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Border fence breached, high terror alert sounded

HT reporting that e-mail(s) from J&K intel wing chief to the CM hacked by unidentified Paki hackers.

Only worry is that given our lenient courts, the "Khan" in this story ( the brave unnamed IB or RAW officer) should not be in danger once the Khaja turd comes out of jail after his 8-10 year sentence ( doubt that our courts will be stricter than that)

I am posting this here because this could not have occurred without some sympathizer or micshief-monger doing this wilfully.

Does the NIA have the power to arrest, interrogate and charge anyone anywhere in the country like the FBI? Can it overrule local law enforcement and other officials if need be? (since its a federal agency) One of the major problems facing law enforcement is the control that a state's politicians have over the careers of its police officers. It allows them to manipulate the police force per their whim. An NIA officer would be free from such control and in atleast the big cases be far more effective than the state police.

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Given the hue and cry from Kerala politicians over NIA involvement in the Madhani episode, i would speculate thet NIA has relatively independent control over things. Kerala HM was that NIA did not inform state govt before taking over the case. JMT.

Some of the thoughts (as per B.Raman) related to what LeT could do in the current situations :

The convent school boy who turned terror commander(Mohammad Abdul Khwaja )

NEW DELHI: Ever since 2005, when a suicide bomber blew himself up at the headquarters of Hyderabad’s counter-terrorism police headquarters, Mohammad Abdul Khwaja’s face has stared out from most-wanted posters across the country.

From Khwaja’s interrogation, investigators could find answers to questions which have eluded them for years.

On Monday, police in Hyderabad finally held the man they knew by the aliases Amjad and Saif — the fruit of an elaborate, Intelligence Bureau-led deception operation that led Khwaja to believe he was returning home from Karachi to help sympathisers mount a major new operation.

But Khwaja’s story will, perhaps, prove most important for the light it could cast on just what drove the radicalisation of the dozens of young people who joined the Indian jihadist movement after 2002.

Born in 1983, Khwaja grew up in a conservative, lower middle-class home in Hyderabad’s Sanat Nagar area. His father, Mohammad Umar, was a follower of the Ahl-i-Sunnat wal’Jamaat — a Barelvi organisation that works to defend folk Islam against neoconservative assault.

Like many of those who would play a key role in the Indian jihadist movement, Khwaja received a secular education, schooling at the St. Anne’s Convent High School before earning a Bachelor’s degree in commerce from the Anwar-ul-Uloom Degree College — a prestigious institution which has served the community for over a century.

Some of his contemporaries in the jihadist movement emerged from the same institution — among them, top Lashkar commander Mohammad Shahid, also known as Bilal — but there is little evidence they were involved with Islamist groups as students.

Having finished his studies, Khwaja set up a small cellphone business — a first step towards the middle-class life his parents had prepared him for.

By the account of his friends, his outrage at the 2002 communal carnage in Gujarat led him to abandon that path and immerse himself in the Islamist movement in Hyderabad. {How does the author know this. Inserting some personal opinions as something collected from frined. This is the smartest way a journalist inserts his reasons for radicalization of IM youth into actual police reports while posting thier articles. Gujarat riots and Babri Masjid demolition will be the reasons for another 1000 years.}

Key among his ideological mentors was Ibrahim Ali Junaid, a Unani medicine student and Islamist activist arrested on terrorism charges in 2007 — and acquitted last year.

During questioning by the Hyderabad police in 2003, Khwaja said he began attending meetings organised by the prominent Islamist cleric Maulana Mohammad Naseeruddin in Hyderabad’s Moosrambagh area.

Cycles of hate

Operating under the banner of the Tehreek Tahaffuz-e-Sha’air-e-Islam — an organisation for the protection of Islamic shrines and monuments — Maulana Naseeruddin had become the most visible face of religious hardliners who were challenging the authority of Hyderabad’s traditional Muslim politicians. Hardliners like Naseeruddin argued that the politicians had proved unable to resist the rising tide of Hindu chauvinism in India.

In the wake of the Gujarat massacres, Karachi-based ganglord Rasool Khan ‘Party’—who draws his nickname from Gujarati argot for a business associate — contacted the cleric for help in recruiting volunteers to train at jihad camps in Pakistan.

