Mystery: Was American Involved in Islamic Terrorist Bombings in India . . . Or is He an Innocent Victim?
By <http://www.debbieschlussel.com/> Debbie Schlussel http://www.debbieschlussel.com/archives/2008/07/mystery_was_ame.html An e-mail from the computer of <http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/29/world/asia/29india.html?_r=1&scp=1&sq=ken neth%20haywood&st=cse&oref=slogin> Kenneth Haywood, an India-based American citizen and general manager of an executive training firm called <http://www.campbellwhite.net/> Campbell White, warned of the Islamic terrorist bombings in India on Saturday: In the name of Allah the Indian Mujahideen strike again! Do whatever you can, within 5 minutes from now, feel the terror of Death! Soon after, 22 bombs were detonated in the attacks, killing 42 Indians and wounding over 180. The attacks were in Ahmadabad, which has a significant Islamic presence. And the English language e-mail from an Islamic terrorist group taking credit for the attacks was sent from Haywood's computer. He claims his computer was hijacked, and it may well have been. That would be a smart move by Islamic terrorists in India to attempt to implicate an American. islamiccrescent.jpg <http://www.debbieschlussel.com/archives/islamiccrescent.jpg> hacker.jpg <http://www.debbieschlussel.com/archives/hacker.jpg> But, as we know those involved in terror have many different characteristics (sometimes including American citizenship--ie., Adam Gadahn John Walker Lindh, etc.), but usually one commonality: Islam (or working at the behest of Muslims). And sadly, many Islamic terrorists have visited America and come in and out. So, is Haywood an innocent man who has been unfairly implicated? For now, it certainly looks that way. But maybe it's a double-fake. I'd love to know more about Haywood, and why this e-mail message apparently emanated from his computer, in particular--too coincidental that they snagged an American's network. Haywood is a 48-year-old, whose home was raided by Indian police, but they haven't arrested him. <http://www.philly.com/philly/news/nation_world/20080729_Police_in_India_rai d_the_home_of_U_S__man.html> More from AP: Police in Mumbai traced the e-mail back to the Internet protocol address of Haywood, who lives in Navi Mumbai, a satellite city across the water from India's commercial capital. His firm's Web site said it offers "accent neutralization, cultural comprehension and verbal/non-verbal communication." The Mumbai police said that he had been questioned but not arrested and that they were still investigating whether he could have been involved or whether his e-mail account was hacked. "He is a suspect, yes," said a police officer involved in the investigation. "He may not be a suspect as well." State Department spokesman Gonzalo Gallegos said Washington had no information. Based on <http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2008/jul/29/india.terrorism> this story, it sounds like Haywood may have been targeted, but maybe not: The IP address for the email claiming responsibility for an obscure group called the Indian Mujahideen was traced by police to Haywood's laptop. They then raided the plush 15th-floor apartment. Officers believe the email could have been sent by anyone within two floors of Haywood's flat. "He has never been detained, but we have called on him and questioned him as part of the investigation," said Parambir Singh, a senior officer in the anti-terrorism squad. "He has said his email ID was hacked and evidence we have gathered shows that his network was used to forward the mail." The Hindustan Times newspaper quoted Haywood, a business consultant, as saying the technician who set up the web connection had insisted he not change his default password. He told the paper he had already complained about excessively high browsing bills: "I found that my net usage had suddenly increased and I started getting inflated bills." Singh said Haywood and the other occupants of the flat - variously reported as being another man or his family - were still being questioned. "We are not saying that they are suspects, but at the same time we cannot, at the moment, give them a clean chit," he said. So, is Kenneth Haywood an innocent victim of terrorists hijacking his computer? Or is he somehow involved? It's weird that he'd take advice never to change his default password. Also odd that he claimed he saw a rise in his net usage and didn't look into it. The guy is, after all, a business consultant. Would you want someone consulting your business who didn't do these basic deeds of diligence? What do you think? Innocent or Guilty? Oddly, the Campbell White site <http://www.campbellwhite.net/staff/staff.htm> does not list a "Kenneth" among its staff . . . at least, not anymore. _____ Terrorist Attacks Unsettling India By <http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/people/s/somini_sengupt a/index.html?inline=nyt-per> SOMINI SENGUPTA http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/29/world/asia/29india.html?_r=1 <http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/29/world/asia/29india.html?_r=1&sq=kenneth%2 0haywood&st=cse&oref=slogin&scp=1&pagewanted=print> &sq=kenneth%20haywood&st=cse&oref=slogin&scp=1&pagewanted=print NEW DELHI - Over the past several years, terrorist attacks in <http://topics.nytimes.com/top/news/international/countriesandterritories/in dia/index.html?inline=nyt-geo> India have become an everyday presence in everyday places. The targets seem to have nothing in common except that they are ordinary and brazenly easy to strike. In eastern Varanasi, a deadly explosion interrupted Hindu devotees as they lighted oil lamps to Hanuman, the monkey god, one Tuesday at dusk. In southern Hyderabad, a homemade bomb planted inside a historic mosque killed worshipers on a Friday afternoon. In Mumbai, India's largest city, nearly 200 commuters on packed city trains died in a series of blasts. And, in the most recent attack, 17 back-to-back explosions struck shoppers and strollers on Saturday evening in Ahmedabad in western India, and then two blasts hit the very hospitals where the wounded and their relatives rushed for help, killing 49 people and wounding more than 200. In a country long familiar with sharply focused violence - whether sectarian or fueled by insurgencies in Kashmir in the 1990s - the impersonal nature of the latest violence is new