Goddamn it...Jagan wrote:Secrets of RAW - Interesting post on ARC, RAW and a review of VK Singhs book by AM AK Goel
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The 26/11 Mumbai [ Images ] terror attack case has thrown up a new twist. While the Mumbai police had closed in on Ajmal Kasab [ Images ], Faheem Ansari and Sabahuddin Hamed, the David Headley-Tawwahur Rana angle came up. Now India [ Images ] is probing a possible Oman link to the case.
Sources point out that Abdul Al-Hooti, an alleged Lashkar-e-Tayibba activist arrested in Oman in another case, could have done more than just providing SIM cards which were used during the Mumbai attacks. With evidence against Al-Hooti in the Mumbai attack increasing, the Indian agencies say that apart from interrogating Headley in the US, they would also be building a case to seek Al-Hooti's extradition from Oman.
Although an Omani national by birth, Al-Hooti is no stranger to Mumbai as his mother hails from Mumbai. He is currently in Omani police custody for his role in a terror plot there. A couple of months after the Mumbai attacks, Al-Hooti's name had cropped up and investigators were sure that he had a major role to play since he was familiar with the city's terrain. However as the investigations progressed, the focus was more on the three men apprehended by the Mumbai police.
Intelligence Bureau officials told rediff.com that the entire recee was not done by Headley and Rana alone. While the investigating team would be questioning Headley about any possible association with Fahim and Sabahuddin, the role played by Al-Hooti too will come up during the interrogation.
The LeT's Gulf operatives are the key to terror operations in India. These operatives provide funds and logistical back up.
The IB said that they had contacted the Omani authorities and had sought their help to extradite Al-Hooti to India. "We need to know about the logistic support that Al-Hooti provided and also would like to check if he is the same man who had provided the SIM cards to the Mumbai gunmen. Currently he is being interrogated in Oman for his role in a terror plot and talks are on between the two countries," an IB source said.
The manner in which the probe on 26/11 attacks and Pune blast suspect Abdul Sammad Bhatkal is progressing, gives one the indication that he is being used just as a bait to reach Yaseen Bhatkal -- Sammad's step-brother -- and the prime accused in the Pune blast, reports Vicky Nanjappa.
Sammad, who was picked up by the Mumbai Anti Terrorism Squad after he landed at the Mangalore airport from Dubai on May 24, is proving to be quite a dud for the investigators.
This is the second time that he is being picked up by the police. In 2008, he was picked up by the Bangalore police, but was later let off for want of evidence.
However, following the Pune blasts, the Mumbai ATS kept a close watch on him. Sammad, who was in the country at the time of the blasts, however, left for Dubai two days later, which increased the suspicion of the police.
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Intelligence Bureau sources, however, said that they have not come to any concrete conclusion yet. "Yaseen is an important member in this case, but Sammad has been taken in for routine questioning," they said.
shukla wrote:Indian Navy employee held for spying for PakistanMoles galore..An employee of the Indian Navy has been arrested on charges of spying for Pakistan and police claimed to have recovered from him some "secret and sensitive" documents like photograph of the Hindan Air Base and map of Meerut Cantonment. 24-year-old Chand Kumar Prasad, posted in the Navy's Aircraft Maintenance Unit in Mumbai, was arrested by Delhi Police's Special Cell from New Delhi Railway Station yesterday, police sources said. He was allegedly passing on classified information to a Pakistan High Commission official through another person, they said. Police sources said certain "secret and sensitive" documents like photograph of Hindan Air Base and map of Meerut Cantonment were recovered from Prasad.
It is a fallacy to assume that people spy only for money, though the Pakis are more than capable of matching what the Americans can pay. As the Madhuri Gupta episode has shown, people might be persuaded to spy because they are disgruntled, bear a grudge against someone, for ideological reasons, or simply because they are bored and have a superiority complex! Even the most vile and disgusting regimes in the world such as North Korea have no trouble in recruiting spies...Carl_T wrote:Question is why would they spy for Pak? Now US or a rich country could offer them a good job paid in dollars/euros, what can Pak offer that overrides patriotic feeling?
on 2nd Bureau and ISI which has moles in India.
