Internal Security Watch

[brihaspati]

Does anyone have any update on the NIA's note on awareness of Headley-Rana's input about Ishraat, and its deletion from press releases of NIA about the affair?

[vivek.rao]

http://www.financialexpress.com/news/-t ... s-/1190395

Today, we are facing the worst economic crisis in the history of India. Besides, there’s corruption in governance. A leadership that’s unable to take decisions is the basic reason behind our current problems. We are the principal opposition party and we should come to power after the general elections. But the important question is not who will be in power or whether or not we will get a majority. The most important thing is that can we save this country from the current economic crisis? Also, the law and order situation is very bad. Earlier, there was vote bank politics and sympathy for terrorists. Now, that sympathy has been converted into support for the sake of vote bank politics. Some parties are using their political power to help terrorist organisations and terrorist leaders. This is very unfortunate for the country. Because of vote bank politics, the present government is creating problems for the future of the country by supporting terrorist and terrorist organisations and adopting a sympathetic approach towards them.

[kish]

Does anyone have any update on the NIA's note on awareness of Headley-Rana's input about Ishraat, and its deletion from press releases of NIA about the affair?

B ji,

Paid media has already discredited Headley confession(awareness about Ishraat), saying he is misleading the agency. So even if it is there somewhere, it is of no use.
Rather, Yasin bhatkals admission of Ishrat a female jihadi is available in asianage. After this article, paid media natunki of Ishrat an innocent girl has died down.

‘Over 15 IM modules holed up in Pak’

[brihaspati]

kish ji,
but it is still not being mentioned in the NIA chargesheet. If it is unreliable, then the NIA should have the means to verify and confirm that it is unreliable and be able to say it publicly if it can put up the chargesheets publicly.

[krishnan]

http://www.rediff.com/news/report/revea ... 131104.htm

The seizure of Chinese guns at the Zephyr apartments in Mangalore in September belonging to the Indian Mujahideen has been a wake up call for the Indian agencies. This was an indicator that the IM sought to go beyond the bombs and even indulged in the use of arms for future terror strikes.

The irony is that arrested IM co-founder Yasin Bhatkal has revealed that the terror outfit proposed to set up an arms unit in Thailand after a failed attempt on the outskirts of New Delhi.

Yasin's interrogation report states that Riyaz Bhatkal, who is in Pakistan, was looking to set up an arms unit in Thailand with the help of the D gang.

According to Yasin, the order from Pakistan was to improvise the attacks and even go beyond the blasts. The arms factory which they wanted to set up would not exclusively be under the domain of the IM, but would also help other groups such as the Al Qaeda.

The idea was to ensure a smooth supply of arms from Thailand and also make good money by illegal sales which could fund terror.

The IM had once attempted something similar in India, but it did not materialise. However, in Thailand there is a better chance to set up such a unit, Yasin told his interrogators.

The reliance of the route was depending heavily on the drug route already in place by the D gang and this would have made their job easier.

However, what had got the agencies more interested is that the IM has on its mind a fidayeen-type strike which they would like to carry out in India. This would mean that a few men would engage in mindless shooting in a crowded place.

Yasin did confess that that there was a plan to go beyond bombs, but also added that they had not yet started recruiting youth for this operation.

[syele]

http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/indi ... 153576.cms
Indian Mujahideen would be under al-Qaida: Riyaz told Yasin

Indian Mujahideen's (IM) Pakistan-based leader Riyaz Bhatkal looked to tap an al-Qaida connection to access an arms manufacturing base in a remote area of Thailand and is closer to the Afghan Taliban, than the Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) as the latter had fallen out with the ISI.

Arrested IM leader Yasin Bhatkal, who ran the terror outfit's India operations, has spoken about Riyaz's disillusionment with the TTP who the IM boss felt is wrongly engaged in battling the ISI and other arms of the Pakistani establishment.

"Indian Mujahideen wants to be closely associated with Afghan Taliban and al-Qaida and not Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan based in Pakistan because latter is against ISI. Members of the TTP are Pathans, who are pure but foolish," Yasin has said in his statement to the National Investigating Agency (NIA).

Tapping his conversations with Riyaz, who directs IM in coordination with ISI, Yasin has spoken of "a Pakistani political leader's men working in Afghanistan for the Taliban".

Indian Mujahideen is Indian only in name.

[disha]

Nitish with the JDU MLA who is Akthars uncle. The other IM operative who was caught at the platform was the son of a grocer in a village North Bihar. The Grocer has a 30 bed room house there.

Aaa Gale Lag jaa ... meri jaan ...

[krishnan]

Nitish with the JDU MLA who is Akthars uncle. The other IM operative who was caught at the platform was the son of a grocer in a village North Bihar. The Grocer has a 30 bed room house there.

[Vipul]

Something is rotten in the State of Bihar.

