STILL NO BREAKTHROUGH in solving the Hyderabad Mecca Masjid bombings. Apparently last week's arrests was simply a rounding up of the usual suspects.

A MUSLIM MAN has been detained for involvement in last week's Mecca Masjid mosque blast in Hyderabad, India. Of course, the Hyderabadi Muslims seem to be more angry at the local Hindu-dominated police than they are at their own co-religionists who were willing to desecrate a mosque during prayer and kill their fellow Muslims.

I realize that most of you aren't as interested in this as I am, but since I started keeping track of it last week I figure I ought to see it through to resolution. In for a penny, in for a pound.

SECURITY UPGRADES AT MECCA MASJID MOSQUE as Friday approaches. As this article points out, Hyderabadi Muslims in the past have not cooperated with government attempts to highten security, although they seem to be going along this time. Of course, the riots that followed last weeks bombing were in protest of perceived lax security efforts on the part of the Hindu dominated government. It is also almost certain that the bombs were placed by Muslim militants.

One of the new security measures being considered are cell phone jammers. Cell phone signals were used to trigger the bomb last week. It may be that in the future cell phone jamming may become a much more frequently used security measure, and that's probably not a bad idea at all.

HYDERABAD'S MECCA MASJID MOSQUE BOMBED

The historic Mecca Masjid mosque in Hyderabad, India has been bombed:

At least five people have been killed in a bomb explosion at a historic mosque in the southern Indian city of Hyderabad, the authorities say.
Many more were hurt in the blast during Friday prayers at the Mecca Masjid, one of India's biggest mosques.

Interior Minister Shivraj Patil said the explosion at the entrance to the mosque was caused by a "crude bomb".

Police say they also found and defused two live bombs near the mosque. It is not clear who carried out the attack.

The building pictured in the BBC article is not the Mecca Masjid, but rather the nearby Charminar, which is the symbol of Hyderabad. You can see the actual Mecca Masjid in the picture here. I am also in the picture, if you can pick me out of the crowd. The Charminar/Mecca Masjid/Laad Bazaar area of Hyderabad is one of the city's oldest, but it is also Muslim dominated. Exactly who would have placed the bombs is an interesting question.

EDIT: Fellow Hyderabad traveler Jason C. sent me this video report from CNN-IBN.