Internal Security Watch

Prem · Post by **Prem** » 07 Mar 2014 03:10

ramana wrote:So even CVC was checked out? They have been filing complaints since 2006 and just now realized there was no follow-up?

Its Called Khaanapoori, so no action will ever take place.

harbans · Post by **harbans** » 08 Mar 2014 01:27

The more i see, the more it looks that AAP is not fighting for governing as CM, PM, removing corruption, communalism, trying to stop Modi, or even being a Congress B team. It's sole purpose is the create a Tahrir square type uprising. It is highly possible that most of the top leadership in AAP is thinking they are doing any of the above, stopping Modi, fighting corruption, stopping communalism, or putting brakes on Modi..but it is being led to a situation where it can be easily hijacked by subversives. It's funding peaks when it creates any chaos, even if the chaos is leading to good votes being lost in chunks, even if the chaos leads to people who joined AAP with honest intentions leaving..the funding just flows on the chaos created, news coverage it gets whatsoever the political wisdom in the chaos.

Simultaneously large sections of Naxal subversives are joining, so as are Kashmiri separatists, Islamists, cranks, vagabonds and those arraigned against the Indian state and it's concept in any way. It's becoming a landing base for these sections. 3 years ago on this forum itself and on a separate blog i had warned of the IAC movement being hijacked by subversives of the left. That situation is also ripening with the AAP. AAP will provoke anywhere, even Gujarat where it wins nothing except mass media coverage and loses many of it's honest support. Kejriwal is not increasing his voter base by these antics and he is well aware of that. But these antics are attracting funds, lots of it. So a nautanki in Gujarat and large funds pour in. These will be consolidated in raising large groups of protesters in the capital.

The spark that is needed is simple..e.g barge into Modi's house..do some nautanki, get hammered or maybe an AAP leader or two killed in the mayhem. Then scream murder and order large crowds into parliament, seize roads etc. The Naxals, Islamists, Separatists would have enough gunpowder and the crowds would be massive. The fatwa spewing Mullahs themselves could possibly organize hundreds of thousands from nearby. The worst kind of people are those that revel in the hell that the chaos of an Arab spring type uprising brings about. There are too many indications that AAP members have scant respect for institutions, women, laws, model conduct codes, governing limitations etc. The Intel agencies are under a sleeping center that maybe is thinking that AAP will stop Modi. AAP doesn't have the clout. Their source of funding and where it comes from must be a matter Intel must at least make quiet background checks. A massive upsurge of protests in Delhi could also bring about a declaration of emergency, stall elections. Whatever be the ultimate aim, none of it bodes well for the future. AAP doesn't solve problems, it's there to create some though. Hope readers who may have hopes on AAP being some paragon of change will contemplate more seriously on this.

member_28440 · Post by **member_28440** » 09 Mar 2014 20:15

Sunanda Pushkar – How Did She Die ?

Curiously, in Sunanda’s case, they were from the same hospital, AIIMS, and from the same department — forensic medicine. The panel was headed by Sudhir Kumar Gupta, professor and head of department, and included Adarsh Kumar, assistant professor, and Shashank Pooniya, senior resident. This created the first doubt about the veracity and objectivity of the post-mortem report.
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In several cases in the past few years, the post-mortem panel of doctors was constituted to include forensic professionals from the same hospital or mortuary. This helped the police to extricate a tailor-made report that proved its suspicions, rather than raise fresh questions.
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hours before her death, Sunanda’s tweet hinted that she expected her death. In phone calls to friends and journalists, she claimed that she would reveal everything she knew about Tharoor’s role in the IPL controversy in 2010.

Hours before she died, she had called Rahul Kanwal who heads Headlines Today, Barkha Dutt of NDTV and TV personality Nalini Singh, who was Sunanda’s close friend. Kanwal said on television that Sunanda had told him that she wanted to disclose facts to him about the controversies that surrounded Tharoor. But before they met, she was dead.
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Even Bob Woolmer was found dead in his hotel room in similar conditions.

On 18 March 2007, Robert Andrew Woolmer (international cricketer, professional cricket coach and also a professional commentator) died suddenly in Jamaica, just a few hours after the Pakistan team’s unexpected elimination at the hands of Ireland in the 2007 Cricket World Cup. Shortly afterwards, Jamaican police announced that they were opening a murder investigation into Woolmer’s death. In November 2007, a jury in Jamaica recorded an open verdict on Woolmer’s death, after deciding that there was insufficient evidence of either a criminal act or natural causes.