Last year in November, Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar embarked on a week-long visit to Pakistan. Why an Indian CM found it necessary to go on such a long visit to an enemy state and why did the three governments of Pakistan, Sindh and Punjab invite him is still not clear.

Of course people brushed it aside. Didn’t his predecessor Laloo Prasad Yadav do the same and didn’t he also once campaign with an Osama bin Laden look-alike? Why Laloo would want to be seen with an Al-Qaeda leader look-alike wasn’t questioned much by the media.

Bihar has always been a separate case altogether.

RSN Singh, a former military intelligence officer and RAW (Research and Analysis Wing) officer questioned Nitish’s Pakistan visit at a public meet in July this year. He asked why Nitish went there when Bihar does not share borders with Pakistan. There was also no talk of FDI investment. Singh then talked of the hub of the Indian Mujahideen (IM) in relation to that.

He wrote an enlightening column in Sify titled “Indian Politicians: Pakistan's Proxy Soldiers”.

The chilling part is that this particular column came just days before the Bodh Gaya blasts where the IM is suspected to have a hand. Reports soon surfaced that the Bihar Police had received an alert from the IB in the previous month itself, but they did not act upon it.

The very next month August was even more eventful. While Pakistan stepped up the offensive at the border, curiously a minister in the Nitish Cabinet in the form of Narendra Singh gave a clean chit to Pakistan! Another minister Bhim Singh said that people join the armed forces only to die.

In the same month, first expert bomb maker Syed Abdul Karim Tunda of the LeT was captured, followed by IM founder Yasin Bhatkal, both in the State of Bihar. While both were seen as major successes, many questions were also raised over the timings of all the above events.

Within months came the serial blasts in Patna during the rally of Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi. Five people were killed and 85 injured. Bombs went off at the railway station and Gandhi Maidan where the rally took place.

The most sensational piece of news was that an unexploded bomb was found under the dais where Modi was to speak. That could be called an assassination attempt on the BJP Prime Ministerial candidate.

It was shocking that many sections of the media instead decided to play up statements by rival political leaders that it was the BJP which benefited from the blasts. The whole issue didn’t end there and more unexploded bombs were discovered later.

Leader of the Opposition in the Rajya Sabha Arun Jaitley gave an extended press conference where he raised a whole lot of question marks over the way the security was handled at Modi’s Gandhi Maidan rally.

Later a BJP activist claimed that when one bomb was spotted, the police checked it out but after that the bomb squad never came and it went off after 90 minutes.

It also came to light that there is something called the Ranchi Module of the Indian Mujahideen in the State. How deep are the terror networks in Bihar?

Things got more curious when reports surfaced of IM operative Tehseen Akhtar being the nephew of a Bihar JD(U) leader Taki Akhtar. Taki on his part has totally denied such a link, but it is clear that Nitish has much to answer for about the goings on in his State.

While the BJP slammed Nitish for not naming the IM in his Rajgir speech, BJP leader (and ex-minister) Giriraj Singh set the cat among the pigeons by directly asking whether Nitish conspired with the IM to kill Modi!

Former Union Home Secretary RK Singh blasted Bihar even further. Singh claimed that the Bihar government did not support the Centre when it came to terror probes. He said that the Delhi Police and police forces from many other states would visit Bihar and arrest people from sleeper cells all the while when the Bihar Police had no clue.Singh used the word “shameful” and said that Bhatkal spent 6-7 months in Bihar before his arrest.

The comedy of errors continues with blasts related to Bihar. Another suspect Mahre Alam was supposed to have been captured and then supposed to have escaped. There were so many conflicting reports that one doesn’t really know what to believe anymore.

Retired Major General GD Bakshi is another former official who has been quite critical of the security apparatus of India. He said in the same meet with RSN Singh that India was now at a crossroads with regard to terror and it was high time we acted.

It is a big cause of concern when former officials of the bureaucracy, Army and even the shadowy RAW are coming out and questioning the way the security is being run in the country today.

It is high time all political parties unite and take a much tougher stand on terror than they are taking right now: Starting with Bihar, where there are far too many questions than answers.

But is Nitish listening?

[Prem Kumar]

A ray of light amidst the gloom

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/BYSSZOMCcAEB3TY.jpg:large

[ashish raval]

^^ oops sorry NiKu, as per JD-U these were supposed to be planted by Hindu Zionists !!! As revenge of breaking alliance with BJP. Where is Diggy ?

[chaanakya]

Diggy is burnt in MP Jyotiraditya and being roasted in AP by Fellow AP MPs

[kish]

Diggy is burnt in MP Jyotiraditya and being roasted in AP by Fellow AP MPs

In chhattisgarh, his protege Charan Das Mahant has been sidelined by willy old fox Ajit Jogi. The only prize diggy got for being loyal dog of dynasty is he brought his son into politics & got him a ticket.