Having read the recent news about how a General during Kargil conflict cooked up incorrect report, how sure are we that this is not another 'Samba spy scandal' in the making?Carl_T wrote:Question is why would they spy for Pak? Now US or a rich country could offer them a good job paid in dollars/euros, what can Pak offer that overrides patriotic feeling?
It doesn't matter if it is Pakistan or America or Nigeria. There will always be people who will betray their country or their duties for three main reasons; greed, pride or ideology. Even in America it wouldn't be too difficult for India or even African countries to have moles within their government. The main difficulty is cultivating and finding the right kind of individual who is likely to be a mole. This takes a LOT of work on part of the intelligence agent and a lot of research to build trust and locate proper motivations for people to do these kinds of things.Carl_T wrote:Question is why would they spy for Pak? Now US or a rich country could offer them a good job paid in dollars/euros, what can Pak offer that overrides patriotic feeling?
NEW DELHI: A four-member team of Indian investigators will leave for the US tomorrow to interrogate David Headley, who is accused of helping out Lashkar-e-Taiba terrorists carry out the 26/11 Mumbai attacks.
Three officers of National Investigation Agency (NIA) and a law officer will travel to Chicago and are expected to interrogate Headley next week, official sources said.
The team is being sent following a communication from the US Justice Department that all concerned officials and the lawyer of Headley will be available during the visit of the Indian team to facilitate their access to Headley.
However, it is not clear yet as to for how many hours or days the Indian team would get access to Headley.
so much Headley getting the 3rd degree from the NIA officials, wish he experienced the ROYAL INDIAN TREATMENT
Headley, a Chicago-based American with roots in Pakistan, has already confessed to have conducted several reccees as part of the planning for the ghastly attacks that killed 166 people in the country's financial capital in November 2008.
After being arrested in October last year, the 49-year old entered into a plea bargain with the US government in March this year, wherein he offered to be available to foreign investigators through deposition, video conferencing or letters rogatory.
India won't extradite him imo. They will just get full access in Omani soil - which is good enough. Oman is protective of its nationals as are the rest of the GCC but Oman will cooperate, I am sure they will be worried about Indian media coverage - they don't want bad rep - they dont want to be in the news for the wrong reasons. The very fact that there were anti terror raids in Muscat last year where Nawaz, Hooti and others were picked up, is being kept under the covers. Doubt overt extradition will happen, but free interrogation in the ISS office in or a Muscat prison will probably be a likely scenario.sum wrote: Omani Abdul Al-Hooti may be crucial 26/11 link
Sources point out that Abdul Al-Hooti, an alleged Lashkar-e-Tayibba activist arrested in Oman in another case, could have done more than just providing SIM cards which were used during the Mumbai attacks. With evidence against Al-Hooti in the Mumbai attack increasing, the Indian agencies say that apart from interrogating Headley in the US, they would also be building a case to seek Al-Hooti's extradition from Oman.
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The IB said that they had contacted the Omani authorities and had sought their help to extradite Al-Hooti to India. "We need to know about the logistic support that Al-Hooti provided and also would like to check if he is the same man who had provided the SIM cards to the Mumbai gunmen. Currently he is being interrogated in Oman for his role in a terror plot and talks are on between the two countries," an IB source said.
The trickle is slowly turning into a torrent!!!MOHALI: An Inter-Services Intelligence agent was arrested, with maps of vital defence installations, near the Indian Air Force station at Mullanpur in this district on Saturday. The police recovered a pistol with 20 live cartridges, maps, pictures and code numbers of IAF stations and airports in different parts of the country from Irfan Ulla, 29.
