Internal Security Watch

[darshhan]

I was sincerely hoping that some day the person from Bihar would improve, and believe in law and order. Looks like that is not going to happen any where in the near future . If this is the attitude of citizens of Bihar, how do you expect any other state to tolerate them? This protestor just confirms the age old truth that in Bihar railways is taken as a family property of every Bihari citizen. Pulling chains to stop where ever they want, attacking TTEs doing their duty all these are now getting a valid legal status in this state

Are you sure that these things don't happen in other parts of india?I can give you hundreds of examples from all over india.Please be careful while fingerpointing.

If you want to indulge in regionalism it's fine but don't call yourself a nationalist.

[Avinash R]

Police nod needed for MCOCA cases: Supreme Court

2 Jun 2009, 1313 hrs IST
NEW DELHI, India: In a significant ruling, the Supreme Court has said that courts set up under the stringent Maharashtra Control of Organized Crime Act (MCOCA) cannot start prosecution without the go-ahead of a senior police officer.

The ruling makes the MCOCA courts completely dependent on a nod by police to prosecute not only erring police officers but even mobsters involved in crimes like extortion, gun-running, money-laundering, terrorism and insurgency.

But with this ruling, the MCOCA courts cannot move an inch without police nod.

Meaning without political sanction to police, no criminal/terrorist will ever have to face trial in MCOCA courts. The normal courts will set free terrorists like Madani who will reinvent themselves are politicians and continue to fuel terror activities not only in their swamps but to other parts of the country.
BTW what happened to GCOCA? Did it receive presidential sanction or the honourable HM is still sitting on the files?

[Avinash R]

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holy birather dont be too harsh on biharis. A decade of misrule has lead to today's situation were vandalism pays dividends rather than a simple request to the rail mantri. Blame the bufoon master and his family who brought bihar to this situation were 'might is right' situation prevailed. And looking at the way the bufoon got kicked in the LS elections he is unlikely to return to create more trouble in bihar. The situation in bihar is only going to improve as nitish is at the helm and lets hope there is no itch within congress to impose president's rule like dear mamta wants in neighbouring WB.

[mmasand]

Sources in the Intelligence Bureau said that Hooti, originally from Kerala but now an Omani national

I don't know how correct this finding is. Does Oman allow people from other countries to become an Omani citizen? AFAIK none of the "Gelf" countries have such a provision in place. Infact if I am not mistaken in UAE non-citizens cannot even start a business without a local sponsor.

Sachin,its quite possible that his father was an Omani and so he acquired naturalisation,besides the UAE does give passports to select Iranians,other arab nationalities like Yemeni,Somali and those without proper documents have just been given passports too.Besides the UAE dis send a team of Interior ministry officials to India to locate kids of Indian mothers so they can bring them back into UAE as they have an identity crisis!

[Rahul Mehta]

burning three trains is not the right way to get anything done. railway minister is always
on the lookout for votes and merely blocking the tracks would have sufficed to get their point
across if at all they wanted to break the law. I am afraid the bar has been so maladjusted in india that unless you kill 10 people and burn a few buses your protest is not deemed successful.

If one has contacts with judges' relative lawyers, the judges wont punish one, even if one burns 100 coaches and kills upto 2 persons per coach. So "protesters" , some of whom are local criminals with nexuses with local judges, consider below their dignity to stop at mere dharanaa. Their market value will decrease if protest ends without burning buses or coaches.

We BRites should formally thank those thugs for not killing anyone, and letting passengers come out before coaches were set on fire. Otherwise, with judges like we have today, criminals were assured of zero punishments even for murders.

[Sachin]

The attack in Bihar was not a people's attack -- there is news emerging that this was orchestrated by certain quarters to embarrass Mamata and Nitish.

Any ideas on the localities of the attack and demography? We may then be able to get some hint on the possible trouble makers and who instigated them.