[Sachin]

Malleswaram blast case: State told to pay compensation to Peer Mohideen, two others
Don't know if the police did a sloppy job and just allowed this chap to rot in jail (he was after all a vegetable cart chap). Or if the police were arm twisted to "go slow" on the case and drop all charges against this chap. Any way this would give some lee way to "seculars" who can use this as an example for illegal confinement of "members from a specific community".

[RoyG]

Asifa Khan BJP™ ‏@AsifaPolitics 11h
Indian Nuclear and Defence Scientist are getting Killed One By One Till Now 9 Scientist Killed in 3 Years !

Why Media and Govt. Silent ??

https://twitter.com/AsifaPolitics

9 scientists in 3 years...what kind of projects were these guys working on? Pathetic. Only in India and perhaps maybe Iran does this happen.

[vivek.rao]

http://www.rediff.com/news/slide-show/s ... 131108.htm
Exclusive! Who is ISI's Honey Bee in New Delhi?

The ISI's Indian mole Honey Bee helped plan the November 26, 2008, Mumbai terror attacks and there were 10 locals who provided logistical support to David Headley, Adrian Levy tells Rediff.com's Sheela Bhatt in an exclusive interview.

In their sensational book on the 26/11 terror attacks on Mumbai, The Siege: The Attack On The Taj, authors Adrian Levy and Cathy Scott-Clark have claimed that an Indian citizen was a mole for the Inter Services Intelligence, Pakistan's external intelligence agency, and passed on information to it that helped mount the audacious terror attacks on Mumbai on November 26, 2008.

Adrian Levy says the Indian government has not tried hard enough to find the ISI mole in the New Delhi establishment.

Levy, in an exclusive interview to Rediff.com, said he tried hard to detect the identity of this Indian mole, but he is yet to succeed. The authors have dubbed the Indian ISI mole 'Honey Bee' in their book.

They claim that Major Iqbal of the ISI, who was David Coelman Headley's handler in Pakistan, organised a condensed version of the Pakistan army's two-year training course on surveillance and counter-intelligence.

The course was prepared on the basis of the Indian Army's training manual supplied by the Indian mole to the ISI.

Headley, the mastermind behind the Mumbai terror attacks, along with the Lashkar-e-Tayiba, successfully mounted the attack that killed 166 people and wounded hundreds more.

In a sensational claim, the authors write that 'Major Iqbal' had given Headley what is described as 'classic Indian files'. Iqbal boasted that he had obtained these files from the Indian police and army, which 'revealed their training and limitations.'

Levy believes that while the ISI's source in India is unlikely to be from the army, it could be someone from the Indian security establishment other than the army.

Iqbal boasted that they had 'a super agent' at work in New Delhi who was known as Honey Bee.

In addition to Honey Bee, Levy also claims there were people in Mumbai codenamed 'chuhas' (mice) who supplemented information and added to the details Headley provided to the Lashkar to plan the terror attacks in Mumbai.

"The LeT claims there were 10 collaborators working in Mumbai," says Levy.

The Ram Pradhan Commission of Inquiry, set up to probe the terror attacks, failed in its duty when it did not examine the 'local element,' Levy added. "The Pakistan side told me there exists Honey Bee and chuhas. The Indian side should have established their identity."

Levy and Scott-Clark travelled to ten countries on four continents and met hundreds of people to write the book. Levy says they are very sure of their information even though they have not been able to establish the identity of the ISI mole in India.

Unfortunately, in their book, the authors have not been able to establish the actual identities of either 'Abu Qahafa' or 'Major Iqbal', the shadowy ISI handlers behind the terror attacks. The latter played a big role in recruiting the Lashkar's chuhas in India, says Levy.

What then Mumbai police commissioner Abdul Gafoor told the media in 2008 about the local involvement in the terror attacks is correct, Levy added.

Before Headley started his journey to Mumbai to find a landing site for the terrorists, Levy claims that Major Iqbal gave him a bundle of counterfeit Indian rupees and revealed that Honey Bee, the ISI's Indian mole, had told him that Machchimar Nagar, a fishing colony in Cuffe Parade in south Mumbai, could be the landing site for their anti-India mission.

The spot was apparently suggested by the Indian mole as it does not have much of security, and Major Iqbal asked Headley to check it out.

The claim about the existence of the Indian mole Honey Bee, if true, is obviously serious. However, the authors have not offered much evidence about the alleged Indian mole.

It is the Indian manual provided by Honey Bee that became the basis for training Ajmal Kasab and the nine other terrorists who accompanied him to Mumbai almost five years ago. Also, the suggestion of the potential landing spot, one of the crucial pieces of information for the terror attack, came from Honey Bee.

Levy is still hopeful that Honey Bee's identity will be revealed one day.

