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Stan_Savljevic wrote:Murali, do you want to start a separate thread with focus on border fencing and border/strategic roads/infra building? Kaladan, Moreh, fencing with BD, Burma, pak, Nepal (?), Bhutan and all that jazz... BRO's achievements have not received the kudos they richly deserve. ISW thread is too big to handle slow-mo items such as these.

Border Roads turns 50; old traditions; new problems
http://ajaishukla.blogspot.com/2010/05/ ... tions.html

shyamd wrote:Chidambaram has his way as National Intelligence Grid gets PM's okay

ramana wrote:The Nat Grid will give great leverage to HMji who ever it is in getting details of all and sundry.

With India emerging as a major tourist destination and also facing terror threat, Government has decided to go in for a fool-proof system to identify and track the movement of foreigners in the country.

A Rs 1,011 crore project to modernise and upgrade the entire range of immigration services would be implemented over the next four-and-half years by the Union Home Ministry.

A meeting of the Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs today approved a mission mode project titled ‘Immigration, Visa and Foreigners’ Registration and Tracking’ (IVFRT), an official spokesperson said.

Its core objective would be to develop and implement a secure and integrated service delivery framework that would facilitate legitimate travellers while strengthening security, she said, adding that IVFRT would use biometric systems and intelligent document scanners to authenticate the identities.

The first phase of the project would be implemented in Dhaka, London, four Immigration Check Posts (ICPs) at places including Delhi and Mumbai, Kolkata, and three Foreigners Regional Registration Office at these three metros.

The second phase would cover all other missions abroad and places in India, the spokesperson said.

Of the total cost, Rs 132 crore would be spent during the first phase till June 2011 and the remaining Rs 879 crore in the second phase up to September 2014.

The spokesperson said the project was evolved after studying similar integrated immigration systems functioning in the US, the UK, the Netherlands and Germany.

Stan_Savljevic wrote:PS: Let me go out on a limb here... There is Yindoo terrorism, there is Islamic terrorism, what else is missing?!

Manu wrote: With respect, there is no such thing as Yindoo Terrorism.

SSridhar wrote:Shoot-out in Hyderabad: 1 Police Constable killed
Some channels are saying SIMI hand is suspected.

derkonig wrote:^^
How much time before INC starts moaning about Hindooooo terrorists?

Even as the investigations into the firing incident has just commenced, the Hyderabad police is suspecting the involvement of a man named Viqaruddin, who has been on the run for the last three years, in the Friday attack.

Sources in the Hyderabad police department and the Intelligence Bureau told rediff.com that Viqarruddin, also known as Viqar, is considered to be one of the most notorious criminals after Harkat-ul-Jihadi terrorist Shahid Bilal, who also hailed from Hyderabad.

The police and the IB are certain that Viqar is not in Hyderabad now.

"We are quite sure that he may not have gone out of the country now and regular intelligence intercepts suggest that he is around Andhra Pradesh or in the neighbouring states at the moment," said sources.

Viqar has managed to slip from the police' grip several times.

Two years ago, the Hyderabad police had almost caught up with Viqaruddin. But after an exchange of fire, Viqaruddin managed to escape.

A month ago, there had been a rumour of Viqar's arrest in Belgaum, Karnataka [ Images ], however it turned out to be a different man.

Viqar reportedly started out by joining the notorious outfit Darsgah Jihad-O-Shahadat. The 28-year-old, who is suspected to be an agent of the Inter Services Intelligence, is a resident of the Old Malakapet area in Hyderabad.

He first came under scrutiny following the Mecca Masjid blasts three years ago. A day after the blasts, Viqar had gone missing, which led police to believe that he may have been involved in it.

Viqar, a close aide of Bilal, returned to Hyderabad a couple of months after the blasts. The police managed to track him and summoned him to the police station. However, since the Hyderabad police did not have enough evidence against him then, it had to let him go.

According to Viqar's neighbours, the Mecca Masjid incident had been a turning point when several youngsters went astray to revenge the blast.
Viqar too had been one among them. He has made several attempts to unleash terror in the city in a bid to avenge the blast, and the deaths in the protest following the blast.

Muppalla wrote:

praksam wrote:Last Plane to Lahore

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/amb-marc- ... 68892.html

I see this is the most glaring fact that was discussed a zillion years ago on this very forum when Calvin was there. It was in one of those rhona-dhona threads after a certain terror attack in India when we were discussing the need of POTA etc.

The western-defined human rights principles, law etc are going to collapse in no time and it will be a no-holds-barred fight to finish of terrorism. The methodology of "if a person dies in suspicious condition, the first suspect is always spouse" will be applied to terror. If an attack happens the suspect will be Pakistan or Muslims. The situation is fast approaching or may have already approached. Pakis or Muslims in general can put the feeling or the seize in better terms than many of us.