SSridhar · Post by **SSridhar** » 10 Mar 2014 09:44

Indian Mujahideen stoked Assam violence in 2012: NIA says - ToI

Indian Mujahideen (IM) was not content with just exploding bombs and had made attempts to spread communal hatred across the country. Probe by National Investigation Agency (NIA) found that during the June 2012 conflict in Assam, IM contributed to the flare-up by spreading text messages and online posts falsely claiming atrocities against Muslims.

The outfit also spread text messages of hatred against the northeast community in Bangalore which resulted in several students from the region being attacked. This operation was led by a new head of the outfit suspected to be in Pakistan.

A reference to this act is mentioned in the 277-page chargesheet filed by the agency against the outfit's India operations chief Ahmed Siddibappa alias Yasin Bhatkal. The chargesheet said that "investigation has established that in pursuance of the conspiracy, the operatives of IM have been making attempts to foment communal tension in different parts of India".

The chargesheet details a chat between Bhatkal and his associate Afeef Mota (in Pakistan) on July 12, 2013 which talks about a certain member of the outfit having participated in spreading fake news about atrocities against Muslims at the hands of northeastern people. The chargesheet said, "Yasin asked whether their new head had participated in any jihadi operation in India. It was revealed that he had sent SMSs to create panic in northeast region, people staying in Bangalore and other southern states and planned to create violence between groups in India by fake SMSs to avenge the assassination of some Rohingya Muslims."

During the 2012 Assam conflict, as clashes broke out between Bodos and Muslims in the state, a ripple effect was felt across the country, particularly in Mumbai and Bangalore, where some people from the northeast came under indiscriminate attack. This was largely fuelled by some fake Facebook photos — some of which were traced to Pakistan — that showed Muslims being killed in Assam.

There was also a flurry of messages containing false information about atrocities on either community that spread panic among people forcing them to flee cities. Elements from both the Muslim and and Hindu rightwing participated in such propaganda.

ramana · Post by **ramana** » 10 Mar 2014 23:28

Isnt it curious that IM has been silent for quite a few months?

member_28440 · Post by **member_28440** » 11 Mar 2014 04:19

Bangalore:Two injured in blasts at City Market

Panic gripped areas in and around the City Market following two mysterious explosions in a span of five minutes on Monday afternoon.

Two persons, including a student, sustained injuries and were rushed to Victoria Hospital. Charan, a II year BE (Electronics) student, and Ramgopal, a salesboy at an electronic shop on JC Road, were treated as outpatients at the Victoria Hospital and discharged.
Senior police officers inspected the spot and ruled out the possibility of either low-intensity bomb or gelatine sticks having exploded.

Additional Commissioner of Police ( Law and Order) Kamal Pant ruled out sabotage.
The substances, he said, have been sent to Forensic Science Laboratory.

Charan, a resident of Devasandra, after alighting from a bus at Kalasipalya, was walking towards the City Market to board another bus to Bangalore University, when he stepped on the explosive material and there was an explosion within seconds. He injured his right leg.

Within minutes, Ramgopal, who alighted at the bus stop and began walking towards his office, also stepped on the substance resulting in another explosion. He too sustained injuries on his legs, police said.

The Kalasipalya police, who rushed to the spot and cordoned the area, summoned the bomb disposal and dog squads.

Police said poachers and hunters use explosives to kill wild animals, especially wild boars, with low-intensity explosive devices. The explosives normally resemble a garlic or a small onion. They are prepared using materials like glycerine, potassium nitrate, ammonium nitrate and urea.

Firecracker is used to trigger the blast. They have explosive coating with wheat flour or a ball of edible kept at the designated places to tempt the prey. One bite would blow the jaws off, killing the animal within seconds, police said.

The explosives may have been dropped while being transported by suspected hunters. Such substances exploding are common in rural areas adjoining the City, police added.

ramana · Post by **ramana** » 11 Mar 2014 04:22

Right on cue. But from description it looks like a Diwali Onions.

member_28440 · Post by **member_28440** » 11 Mar 2014 04:26

ramana · Post by **ramana** » 11 Mar 2014 04:34

During Diwali there was type of cracker which makes loud noise when thrown on the ground. Its wrapped in tissue paper aka onion paper.
I guess they are out of fashion now?

gandharva · Post by **gandharva** » 11 Mar 2014 05:28

ramana wrote:During Diwali there was type of cracker which makes loud noise when thrown on the ground. Its wrapped in tissue paper aka onion paper.
I guess they are out of fashion now?

In UP/Bihar name was "Lahsunia"(Garlic) bomb.

gandharva · Post by **gandharva** » 11 Mar 2014 08:06

Rajdeep sardesai admits of advicing @ArvindKejriwal to launch a movement outside parliament.

