Tuesday, October 24, 2006
Interesting interview with KP Raghuvanshi
A thousand queries are aimed at KP Raghuvanshi every day on Mumbai’s security-related issues. Especially, after the recent bomb blasts that rocked the city. In an exclusive chat with Anupam Dasgupta, the Anti-Terrorism Squad chief talked about police claims that they had cracked the 11/7 blasts riddle and contents of the dossier to be submitted to the Centre ahead of the crucial Indo-Pak foreign secretaries’ meet in New Delhi in November
The blasts probe is not over yet. They are also looking into some aspects of the larger blasts conspiracy and efforts are aimed at acquiring a holistic picture of the entire 11/7 plot. They are seeking expert technical help (from Yahoo and others) to crack the personal email accounts belonging to the accused. The new patterns reflected in the July terrorist strike could be mentioned. That the Lashkar-e-Tayyiba (LeT) and the Jaish-e-Mohammad (JeM) came together to execute one single act of terror is a relatively new phenomenon in the Indian context. The “terrorist financing” angle, too, will be incorporated.
Zuber Mohammad and Mohammad Sohail (arrested from West Bengal) said that they were to the city on suicide missions. Also four other (the duo’s associates) Jaish operatives had sneaked into India. It is worrying since Jaish is an organisation specialising in executing suicide attacks.
Mumbai has earned the dubious distinction of being the “most-attacked city” in the world. What are future plans to ward off such terrorist strikes? Some new security models are being put in place. But they can’t be disclosed now. The security architecture of vital installations (like the BARC and the ports/airports) are also being reviewed.
IMO: There are quite a lot of new faces from Bangladesh, for example around Nalasopara.
The blasts probe is not over yet. They are also looking into some aspects of the larger blasts conspiracy and efforts are aimed at acquiring a holistic picture of the entire 11/7 plot. They are seeking expert technical help (from Yahoo and others) to crack the personal email accounts belonging to the accused. The new patterns reflected in the July terrorist strike could be mentioned. That the Lashkar-e-Tayyiba (LeT) and the Jaish-e-Mohammad (JeM) came together to execute one single act of terror is a relatively new phenomenon in the Indian context. The “terrorist financing” angle, too, will be incorporated.
Zuber Mohammad and Mohammad Sohail (arrested from West Bengal) said that they were to the city on suicide missions. Also four other (the duo’s associates) Jaish operatives had sneaked into India. It is worrying since Jaish is an organisation specialising in executing suicide attacks.
Mumbai has earned the dubious distinction of being the “most-attacked city” in the world. What are future plans to ward off such terrorist strikes? Some new security models are being put in place. But they can’t be disclosed now. The security architecture of vital installations (like the BARC and the ports/airports) are also being reviewed.
IMO: There are quite a lot of new faces from Bangladesh, for example around Nalasopara.
# posted by uv : 11:57 AM
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