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NEW DELHI, : Why didn’t the bomb, planted in the car used during the 2001 Parliament attack, explode? This question still puzzles convicted terrorist Afzal Guru, claims a 180-page manuscript by a Tihar Jail Superintendent. "If the December 2001 terrorist attack on Parliament was a success then they would have made Jammu and Kashmir an international issue and would have entered into negotiations with the Government", Guru—the key accused in 2001 Parliament terror attack case—is said to have told Manoj Diwvedi, Superintendent of Tihar Jail number 3. Divided into six chapters, this document, starts with the attack itself and the first chapter tells the nitty- gritty of all that happened on December 13. It ends when Guru, on death row, is finally held by the police, Diwedi said. "They were very confident that the car fitted with improvised explosive device would go off. Guru told me that they had parked the car fitted with bombs and explosives in front of a police the previo...