Rajdeep -"That time Tehrir movement was going on in Egypt,i suggested Arvind to start Tehrir kind movement in india"

Sedition case viable against Rajdeep Sardesai?

SanjayC · Post by **SanjayC** » 11 Mar 2014 10:22

Dozens of Indian passports stolen from San Francisco

sum · Post by **sum** » 11 Mar 2014 11:13

The peaceful community now seem to have a full choke on entry/exit from Delhi and can bring it to its knees at will:
7-hour traffic jam on NH-24 brings chaos to Delhi

Commuters had a harrowing time on Monday after protests on the Delhi-UP border blocked traffic on NH-24 that leads to Mayur Vihar Phase II, Indirapuram and Vaishali for over seven hours.

The protests started after the Delhi Police tried to prevent about 10 busloads of people from entering Delhi via the Ghazipur border to join a protest at Jor Bagh, in central Delhi, against alleged attempts to grab prime wakf land in the area.

Of course, in name of secular reporting, the community involved wont be mentioned unlike headlines like "Jats block highways"/"Saffron extremists block highway" etc

Anand K · Post by **Anand K** » 11 Mar 2014 14:39

20 jawans killed in Naxal attack on security forces in Chhattisgarh

member_19686 · Post by **member_19686** » 11 Mar 2014 20:21

Emanin
‏@emanin
RT @PipeDiaries Kolkta ParkCircus,Islamists burn buses over publication of pic of Women's day protest inTurkey

https://twitter.com/emanin/status/443390473508384768

goldenpeak24 #Chaiwala#Vote4India 45m
@emanin @Arav_India @PipeDiaries This photo sparked the riot that led to arson,vandalism by Muslims in AJC Bose Road!

https://twitter.com/goldenpeak24/status ... to/1/large

anchal · Post by **anchal** » 11 Mar 2014 20:54

Per first hand info, the unit ambushed is one of the finest in CRPF. They have not suffered even a minor injury in the last seven years they have been in CG and today they lost 16

What is more troublesome is we had intelligence but Havaldar Shinde kept sitting on it. Criminal direlction of duty, some day I wish they be tried for crimes against the nation

ramana · Post by **ramana** » 12 Mar 2014 01:20

X-posted...

UlanBatori wrote:AoA! It was either this thread or the BENIS dhaga to post this, but I think some will recognize the significance here.

I read in a serious publication about a robotic UAV developed by "Kashmir Robotics", an arm of Al Kareem Foundation. In South Africa. U c the significance? Is Kashmir now in South Africa, or is the R&D intended for Kashmir...

Oh! Here it is!

Bliss to cross-post wherever the right ppl may visit, to inform them of this. All out in the open, mind u..

krithivas · Post by **krithivas** » 12 Mar 2014 22:10

Religion of peace'rs getting more brazen and laying first claim to natural (human) resources:

An 18-year-old girl was groped and almost stripped on a street in Kandivli (West) in broad daylight on Monday by a group of a dozen young men. Worse, when she ran into a nearby restaurant for help, the management threw her out instead of coming to her aid.

http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city ... 862070.cms

The arrests were made under the IPC's section 354 (molestation). The arrested men are Fayyaz Ahmed Khan (20), Saroj Khan (20) and Naushad Khan (24). They do odd jobs in the construction and transport industry.

Remember the almost-former Indian PM thundered once:
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/indi ... 754937.cms

Ramu · Post by **Ramu** » 12 Mar 2014 22:32

Air India plane in near miss as Pakistan ATC gives incorrect information

Prem · Post by **Prem** » 13 Mar 2014 03:58

Indian Online Classifieds Site Quikr Confirms $90M Fund Raise Led By Kinnevik

http://techcrunch.com/2014/03/11/indias ... vik/?ncid=

India’s largest online classifieds site, Quikr, has raised $90 million in fresh funding from a group of investors led by Sweden’s Kinnevik.Quikr had raised $32 million from Warburg Pincus, Matrix Partners, Norwest Venture Partners and eBay in Series E funding in May 2012. Omidyar Network and Nokia Growth Partners are among other investors backing Quikr.“Quikr has grown rapidly based on a deep understanding of the Indian market,” Mia Brunell Livfors, CEO of Kinnevik said in a statement. “It’s targeting a tremendous opportunity in a large growth market and we look forward to being a part of its exciting journey forward.”India’s e-commerce and online businesses are on fire, as the country’s around 200 million Internet users seek real-time information about products and services and are discovering more convenient ways to transact on the web. Many of them are buying and selling electronics, household goods, cars, bikes and other services on online classified sites such as Quikr.