Khan knew Maulana Naseeruddin well. Fleeing a crackdown on organised crime in Gujarat, Khan moved to Hyderabad in 1992-1993 where he lived posing as a cloth merchant. He helped to fund Islamist groups and causes during the six years he lived there, earning Naseeruddin’s friendship.

Mufti Sufian Patangia, a Salafi neoconservative who ran a small seminary at Kalupur, had already raised some volunteers for training at Lashkar facilities in Pakistan. Naseeruddin and Mohammad Abdul Rauf, a Majlis Ittehad-ul-Muslimeen leader long associated with Islamist movements in Hyderabad, joined hands to make more volunteers available.

Over a dozen men from Hyderabad and Ahmedabad were eventually flown to Lashkar-e-Taiba, Jaish-e-Mohammad and Harkat ul-Jihad-e-Islami training camps in Pakistan.

Their first actions included the assassination of Gujarat Home Minister Haren Pandya, one of the key architects of the 2002 violence.

Khwaja, police sources say, refused to join the first wave of volunteers who trained in Pakistan. But, after the 2005 bombing in Hyderabad, he jumped bail, and fled to Karachi through Saudi Arabia.

Key liaison

He allegedly served as his old college friend Shahid’s lieutenant till his commander’s death in a mysterious 2007 shootout in Karachi. Later, Khwaja emerged as the key liaison between Rasool Khan’s organised crime networks, Indian jihadists in Pakistan and top Lashkar commanders like Zaki-ur-Rahman Lakhvi. His associates included Maulana Naseeruddin’s son, Raziuddin Nasir —who is now being tried for his alleged role in an abortive attempt to bomb western tourists in Goa.

Khwaja is believed to have been in close contact with fugitive jihadist Riyaz Ismail Shahbandri — a key Indian Mujahideen organiser who fled to Karachi after organising an urban terror offensive that killed hundred across India between 2005 and 2008.

The Central Bureau of Investigation hopes to gain new insights into the 2007 bombing of Hyderabad’s Mecca Masjid — an attack that some investigators believe Khwaja’s associates carried out, but others insist was executed by the Hindutva terrorist organisation Abhinav Bharat.

What's up with convent schoolboys turning to terror? This is the second such case after M. Peerbhoy. For all the flak that they take, the humble madarsas seem to be immune from this. It would be useful to study if this is just random coincidence or if there is something that should be changed in the education at these schools.

Dont rejoice yet, even if the ops happen, any neutralization will take a good 3-4 years to materialize on the ground. A big if, in the first place... Nevertheless, some positive news is only better than no news is better than no negative news...

Myanmar nod to joint ops against N-E militants
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/indi ... 495630.cms

More on Assam, an evolving understanding... Singha or others, can you add more details or correct some of the stuff? TIA.

If I am not wrong, the major groups in today's Assam are the Assamese, the Bodos, the Karbis, the Dimasas and the Hmars, etc. [There are tons of other groups, small as well as large, with a "thirst" for autonomy and a blatant disregard for anything but subversion, but we will get to that later.]

0) ULFA -- left for later...

1) The BLT fought on behalf of the Bodos. With the formation of the BTAD (Bodo Territorial Area Districts) Autonomous Council, the BLT disbanded and the NDFB kept going on. With Op All Clear in Bhutan in 2003 and some smart ops from the Assam Rifles and the Delhi Police, much of the leadership as well as the cadre of the NDFB was neutralized. The remaining leadership, headed by Ranjan Daimary, and the cadre took sustenance in Bangladesh and Burma and kept waging the battle for Bodo "autonomy" notwithstanding the fact that BTAD was created expressly with this intent. This "anti-talks" faction of the NDFB is a serious issue needing neutralization.