[Sanku]

My information sources are local -- meanwhile the same from the web

The following are said to be linked

Tight security for Bihar by-election
http://www.thehindu.com/2009/05/28/stor ... 030700.htm
JD-U wins Fatuha assembly by-poll in Bihar
http://www.theindiaelection.com/read/ht ... n%20Bihar/

Lalu slams Nitish over Bihar train burning
http://www.ndtv.com/convergence/ndtv/st ... 0090095590

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Meanwhile

http://www.zeenews.com/news535877.html

"It was done to malign me. I do not hold people responsible for this. Some mischief must have been done," she said, condemning the violent incidents at Khusrupur, 32 kms from Patna, where the railway station building was ransacked and two trains were torched.

Mamata said she had heard that a local advertisement about withdrawal of halts has appeared without the consent of her ministry. If the Railway had indeed issued it, that could be found out through inquiry and a showcause notice could be issued.

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Lalu had put all his strength here (other links attest to the same)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fatuha

Fatuha (also Fatwah) is a city and a notified area in Patna district in the state of Bihar, India.it is 24 km. away from Patna, capital city of Bihar in the east direction. It is the first development block unit which has a website.The Railway yard is new feature, here.More recently from 30 Aug'07 Fatuha has started functioning as police subdivision.Didarganj,Fatuha,Khusrupur,Daniawa,& Shahjahanpur are the police stations coming under this subdivision.It is an important industrial centre known for small industries.It is situated at the confluence of Ganga and Punpun.It is known for Handloom industries[citation needed].

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So Lalu goes all out in Fatuha -- loses the by elections on 28 and shit happens.

[Avinash R]

Nitish slams Lalu Prasad’s decision for crowd violence
PTI

Lalu Prasad who was on Tuesday accused of introducing numerous passenger halts in the state without sanction. “By creating several halts without ensuring permission from the Railway Board, Prasad has put present railway minister (Mamata Banerjee) in the dock”, Kumar said.

“The Railways, in the previous government, functioned in Lalu’s style. The RJD leader, through oral orders created these halts without the nod of the Railway board”, he said.
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It's evident who is desperate to create trouble in bihar and get president's rule imposed there.

[Stan_Savljevic]

Some great news at last....

Days after the DHD (J) militants were assigned to massacre all Nagas inhabiting North Cachar Hills district in Assam, the outfit's Commander-in-Chief Jewel Garlosa has been arrested and is being held at an undisclosed location in southern India. Frankey Dimasa, another frontline leader of the outfit, was killed in an encounter in Guwahati on Wednesday evening. The DHD (J) has emerged as one of the most active militant outfits in the country. The group has acquired long-range and sophisticated weapons and their monetary collection far exceeds that of ULFA and NDFB. Violence meanwhile continued unabated in the North Cachar Hills district as heavily armed DHD(J) militants gunned down five people in a pre-dawn swoop on a Zeme Naga village in southern Assam. The militants set ablaze 54 houses in the village.

Since March, DHD (J) militants, who want a separate state for Dimasas, have launched violent attacks on several other tribes which inhabit the district. The attacks, more recently, have been directed towards Zeme Nagas, who constitute 11 per cent of the district's population dominated by the Dimasas. The army and paramilitary forces have joined hands with the state police to launch a joint operation against the militant outfits, particularly the DHD (J). The full-blown ethnic conflict since February, 2009 has claimed the lives of more than 30 people; burnt down many villages and displaced hundreds of villagers.

http://www.ndtv.com/news/india/assam_vi ... ustody.php

[Stan_Savljevic]

IB warns terror strikes in south India, security beefed in AP

An alert was sounded on Thursday in the city following inputs from Intelligence Bureau (IB) that three terrorists have entered in the country and are planning to strike important cities of south India. Security has been beefed up at major hospitals and crowded places including railway and bus stations in the city, City Police Commissioner B Prasada Rao told PTI.

http://www.hinduonnet.com/thehindu/holn ... 042127.htm

[sum]

Hyderabad anyways has tons of LeT OWGs/sleepers keeping low and waiting for activation orders. They dont need any outsiders.