This Omidyar Network guy is the one who financed Ukraine Maidan thingy.The deal might give him Data mining access for wrong purpose.

nawabs · Post by **nawabs** » 14 Mar 2014 13:39

Remnants of LTTE trying to make Andaman and Nicobar islands safe haven?

http://zeenews.india.com/news/nation/re ... 13415.html

Are the islands of Andaman and Nicobar potential terror hubs? Yes, feels the administration of the Union Territory, which has said the possibility of left out LTTE cadre trying to make them a safe haven cannot be ruled out.

The administration has also conveyed to the government that foreigners from Myanmar, Bangladesh, Thailand and Sri Lanka often intrude into the archipelago.

The Home Ministry has told the Parliamentary Standing Committee on Home Affairs that according to the Union Territory Administration, Andaman and Nicobar Islands have settlers from Sri Lanka, Bangladesh and Myanmar and possibility of these settlers being used "by elements from their erstwhile countries" cannot be ruled out.

"The UT government is of the view that left out LTTE cadre may look for safe havens in the near vicinity and may take advantage of our uninhabited islands for their temporary hideouts," the Home Ministry told the panel.

The Andaman and Nicobar Islands are situated in the Bay of Bengal at a distance of 1200 km from the mainland. These islands are spread over an area of 8249 sq km. This group comprises 572 islands of which only 38 are inhabited.

The island authority has conveyed that the local Tamil population in the islands, like other parts of the country, is also sympathetic to the cause of Sri Lankan Tamils.

Further, sympathy of Sri Lankan Tamil refugees who were brought and settled in these islands during 1960s and 1970s may be easily gained for abetting, aiding and assisting the LTTE outfit in providing temporary shelters under the thick forest covers in the islands.

"In fact the geographical locations and conditions make these islands an ideal place for providing safe havens for terrorist groups for jungle warfare training and even dumping grounds for arms and ammunition," the Standing Committee on Home Affairs has been informed.

Owing to its proximity to Myanmar (which is only 45 km from the northern most point of Andaman and Nicobar Islands and Indonesia is just 160 km from Campbell Bay), Thailand and Indonesia, a large number of foreigners intrude into Indian territory for poaching of marine resources.

Since a large number of islands are uninhabited and scattered over a large area in Andaman and Nicobar, the archipelago is easily accessible by anti-national elements. Bangladeshi nationals often intrude into these islands through sea route. A number of Bangladeshis have been arrested from the islands and deported.

Prem · Post by **Prem** » 15 Mar 2014 10:08

Dawood kin's passport: MEA role bared
Woh Jo Hai Naa MEA Khushiiid apna;Poora Kiya Dawood Ka Sapna

The CBI raid last evening at the passport office here did not lead the investigators to the ``missing'' file containing details of the hurried issuance of passport to Dawood Ibrahim's mother Ameena Bi in June 1993, but the investigating officers have obtained evidence pointing to the involvement of the Ministry of External Affairs in the matter.Ashok Mukherjee, the Officer on Special Duty (OSD) to the then Minister of State for External Affairs Salman Khurshid, will be interrogated shortly in this connection, it is learnt. Currently, Mukherjee is India's counsel general in Dubai, a posting he got recently after the BJP formed the Government at the Centre.
Sources say that following the written recommendation dispatched from Mukherjee's office to the passport office, the routine but important police verification of the applicant was waived, as were several other conditions that are mandatory in normal course. She was issued the passport in a day.Both Salman Khurshid and R L Bhatia wereMinisters of State in the External Affairs Ministry when Ameena Bi flew to Dubai, barely a month after the serial bomb blasts rocked Mumbai. Khurshid, at that time, had exclusive charge of the Middle-East countries.While the search for the missing Ameena Bi file is still on the passport office had reportedly sent it, rather hurriedly to the MEA some time ago the investigators have started questioning a number of passport officers.Also, a fresh probe has begun to ascertain the role of a leading industrialist who allegedly provided shelter to Ameena Bi at his south Delhi bungalow at Sharma's behest.

sum · Post by **sum** » 15 Mar 2014 10:14

^^ House clean up before new govt walks in?

SSridhar · Post by **SSridhar** » 18 Mar 2014 10:31

Jhujar, that was a 1998 report. is there a reason for posting it now ?