[RoyG]

At this point, the mole is so insignificant compared to the biggest headache this country has had in a long time which is Congress.

[vivek.rao]

At this point, the mole is so insignificant compared to the biggest headache this country has had in a long time which is Congress.

ISI mole in the New Delhi establishment...

I wonder if this is linked to some one like Salman Krushid and he is still providing every secret to ISI.

[Prem]

Great probability that this is the same mole behind the Murder of many Defence scientists , leaking their "security" detail.

[RoyG]

HoneyBee = drone for Queen Bee. Could be Salman.

[brihaspati]

It would be ridiculous to have the Pakis release such indications. If they do so then they intend to confuse and deflect. There has always perhaps been moles in admin [CIA released old papers indicating someone close to IG in the leadup to '71 reporting on decisions straightaway to the CIA]. But to get such details would point out the way to a very limited pool of functionaries - which seems counterproductive for Pakis'. Only the PMO and some other ministries would have such simultaneous access to different types of info.

[vasu raya]

That Paki was sharing a secret in his 'inner circle'

Salman Khurshid is petty, he was stealing disability funds earlier, this could be someone in the MHA, a long timer (a senior?) and an efficient one at foraging, going to places and collecting information within desh, not likely a desk job. Perhaps counter Intel will have overriding access to the security clearances given to scientists and this person is also claimed to be a double agent.

However, the last thing one wants is a witch hunt based on some unauthenticated claims in a book like it happened in the ISRO spy scandal.

[Lilo]

Who are behind the ‘unnatural death’ of our nuclear scientists and engineers ?
November 3, 2013 By Tasneem Ataullah, Muslim Mirror,

According to a report published in The Sunday Guardian, (26th Oct 2013 ) there have been many unnatural deaths of nuclear scientists and engineers’ working in exceptional high-profile projects, since few years. Though similar deaths of nuclear scientists working in Iran’s nuclear plants had caused substantial uproar in Iran, similar attention have not been paid to the (much larger) number of unnatural deaths that have taken place to scientists and engineers working in India’s own nuclear program.
As per the government records of India, in the past 3 years, two major nuclear institutions; Bhabha Atomic Research Centre (BARC) and Kaiga Nuclear Facility, have reported at least 9 unnatural deaths of nuclear scientists and engineers who had been working with them.
The latest casualty was discovered on 7th October, 2013, in the state of Andhra Pradesh, Vishakapatnam; two engineers – K.K Josh and Abhish Shivam were found dead in a very strange condition.
Shivam- 33 yrs and Josh- 34 yrs were chief engineers connected with the building of India’s indigenous nuclear-powered submarine, Arihant. It is reported that, bodies of both scientists were discovered between the railway tracks at Penduruthy near Vishakapatnam Naval Yard. They were spotted by a passer-by before a train could pass over them.
Further investigation revealed that, they were poisoned and then placed on the railway tracks to make it seem like an incident. They was no injury on their bodies. The project they were working on is one of the nation’s first nuclear projects of this kind and was under the Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO).
Similar reports reveal that, such abnormal deaths of individuals connected with nuclear projects have been going on since few years. Earlier, on 23rd February, 2010, M.Iyer; engineer in Bhabha Atomic Research Centre was found dead at home. The killer had used a duplicate key to enter the house and strangled the engineer in his sleep. Interestingly, efforts were made by some of the investigating police officers to pass this case off as suicide.
A year later, on 29th April, 2011, a former scientist of BARC – Uma Rao died unnaturally and was termed as suicide, while the suicide verdict was challenged by the family members as there was no contemplation than he was about to take such an extreme step.
No doubt, death and life are not within our clutch and are out of our control. Neither is natural birth or death an unanticipated event. But unnatural births and also deaths call for astonishing exposure.
In this case, even if a common man is not neglected, it is surprising when high-qualified individuals like nuclear scientists connected with an exceptional field of interest die in an unnatural and mysterious condition and the nation doesn’t take a notice or is kept in dark about such a grave matter which is related to our national interest and which can’t be compensated in years.
If seen from this angle, even natural deaths of these eligible individuals must create a shock wave at national level. Surprisingly, the government has opted to remain silent and media has decided to take it unfocused. In fact, the government has also tried to conceal the related facts and close the case as earlier as possible.
Unlike Iran, however, which now protects its key personnel, the Government of India has not taken any appreciable steps to protect the lives of those active in core strategic programs relating to the country’s nuclear deterrent.
This approach of government has opened the doors of suspicion. So is the case of media; which in other instances creates a storm on a simple fact. When India is all set to advance rapidly in the field of nuclear technology; are these deaths to stop the advancement?

Some new details in above report.

