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Police investigating the highly coordinated bombings on Mumbai's rail network that killed 183 people say the attacks bear the hallmarks of a Kashmiri militant group.
Copycat crimes?
Analysts have compared the attack with the mass transit bombings in Madrid in 2004 and London last year, saying they all involved multiple blasts and were well coordinated.
It may be no coincidence the attacks struck just ahead of the Group of Eight summit of world leaders that begins Saturday in St. Petersburg, Russia, said Sajjan Gohel, director of international security for the Asia-Pacific Foundation.
Last year's July 7 terror bombings in London that killed 52 people came as UK Prime Minister Tony Blair was hosting the G8 summit in Scotland.
"This time again, they're (terrorists) trying to show that they are live, active. They want attention, they want the focus," Gohel said. "It was a coordinated, multiple, simultaneous mass casualty atrocity. This is the hallmark of a powerful transnational group."
Dana Dillon, a senior policy analyst in the Heritage Foundation's Asian Studies Center, said if Indians believed a Pakistani militant group was behind the bombings, it could disrupt more than two years of talks between the countries.
"If this terrorist attack messes that up, it could be catastrophic to the region," Dillon said.