SSridhar · Post by **SSridhar** » 18 Mar 2014 10:35

Rohingya Influx: A brewing crisis - The Hindu

A steady influx of Rohingya Muslims into West Bengal via Bangladesh is causing concern to the security establishment. The Rohingyas live in Myanmar’s Rakhine State, which lies northwest of Bangladesh’s Chittagong Division.

A senior intelligence official told The Hindu that “more than one thousand” Rohingya refugees had been detained and sent to prisons in the State in the last six months.

But the West Bengal government has no clear idea of the actual number of the undocumented immigrants who entered the State in the pat few years. On the one hand, the influx is becoming a “security risk” and, on the other, it is snowballing into a major humanitarian crisis, officials agree.

According to a 1983 state-sponsored census (in the then Burma), which was questioned by observers, Rakhine has nearly four million people. Among at least a dozen ethnic groups, Buddhist Rakhines and Muslim Rohingyas are a clear majority and almost equal in number.

Now, after 30 years, with another census coming in another month in Myanmar, which is on the road to democracy, Rohingyas are facing a stark future.

“They are not considered Burmese citizens under the Citizenship Law and hence they are desperately trying to move out of Myanmar as they know they will be victimised,” said a Home Ministry official.

In a massive riot in Rakhine in 2012, tens of thousands of Rohingya Muslims were displaced, several people were killed and property was looted. Buddhist Rakhines suffered heavy losses as well.

Myanmar has about 800, 000 stateless Rohingyas, without access to basic healthcare or education.

Since 2013, as the influx of Ronhingyas increased, Bangladesh has closed its door to one of the most “persecuted minorities” in the world, saying they are not Bangladeshis. While earlier it allowed a restricted number to enter the country (about 30,000 registered Rohingyas, supported by the U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees), Dhaka is not ready to accept any more refugees.

So, sandwiched between the Buddhist-dominated Myanmar and Muslim-dominated Bangladesh, the Rohingyas are entering India via northeast, say officials. But “this is not good news for us,” a senior Home Ministry official said.

The refugees detained under the Foreigners Act, 1946 are now supposed be sent to the Tihar jail in New Delhi as the UNHCR has jurisdiction only in Tihar.

Once they get refugee status, they will be sent to India’s only refugee camp, which is in Jammu.

“But we do not know when that will happen, as it is not easy to send so many people,” said an official at Alipore jail here.

Prem · Post by **Prem** » 18 Mar 2014 23:35

SSridhar wrote:Jhujar, that was a 1998 report. is there a reason for posting it now ?

To inform about our present Foreign Minsiter's background, thinking and sympathy. He might be the Secular-Muslim combo candidate for PMship after this elections.

chetak · Post by **chetak** » 19 Mar 2014 08:41

The true colors of aadhaar

It had to happen, sooner or later.........

Stop Aadhaar data use to probe crime: UIDAI to SC

Even as the Supreme Court is seized of a bunch of petitions challenging the validity of the Aadhaar card, the Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI) has rushed to the SC against an order of the Bombay High Court that seeks to examine if its biometric database can be used in criminal investigation.
The latest controversy involving a flagship programme of the UPA government has its roots in the order of a Goa court asking the UIDAI to give the CBI biometrics of all residents enrolled with Aadhaar in the state to help solve the gangrape of a seven-year-old girl as the database — which includes recording of fingerprints, iris and facial images of applicants — is supposed to be devoid of duplication and tamper-proof.
The girl was raped in a school in Goa’s Vasco city 14 months back and the case is yet to be cracked. However, there were some chance fingerprints recovered from the scene of crime and the magistrate thought UIDAI could match these fingerprints with its database to help ascertain the identities of the assailants.
Aggrieved by this order, the UIDAI moved Bombay High Court and claimed validation of the magistrate’s order will open the floodgates of such directives by other courts as well other authorities.
The high court noted that the UIDAI has agreed to test the competence of its database in comparing the chance fingerprints with its biometric record. The high court also asked the director general of the Central Forensic Science Laboratory to examine the technological capabilities of the UIDAI database.
Terming the high court’s order as “erroneous,” the UIDAI has petitioned the Supreme Court that the UIDAI system has been developed “for civilian use and for non-forensic purposes”.
Even as the UIDAI describes its biometric technology as one of the best in the world, it pointed out that there was a 0.057 per cent occurrence of false identification. Therefore, the the implications of the False Positive Identification Rate of 0.057 per cent when applied in the UIDAI database of 60 crore residents, will imply false matches of lakh of residents, according the authority.
“This means any such random search, which was now being demanded by the Respondent No.1 (CBI), even if implemented in the current system, would put lakhs of innocent people under the scanner,” said its petition, besides saying such a precedent could lead to a plethora of similar requests for assistance in criminal investigation.
The UIDAI also asserted that sharing information with other agencies would violate a person’s right to privacy since the current data-sharing policy and guidelines clearly provides that biometric data cannot be shared without the consent of the resident.
“Building a system that can search using latent fingerprints, quite like criminal database searches, is not within the constitutional and legal mandate and scope of UIDAI and fundamentally against the core reason residents have provided their data voluntarily to UIDAI,” it maintained.
The UIDAI added that the questions relating to privacy was also a subject matter of the bunch of PILs currently being adjudicated by the SC and hence no order could be passed to share information of the applicants in the meantime.
The SC is hearing a bunch of petitions that have challenged the validity of the Aadhaar card in absence of a pertinent legislation and has also disputed its compulsory nature. By an interim last September, the apex court restricted all authorities from denying a benefit or service to any citizen of India for want of the Aadhaar card.
The SC will hear the UIDAI petition on March 24.