and deeply unsettling. "This is different, because for the first time it's everyday, it's utterly anonymous, it's excessive," said Shiv Vishvanathan, a professor of anthropology in Ahmedabad. "The familiar becomes unfamiliar," he said. "The apple seller you meet might be carrying a bomb. It creates suspicion. It's a perfect way to destabilize society." Officials have said the attacks are attempts to provoke violence between Hindus and Muslims that have not succeeded so far. Virtually none of the attacks have resulted in convictions; a suspect in the Varanasi bombings was shot and killed by the police. Reminders of the danger are everywhere. There are metal detectors at the gates of multiplex movie theaters and commuter trains, and even at the threshold of prominent temples and mosques. Yet they have had no bearing on the far greater number of easier, more densely crowded targets. India's congested cities offer rich opportunities. A small bundle of explosives, hidden as they have been in lunch boxes, pressure cookers and on the backs of bicycles, can cause grievous damage. It is also why the attackers have so successfully eluded punishment. A report last year by the National Counterterrorism Center in Washington concluded that from January 2004 to March 2007, the death toll from terrorist attacks in India was 3,674, second only to that in Iraq during the same period. Ahmedabad, home to 3.5 million people and Gujarat's commercial center, is no stranger to violence. In 2002, a train fire that killed several dozen Hindus led to the killing of 1,000 Muslims over several days, one of the worst outbreaks of religious violence in India's history. An obscure group calling itself the Indian Mujahedeen warned Saturday that an attack was about to take place "in revenge of Gujarat," plainly referring to the 2002 killings. The statement was sent in an e-mail message, written in English, to television stations just before the first blasts. The police in Mumbai traced the e-mail back to the Internet protocol address of an American citizen living in Navi Mumbai, a satellite city across the water from India's commercial capital. They identified him as Kenneth Haywood, a general manager of an executive training firm called Campbell White. The firm's Web site said it offers "accent neutralization, cultural comprehension and verbal/non verbal communication." The Mumbai police said that he had been questioned but not arrested and that they were still investigating whether he could have been involved or whether his e-mail account had been hacked. "He is a suspect, yes," said a police officer involved in the investigation. "He may not be a suspect as well." The Times of India reported that it had reached Mr. Haywood and that he had denied sending the message. An unidentified man who answered a Campbell White phone number in Bangalore said he could not comment. The United States Embassy in Delhi and the consulate in Mumbai declined to comment as well, citing American privacy laws. The police had arrested a man identified as Abdul Haleem, according to a deputy police chief, Ashish Bhatia, The Associated Press reported. Mr. Bhatia said that Mr. Haleem had ties to the banned Students' Islamic Movement of India, The A.P. said, and he was ordered In Ahmedabad, H. P. Singh, the city's joint police commissioner, said Sunday that some of the explosives had been strapped to bicycles in crowded streets and markets. Later in the evening, a pair of car bombs went off in front of two city hospitals. At one of them, Civil Hospital, the dead included husband-and-wife doctors and two sanitation workers. The police said two additional bombs had been found and defused, in Ahmedabad and nearby Gandhinagar, Gujarat's capital. On Sunday afternoon, the police found two abandoned cars in Surat, an industrial city in Gujarat, one stuffed with bomb-making chemicals and detonators, the other with live bombs. The police said they were still tracing the cars' ownership. On Friday, there was a series of similar low-intensity blasts in southern Bangalore, one of which killed a woman standing at a bus stop. Two months ago in Jaipur, synchronized blasts on bicycles killed 56 people; the Indian Mujahedeen sent an e-mail message claiming credit for those attacks. On Sunday, a police official, P. P. Pandey, said "a single mind" was suspected to be behind the three latest attacks. The police said they had detained people for questioning; The Associated Press reported 30 were in custody. Officials offered no further details about who was involved in the group or a possible motivation behind the bombings. The morning after the Ahmedabad blasts, residents of this sprawling Indian capital pointed out that while it was virtually impossible to take precautions against terrorist attacks, they had grown increasingly vigilant of the strangers around them. Hari Om Suri, 52, stood outside a popular seafood restaurant at the Defense Colony Market, scanning the parking lot for anything that looked suspicious. Mohan and Helen Nanjundan ordered a chicken sizzler for lunch at Moet's, a popular restaurant, and warily eyed the bicycles parked outside. Bicycles, a poor man's transport here, are common. "Every few months, there is another one in another city," said Mr. Nanjundan, 52. "Sometimes we tell ourselves to stay away from dangerous places, but it's hard to say where that is." "I've never looked at a bicycle before," said Ms. Nanjundan, 56. Puneet Gupta, 23, said he was trying to avoid crowded markets, but his girlfriend, Jyotsna Malhotra, 21, said she was determined not to let it get in the way of her fun. "We are not sure what is going to happen tomorrow," she said. "Better to live today, shop, get him to spend some money on me." Last August, after a pair of synchronized bombs tore through an amusement park and a fast-food restaurant in Hyderabad, killing at least 40 people, an Indian newspaper called the violence "a war on the way we live." Hari Kumar contributed reporting. (F)AIR USE NOTICE: All original content and/or articles and graphics in this message are copyrighted, unless specifically noted otherwise. All rights to these copyrighted items are reserved. Articles and graphics have been placed within for educational and discussion purposes only, in compliance with "Fair Use" criteria established in Section 107 of the Copyright Act of 1976. 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