Just last week, two home guards were shot by some "youth" and a few months back, a known LeT pig shot a counter-intel officer of the AP police when the police tried chasing him (the pig escaped).

[madhu]

Rediff

Sources said the initial plan of the three terrorists, who came from the Poonch sector of Jammu and Kashmir was to carry out strikes in Tirupati and Warangal in Andhra Pradesh.

I am totally surprise, this info has been told in www.politicsparty.comatleast two months ago. But I did not believe it at all

[Avinash R]

Did anyone check the news clips on Force One(commando force for mah)? Same old hand-me-down SLR's and inaccurate Ak's have been issued for training. What happened to the newly brought M16 and M82's? If those weapons are for only mumbai police as chindu suggests then why are there 2 forces who have essentially the same task(fighting terrorists)? If Force One is tasked to take on terrorists in mumbai then why give the best weapons that money can buy to the mumbai police who will not be using them in case of an attack as Force One will be sent to deal with the situation. Isn't this sowing the seeds of failure right at the start? The govt raised this force primarily for fighting terrorists but did not reflect on providing essential weapons required by it to discharge it's duty.

[aryank]

Flash News

Dawood's brother Anees Ibrahim shot dead in Karachi.

[Avinash R]

Bangla brigands on looting spree
5 Jun 2009

First it was Aila. Now it's robbers from across the border. Gangs are sailing in from Bangladesh on the pretext of supplying relief and looting the cyclone victims in the Sunderbans. Interestingly, state police is content blaming the storm for the spurt in crime.

[shyamd]

there is no such hard and fast rule sachin .. you can be a citizen if the ruler wishes, the process isn't institutionalized that's all.

I don't know how correct this finding is. Does Oman allow people from other countries to become an Omani citizen? AFAIK none of the "Gelf" countries have such a provision in place. Infact if I am not mistaken in UAE non-citizens cannot even start a business without a local sponsor.

Sachin,its quite possible that his father was an Omani and so he acquired naturalisation,besides the UAE does give passports to select Iranians,other arab nationalities like Yemeni,Somali and those without proper documents have just been given passports too.Besides the UAE dis send a team of Interior ministry officials to India to locate kids of Indian mothers so they can bring them back into UAE as they have an identity crisis!

Sorry for the late reply.

Oman is the only GCC nation that has a proper policy on naturalisation. If you have lived in Oman for over 25 years, you can apply for naturalisation (But I think it needs to be a proper job, and not labourer types). Many of our family friends are now naturalised Omani citizens and avail the benefits of Omani nationals. But this is only in Oman, don't know about elsewhere in the GCC. They also gave Omani citizenship to anyone who made exceptional contributions to the development of the country, so the Indian doctors who really developed the services at Omani hospitals were given nationality for example.

They were also short of air force pilots back in the fight against Yemen, the people who fought for them were also given nationality. A SL tamil friend of ours was given nationality.

If you fight for the nation or make contributions, you deserve to be called Omani, is the thinking.

So in Al Hooti's case, The AL Hooti surname are I think originated from Baluchistan, so father is probably Balochi (they make up a lot of the Omani national population)

[Avinash R]

TN on general terror alert: Police

5 Jun 2009, 1330 hrs IST

CHENNAI, India: With the Intelligence Bureau (IB) sounding an alert about possible terror strikes in southern cities, Tamil Nadu police has put in place a preventive mechanism even though no specific warning has been received by the state.

Last year, intelligence alerts were issued to Tamil Nadu saying the LeT could attack five major places of Hindu worship, but the police played it down saying it was a "regular" alert.

A local terror module, including its mastermind Ali Abdullah and a key operative Abdul Gaffoor, was busted in the city last year. The group had planned to bomb key installations in Chennai and Tirunelveli.

UP cops to get lighter bulletproof jackets
Friday, June 05, 2009, (Lucknow)
Uttar Pradesh police will buy state-of-the-art bullet proof jackets for its personnel to enable them to combat growing threat of terrorism and organised crime.