member_28440 · Post by **member_28440** » 19 Mar 2014 08:57

Meticulously detailed article with many insights on Aadhar and the threat it poses to Indian Society

Making of a Totalitarian Cashless Indian Surveillance Society

Also in hindi

भारत में सर्वाधिकारवादी नकदहीन नियंत्रित समाज का निर्माण

chetak · Post by **chetak** » 19 Mar 2014 10:50

Tamil Nadu residents under intelligence lens for jihad in Syria

Alarm bells are ringing in the internal security establishment with confirmed reports of Singapore-based Tamil Nadu expatriates’ radicalisation for Islamic jihad against the Bashar al-Assad regime in Syria. This is the first direct evidence that Indian-origin Islamists have joined the three-year-old bloody civil war in Syria.

After a Cuddalore village resident was questioned following his deportation last month from Singapore to Chennai, four other persons are under the scanner of security agencies for motivating Indians to join the jihad in Syria via Turkey. While the Indian agencies have not pressed charges on the deported computer engineer working with a top American MNC in Singapore, it is confirmed that he radicalised his village friend Haja Fakruddin Usman Ali for the Syrian jihad. Thirtyseven-year-old Fakruddin, who is a Singapore national, left Chennai in January with his family for the jihad in Syria.

While there is no official estimate on the number of Indian-origin persons fighting against the Assad regime, there is growing suspicion that some Gulf-settled NRI population from Tamil Nadu, Kerala and Telangana could be involved with Islamists in Syria. At least two Indian-origin persons settled in the Gulf have been identified to be involved in the Syrian civil war.

According to senior officials, the deported engineer, who is said to be involved with Tamil Nadu Tauheed Jamaat, and Fakruddin met each other in Singapore in 2007. The former radicalised Fakruddin with jihadi literature and radical writings and speeches of 20th century Islamist thinker Abul Ala Maududi and radicals like Anwar Al Awlaki and Abdul Raheem Green.

Though the government is tightlipped about the incident, Fakruddin left for Syria via Turkey in November 2013 but returned disillusioned to India a month later after he and his family were put up in Chechen rebel camps in Syria.

“Fakruddin was motivated again in January in Chennai to join jihad. He left for Turkey the same month and there is no trace of him or his family,” said a senior official, adding it was important to zero in on Indians who radicalised the Singapore nationals before more people were motivated to join jihad.

member_28352 · Post by **member_28352** » 19 Mar 2014 14:21

http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city ... 265606.cms
Kids commit suicide because they were punished for celebrating holi

How dare kids celebrate heathen festivals like Holi and Diwali. Not only are they pagan they are also bad for the environment causing wastage of water.

BTW Irrespective of circumstances causing the suicide of a minor is a criminal offence punishable with upto death per IPC.

SanjayC · Post by **SanjayC** » 19 Mar 2014 14:37

ShankarCag wrote:http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city ... 265606.cms
Kids commit suicide because they were punished for celebrating holi

How dare kids celebrate heathen festivals like Holi and Diwali. Not only are they pagan they are also bad for the environment causing wastage of water.

BTW Irrespective of circumstances causing the suicide of a minor is a criminal offence punishable with upto death per IPC.

Will the school similarly punish students for celebrating Xmas? This missionary infrastructure planted in our midst needs to be uprooted.

chaanakya · Post by **chaanakya** » 19 Mar 2014 22:06

Wife of Professor Whose Hand was Chopped Off Found Dead

By IANS - KOCHI

Published: 19th March 2014 08:27 PM

PFI Hand in this case . More dangerous then IM and SIMI. It is building base and training its cadre inKerala and Tamilnadu.

