The alleged masterminds of the blasts, Dawood Ibrahim and Tiger Memon, have been on the run since 1993.

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"He represents something we need, " said Dawood Rahmani, a retired engineer who works for the movement told Associated Press.

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The court blamed Dawood Ibrahim, a gangster who has been hiding overseas, for "the management and conspiracy of the blasts" according to Indian news channels.

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India's most wanted man, Dawood Ibrahim, who heads the organized crime group D-Company, and Matteo Messina Denaro, an Italian mafia playboy, also appear to have consolidated control of their organizations.

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The president of the Shia Conference, Syed Dawood Agha, told the BBC that his community would not bury its dead till the army had given an assurance it would take administrative control of the city.

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Another U.S. counterterrorism official pointed out that there are similarities between the recent attacks in Mumbai and those masterminded by Dawood Ibrahim, an Indian gangster, in March 1993, when 13 bombs went off in Mumbai targeting the Mumbai Stock Exchange, hotels and shopping districts -- attacks that killed some 250 people.

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