Internal Security Watch

Marut · Post by **Marut** » 30 Jan 2010 06:21

Sachin, Avinash: I found it odd to until spidey sense kicked in. Maybe this is the upar ki baat, undar doosra kuch hai. *khan was the front for something else hence ATS instead of cyber cell. JMT

Muppalla · Post by **Muppalla** » 30 Jan 2010 09:56

All good things about PC with pics.

Avinash R · Post by **Avinash R** » 30 Jan 2010 10:20

Marut wrote:Sachin, Avinash: I found it odd to until spidey sense kicked in. Maybe this is the upar ki baat, undar doosra kuch hai. *khan was the front for something else hence ATS instead of cyber cell. JMT

You are correct, digging for more info on this guy reveals that he was scamming people and maybe utilizing that money to fund terrorist attacks.

To collect money, he created a fake charitable trust and pasted ads on the website...
He said one woman from London donated Rs 1.5 lakh to his trust through internet and added that his uncle Zakirullah Sheikh was allegedly involved in planting of bombs in Surat in July 2008.

http://www.newkerala.com/news/fullnews-39781.html

SSridhar · Post by **SSridhar** » 30 Jan 2010 10:32

Muppalla wrote:All good things about PC with pics.

I said this before. He is a very meticulous person, and speaks very measuredly. He will be on top of any situation. He can articulate well. All these are diametrically opposite of the previous occupant. Chidambaram's drawback is his arrogance, though he seems to have mellowed a wee bit after assming the new position.

Stan_Savljevic · Post by **Stan_Savljevic** » 30 Jan 2010 18:23

Terrorism on wane due to decreased recruitment by outfits: Army
http://www.dnaindia.com/india/report_te ... my_1341147

ISI behind counterfeit Indian currency racket, says Bangladesh
http://news.rediff.com/report/2010/jan/ ... ladesh.htm

AASU for DNA test to check influx {Are these morons in the pre-historic times, first the fight should be to repeal IMDT Act}
http://telegraphindia.com/1100130/jsp/n ... 043627.jsp

AASU announced that it would organise a torchlight procession on February 6 and hold demonstrations on February 10 across the state highlighting the failure of Dispur and the Centre in implementing the provisions of the Assam Accord. {why not lets all sing kumbayya?}

Specialised coastal commando force for West Bengal

Kolkata, 28 January: The WB state government is setting up a specialised coastal commando force, one of the very few such police units in the country. The first batch of 120 hand-picked policemen has just returned after quietly training with the elite Marine Commandos of the Indian Navy.
Writers' Buildings is yet to officially christen this elite force, but their area of operation has more or less been laid out West Bengal's coastline and the tough-to-guard riverine areas. It is an indication of the heightened threat perception in West Bengal after the Mumbai 26/11 attack. The state government has been so secretive about this force that no one got wind of a recent visit by a high-level Marcos team to the SAP barracks. The recruits for the gruelling training course were picked from the State Armed Police (SAP). "The first batch of four teams (30 each) has been training under the Marcos at Vizag since September last year" a senior official at Writers' said. They have been trained in boarding a suspect or hostile craft and neutralising threats.

Avinash R · Post by **Avinash R** » 30 Jan 2010 20:17

Police nab two Bangladesh nationals for circulating fake currency

Bangalore, Jan 30 : The city police have arrested two Bangladeshi nationals for allegedly involving in circulation of fake currency and seized fake currency amounting to Rupees 53,000 from their possession.

Police said that following a tip off a police party raided a hotel near Kadugodi and nabbed the two Bangladeshi nationals.

Following a search of the room they found counterfeit notes in Rs 500 denomination.

They were said to have been circulating counterfeit notes by shopping in petty shops and retail outlets. The duo had been produced before a judge who remanded them to judicial custody, police added.

RBI to set up Currency paper mill in Mysore to counter fake menace

Mumbai, Jan 30 : The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) will set up a paper mill in joint venture in Mysore, next to the currency printing press, to counter the menace of fake notes.

Disclosing this to newsmen, here yesterday, in his post Policy review press conference, RBI Governor D Subbarao said that the joint venture partners would be Bharatiya Reserve Bank Note Mudran Private Limited (BRBNMPL), a RBI subsidiary and the Security Printing and Minting Corporation of India Limited (SPMCIL), which is a subsidiary of the Government.

Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee would lay the foundation stone of the plant on March 22, he said.