2) The Karbi Longri NC Hills Liberation Front (KLNLF) which has now declared a unilateral ceasefire was the one leading the charge for Karbi "rights", who are domiciled in the Karbi Anglong district of Assam. The formal laying down of arms by the Karbi militant group was to take place before January 26, 2010, but it has now been put off till the second week of February due to lack of consensus between GoI and the group on the outfit’s strength (this is a bargaining chip, the more people laying down arms, the more "power" the militant group has in bargaining for money, representation, etc.). KLNLF is an offshoot of the United People's Democratic Solidarity (UPDS) that joined the peace process in August 2001. UPDS signed a ceasefire pact in 2001 and its demands include a self-ruled homeland for the Karbis (Hemprek Hanthim), a special economic package for overall development of the region and a corridor connecting eastern and western part of the hill district.

3) The Dimasas are domiciled in the North Cachar Hills District of Assam. The Dimasa "rights" was spearheaded by the Dima Halam Daogah. Just like with the NDFB, DHD suffered a split with a faction led by Dilip Nunisa and 'commander-in-chief' Pranab Nunisa, and another faction led by its notorious "leader" Jewel Garlosa aka Joel Garlosa and 'commander-in-chief' Niranjan Hojai. The DHD (Nunisa) faction is on a ceasefire mode and bargaining with the PC Haldar led GoI initiative for a separate Dimaraji state whereas DHD (Jewel) has rechristened itself as the Black Widows group. While Jewel Garlosa is under arrest, his cadre led by Hojai still keep doing the hit-and-run and extortion. The Jadikhe Naisho Hoshom, the apex body of the Dimasas, has played a crucial role in impressing upon the DHD (Jewel) and DHD (Nunisa) factions to move towards a ceasefire. In general, the concept of a Dimaraji state envisages the amalgamation of the Dimasa-inhabited areas of Karbi Anglong, North Cachar Hills, Cachar and Nagaon districts in Assam and the Dhansiri tract in Nagaland (some even say they want Dimapur of Nagaland just as the NSCN wants a Nagalim) as a full-fledged separate state under the Indian Union. This statehood demand marks a departure from their earlier demand of an autonomous state under Section 244(A) of the Constitution for safeguarding and ensuring rapid development of Dimasa areas.

4) Hmar People's Convention - Democracy (HPC-D) is an offshoot of the Hmar People's Convention (HPC), which came into existence in 1986, as a political party spearheading a movement for self-government in the north and northeast of Mizoram. The Hmars, who according to the 1991 census, were 12,535 in number in Mizoram, were disappointed with the contents of the Mizo Peace Accord of 1986, which failed to address their demand of a 'Greater Mizoram' integrating all areas inhabited by Hmars in Mizoram, Assam and Manipur under a single administrative unit. Since April 1987, the HPC waged an armed struggle for autonomy, which touched extreme levels of violence towards 1991. More recently, the HPC-D calls for bilateral ceasefire has been snubbed by GoI and Govt of Assam. The outfit is extant over the Hmar inhabited areas of Churachandpur district in Manipur, and the Cachar (with base camps in the Bhuban hill range) and North Cachar Hills districts of Assam. Much of the Tipaimukh agitation on the Indian side is spearheaded by the HPC-D and HRA (Hmar Revolutionary Army), another terrorist group, with active prodding from Bangladesh and without.

5) The other major terrorist groups fighting for Muslim "rights" are the Muslim United Liberation Tigers of Assam (MULTA), the Hizb-ul Mujahideen (HuM), among many other groups. Reports have also indicated that the outfit has as its objective the waging of jehad against India, to eventually set up a 'greater independent Islamistan' for the Muslims of Assam. In this context, one has to note the rhetoric of J-e-I folks of Bangladesh such as Maulana Bhasani, the grand forefather of figures such as Motiur Rahman Nizami, Salahuddin Qader (Saka) Chowdhury, Golam Azam, Delwar Hossein Sayedee, etc., who would like to create a "Bangassam", a separate state in the NE by stripping India, east of the Siliguri corridor!

6) Among the other groups that come to mind are the All Adivasi National Liberation Army (AANLA). The AANLA claims to be fighting to safeguard the tribal culture of the plantation workers whose ancestors were brought from northern India by British colonialists. The outfit demands Scheduled Tribe (ST) status for the Adivasi community and rehabilitation of the displaced members of its community. Official sources, however, indicate that AANLA is not a well-organised group and it does not have well-thought out aims and objectives.