The 48-year-old wife of a college professor, whose right hand was chopped off by activists of the Popular Front of India (PFI), was found dead in her house Wednesday, police said.

Shalomi Joseph was found hanging in the bathroom around 3 p.m. She was rushed to a hospital, where she was pronounced dead. Police have begun a probe into the death.

The woman was a key witness to the crime involving her husband. The trial in the case is on.

Her husband T.J. Joseph teaches Malayalam at the New Man College in Thodupuzha, around 200 km from state capital Thiruvananthapuram.

Joseph's right hand was chopped off by PFI activists July 4, 2010 when he was returning home along with his family members from the Sunday Mass.

The PFI was said to be upset after Joseph reportedly prepared a question paper for a college examination that had allegedly inflammatory remarks on Prophet Mohammed. Over two dozen PFI activists were arrested. The case is now being probed by the National Investigation Agency.

MurthyB · Post by **MurthyB** » 20 Mar 2014 05:48

Teesta frittered away riot victims’ trust fund on wine, jewellery

She's getting ready for the good life in Berkeley.

chetak · Post by **chetak** » 20 Mar 2014 09:03

MurthyB wrote:Teesta frittered away riot victims’ trust fund on wine, jewellery

She's getting ready for the good life in Berkeley.

Next stop.....

nobel peace prize nomination.

member_28397 · Post by **member_28397** » 20 Mar 2014 12:13

Porki scums from the past 10 years of UPA Sickular rule has made great inroads in Paki population in India, unless full military operations are not launched in these areas the trend seems to be irreversible and that option can’t be used by either NaMo or NDA government.

Only option is hitting the source, unleashing full scale subtle biological warfare in Porkistan, kill the cancer at its roots, slow and steady, may take 50 years. Avoid direct border war.
Kill the source and the Paki areas will fall within India.

Varoon Shekhar · Post by **Varoon Shekhar** » 20 Mar 2014 17:21

A youth BJP worker in UP, Vimal Pandey, was gunned down today. This is the umpteenth killing of a BJP worker or supporter, that one has heard of. In any other county, such outright murders by decree of party workers, even if the group in question( like the BJP) is a little controversial, would obtain saturation coverage in the media. Not long ago a doctor, and valuable member of society, was shot dead by 'motorcycle borne youths' , in TN, and he was a BJP district leader. The Naxals executed 2 sons of a BJP MLA in MP. In the Assam election in 2001, a major BJP candidate was assassinated and several BJP workers were killed. There have been several more such killings, and the reportage has been tepid, and the follow on articles dealing with these cases of murder, and their resolution, have been terrible. Were any of these killers ever caught, tried and punished?

You have to be thankful for small mercies, when you read of at least a few incidents being resolved, like the murder of Lakshmananda in Orissa, and the killing of a teacher with BJP sympathies in Kerala, Jayakrishnan back in 1999. But the media reportage of these cases has been bland and cursory.

Bharath.Subramanyam · Post by **Bharath.Subramanyam** » 23 Mar 2014 00:56

X-post

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Two Talibans and India
Ashok Malik | Feb 19, 2014, 12.00AM IST

New Delhi must brace for a terrorist upsurge as civil wars in Pakistan and Afghanistan worsen.

Precarious anyway, "peace negotiations" between the Pakistani government and Tehreek-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) - or simply the Pakistan Taliban - have suffered still more after news that TTP beheaded 23 Pakistani soldiers in its custody. India should be paying attention.

While national security has been almost absent in the pre-election political discourse, this cannot take away from the fact that India's security environment is set to undergo a dramatic change in 2014. The challenges the new government will end up facing in even its early months could be of an order unknown since the 26/11 Mumbai terror attacks in 2008.

At the end of this year, American and international forces begin their withdrawal from Afghanistan. Even if a security agreement is signed with the government in Kabul that allows the Americans to retain a small presence, the overarching security umbrella that has been in place since the Taliban defeat in 2001 would have receded. A period when the greater jihad in Afghanistan (and inside Pakistan) overtook the lesser jihad in Kashmir and against India would come to a close. Twinned with this is Pakistan's own but different Taliban threat - in the form of TTP.

What is the state of play in both these trouble zones? In Afghanistan, western governments are confident that the Afghan army, largely officered by Tajiks, will be able to take on the Pashtun-led Taliban forces and keep the symbolically important city of Kabul for the foreseeable future. This confidence is somewhat negated by the admission of these very governments that the Taliban is likely to chip away at territory, especially in southern Afghanistan, and will invite defections, seek to win over supporters from the government side, make economic and developmental projects unviable and destroy signs of progress such as girls' schools.