Stan_Savljevic · Post by **Stan_Savljevic** » 30 Jan 2010 21:58

Troops descend for the hunt ---- Latest CRPF battalion of 1200 to be based at Salgadih in Tamar
http://telegraphindia.com/1100130/jsp/f ... 045398.jsp

Name tweak proposal from Morcha ---- Gurung ready to make slight change to ‘Gorkhaland’ to make demand acceptable
http://telegraphindia.com/1100130/jsp/s ... 045011.jsp

In the last one year, as the Morcha has been trying to make its presence felt in the Dooars, there have been several clashes between the Gorkhas and the adivasis who are opposed to the inclusion of the Dooars in Gorkhaland that the hill party wants. The Morcha has been demanding that not only the three hill subdivisions of Darjeeling, Kalimpong and Kurseong and Siliguri subdivision be part of “Gorkhaland”, but also the Dooars which comprises almost half of Jalpaiguri district.

The majority population in the Dooars consists of adivasis. Even in the foothill areas of Kalimpong subdivision, like Gorubathan, there is a sizeable presence of the tribal community. “The idea behind changing the name Gorkhaland is to make the statehood demand more inclusive one,” a Morcha leader said. “After all, other than the Gorkhas, communities like the adivasis, Lepchas and the Bhutias also live in the hills and the foothills. They should also be made to feel that they are part of the new state that the Morcha has been demanding.” While the adivasis form about 60 per cent of the population in the Dooars, the Lepchas and the Bhutias, who live in the hills, constitute 15 per cent of the population there. However, the “secret proposal” that Gurung has sent to Delhi has redefined the geographical area of “Gorkhaland” to include only the Gorkha dominated areas of the hills and the Dooars and not the entire region.

When AFSPA 1958 was adjudged the best film in the non-feature category at the 56th National Awards in New Delhi last weekend, director Haobam Paban Kumar was more surprised than overjoyed. Not because his film lacks in quality or is in any way undeserving of such honour, having already bagged six international awards. What has baffled Paban Kumar was the fact that the Centre, which has refused to scrap the Armed Forces (Special Powers) Act, 1958, has decided to honour a film that depicts the legislation as draconian.

http://telegraphindia.com/1100130/jsp/n ... 045710.jsp
The citation on the IFFI website

A courageous depiction of the non-violent resistance of the people of Manipur to protest against a legislation which undermines the values of self respect and the fundamentals of democracy. The documentation process by various crews and the way it is chronicled offers multiple perspectives.

The jury:

Ninety nine entries for non-feature film section were viewed by jury headed by Ms Arunaraje Patil and Shri Krishnendu Bose, Shri Anirban Dutta, Shri Sandeep Marwah, Shri R. V. Ramani, Shri Sarfaraz Siddiqui and Ms Reena Mohan as members.

The jury is headed by known film maker Aruna Raje Patil from Mumbai. The other members on jury are film makers Reena Mohan and Krishnendu Bose from Delhi, Anirban Dutta from Calcutta, RV.Ramani from Chennai, film journalist Sarfaraz Saddiqui, Sandeep Marwah.

http://www.pib.nic.in/release/release.asp?relid=57235
A bunch of jackasses in the jury will make a mockery by honoring dimwitted portrayals of COIN operations.

Sachin · Post by **Sachin** » 31 Jan 2010 09:48

Local news channels report about a massive shoot out between police and the Jehadis and Baramullah, Kashmir. No casualties reported so far.

Bhaskar · Post by **Bhaskar** » 31 Jan 2010 09:54

^^ Sopore Region. The terrorist lit everything on fire and somehow fled under impossible circumstances. A shame for J&K police. Manhunt is on.

Gerard · Post by **Gerard** » 31 Jan 2010 21:10

India minister Mayawati seeks police squad for statues

According to the bill tabled in the state assembly, the squad would be named the Special State Security Force.

If passed, the bill will give officers powers to detain people they suspect of threatening security near the statues.

The initial cost of raising the force is estimated to be 540m rupees ($11.6m; £7.1m). Yearly maintenance would cost 140m rupees ($3m; £1.8m).

sum · Post by **sum** » 31 Jan 2010 22:23

If passed, the bill will give officers powers to detain people they suspect of threatening security near the statues.
The initial cost of raising the force is estimated to be 540m rupees ($11.6m; £7.1m). Yearly maintenance would cost 140m rupees ($3m; £1.8m).