7) Since Assam is a 'big' state, there is much spillover from states around it. We saw the case of HPC-D with connections to Mizoram. Then there is the Manipur-based Kuki Revolutionary Army (KRA) and Nagaland-based NSCN, with its various factions. There is the Khasi outfit, Hynniewtrep National Liberation Council (HNLC) with connections to Meghalaya that finds sustenance in districts bordering Meghalaya. Besides that, the North Bengal-based Kamtapur Liberation Organization (KLO) as well as the Darjeeling-based Gorkhaland outfits also move back and forth between Assam, WB, Sikkim and beyond. And so on....

PS: Edited, the Dimasa stuff and 7)...

Now, what will Didi do? She has already backtracked her statements n times. May be we can all sing kumbaya and join the oiseaules for some chai biskoot?

Mamata terms rejected ---- Maoists refuse to give up arms but ready for talks
http://telegraphindia.com/1100125/jsp/n ... 025679.jsp

Arrested Afghan national can speak Kannada too






Soon there will be a queue to get into Indian jails if this kind of mollycoddling of hardened pigs continues.

Very weird news. Donno where to put it. Anyway, here it is:

Police look for "bullet" doctor
http://www.telegraphindia.com/1100125/j ... 025464.jsp

Car containing explosives found near IAF station in Punjab

Ludhiana: Police found crude explosives in an abandoned car today near IAF station Halwara, 35 km from here.

A shopkeeper brought to the notice of IAF authorities that an abandoned car without number plate had been lying unclaimed near his shop for over 36 hours, deputy inspector general of police (Ludhiana) SS Chauhan said.

The car contained a big amount of explosives consisting of four cans of petrol based urea, potash, wires, a detonator and some highly explosive powder, Chauhan said, adding a mobile phone without sim card was also found inside the car.

The powder has been sent to forensic experts and police is investigating the matter, he said.

Big attempts to rekindle the fire in Punjab, IMO.

First the bomb near IOC refinery, Patiala and now this. Wonder which country is behind this?

Mischief monger? You can say that again.

Toilet is the right description for this rag.

http://www.deccanherald.com/content/486 ... -govt.html

The subject is 80 years old and a heart patient. A case of lax security all the way from his point of origination.

Commonwealth website shows J-K, Gujarat in Pak

^^^some relevant tweets:


And:

‘India Already Has Sky Marshals in Nepal-Bound Planes’

So a passenger getting on a plane in Nepal will notice a passenger already sitting in the plane, great! Now a terrorist can strike at greater probability who the marshall will be.

SATP:

Seven suspected Maoists held
http://beta.thehindu.com/news/states/ot ... e95717.ece

I found some thing interesting while researching about Banjara tribes.

http://www.joshuaproject.net/countries.php?rog3=IN

I guess it is the usual "media reporting" at work. A friend of mine who flies for a private air liner had mentioned about how sky marshalls are positioned. They are present even on some "sensitive" routes within India. They have their security checks done else where and enter the passenger lobby. And they board just like the normal travellers, and their seats would be in various parts of the air craft. The fact they are sky marshalls would only be known to the Captain of the flight.

Insurgencies in Manipur: politics & ideology ---- M. S. Prabhakara
http://beta.thehindu.com/opinion/lead/a ... epage=true
PS: I will add more when I get a chance to sit down and focus on the job, perhaps in a week or so...

Is it the mandate of ATS to investigate cyber crimes? And especially stuff like impersonating some one on a web site? My guess is that ATS would have bigger challenges than to go after Salman Khan (or any *.Khan) imposters.

That's what i was wondering too, Mumbai police has a seperate cell for investigating cyber crimes so why is ATS is being used to solve petty crimes while it's primary objective is to neutralise terrorist activity.

2 held for circulating fake currency


Blast on railway tracks in Assam


Special force in UP to protect monuments


South African held with heroin worth Rs 7 crore


Delhi police arrests Afghan national on cocaine smuggling charges

Our fav Mallu sings in custody:
Exclusive: Confessions of a terrorist

IMO, 26(+3 in South) sleeper cells are just the "powerful sleepers". There are 100s of "lesser effective" sleepers all over the country. Truly alarming situation.