Mohali SSP Gurpreet Singh Bhullar told journalists here that Ulla was an ISI agent and close aide of dreaded terrorists Ranjit Singh alias Neta, head of the Khalistan Zindabad Force, and his associate Gurmeet Singh Bagga, who is based in Germany. — PTI
The Cold Start doctrine is a work-in-being. Its implementation would have major ramifications for strategic stability in South Asia. It would have a stabilising influence in the sense that it will build confidence in the Pakistan Army that India has no desire to dismember Pakistan through large-scale Strike Corps-led offensive operations deep into the country. Its major disadvantage would be that it provides India a viable option for launching low risk shallow-thrust offensive operations in the plains in response to a grave provocation, for example a Mumbai-type terror strike with credible evidence that the perpetrators had the backing of the Pakistan Army and the ISI. While India’s initial military response would probably be limited to the areas across the LoC in Jammu and Kashmir, should Pakistan choose to escalate the situation by launching retaliatory strikes in areas across the international boundary, India may be forced to implement its Cold Start doctrine immediately by launching several divisional-size IBGs into Pakistani territory all across the Western front. This would unhinge the Pakistan Army as it has virtually no counter options.
MANGALORE: Quarries located on the border of Kasargod and Dakshina Kannada districts have attracted the attention of Intelligence agencies probing terrorist outfits, for illegally stockpiling huge quantities of explosives.
The sudden increase in number of quarries in Bantwal taluk has heightened the suspicion.
The blast at a quarry near Kanyana in December 2009 revealed a stock of more than 600 bombs shaped like coconuts, cricket balls and footballs. Bantwal police raided a house in Veerakambha in April this year and discovered 18 bags of ammonium nitrate, 650 gelatin sticks and 1,000 electronic detonators, police sources said, adding that investigations into the blasts in Bangalore has revealed a link with quarries in Dakshina Kannada. The 2008 blasts in Bangalore had been traced to gelatin sticks, similar to those stocked illegally by quarries in the district.
Either the Indian's are incredibly Stupid or they are Incredibly Smart, you be the judge!In January 2010 eight states—the United States, the Russian Federation, the United Kingdom, France, China, India, Pakistan and Israel—possessed more than 7500 operational nuclear weapons. If all nuclear warheads are counted, including operational warheads, spares, those in both active and inactive storage, and intact warheads scheduled for dismantlement, these states together possessed a total of more than 22 000 warheads.
The five legally recognized nuclear weapon states, as defined by the 1968 Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT)—China, France, Russia, the United States and the United Kingdom—are either deploying new nuclear weapon systems or have announced their intention to do so; none appears to be prepared to give up their nuclear arsenals in the foreseeable future.
India and Pakistan, which along with Israel are de facto nuclear weapon states outside the NPT, continue to develop new missile systems that are capable of delivering nuclear weapons and are also expanding their capacities to produce fissile material. Israel appears to be waiting to assess how the situation with Iran’s nuclear programme develops. North Korea is believed to have produced enough plutonium for a small number of nuclear warheads, but it is unknown whether it has operational weapons.
Deployed warheads, January 2010
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Country Deployed warheads Other warheads Total USA 2468 7100 9600 Russia 4630 7300 12000 UK 160 65 225 France 300 . . 300 China . . 200 240 India . . 60–80 60–80 Pakistan . . 70–90 70–90 Israel . . 80 80 Total 7 560 14900 22600
NEW DELHI: After racing ahead of India in ballistic and cruise missiles, with covert help from China and North Korea, Pakistan seems to be surging ahead on the nuclear front too.
A series of recent estimates by international nuclear watchdogs and reputed thinktanks hold that Pakistan has a total of 70 to 90 warheads compared to India's 60 to 80. China, in comparison, has around 240 warheads.
Even as global fears about the possibility of jihadis gaining access to Pakistan's nuclear arsenal, enriched uranium or technical know-how continue, its deadly inventory is only going to expand in the coming years.