When the UP police is crying out for providing even basic amenities ( forget advanced weapons), we have so much money being blown on this.

Great democracy we have. Mera Bharat mahaan.

pgbhat · Post by **pgbhat** » 01 Feb 2010 07:49

‘ISI, LeT getting Indian jihadis together in Karachi for attack’

The ISI has put together a team of Indian jihadis in Karachi, and is waiting to launch them into the country on a terrorist project, alleged terror suspects David Coleman Headley and Mohammad Amjad Khwaja have told their interrogators.

Headley was arrested by the FBI in Chicago in October last year, and is accused of recceing Mumbai and other Indian cities for the Lashkar-e-Toiba as part of the preparations for 26/11. Khwaja, belonging to the Harkat-ul Jihad-i Islami, was arrested on January 18, and is being held in Hyderabad.

Khwaja is understood to have revealed that he met alleged Indian Mujahideen terrorists Amir Raza Khan and Riyaz Bhatkal in Karachi, both of whom are staying in the city’s Defence enclave, probably under the ISI’s protection.

Khwaja, who visited Mecca and Jeddah in Saudi Arabia before he was arrested, is believed to have confessed to planning the October 2005 attack on the STF office in Hyderabad, but has been silent on his suspected role in the Mecca Masjid and Gokul Chat blasts in 2007.

Khwaja is learnt to have provided details of HuJI operations in Bangladesh, and the outfit’s coordination with Lashkar leaders based in Manshera and Muridke in Pakistan. The Hyderabad Police are expected to approach the court for permission to carry out a narco test on him shortly.

Meanwhile, a team of officers from Bangalore are also expected to interrogate Khwaja in connection with his revelations on Riaz Bhatkal, who, along with his brother Iqbal, are believed to have joined hands with hardline elements from the Students Islamic Movement of India (SIMI) to carry out the bombings attributed to the Indian Mujahideen between 2006 and 2008. Much of the planning and preparation for these attacks took place at the port town of Bhatkal near Mangalore.

Khwaja is of interest to the Karnataka Police also on account of his alleged interaction with Amir Raza Khan, the gangster-turned-jihadi who is believed to have played a crucial supporting role in Indian Mujahideen operations.

skaranam · Post by **skaranam** » 01 Feb 2010 08:31

Khalistan Again???

The Dera Sacha Sauda row seems to be taking a radical turn. On Saturday, a mob of 200 Sikhs tried to unfurl a Khalistan flag at Mansa-Bathinda intersection.

sum · Post by **sum** » 01 Feb 2010 09:09

Investigators put face to voice on Mumbai attack tapes

“Tell them this is just the trailer,” the Mumbai-accented Lashkar-e-Taiba controller ordered two terrorists to tell the media during the November 2008 assault on Mumbai. “The real movie is still to come.”

Based on interviews with arrested jihadists, and data provided by India’s intelligence services, Mumbai police investigators now believe the unidentified voice intercepted in the course of the assault is that of Maharashtra-origin jihadist Syed Zabiuddin Syed Zakiuddin Ansari.

Indian intelligence services say that Ansari, operating out of terror camps in Karachi and Pakistan-administered Kashmir, is a key figure in the jihadist group’s plan to realise the threat he ordered the assault team to deliver.

Ansari’s story helps to understand the Pakistan-based networks which remain the key security threat to India — and also to comprehend the role of Hindu chauvinism in watering the political soil which gave birth to its jihadist movement.

Born on November 13, 1981, Ansari grew up in the town of Gevrai, in the midst of Beed district’s rich cotton and sugarcane fields. His father, Zakiuddin Ansari, worked as a small-time insurance agent, struggling to bring up five daughters — and his only son. Ansari studied at Gavarai’s Zilla Parishad-run High School up to standard X, and then acquired an electrician’s qualifications at the Indian Technical Institute in Beed. He was studying for a master’s at the Navgan Shikshan Sanstha College when he became a fugitive.

Little is known of the processes that led Ansari to the Lashkar, but it is likely that part of the answer lies in the communal violence which formed an organic part of the cultural fabric of his early life.

Following a wave a communal riots across Maharashtra in the summer of 1984, the Shiv Sena took control of the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation and pushed forward communal mobilisations in rural areas. Umapur, not far from Gevrai, saw murderous anti-Muslim violence in 1986. Later, tensions surged after the demolition of the Babri Masjid. In 2001, a statue of the warrior-king Shivaji Raje Bhonsale was chipped by Shiv Sena activists in a near-successful effort to provoke communal riots.