Same situation exists for Muslims in India as well. The system has reached such a situation and the apeasement politics did start to crumble. However, for various other zillion complexities of India, the status quo still survived. The concept of "Hindu Terror" is brought just to postpone the situation from calling "all muslims are terrorists/suspects". However, all it needs is few more attacks in India that will take the situation to where it was about an year ago.

The options for muslims across the world are very few, for any attack genuine or wrong, the onus will be on them to prove that they are innocent which means they have to work towards cleaning up all their backyards. Ignoring due to inability or sympathy are not options. Even if they think this whole jihad is genuine, they have to change the war and they will not be able to sustain the terror. The west will lose patience due to economic chaos and they will just use the maximum effective means and give damn to their own created "free world" rules. India will also do the same at that time (both in-house and out side).

Early this week, home minister P Chidambaram suggested that India needed to redefine cross-border terrorism since it was not just from Pakistan but "extends beyond to the Middle East". Officials in the security establishment said the home minister's reference to Middle East wasn't just an off-the-cuff remark but a reflection of recent realization about the sprawling operations of Lashkar-e-Taiba and its sympathizers in the Gulf region.

Terror operatives in the Gulf have had a far more significant role in orchestrating several of the recent terror attacks than what was known until recently, sources in the security establishment said. They funded the serial blasts in Bangalore in 2008 and assisted the escape of its mastermind Tadiyantavide Naseer to Bangladesh, and probably had a significant role in the 26/11 attacks. More noticeably, most of the intercepts of terror communications in recent times too show intricate links to the Gulf region.

Extensive details of LeT activities in Gulf region have been emerging during the interrogation of Sarfaraz Nawaz, a Keralite who played a crucial role in the serial blasts in Bangalore on July 25, 2008. Nawaz was a key link between LeT's Gulf leadership and its sympathizers in south India. Omani authorities handed over Nawaz to Indian agencies a few months ago. He arranged funds for the Bangalore blasts and helped Naseer, who executed the serial blasts, escape to Bangladesh, where he was later arrested and brought back to India.

Investigators believe, based on Nawaz's interrogation and fresh inputs received from Gulf contacts, that LeT has been using the Gulf region as a major logistics centre for recruitment, financing and movement of Indians to Pakistan. The terrorist group is also running several businesses in the region, through which it is able to move money and provide visas to its cadres.

A Pakistani, Wali alias Rehan, may be running the entire LeT operations in the Gulf region, according to investigators. He is being assisted by several others including some local people such as Omani citizen Abdul Aziz Al Hooti, who procured some of the SIM cards for the 26/11 attacks in Mumbai. Al Hooti is now in the custody of authorities in Oman, for planning to carry out local terror attacks. In Qatar, LeT operations are looked after by Abu Farris, whose main work is to attract Indian expatriates to jihad.

The LeT network in the Gulf has managed to recruit several dozen Indian Muslim youngsters for training in Pakistan, many of whom have come back to India to carry out strikes. Many of these men are former SIMI members who had moved to extremist views over the past two decades. Their role in assisting LeT was increasingly becoming clear, said one of the officials working on the region. These former SIMI cadres are also involved in assisting political movements such as the NDF (National Development Front) and PDP (People's Democratic Party), both based in Kerala, find funding and support.

Nawaz, the Bangalore blast accused, has also provided fresh details on several former SIMI leaders. Of all of them, investigators are most curious about C A M Basheer, a charismatic SIMI leader whose name has cropped up in several terror investigations across south-western India.

Many investigators believe Basheer was among the first non-Kashmiri Indians, if not the very first, to travel to Pakistan for terrorist training in an LeT camp. Intelligence agencies had tracked Basheer to Singapore and Saudi Arabia in the past, but they could never really get an idea of his activities. Investigators are convinced that Basheer is a crucial link to several terror acts in India. According to Nawaz, Basheer too is now based in the Gulf and may have partially funded the Bangalore blasts.

In recent times, LeT cadres in the Middle East have been trying to organize attacks against local regimes, which have for long shut their eyes to the activities of the Pakistani terror group. These over-ambitious LeT efforts have been a blessing in disguise for Indian agencies, said a senior official. "Their (the Gulf governments') cooperation has significantly gone up," he said of the fallout of recent LeT meddling in local affairs.

A source said agencies had credible inputs to show that LeT was involved in training at least one of the tribal resistances in Yemen. The training for the armed resistance there is provided by, among others, some youth from Maldives and Pakistan, investigators believe.

Basheer was based in Sharjah and was using a fake ID. Now he has moved to KSA. I don't think they are organising blasts against all regimes. Its specifically Oman, because Oman was/is medling in Balochistan.

Armed with an amended Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act, the government has, in one stroke, formally banned over 100 outfits - linked to al-Qaida - from across the globe by declaring them "terrorist organizations" in India.