[harbans]

2 Districts that lie between Nepal and Bangladesh and connect the rest of India to Darjeeling, Bhutan and the entire North East India have 50 and 80% Muslim populations. Uttar Dinajpur and Kishanganj..and that is as per 2001 census! Is there any way we can see how many are Bangladeshi's. This M:H ratio is amongst the highest. And these are the most strategic areas connecting the entire NE to India. Read more here:

Important corridor being infiltrated?

[RoyG]

It is CBI vs IB again in Sadiq Jamal fake encounter case

Mahesh Langa, Hindustan Times Ahmedabad, November 09, 2013
First Published: 19:38 IST(9/11/2013) | Last Updated: 19:46 IST(9/11/2013)

The killing of Sadiq Jamal Mehtar in an alleged fake gunfight by the Gujarat police in January 2003 is likely to pit the country's two premier agencies, CBI and IB, against each other once more.

Such a possibility has arisen after the CBI, which is probing the case on Gujarat high court's directions, recently questioned deputy national security advisor Nehchal Sandhu who was IB joint director (operation) at the time of Sadiq's killing.

Following the questioning, a CBI official said on the condition of anonymity that the agency has got crucial evidence suggesting the IB was "hand in glove" with the state police in the killing.

In July this year, the IB had fiercely denied involvement of its officials in the case.

On January 3, 2003, Sadiq was killed by the police on the outskirts of Ahmedabad. While the police claimed he was on a mission to target Gujarat chief minister Narendra Modi, the CBI in its first chargesheet had said he had been framed and subsequently killed in cold blood 10 days after his arrest.

Sadiq was the domestic help of a Dubai-based Indian businessman, Tariq Parveen, who allegedly had connections with the underworld. But after a petty fight, Parveen got Jamal deported to Mumbai, where he ended up in police custody.

Sadiq had been arrested on the basis of a "fake alert" sent by the IB officer Rajendar Kumar who had also issued a dubious alert in Ishrat Jahan encounter case. After Sandhu approved the alert, Sadiq had been handed over to the Gujarat police by their Mumbai counterparts.

http://www.hindustantimes.com/india-new ... 49219.aspx

Congress Bureau of Investigation trying to clean out IB of nationalists and target Modi.

[brihaspati]

2 Districts that lie between Nepal and Bangladesh and connect the rest of India to Darjeeling, Bhutan and the entire North East India have 50 and 80% Muslim populations. Uttar Dinajpur and Kishanganj..and that is as per 2001 census! Is there any way we can see how many are Bangladeshi's. This M:H ratio is amongst the highest. And these are the most strategic areas connecting the entire NE to India. Read more here:

Important corridor being infiltrated?

No use. I have raised the issue in some places and in return the typical responses sometimes we see also on BR came out - everything is under control, the intel and security apparatuses have their full finger in the pie, nothing to worry about, the state knows everything, and that we should have implicit faith in them. Some of the forces we look up to on BR with implicit trust - apparently also have their own in-house intel keeping watch and handle on that corridor. So we should all sleep in peace.

I will give you a brief sniff by my own assessment from my own people on ground. The BD proportion is roughly 60-80% of the Muslim population, and this transition has happened over the last 10 years at higher pace. Whether it is AL or BNP gov doesn't matter. The state apparatus of BD has now well infiltrated and well-entrenched islamist elements and subnetworks.

I had long ago written about the fact that some of the most voluminous networks passing through India from BD [and also from central/western India] through to Nepalese communists/Islamists and hence further onwards to Pak, China, UK, actually pass through this corridor and another route which actually lies almost right under the noses of one of the largest "garrison/cantonment" towns in that zone.

So it is unbelievable that the "authorities" and the "state" is not aware of it. But the fact that they have allowed it to grow and accelerate should say something about how politics and security structures entwine and work towards possible common political and ideological commitments - perhaps helped along by corruption at various levels and in different forms.

I would request not to highlight this, as it would work towards tighter suppression of "leaks" and parallel sources of tracking how things are moving in that zone. Political parties and their leadership at the regional an local levels work in tandem with state admin and security structures to protect the "flow" in ways that made me conclude (at least by early 2000's) that both the smell of various nations banknotes, and more concrete stuff in the form of flesh and substances, backed up by the fear of getting bumped off or tortured/family sadistically used -has drawn in a cross section of functionaries and politicians into something that the state neither has the will nor the incentive or inclination to get rid of. In earlier days I had not been careful in raising the issues - which had resulted in elimination of commoners on ground, on various and of course perfectly unquestionable and legitimate excuses. Just to give you a feel of how things operate in reality.

Another request is not to suggest openly or clearly, counter measures or even that you are thinking of such or are aware of the trend. The structures I hinted of would take measures to pre-empt such counter measures. At this stage they are obviously more powerful because they can manipulate the resources of the state and political mobilization of much higher levels.