Despite this, western diplomatic sources continue to insist that Kabul, though likely surrounded, will still hold. Is this optimism justified? How does one square it with reports that property prices in Kabul are falling? There is evidence that the city's (non-Taliban Pashtun) elite is moving money and investments to other places, such as Dubai, where the ongoing property boom is dependent at least to some degree on the flight from Afghanistan.

While the Pakistani army would hope for a Taliban takeover of Kabul or at least removal of a leadership in the city that is not in the control of Rawalpindi, the in-house Taliban question in Pakistan poses quite another dilemma. Here Pakistani generals are theoretically determined to fight TTP and stave off a challenge to the state. TTP's ultimate goal is the capture of Islamabad and formal conversion of Pakistan into an Islamist lebensraum. As such, in the battle against TTP, Indians find themselves in the unusual position of rooting for the Pakistan army.

Yet, here too there are complications. Intelligence sources suggest the Pakistan army is too tired and incapacitated to take on TTP in its strongholds of North Waziristan, even if the Nawaz Sharif government gives permission to do so. A quick, decisive victory for the army is ruled out. The TTP has a growing footprint in Punjab and Sindh, including in the urban centres of Lahore and Karachi. An army onslaught would drive TTP warriors out of Waziristan and into the heartland of Punjab. A civil war in Pakistan, to match a civil war in Afghanistan, would result.

Civilian Pakistani politicians, whether Nawaz Sharif or former cricketer Imran Khan, seem to take a more indulgent view of TTP. They look upon it as representing an insurgency and a disaffection that can be appeased with territorial concessions, with imposition of strict sharia laws in its regions and with offering it a slice of political power. That explains "peace talks" with TTP. In short, the Pakistan army may not even get permission to wage war on TTP, never mind if it can win the war in the first place.

What happens in case of a deal between the Sharif government and TTP? Pakistani political leadership would hope to co-opt the Pakistan Taliban, as it has the Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT). It is to be noted that TTP, LeT and the Pakistan army recruit from the same areas in Pakistani Punjab. In the short run, the only common target Islamabad can find for the army, LeT and a potentially or partially co-opted TTP is an external adversary. The pressure on India would be obvious.

There is one other concern. Sections of the Pakistan army and Inter-Services Intelligence have a history of testing a new Indian leader. In 1990, V P Singh encountered reckless threats about a nuclear attack on New Delhi. In 1999, Atal Bihari Vajpayee had an invasion on his hands in Kargil. What awaits the prime minister who takes office in New Delhi in May 2014?

It is possible all of this is scaremongering and actually the civil wars in Afghanistan and Pakistan will continue for long enough to give India breathing space. Even so, a medium-term nightmare scenario - with the Afghan Taliban closing in on Kabul and Pakistan Taliban getting a slice of state power - cannot be ruled out. For India, it would be the perfect storm.

The writer is a political commentator.

Sanku · Post by **Sanku** » 23 Mar 2014 17:02

Four Indian Mujahideen terrorists arrested from Rajasthan, had plans to target Narendra Modi rally

Terror outfit, Indian Mujahideen’s (IM) expert bomb-maker, Waqas alias Javed, a resident of Punjab in Pakistan was arrested along with three others suspected members of IM from Jaipur and Jodhpur in Rajasthan by the Special Cell of Delhi police.
The terror module, which was busted with the help of Intelligence Bureau, was learnt to have been holed up in Rajasthan for past few weeks and had plans to carry out terror attacks during the election rally of BJP prime ministerial candidate Narendra Modi.
The counter-terror sleuths also claimed to have seized huge cache of explosives and detonators. Waqas is learnt to have trained several other members of the module in making bombs. He was learnt to be experimenting with new bomb-making materials after restrictions were imposed by the government on the easy availability of Ammonium Nitrate.

SSridhar · Post by **SSridhar** » 23 Mar 2014 18:22

Straits Times reports that an Indian (possibly from Tamilnadu) who is now a PR in Singapore is in Syria taking part in the fight against Bashar al-Assad. He is being investigated and will be arrested upon rteurn. Another Indian (also appears to be from Tamilnadu) has been deported to India already for radicalizing that guy. Sorry no link.

PS: Wahhabism is spreading in TN.

sum · Post by **sum** » 24 Mar 2014 08:53

^^ is it a co-incidence that "Waqas" and his minions were picked up from Raj where they were chilling all this while only after INC governments fell in both Delhi and Raj ( the joint team of DP/Raj Police picked them up)?