Though India had been keeping tabs on these outfits in accordance with the relevant United Nations Security Council (UNSC) resolutions, a formal decision to put these 100-odd entities - along with 33 other terror organizations - in the list of banned organisations is seen as a move "to avoid any legal ambiguity" in case Indian cops lay their hands on anyone associated with these bodies.

COLUMNIST | Sunday, May 16, 2010
Ramesh’s Chindia affair
Swapan Dasgupta

In The Telegraph of May 29, 2003, Ramesh asked the question: “Are we schizophrenic when it comes to full-fledged economic ties with China?” His answer was revealing: “While trade has taken off, we seem to be prisoners of the old mindset when it comes to Chinese investments in India. Huawei Technologies, the Chinese telecommunications networking major, already employs over 500 Indian software professionals in Bangalore but it has already caused concern in the Indian security establishment. We are approaching its expansion plans very warily.” He concluded that “India is still unable to break out of the shibboleths of the past” and warned this prejudice would affect the prospects of Indian companies in China.

The story doesn’t end here. In October 2003, the Confederation of India Industry hosted an Indian Expo in Beijing. Ramesh secured a CII accreditation and attended the fair. At Beijing, he surprised Indian industry by his forthright advocacy of Chinese companies, particularly in the telecom, IT and port sectors. At the meet where the Indian Commerce Minister and his Chinese counterpart were present, Ramesh intervened from the floor and repeated the arguments proffered in his article. Ramesh’s behaviour prompted India’s Ambassador to China to alert the Commerce Minister about a possible conflict of interests.

India’s Ambassador to China in 2003 is today the National Security Adviser and the then Commerce Minister now happens to be the Leader of Opposition in the Rajya Sabha. They were witness to Ramesh waving the red flag at India in Beijing seven years ago.

chetak wrote:A late blooming manchurian candidate?

http://www.dailypioneer.com/256255/Rame ... ffair.html

A largely unknown organisation Tehreek-e-Ghalba-e-Islam (Movement for supremacy of Islam) has owned the responsibility for the attack. The assailants left behind a CD, containing a letter in Urdu, warning more attacks on the police in future.

"This is the revenge for the killing of Muslims in police firing near Mecca Masjid on May 18, 2007. If the government of Andhra Pradesh wants to avoid such revenge attacks, it should arrest all those police men and officers who were responsible for the firing, and for ordering the firing, they should be given death sentence. Otherwise our revenge will continue and oppressor will be punished, Inshallah," the warning letter read.

The letter was signed by Mohammed Faseehuddin, Ameer, TGI.

Stan_Savljevic wrote:... Reading the accounts of AN Phizo and how he usurped the Naga National Council with the main battlecry of "Nagalim for Christ" ....

Top 'Garo Nat'l Liberation Army' leader arrested in Siliguri

IANS, Shillong, 16 May : Founder and general secretary of militant outfit Garo National Liberation Army (GNLA) Novembirth Ch Marak has been arrested from Siliguri railway station in West Bengal, dealing a blow to the group’s network, a senior Meghalaya police official said Sunday.
‘Novembirth is a prize catch for us in our operation against the GNLA,’ Superintendent of Police Dalton P. Marak, who is in-charge of the West Garo Hills district, told IANS. Luxmary Sangma, the militant leader’s girlfriend was also arrested while they were trying to board a train to Kolkata Saturday. Novembirth, the 3 Number man in the tribal Garo militant outfit, fell into the trap of the Meghalaya Police after a cash reward was announced for any information leading to his arrest. On 30 April, the militant leader managed to give police the slip - though not without receiving an injury - following an encounter with the Special Operations Team at the Bolchugre village and had since been hiding in one place or the other.

AN ALARMING SECRET IB COMMUNIQUÉ TARGETS SEVERAL HUMAN RIGHTS GROUPS AS FRONTAL ORGANISATIONS OF THE MAOISTS, REPORTS RAMAN KIRPAL

MARKED OUT...

• Delhi City Committee
• Delhi General Mazdoor Front
• ULFA, Assam
• People's Liberation Army, Manipur
• Hurriyat Conference, Kashmir
• Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist)
• Coordination Committee of Maoist Parties and Organisations of South Asia
• CPML-Naxalbari, Kerala
• CPI-ML, Kerala
• Radical Students Union, Tamil Nadu
• Radical Youth League, Tamil Nadu
• Shahid Bhagat Singh Krantikar, Haryana
• Naujawan Bharat Sabha, Gujarat
• Progressive Students Forum, Uttaranchal
• Mahila Mukti Manch, Uttaranchal
• Koriya-Sidhi Sub-Zonal Committee
• Jagrook Chhatra Manch, Haryana
• Shahid Bhagat Singh Krantikari Mahasangh, Haryana
• Naujawan Dasta, Haryana
• Jan Chetna Manch, Haryana
• Mahila Morcha, Haryana

Maoists attack bus in Dantewada, 40 killed
Last updated on: May 17, 2010 19:33 IST


Maoists on Monday blew up a bus killing at least 40 persons, including several Special Police Officers, in Dantewada district of Chhattisgarh.