Many young Muslims believed that the community’s traditional leadership had failed to defend it from assault. Some — including Ansari — turned to the Students Islamic Movement of India (SIMI), for solutions.
Journey into Lashkar

“Islam is our nation, not India,” thundered Mohammad Amir Shakeel Ahmad at the SIMI’s 1999 convention in Aurangabad — a convention that saw the Maharashtra jihadists make their first known contacts with the Lashkar leadership.

No one is certain just when Ansari was drawn to the SIMI, but he is known to have been close to key Aurangabad-based members of the Islamist organisation — among them Ahmad — by the time the convention took place.

In 2001, Gujarat police investigators say, Ansari met with Khalid Sardana, a Jammu and Kashmir resident studying at a seminary in the State, to discuss the prospect of sending SIMI cadre there for weapons training. Later that year, Sardana took several of Aurangabad men to train with Lashkar units in the mountains of Surankote, near Poonch. At least one, Fahd Sheikh, is now known to have been killed in fighting with Indian troops in Hil Kaka.

The Gujarat police investigators believe that Ansari and Zulfikar Fayyaz Ahmad ‘Kagazi,’ who went to place a bomb on a Mumbai-Ahmedabad express train in February 2006, were also present at the meeting.

Last summer, when the Delhi police finally arrested Sardana after an intelligence-led pursuit through Pakistan and Bangladesh, he said several Maharashtra jihadists — including Ansari — continued to flit in and out of Lashkar-run camps near Muzaffarabad and Dulai, in Pakistan-administered Kashmir.

Following the 2002 communal pogrom in Gujarat, these training operations intensified. Mumbai-based SIMI operative Rahil Sheikh, the investigators say, was tasked with securing passports and tickets for SIMI volunteers who travelled to Lashkar-run camps through the porous Iran-Pakistan border. Among the first to go, police say, was Ansari.
Communal pogrom

Most of Sheikh’s operatives were raised in the wake of the 2002 communal pogrom. Feroze Ghaswala, a Mumbai-based automobile mechanic, volunteered for the jihad after witnessing the burial of dozens of people killed in the violence.

Ghaswala travelled to Srinagar, hoping to meet jihadists at a religious gathering addressed by neoconservative preacher Zakir Naik in 2003. Instead, he ran into Sheikh — starting a journey which ended with his arrest in New Delhi.

Despite the collapse of the Ghaswala plot, Sheikh continued to work on operations to avenge the Gujarat pogrom. In 2005, he shipped Kalashnikov assault rifles and military-grade explosives into Aurangabad, using organised crime networks to transport the material across the Indian Ocean from Karachi.

Police say Ansari was to lead a group of Lashkar-trained Indian jihadists who would have used the equipment to assassinate Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi — an operation that would have closely resembled the November 2008 attack on Mumbai in its tactics and execution.

Eleven SIMI-linked men were arrested after the intelligence services penetrated the plot — but Ansari evaded police in a high-speed chase, and escaped to Pakistan.

Besides the victims of his attacks, Ansari’s family paid a high price for his actions. Naved-ur-Rehman Khan, who had married Ansari’s sister Rafia Parveen, divorced her as news of the Aurangabad plot broke. “We had been together just three weeks,” he says, “but I didn’t want anything to do with this trouble.”

Interesting read if one ignores the usual == which Swami loves to do in every article.

Was there ever any news on the Sardana guy who was supposed to be arrested last year after a intel led operation spanning Pak and BD (as per Swami)?

RamaY · Post by **RamaY** » 01 Feb 2010 10:12

skaranam wrote:Khalistan Again???
The Dera Sacha Sauda row seems to be taking a radical turn. On Saturday, a mob of 200 Sikhs tried to unfurl a Khalistan flag at Mansa-Bathinda intersection.

I said so Here!

ramana · Post by **ramana** » 01 Feb 2010 10:57

Dear Sacha Sauda (DSS) is a INC pasand organization.

RayC · Post by **RayC** » 01 Feb 2010 11:58

ramana wrote:Dear Sacha Sauda (DSS) is a INC pasand organization.

Can you provide some proof?

shyamd · Post by **shyamd** » 01 Feb 2010 20:45

Army depot link in serial blasts

Prime accused confesses to stealing explosives from Ernakulam depot

In a startling statement, T Nasser, the Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) militant and the main accused in the Bangalore serial blasts, has confessed that he procured the improvised explosive devices (IEDs) for the blasts by robbing an explosives depot belonging to the Indian Army at Ernakulam.