There is a reason, I repeatedly suggest retreat and consolidation. Resistance now simply delays the inevitable, but provides the face-saving lies that the "leaders" dish out daily to claim that we should all sleep peacefully and not become "communal", while we lose numbers in an unfair and unequal struggle.

[harbans]

BJi, there are no special people in power etc now who can undo the damage. The efforts we make today can only have effect in some kind of morphogenetic manner. Bringing awareness may help in the process if carried out. We have to bring back people into our Dharmic fold. There is no way out on this, no alternative. We need a very high caliber leadership, not just honest etc, but really understanding of the core Bhratiya and Dharmic issues. Being a Dharmic of whatever sampradaya, am going to fight to help Dharmic sampradaya's retain and hold to their lands. The loss of the Gangetic plain is going to be devastating. This is the heart..

[vivek.rao]

http://m.indrus.in/blogs/2013/11/09/cry ... 30711.html

Back then nobody in the media asked this simple question? Why would India’s leading scientists fall for two very ordinary looking women? If a honey trap was really employed to penetrate the top secret cryogenic programme, wouldn’t the foreign agents arrange some real honeys instead of overly fat femmes?

What really happened?

When investigations lead to a dead end, one has to look for the motives. Who benefits from the failure of the cryogenic programme, which will power India’s heavyweight rocket, the GSLV? Clearly not Pakistan, which is not in a position to compete with India in space. Also, after achieving nuclear parity with India, it does not feel existentially threatened enough to take on India in all areas.

In this backdrop, Narayanan’s allegation that the United States wanted to stunt India’s space programme deserves to be looked into. According to the scientist, his arrest was part of an agenda of the United States accomplished by the CIA conniving with rogue IB agents. One of them says Narayanan was Rattan Sehgal, who was the IB’s counter intelligence chief and was associated with the ISRO investigation. Sehgal was later caught red-handed by the then IB chief Arun Bhagath. He was accused of having worked for the CIA, which led to his unceremonious exit from the IB in November 1996.

India’s Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI), which finally investigated the case, discovered a really bizarre detail from the case diary of the Kerala Police. The CBI in its report noted that all those working on cryogenic engine development in ISRO – including the Russian scientists who were helping India – had been made accused. Charges were also slapped against Ural Aviation, the airline which brought Russian cryogenic engines and other relevant items to India.

Narayanan says Kerala Police officer Siby Mathews had a definite plan that all persons working for development of cryogenic engine technology should be arrested to demoralise them. That was the reason why he was arrested in November 1994 without conducting any search of his office or residence and also without seizure of any incriminating evidence from him.

The rocket that came in from the cold

The popular narrative is that in 1991 Russia had agreed to transfer cryogenic technology to India but the United States – anxious to prevent India from developing a powerful rocket with possible military applications – intervened and forced their man, President Boris Yeltsin, to backtrack on the deal.

With Russia then firmly in the Western camp, India realised there were limits to cooperation with Moscow as long as Yeltsin was at the helm. However, the two sides did not allow the issue to become a sticking point.

Space Pacts to put Indo-Russian ties in still higher orbit

New Delhi-based Institute for Defence Studies & Analysis says the two sides reached a compromise solution, “whereby Russia was to withhold from passing on to India those elements of technology that could be used for dual purposes. But the technology not considered dual purpose was to be transferred”.

However, according to columnist and investigative journalist Madhav Nalapat, although the Bill Clinton administration had sought to scupper the Russian sale of cryogenic engines to India, “Russian scientists friendly to India had secretly handed over blueprints relating to the making of such engines”.

“This soon became known to the CIA, which is believed to have orchestrated the plan to paralyse the program by sending its key scientists to prison,” says Nalapat. “Although the charges were found to be entirely false, that vindication took a decade to come about, and in the process, the Indian programme was slowed down by an equivalent number of years.”

The Mars mission is a sideshow – a mere $75 million roll of the dice. Less spectacular but vastly more important is the planned launch of the GSLV in December. The GSLV is the granddaddy of India’s rocket arsenal. Compare this: while the much hyped Mars probe, Mangalyaan, is carrying an instrument package weighing just 15 kg, the GSLV is designed to carry Indian astronauts to the moon in the early 2020s. The heavy lift rocket is also needed to launch the next generation of India’s spy satellites, which ideally should not be launched from foreign shores.

Indian, Chinese rockets to rival Russian carriers by 2015

Now check this out. The Mars mission took just 15 months to launch after it was green-lighted. The GSLV project on the other hand has taken over three decades and yet according to Narayanan it has been a stubborn disaster. When you join the dots….the finger of suspicion points only in one direction.

Protection racket

Unlike Iran, which has provided round the clock security to its top nuclear scientists after five of them were murdered (perhaps by Israel) India does not even offer its personnel working on strategic projects even token protection.