The Maoists attacked the bus, which was carrying passengers from Gadiras to Bhusaras in Dantewada district, nearly 400 kms from Raipur. They used an improvised explosive device and triggered the blast at approximately 4.45 pm, officials said.

The bus was carrying 30 civilians and 20 special police officers of the Jharkhand police, according to the home ministry. No Central Reserve Police Force trooper was on board the bus, said the bus.

The SPOs, who are civilians assisting the police in fighting the Naxals, were attached to the Dantewada police. The IED was planted on a metaled road and detonated by the Left-wing extremists using a remote control device.

arun wrote:The Ministry of Home Affairs have apparently written 16 times since October 4th 2004 to the Delhi Government for their recommendation on terrorist Afzal Guru’s clemency plea.

Whats with this shifting of the blame for not executing the terrorist Afzal Guru by the Congress Party led Ministry of Home Affairs onto the Congress Party led Delhi Government ?

MHA has written 16 letters and reminders to Govt of Delhi on Afzal Guru but later responded only three

With respect, there is no such thing as Yindoo Terrorism.

ramana wrote:When are elections and where?

Though it is not yet ascertained whether any Chinese Government official is involved in selling of weapons to the militant groups, it is now an established fact that the weapons manufactured in the Government run ordnance factories are available with the militants of the North East region, sources said. Sources further revealed that as a part of its modernization programme, the Chinese Army has been offloading the old weapons and some of those weapons are now in the hands of the militants of the North East.

Daimary revealed that in 1996, the NDFB paid eleven lakh US dollars as advance to procure 2,000 AK series rifles manufactured in Narinco Ordnance factory in China and the weapons were to be brought in through Bangladesh by using the sea route. However, the coast guards of Bangladesh managed to intercept two of the fishing trawlers and the NDFB received only around 600 AK series rifles. At one point of time, the United Liberation Front of Asom (ULFA) also used to receive weapons manufactured in China, but in recent times the security agencies have not received any input of the outfit procuring weapons. Sources said that the NSCN as well as the Manipur based outfits including PLA and UNLF are also procuring weapons from China.

Daimary claimed before the security men that the NDFB came into contact with the Pakistani Inter Services Intelligence (ISI) through the NSCN and two batches of NDFB cadres were taken to a place near the Pakistan-Afghanistan border in 1993 and 1995 for training where they were given theoretical training as well as training in handling of explosives and other weapons.

Forest staff, accompanied by police and security personnel, today evicted over 400 suspected Bangladeshis from the Orang National Park (ONP). The operation was not a hassle-free affair as the security personnel had resorted to firing to disperse the defiant encroachers, seven of whom sustained injuries. Two of the seven injured — Akkel Ali and Nurul Islam — have been admitted to Mangaldai Hospital. This development came close on the heels of the police and security personnel evicting a large number of suspected Bangladeshis from the national park in the first week of May.

He was in fact detained from Baliamore along Bangladesh border.

Muppalla wrote:

ramana wrote:When are elections and where?

The first real elections are in TN, Bihar and Bengal and all are either at the end of the year or early next year. UP is two years away.

India Offers Talks If Maoist Rebels Stop Attacks
India Says It Will Hold Peace Talks With Maoists If They End Deadly Attacks
.(AP) NEW DELHI (AP) - India is willing to begin peace talks with Maoist rebels, but only if the insurgents halt all attacks for 72 hours, the home minister said Tuesday.The offer followed a rebel ambush Monday of a bus in central India that killed 31 police officers and civilians and highlighted the Maoists' strength despite a government offensive aimed at ending one of Asia's longest rebellions.The rebels, who have tapped into the rural poor's growing anger at being left out of the country's economic gains, are now present in 20 of the country's 28 states and have an estimated 10,000 to 20,000 fighters, according to the Home Ministry.Home Minister Palaniappan Chidambaram said in a television interview Tuesday that the government welcomes peace talks, as long as the insurgents halt attacks."I make the offer now: The Maoists should say, 'We abjure violence, we suspend violence,' and actually suspend violence, from any date they fix for 72 hours," he told the CNN-IBN news channel.The government would then convene talks with the insurgents, he said.The CNN-IBN television news channel quoted Ramanna, a Maoist leader in Chhattisgarh state, as saying over the phone that the government should first withdraw thousands of paramilitary soldiers deployed to fight the rebels and create peaceful conditions for talks. Ramanna uses one name.In a sign the government is also losing patience with the ongoing rebel attacks, Chidambaram expressed a willingness to authorize the use of air power in the fight.