil and Mukesh Ambani

MUMBAI: The 14-page booklet that “Indian Mujahideen” e-mailed to the media claiming responsibility for the blasts in Ahmedabad, has stern threats for Maharashtra Chief Minister Vilasrao Deshmukh, Deputy Chief Minister R.R. Patil and business tycoon Mukesh Ambani.

The State government has beefed up security at all vulnerable points in Mumbai as top police officers held meetings on Sunday to review the situation and update threat perceptions.

“To the Maharashtra Government and Vilasrao Deshmukh and R.R. Patil, we announce the deadline to take heed before it is too late. Don’t think we are unaware of the SRPF [State Reserve Police Force] attacks on our mosques and our homes, insult to our Quran and your enmity with the Muslims in Digras and nearby areas in Yavatmal,” the document warns. “You will face the ill consequences thereof.”

The booklet titled, ‘The Rise of Jihad, Revenge of Gujarat,’ says, “We also alert Mukesh Ambani to think twice before usurping and building a citadel on a land in Mumbai that belongs to the Waqf Board, lest it turns into horrifying memories for you.”

The terrorist outfit asks the Hyderabad Police “to release the imprisoned Muslim youth immediately, and be wise. We are watching you, and our groundwork to gun you down has already begun. Insha-Allah, we will be (getting) rid of you very soon.”

It also warns Anti-Terrorist Squads and Special Task Forces of different State governments and asks them to release all SIMI activists they have arrested “lest, you become our next targets and victims of our next attack.”

Besides lawyers of the UP Bar Council, the outfit threatens the ‘Times of India’ and its TV channel, ‘Times Now’ for their “propaganda war” against the Muslims.

“You become dumb when it comes to the oppression and torture of the Muslims, and your propaganda turns violent to project the ‘brutality’ of ‘Islamic terrorists’ and their ruthlessness and their ‘merciless mentality.’”

“We warn you to end this hypocrisy or get ready for a bloody slaughter,” it warns.

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