Pakistan, after all, is supplementing its ongoing enriched uranium-based nuke programme with a weapons-grade plutonium one. Its two new heavy-water reactors being built at Khushab nuclear facility, with China's help, are clearly geared towards producing weapons-grade plutonium, as reported by TOI earlier.
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NEW DELHI: In a big relief to mobile phone operators, the government has agreed to allow import of Chinese telecom equipment certified by international security audit firms till an indigenous certification agency is in place.
Sources in the home ministry said the department of telecom was preparing detailed guidelines carrying modalities for the import of sensitive telecom gear.
The move will be a breather for Chinese vendors like Huawei and ZTE which faced the heat in the last couple of years as the home ministry had warned that these telecom equipment vendors may install spyware and malware that could monitor voice and data traffic and bring down networks.
As per the latest proposal of allowing import of Chinese telecom equipment, telecom companies will be allowed to import the equipment from foreign suppliers only after an international certification agency visits the plant of the vendor and gives a security clearance.
India currently does not have any certification agency so it was planning to rope in eight such international bodies -- Canada's Electronic Warefare Associates, US-based Infoguard and Israel's ALTAL Security Consulting among others -- to carry out the task.LMFAO man this made my day!Mobile operators who intend to import telecom equipment have to give a bank guarantee to the department of telecommunications. The operators will be liable to forfeit their bank guarantee and may also face criminal proceedings if any security threats are detected in the equipment at a later stage.
The stopgap solution, which will be in place for the next 12 months, will ensure that Indian telcos do not face project delays. The government, in the meantime, will initiate the process to set up an indigenous certification agency of international standard.
LMFAO man this made my day!Mobile operators who intend to import telecom equipment have to give a bank guarantee to the department of telecommunications. The operators will be liable to forfeit their bank guarantee and may also face criminal proceedings if any security threats are detected in the equipment at a later stageIndia was able to get back Abdul Samad, the brother of alleged Pune blast accused Yasin Bhatkal, from Dubai after New Delhi conveyed to the UAE its serious concern over four key Indian Mujahideen (IM) operatives being allowed to escape from Sharjah two months ago.
Top government sources told The Indian Express that at a security coordination meeting two months ago, New Delhi had asked UAE for help in nabbing four IM operatives suspected to be involved in the Pune attack, who were then in Sharjah. Their addresses were handed over; however, the four men escaped. India was later told that the men could not be found at the given addresses. Indian agencies believe the IM men escaped to Pakistan.
UAE cooperated with Indian agencies to mount round-the-clock surveillance on Samad for nearly a month, and ultimately virtually forced him to board Air India’s Dubai-Mangalore flight on May 24, a day before his three-month Dubai visa was to expire.
Indian intelligence operatives escorted him to Mangalore, and he was taken away by Maharashtra ATS officers who were waiting on the tarmac.
Vivek Raghuvanshi wrote: India should give airbases facility in India to its allies Israel and USA
Israeli and American airbases facility in India will take care of all of India's problems in Asia.
Could you help me understand HOW giving Israeli and American airbases facility in India will take care of all of India's problems in Asia?Vivek Raghuvanshi wrote:Israeli and American airbases facility in India will take care of all of India's problems in Asia.
Good show. Do explain the usefulness and benefits of your insight at a Strategic level.Vivek Raghuvanshi wrote:I was generating Insight at a Strategic level. Unfortunately in India people only understand Tactical Intelligence and NOT Strategic Intelligence.
Sorry I don't handle multi million dollar projects, but I did handle a $5Billion + project would that sufficeVivek Raghuvanshi wrote:
Craig,
It is called Counter Guarantee.
If you have handled multi million dollar projects, you will understand this
Vivek Raghuvanshi wrote:
Craig,
Precisely, this is why India should give airbases facility in India to its allies Israel and USA
Israeli and American airbases facility in India will take care of all of India's problems in Asia.
India's problem in Asia....