With the vast array of brain power at its disposal it is India that’s most likely to deliver the next Sputnik moments. Whether it is Mars, moon or the asteroids, ISRO has planned more spectacular rendezvous for the near future, culminating in a manned moon landing.
On the other hand, reeling under severe budgetary pressures, some of the established powers might not welcome India’s arrival on what they consider has been their turf for over more than half a century. Considering the stakes involved, the least India should do is ramp up protection for its ke

[Prem]

http://www.sify.com/news/will-pakistan- ... cijic.html
Will Pakistan decide the next Indian PM?

It needs to be investigated that that why was Patna chosen by the IM and its handlers in Pakistan for attempt to assassinate Modi. The truth is that a fertile ground has consciously been nurtured in the state to facilitate jihadi terror.
North Bihar has emerged as the hub of jihadi terror after 26/11, particularly after the visit of the CM to Pakistan. One of the founders of IM Amir Reza Khan was from Bihar. The key early recruits to the organization Fasih Mohammed and Mohd Tarique Anjum hailed from Darbhanga and Nalanda respectively. It was Fasih Mohammad who took Yasin Bhatkal to Darbhanga. Fasih and LeT chief Zaki-ur Rehman Lakhvi together monitored 26/11 attack from control room set up in Malir in Karachi. There also have been recent reports to suggest teaming up of IM with Al Quaeda. Bihar is also one of meeting points of two terrors, i.e. Jihadi Terror and Maoist Terror. Yasin Bhatkal has revealed that he met Maoist leaders in Nepal before serial blasts rocked Gaya in July. The boy who desecrated the iconic Amar Jawan Jyoti in Mumbai was one Yunus Ansari, also from Bihar.
It was in Bihar that some politicians described the LeT operative Ishrat Jahan as ‘Bihar ki Beti’ (daughter of Bihar). The alleged mastermind of Patna blasts Tehseen Akhtar, is the main financer of terrorist attacks by Indian Mujahedeen and obtains money from his handlers in Pakistan through hawala transactions from Dubai, tapping into Dawood’s network. He too hails from Samistipur in Bihar. Latest reports also suggest that eight students of particular hostel were indoctrinated, trained and paid Rs 10,000 to plant bombs in Gandhi Maidan. It indicates the level of Islamic radicalization in Bihar. When the Chief Minister of a state begins to treat a counterpart as enemy and not political adversary for reasons solely attributable to religious vote bank, it only abets fundamentalism, radicalization and terror. In effect it conveys mistaken signals to the security apparatus of the state.It is in this politically cultivated environment that for the first time in India a political rally became target of terrorist attack. Security is the decisive component of governance. There can be no development without security. If a CM tries to toss the buck of terrorism at the Central Government it amounts to criminal neglect or conspiracy, because he is not only guilty of creating a political environment to facilitate terror but also of deliberate dereliction by willfully neglecting an appropriate response and security structure. A prominent lawyer and very credible spokesman of a political party has spoken about the infiltration of IM in Bihar Police. Jihadi terror and Maoist terror when considered together, the situation in Bihar is grim. It may be mentioned that 32 out of 38 districts in Bihar are impacted by Maoist terror. There are no go areas in certain parts of Gaya district, even for the CM.

It seemed incredulous because India never had such political culture even in the days preceding Emergency or after. Soon after the rally as this author was waiting outside the Gandhi Maidan for the crowd to subside, a car driver of some dignitary hailing from Buxar, during the course of conversation, and in full innocence said that he had arrived at 8.30 in the morning and was warned by a bystander that he should not wait for the rally to begin as the entire venue had been planted with bombs. His apprehensive companion in fact tried to dissuade him from sharing this information. In all political assassinations in India it is invariably observed that key personalities and functionaries are away from scene of disaster or chose to be away from town. This happened in the case of Rajiv Gandhi or more recently in the Maoist murder of politicians in Chhattisgarh and of course now. The main suspect in Chhattisgarh massacre struts openly on the political landscape of the state. The facilitators of Rajiv Gandhi’s assassination have been enjoying the fruits of power under all dispensationsConcluding Question The blasts at Gandhi Maidan pose the most alarming question, i.e. is Pakistan going to determine who will be the next prime minister of India?

[harbans]

The very idea of Bharat is being turned around by the 'Seculars'. We can't share stage with the Dalai Lama, but we can with Owaisi, Musharaff, Kissingers, Taliban Chiefs, Rabid fatwa spouting mullahs. We need to consolidate what Bharat really means. It's not just some Westphalian geographical entity that can do with any kind of idea within. Nehruvian secularism will have to be rooted out by the jad and burnt to ash for us to survive.