He is also said to have stated that he had conducted a survey along with Sarfaraz Nawaz, a former SIMI (Students Islamic Movement of India) secretary, to choose the targets. The Intelligence Bureau had arrested Nawaz in Muscat in March 2009.

Prime accused T Nasser

Nasser told investigators that he met Nawaz during a Sufi program held at Perumbavoor, Ernakulam district, in April 2006.

Nawaz had come to Kerala on vacation. Nasser soon learnt that Nawaz is acquainted with LeT operative Wali alias Rehan alias Ali alias Abdul Azeez Al-Hoti, a Pakistani national and resident of Muscat. (Al Hoti is an Omani national and is currently under arrest)

Hoti got in touch with Nasser through Nawaz and ordered him to carry out the bomb blasts in either Bangalore or Chennai.

He later directed Nasser to target Bangalore. Nawaz and Nasser then surveyed Bangalore in March 2008, and selected the areas to target.

Nawaz then left for Muscat and explained his Bangalore assessment to Hoti, who later sent him money using the hawala channel.

Nasser and his associates, Abdul Rahim, Shafaz, Fayis, Yasir and Umar Farooq, allegedly chalked out the Bangalore blast plan in Jamia mosque near the Mysore bus stand in May 2008.

They allegedly robbed IEDs from Ernakulam explosive depots and connected the digital timers to the IEDs supplied to them by one Sarfuddin.

Sainuddin alias Sattar Bhai is a close associate of Nassar Madani, founder of People's Democratic Party (PDP).

Sainuddin taught Nasser everything about switching devices and circuit diagrams which were used in IED explosives.

Nasser also confessed that Sainuddin has supplied digital timers to Riyaz Bhatkal for engineering the blasts in Gujarat.

Nasser along with his associate Rahim allegedly met Madani at his Kollam residence in July 2008 and informed him about the bombing plan.

Madani allegedly said that the plan was good but it should not result in the arrest of youth as had happened in the Coimbatore serial blasts.

However, Madani neither dissuaded Nasser or openly approved of it, remaining non-committal, Nasser said.

Madani did not ask about the ways and means of preparation for the blast and even after the blast when Nasser met Madani he started avoiding him.

Nasser realized that Madani was non-committal to jehadi activities and stopped communicating with him.

But Nasser continued his contact with Nawaz and with the help of his associate K P Sabir alias Ayub managed to prepare five youths and sent them to Kashmir in August 2008. The youths were later killed in an encounter.

ramana · Post by **ramana** » 01 Feb 2010 22:33

RayC wrote:
ramana wrote:Dear Sacha Sauda (DSS) is a INC pasand organization.
Can you provide some proof?

Please go thru this thread in India Forum. Sorry its 10 pages long.

IF Thread on DSS.

And come to your own conclusions.

Sachin · Post by **Sachin** » 02 Feb 2010 09:18

shyamd wrote:Prime accused confesses to stealing explosives from Ernakulam depot

I would take this with a pinch of salt. AFAIK, there are no Army units stationed in Ernakulam. Kochi does have a Naval base though. So Thadiyan getting explosives from an Army establishment does not seem to be true.

This Express report mentions that Thadiyan & Co had robbed an explosives store in Perumbavoor, in Kochi Rural Dt. This store was not run by the Army. It was primarily intended to supply explosives to quarry owners (to blast rocks).

In the mean while there were reports in the local media that one of the terror suspects from Kerala have been detained by the Abu Dhabhi Police. The arrest was on the request of the NIA.

Added later:
Looks like the gents at IB have been monitoring the pious lady Sufiya Mahdani's cell phone for quite some time. They also have recorded some of the communications. This has been kept a secret until now. These tapes would be handed over to NIA who is now investigating the cases. Mathrubhumi (Malayalam)

And the tremors and soling of clothes in certain quarters have also started. Mahdani has now started whining that NIA investigation may not reveal the truth

. Mathrubhumi (Malayalam)

sum · Post by **sum** » 02 Feb 2010 09:33

In the mean while there were reports in the local media that one of the terror suspects from Kerala have been detained by the Abu Dhabhi Police. The arrest was on the request of the NIA.

