The United States announced on Thursday the Indian Mujahideen group as a Foreign Terrorist Organization, the State Department said. “The group is responsible for dozens of bomb attacks throughout India since 2005 and has caused the deaths of hundreds of innocent civilians. IM maintains close ties to other US-designated terrorist entities including Pakistan-based Lashkar e-Tayyiba (LeT), Jaish-e-Mohammed (JEM) and Harakat ul-Jihad-i-Islami (HUJI),” said the statement. “IM's stated goal is to carry out terrorist actions against non-Muslims in furtherance of its ultimate objective – an Islamic Caliphate across South Asia.” the statement added. The designation includes a prohibition against providing material support or resources to the group and the freezing of all property of the organization in the US. The US said the organization's method of attacks “is multiple coordinated bombings in crowded areas against economic and civilian targets.” The group is accused of being behind the 2010 attacks of a German bakery popular with tourists that claimed the lives of 17 and left scores injured. They are also assumed to be behind the 2008 attack in New Delhi that killed 30 people and another 16 synchronized attacks during the same year at a hospital and urban centers that killed 38 and injured hundreds in Ahmedabad. BM