[vivek.rao]

The very idea of Bharat is being turned around by the 'Seculars'. We can't share stage with the Dalai Lama, but we can with Owaisi, Musharaff, Kissingers, Taliban Chiefs, Rabid fatwa spouting mullahs. We need to consolidate what Bharat really means. It's not just some Westphalian geographical entity that can do with any kind of idea within. Nehruvian secularism will have to be rooted out by the jad and burnt to ash for us to survive.

For that, we need to make an example out of Burkah Dutts, Tehelka Taliban types and Prannay Roys. Unless few of them are taught a lesson, we will not be able to rein in these dangerous people.

[Prem]

French Revolution style refromation is only option left to fix internal security. Before this government goes to Neithersphere, they are appointing there men on strategic positions to slow down the hunt.First thing the new Government have to do is to make sure none of culprits fly out or slip away beyond the arms of Law.

[pushkar.bhat]

French Revolution style refromation is only option left to fix internal security.

Ok and then you will call the entire incident VIP FRENCHIE !!!

[Sachin]

Mean while in 100% literate state gold smugglers (or more specifically carriers) are getting picked up every other day. I dont know what has prompted in the increase of the gold smuggling (and off course why the rackets are also getting busted one after the other)

Eight held for smuggling gold in Kerala
Kerala-based man coming from Dubai arrested with 2 kg of gold at Mumbai airport
Yet another gold seizure at Karipur
Special note: An air-hostess was the carrier in this case.
From waiter to millionaire: how gold smuggler Fayaz managed to stay under the radar
Story of one smuggler. One of his pals had even boasted on TV that in another one week 5kgs would get smuggled again and DRI can do zilch. Customs and DRI increased their raids, and they seized 6kgs of gold in one week .

[Aditya_V]

Sachin-> Customs Duty on Gold has gone up from 2% 3 months back to 10% in order to reduce CAD make sure Oil Prices are not increased before elections.

[Muppalla]

[svenkat]

Muppallaji,

http://forums.bharat-rakshak.com/viewto ... 2#p1540082

[Anindya]

So, the NIA is now back to using the well tried out Aseemanand and Sadhvi Pragya approach to blaming Hindus for the Patna blasts now...

Patna blasts: one more arrested from Dhanbad

Following a tip off from the National Investigation Agency (NIA), the Bihar police have arrested a person, Raju Sao, from Jharkhand's Dhanbad district in connection with the Patna serial blasts, police said on Monday.

Raju Sao was arrested from Jharia in Dhanbad when a Bihar police team conducted raids late on Sunday in search of his brothers Jitendra Sao, Pappu Sao and Bittu Sao, who were not found, a police official said.

"Police have brought Raju Sao to the state's Lakhisarai district for interrogation," a police official said.

Three days ago, the NIA detained six people and seized dozens of bank passbooks, ATM cards and other documents in Lakhisarai, about 150 km from here, during raids at several places in connection with the Oct 27 Patna blasts.

"Four of the six people including Gopal Kumar Goyal, Vikas Kumar, Pawan Kumar and Ganesh Kumar were sent to jail on the charge of providing financial help to terror suspects after they were produced in court," Lakhisarai Superintendent of Police Rajeev Mishra said.

Mishra said police are investigating a possible Pakistan ISI link with the four. But he denied that they had any link with the Indian Mujahideen.

Police teams from Lakhisarai and Munger districts were sent to Dhanbad on the basis of information given by arrested suspect Gopal Kumar Goyal.

[sum]

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The woman who held the purse strings to terror

Ayesha Bano, who was detained at Mangalore airport on Tuesday morning, allegedly ran a hawala racket to sponsor terror strikes in India.
Ayesha, also known as 'Pakistan Boss', is a married woman with three children.
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She allegedly ran the racket for her handlers in Pakistan.

Ayesha operated funds worth Rs one crore through 35 bank accounts via hawala channels, believe Indian intelligence agencies.

Ayesha, a resident of Mercara in Karnataka’s Coorg district, converted to Islam after her marriage. She, along with her family, lived in Panjimogeru, nearly 6 km from Mangalore.

Her name was mentioned in the FIR on the Patna serial blasts, filed by the Lakhisarai police in Bihar district. Police believe she was involved with the funding activities behind the Patna serial blasts.

The hawala racket was being supervised by one Ibrahim, a suspected Inter Services Intelligence agent.

Investigators are yet to connect all the dots about how the racket was linked to the Indian Mujahideen operatives who carried out the blasts.

After scrutinising the transactions made by Ayesha Bano, security agencies have realised that money passed through various channels electronically, not manually.

Four young men opened the first bank account in Pakistan, which was then taken over by another group of men in India.

According to preliminary investigations, Ayesha had access to all the accounts. She gradually withdrew money from these accounts and deposited them in others.

When intelligence sleuths visited her house today morning, it was found deserted. She was later arrested at Mangalore airport.

[ramana]

Wonder if the school children poisoning case has some thing to do with the large IM presence in Bihar state?