Good news...Hope this is the start of the phase where the noose around all the pigs in the ME tightens

vipins · Post by **vipins** » 02 Feb 2010 12:51

Delhi serial blast key accused nabbed by UP ATS

Azamgarh:

Uttar Pradesh's anti-terror squad (ATS) has taken into its custody Shehzad Ahmad alias Pappu- a key accused in the September 2008 Delhi serial blasts and the Batla House encounter.

There are reports that the accused Ahmed had undergone a training to fly planes from an institute in Bangalore and had surfaced as a leader of the module designated to execute aerial terror attacks.

The police had recovered his passport at the Mujahideen hideout at L-18 Batla House. Shehzad was allegedly one of the two terrorists, who had fired back at the police during the raid that cost Inspector Mohan Chand Sharma his life.

shyamd · Post by **shyamd** » 02 Feb 2010 18:27

Sachin wrote: In the mean while there were reports in the local media that one of the terror suspects from Kerala have been detained by the Abu Dhabhi Police. The arrest was on the request of the NIA.

Good news. Yet to see any news on it though in the english media. Abu Dhabi understands international relations and obligations, have been helpful in the past.

SSridhar · Post by **SSridhar** » 02 Feb 2010 19:23

Sachin wrote:Looks like the gents at IB have been monitoring the pious lady Sufiya Mahdani's cell phone for quite some time. They also have recorded some of the communications. This has been kept a secret until now. These tapes would be handed over to NIA who is now investigating the cases.

Sachin, per this report,the tapes might be missing or were never recorded. Do local newspapers say anything ?

muraliravi · Post by **muraliravi** » 02 Feb 2010 20:24

Guys,

Here is the updated table on border fencing after the Jan-2010 report.

http://spreadsheets.google.com/pub?key= ... utput=html

The work is going on, but I dont think it will be completed by mar 2010 as speculated. It might be done by the end of 2010.

The border roads along the indo-bangla border have also been going at a good pace. I guess someone should take a trip all along this 4000 km border once to see the fence and the road. I wonder if google satellite images can tell us anything.

Sachin · Post by **Sachin** » 02 Feb 2010 20:26

SSridhar wrote:the tapes might be missing or were never recorded. Do local newspapers say anything ?

There was an allegation that Kerala Police either did not record the communication, or discreetly destroyed the tapes. But now looks like the big brother IB has another copy of their own

. And IB would be sharing this with NIA.

sum · Post by **sum** » 02 Feb 2010 22:16

Sachin wrote:
SSridhar wrote:the tapes might be missing or were never recorded. Do local newspapers say anything ?
There was an allegation that Kerala Police either did not record the communication, or discreetly destroyed the tapes. But now looks like the big brother IB has another copy of their own . And IB would be sharing this with NIA.

The look on CPM top brass face will be priceless when they were first informed that big bro also had some sound bytes.

Btw, NDTV is showing the news of the arrest of the Batla house pig with the word militant(not even terrorist) in quotes. Shows whose side they are on.

HT was mentioning that after it aired the news about Shehzad, his family and friends started contacting him to ask him to stay low. These calls were used to trace and hunt him down.

IMO, the entire family should be taken into custody and given the 3rd degree.

vijayk · Post by **vijayk** » 02 Feb 2010 22:52

http://www.indianexpress.com/news/isi-l ... ck/573878/

The ISI has put together a team of Indian jihadis in Karachi, and is waiting to launch them into the country on a terrorist project, alleged terror suspects David Coleman Headley and Mohammad Amjad Khwaja have told their interrogators.

Headley was arrested by the FBI in Chicago in October last year, and is accused of recceing Mumbai and other Indian cities for the Lashkar-e-Toiba as part of the preparations for 26/11. Khwaja, belonging to the Harkat-ul Jihad-i Islami, was arrested on January 18, and is being held in Hyderabad.

Headley has described the “Karachi project” to FBI interrogators, details of which have been shared with New Delhi, sources said. He is believed to have said that both the ISI and the Lashkar have been training Indian nationals in terrorist activities, and using them for anti-India “projects” from time to time.

The National Investigation Agency (NIA) has also been able to unearth significant details about Headley’s movements in Pakistan through his e-mail correspondence. Contents of his Gmail account were shared with New Delhi following an official request to Google.

ramana · Post by **ramana** » 03 Feb 2010 03:59

Looks like Munger in Bihar is India's own Dera Adam Khel.