Madani's arrest may help crack Lashkar's financial code
June 05, 2009
The arrest of Abdullah Omar Madani in New Delhi [Images] will help the police crack the financial code of the Lashkar-e-Tayiba [Images], according sources in the Intelligence Bureau.

[Sachin]

The arrest of Abdullah Omar Madani in New Delhi

Local Malayalam media reports that Omar Madani (a new chap than our deal old Abdul Nasser Madani) had plans to recruit new members from Kerala and then send them to Pakistan for Jehadi training.

[svinayak]

Suspected key Lashkar-e-Taiba functionary Mohammad Omar Madani being produced by the Delhi Police in New Delhi on Friday.

So it is money making racket with a business model to recruit and strike. Money is flooded to sustain this kind of operation so that it becomes a LOCAL franchise operation. They need to target the flow of money.


http://www.hindu.com/2009/06/06/stories ... 830100.htm

An alleged Lashkar-e-Taiba operative held on Thursday ran a logistical hub that funnelled dozens of jihadists through Nepal to targets across in India, Delhi Police sources have told The Hindu.

Working with fugitive Lashkar commander Mohammad Saifullah, Bihar-born Nepali national Mohammad Omar Madani provided Lashkar operatives with passports, cash and communications facilities that allowed them to travel from Pakistan to India through Kathmandu — and then secure their escape.

[ramana]

Now that new UPA govt has come can we start tracking the terrorists arrested and the background info:

Name, location arrested, origins, other terrorists names in the report and principal and sub plots?

Another thing is if most of these Nepali locations are not being disrupted by IB and RAW? Are they under watch atleast?

[Prem Kumar]

Ramana Sir,

Is there a place in BR for compiling all this information? There was also a post in the Mumbai attack forum in which the poster listed all the terrorist attacks in the past few years.

BR, with its amazing news gathering/collating/analysis capabilities can be a great place for collating these kinds of things in a ready to access place. This is not available in any of the mainstream media. The individual news pieces might be, but not the whole picture, its interconnections etc.

So, for example: in the terrorist attack thread, we could collect all the articles, timelines, photos/videos, what did the government say at that time & what it actually did etc.

Making this data "structured" would be immensely helpful. And just like news outlets regularly reference BR for stats/specs (with our without giving credit), this kind of data too will find its way to the mainstream media and back to the public. We can hopefully make them see the big picture & history

[ramana]

We have an archive for the threads. What we need is the data to be collated in a searchable database. I am not a software person but what I am thinking is atleast now with new govt inplace we should start a collation of the perpetrators. We hear so many Abu this, Abu that, and its disgusting to find out both are same.

So maybe create a on-line database with data from these threads?

[Prem Kumar]

Yes - an online searchable DB wll be a good way. I dont know what capabilities are offered by the software that the BR forum is run on. If it doesnt provide these capabilities, we can think of freeware like Google Docs & Spreadsheets, Zoho etc.

[shyamd]

Saeed talent-scout label on catch. PC confirms Lashkar link

Delhi police said Mohammad Umer Madni, a maulvi from Varanasi who had moved to Nepal 25 years ago, was a “talent-spotter” who was recruiting in India and passing money to Lashkar modules.

His arrest comes two days after a Pakistani court freed Hafiz, prime accused in the November Mumbai attacks, from house arrest.

“The man arrested in Delhi does have links with Hafiz Saeed,” Chidambaram said. “The arrest is a measure of the good intelligence and investigative work done by our intelligence agencies and police.”

Police sources said Madni had proved tough to crack, but eventually revealed his activities in India over the past 15 days, during which he visited Patna and Aligarh. (See chart)

Madni had been in Delhi to pass on money to a Lashkar link, officers said. When arrested, he had $8000, Rs 50,000 in fake notes and 4,068 Nepalese rupees on him, as well as a Nepalese citizenship card and the bills of phone calls made to Pakistan and Nepal.

Police sources said the accused also carried a diary with mostly Urdu entries. Parts of it were in the “Matrix code”, often used by militants. The diary allegedly contained the phone numbers and operation plans of top Lashkar operatives, as well as details of financial transactions Madni had carried out in the past six months.

Investigators have apparently been able to track his emails to the Lashkar leadership.

Sources suggested Madni may have come to Delhi to do the groundwork for a terror strike but in their official comments, the police denied this.

[Prem Kumar]

We have an archive for the threads. What we need is the data to be collated in a searchable database. I am not a software person but what I am thinking is atleast now with new govt inplace we should start a collation of the perpetrators. We hear so many Abu this, Abu that, and its disgusting to find out both are same.

So maybe create a on-line database with data from these threads?

Ramana Sir,

Can you let me know the capabilities of the BR forum software from the Webmasters? We can take it from there. I'd like to help move this forward

[sum]

Just love the way the SDRE policemen are eying their new bakra and salivating about the fun they will have with him once the cameras are off (The bear hug the TFTA is getting shows the love of the DP for Madni)..

[Ananya]

Wonder why always have to drag people to court when we can have video conferencing

[Stan_Savljevic]

After their balls get squeezed with the arrest of Jewel Garlossa, DHD (Jewel) declares unilateral ceasefire for 3 months
http://www.hindu.com/2009/06/07/stories ... 770800.htm

DHD (Jewel) planned base in Dhaka
http://www.hindu.com/2009/06/07/stories ... 592000.htm

The militant leader had taken an apartment in Bangalore on a monthly rent of Rs. 9,000 and obtained a driving licence with a fake name. A fitness freak, Jewel was a regular visitor to a gym in a posh locality in Bangalore where he was finally arrested. The 36-year-old militant leader spent about Rs. 50,000 a month on anti-ageing beauty care therapies.

Mr. Srivastava said Jewel’s next in command in the outfit, Niranjan Hojai, was currently in a South Asian country and the Assam police would make all efforts to apprehend him through diplomatic channels. He declined to name the country. {either BD or Nepal, if diplomatic channels has to work, most likely BD. If it was Nepal, we would have caught him by now, me thinks.}

Meanwhile,
“Religion, caste no ground for commuting sentence”

In the instant case, Mohammed Ishaq challenged the order of the single judge of the Andhra Pradesh High Court, partly allowing the appeal of S. Kazam Pasha, an Islamic scholar, and setting aside his conviction for certain offences and convicting him of rioting and house trespass and awarding six-month imprisonment. As the State did not go in appeal, Mr. Ishaq filed a special leave petition. Since even the six-month term was commuted by the State to a fine of Rs. 5,000, the appellant questioned its action.

The Bench said: “We find that the order of the Andhra Pradesh government is untenable in law.” Though the High Court passed the order on January 29, 2007, Pasha surrendered before the sessions court only on April 16 that year and then filed an application for commutation. During this period, he had been absconding. This “unmistakably shows his callous attitude to the rule of law. The executive clemency may not be extended to a citizen who did not surrender before the trial court as mandated by the law. This vital aspect has been completely ignored by the Andhra Pradesh government.”

http://www.hindu.com/2009/06/07/stories ... 602000.htm

[Stan_Savljevic]

Naxalism: A Rs 1500 crore red corridor empire
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/Indi ... 627114.cms

CPI (Maoist) and especially its splinter groups, which extort the money hardly pump it back for running the movement but instead use it to maintain luxurious lifestyles for their masters, the officials said.
....
Interestingly, it is not just the Naxals who approach contractors for money but in some cases even the contractors approach the Naxals with money. "It has come to our notice that in certain incidents, contractors have themselves approached the Naxals to blow up the roads built by them because they had used inferior material at first place. As the roads are blown away, no quality inspection takes place," Director General of Police (Jharkhand) V D Ram said.