LINK

SSridhar · Post by **SSridhar** » 03 Feb 2010 09:34

TN going in for coastal security in a big way

Thirty new marine police stations have been sanctioned for Tamil Nadu in the second phase of the Coastal Security Scheme.

With this, the total number of such stations in the State will increase to 42. Vital installations such as the Kalpakkam nuclear power plant, part of Satish Dhawan Space Centre, Sriharikota, and Chennai Port would now come under the security cover of the Coastal Security Group.

According to official sources, a majority of the new marine police stations would come up in Nagapattinam and Ramanathapuram districts. Chennai city would get three, including the one proposed at Tiruvanmiyur. "Modern weapons, transport and communication gadgets are being provided to our security personnel. The objective is to ensure that the reaction time of marine police to any exigency along the coast would be less than five minutes,” Inspector General of Police (Coastal Security Group) Rajesh Das told The Hindu on Tuesday.

As part of the modernisation programme, the force was planning to import 175 all-terrain vehicles capable of moving at a speed of more than 100 kmph on sand. {Pix below: Courtesey The Hindu}

SSridhar · Post by **SSridhar** » 03 Feb 2010 09:39

muraliravi, excellent.

sum · Post by **sum** » 03 Feb 2010 10:02

Train blasts mastermind nabbed

LUCKNOW: The Uttar Pradesh police on Tuesday arrested Hamiduddin alias Hamiruddin alias Salim, who was wanted in connection with the serial bomb blasts on running trains in different parts of the country in 1993.

Hamiduddin, who carried a reward of Rs. 50,000 on his head, was nabbed by the Special Task Force after an encounter on the outskirts of Lucknow, Additional Director-General ( Law and Order, STF and ATS) Brij Lal said here. A .32 bore pistol, a hand grenade and a fuse were seized from Hamiduddin, who had been absconding for the past 16 years. “Three other serial bomb blasts accused, Syed Abdul Kareem, Mohammad Tufail and Irfan Ahmed, are still at large. They belong to Ghaziabad, Hardoi and Bahraich in Uttar Pradesh,” Mr. Lal said. Hamiduddin was among the 15 persons who were instrumental in planting bombs aboard the Rajdhani Express, the Flying Queen Express and the A.P. Express in December 1993.

Seems lots of old case files are being dusted off!!!

SSridhar · Post by **SSridhar** » 03 Feb 2010 18:05

Vaishnodevi on Pakistan's terror radar: CRPF

“There is a threat to the cave shrine of Vaishnodevi from militants. We have received inputs that militants want to do some mischief,” Special Director General of Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) N.K. Tripathi told reporters here.

Pranav · Post by **Pranav** » 03 Feb 2010 18:25

Has to be admitted that Chidambaram is doing a good job. Article posted above suggests that he may succeed MMS, rather than Rahul Baba. That would be a positive development.

SSridhar · Post by **SSridhar** » 03 Feb 2010 18:29

Pranav, there has never been any doubt about the capabilities of Chidambaram. However, anyone succeeding Shivraj Patil will immediately appear to be very good for such was the capability of the previous incumbent.

chetak · Post by **chetak** » 03 Feb 2010 21:21

SSridhar wrote:Pranav, there has never been any doubt about the capabilities of Chidambaram. However, anyone succeeding Shivraj Patil will immediately appear to be very good for such was the capability of the previous incumbent.

Saar, he was specially chosen and did what he was briefed to do until the Bombay attack happened. This was a process of deep selection and carried out even to the extent of circumventing election results.

How does a guy like this wind up with the second most important portfolio in the Indian cabinet? The country literally went to the dogs under him.

vera_k · Post by **vera_k** » 03 Feb 2010 21:56

Pranav wrote:Has to be admitted that Chidambaram is doing a good job. Article posted above suggests that he may succeed MMS, rather than Rahul Baba. That would be a positive development.

The thought crossed my mind a few months ago after reading one of his speeches. Remains to be seen if SRP go for that.

muraliravi · Post by **muraliravi** » 04 Feb 2010 00:57

SSridhar wrote:muraliravi, excellent.

Thank you sir.

skaranam · Post by **skaranam** » 04 Feb 2010 11:50

Hyderabad haven for terrorists

sum · Post by **sum** » 04 Feb 2010 13:33

skaranam wrote:Hyderabad haven for terrorists

Why is Amir Khan suggesting all this( about IMs fugitive in Saudi Barbaria and TSP) to Desh? Have they got a whiff of a Hyderabadi in a plot to target Unkil?
Very curious..