[Avinash R]

Naxalism: A Rs 1500 crore red corridor empire
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/Indi ... 627114.cms

CPI (Maoist) and especially its splinter groups, which extort the money hardly pump it back for running the movement but instead use it to maintain luxurious lifestyles for their masters, the officials said.
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Interestingly, it is not just the Naxals who approach contractors for money but in some cases even the contractors approach the Naxals with money. "It has come to our notice that in certain incidents, contractors have themselves approached the Naxals to blow up the roads built by them because they had used inferior material at first place. As the roads are blown away, no quality inspection takes place," Director General of Police (Jharkhand) V D Ram said.

And goebel's in the red menace thread wanted us to believe that naxals are poor and are fighting for their rights. This exposes their lies. Looting from the works which are meant to benefit the poor and keeping them terrorised through their violence filled power-through-barrel-of-gun ideology, this is the true face of naxals/maoists.

[Avinash R]

Madani raised funds from Saudi in name of madarsas

NEW DELHI: Two days after he was arrested, LeT operative Mohammad Umer Madani has told Delhi Police that he had raised huge funds from Saudi countries over the past 10 years while recruiting young men for terror activities. The Delhi Police special cell has also traced a bank account, reportedly containing Rs 20 lakh Nepalese currency, and credit card issued to him by a bank in Nepal.
...

He is reported to have told cops that he has been running several madarsas on the Indo-Nepal border and frequently visits Pakistan and Saudi Arabia. "Madani used to collect money from several organisations in Saudi Arabia in the name of funding madarsas in Nepal. He had diverted the funds collected between 1998 and 2008 for jehadi activities,'' the officer added.

After mounting pressure in 2004, Madani fled to Qatar and raised funds there. He came back to Nepal in 2006 where he started Nice Travels and Tours and again started headhunting,'' said a source.
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Pig starts singing.


ATS to quiz Madani on train blasts
Sunday, Jun 07, 2009
...Madani has reportedly identified the train blasts accused Kamal Ahmed Ansari. The Mumbai police are not yet looking to question Madani in connection with the November 26, 2008, terror strike. “His name has not come anywhere. If any links are found, we will interrogate him,” the police said.

[IndraD]

http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/Indi ... 626132.cms
NCP leader Padamsinh in CBI custody for murder

There was repeated reference to Sharad Pwar as well on news regarding killing of this man. Patil was rushed to a Mumbai hospital in the morning following complaints of headache, giddiness and hypertension, according to officials.

[Gerard]

Securing India

The Home Minister’s plans for improving security across the country will succeed only with better cooperation from State governments.

[Gerard]

Law at its own pace

There is little sign that the “fast-track” trial of Kasab, the terrorist caught alive during the attack on Mumbai, will end in the near future.

[Gerard]

Maoists run riot in Orissa
After being forced to flee Chhattisgarh, Andhra

[James B]

Centre to tackle Naxal menace by launching new scheme

[Gerard]

Welcome to India’s newest, secret state

Here across a 1,000-sq-km area bordering Orissa in West Midnapore district, the Maoists over the last eight months have quietly unleashed new weapons in their battle against the Indian state: drinking water, irrigation, roads and health care.

Carefully shielded from the public eye, the Hindustan Times found India’s second “liberated zone”, a Maoist-run state within a state where development for more than 2 lakh people is unfolding at a pace not seen in 30 years of Left rule.

Across India, 150 of 600 districts are termed “Naxal affected”, meaning areas nominally or directly under the control of Maoists. India’s so-called Red Corridor now sprawls across nine states. It is a situation that Prime Minister Manmohan Singh has called “the gravest challenge to India’s security”.

[Keshav]

Gerard -
I am always consistenly surprised at the high quality of articles you post.

I don't think there's any real reason to doubt HT but I don't see any other newspapers that have corraborated this story. Or any reason why they would terrorize every other area in India but pursue development in only a couple areas.

[Gerard]

Army role in Naxalite fight

The Indian Army is working on a plan to set up a local command in Chhattisgarh’s Bilaspur district, whose primary responsibility will be to monitor Naxalite activity and train the state’s police forces in counter-insurgency tactics.

[Singha]

thats a good move. our own CENTCOM of sorts.