Blood Hurricane: Terror strikes the Heart and CIA Forgotten

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Blood Hurricane: Terror Strikes the Heart and CIA Forgotten!

Troubled Galaxy Destroyed Dreams: Chapter 65

Palash Biswas
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CIA activities in India
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It is Blood Hurricane causing Mass Destruction across the Political
borders worldwide. War Economy Corporate imperialism created a Galaxy
system of Terror and fighting against it ironically! Racial War
against Terror faces new challenges as it has to encounter the New
face of white Terror!
Terror strikes the Heart in India. it is the Indian capital showcased
as the virtual reality Show of Industrialisation and development
escalating the consumer market. Only recently, I have wasted enough
space to express my experiences in New Delhi during Bomb Blasts in
Bangalore and Ahmadabad! The hype of security creates only unease for
the common people while they are never protected. New Delhi`s Common
Public remains always the softest target of terror as they live in the
Heart of India. As VIPs and VVIPs remain safe, security agencies as
well the government damn care for us, the scape goats any where in
India. Metros are no exception!

New Delhi is the Epi Centre of Power politics in south Asia and any
action may create Tremors across the divided Geopolitics bleeding!
Twin tower blasts have changed the landscape as well as human scape on
this planet,we know. Anti India, Anti Asia forces use the Terror
Phenomenon to create tremors in Third world. The Terror strike may
provoke Full Scale War and Civil War any time any where. And it will
mean growth for the US Corporate War Economy.

In sixties, seventies and even eighties, we were accustomed to read
and hear so many stories about CIA activities in third world and
specially, south Asia countries.

Mrs Indira Gandhi was the person who always accused the Big power to
destabilise India. Her high profile life was ended in a terror Strike
unprecedented. Her Son Rajiv Gandhi was also killed in a suicide bomb
attack. Santosh Sivan film, `The Terrorist’, exposes a little bit of
Terror psyche. We have a genuine case study of operation Blue Star to
study the Big Bang of Terror! I am afraid , we never cared to study!

We also read some stories of CIA agents in Indian Power Politics!

We know well how CIA plants its agents in key positions.

Since nineties as globalisation, privatisation and liberalisation took
over soviet model of development as well as the concept of democracy
and welfare state, we never chance to hear about CIA role in this
subcontinent! CIA evaporated like a big dream. Politicians who were
habitual to brand one another as the most despised CIA agent, never
pronounce the sacred word. Never again!
Any novice would understand, how US interests are invested in this
subcontinent! It is more strange that we never see nowadays any role
for CIA in South Asia!

Instability, War and Civil War situations are directly responsible for
direct US Military interference anywhere in this Unipolar Globe! We
know all about Iraq, Somalia, Bosnia, Dar fur, Georgia, Afghanistan,
Iran and Pakistan!

Have we to wait until India is targeted by US Military Power!

In India, general security conditions are all about VIP VVIP Security!
All about Z and Z plus security!

Who bothers for the Common Men`s security!

Mumbai, UP, Bangalore, Jaipur, Ahmadabad and Delhi blasts killed the
Common Men and spared the VIP Blood!

The Blood is spilling in blood hurricanes all over the world. We are
the scapegoats to create Blind nationalism to open the flood gates of
war, Civil War, Instability, succession and weapon industries!

We the Black Untouchables, the enslaved communities worldwide are
being killed to protect the hegemony interests.

And who does not know, Terror is the best weapon nowadays.

Where from comes the funding?

Where from comes the technology?
Who washes the Brain?
Who creates the Terrorist mind set?
Who supports the Terror network?
Who trains the Terrorists?
Where they get the shelter?
Where the have a transparent transit route?

From the first day of my first Delhi visit, I disliked New Delhi as it
has the smallest space for the common man. Coming down from the Hills,
my college Nainital, I had to buy drinking water everywhere in New
Delhi! In 1974. i had just appeared in class eleven exams! Thanks to
my family links with Politicians like ND Tiwari, I had entry in the
Prime ministers` Office as well as all over the VIP New Delhi. Tiwari
and Pant occupying major portfolios in Indira Gandhi ministry, always
ensured some room for us in their Bungalows! I knew South Block as
well as South Avenue! Later I came to know other avenues of Power in
New Delhi. for Example: the Media, Culture, Literature and
Intelligentsia!

But I am habitual to visit all the crowdy markets and public places in
New Delhi since my Childhood. My father Pulin Babu took me over to
Jamuna bank colonies of Bangladeshi refugees right in 1974.
I was astonished to see so much land was wasted for cremation of our
National Leaders all over New Delhi. Belonging to peasantry of India,
i wonder how much land they would need beyond life. I was astonished
to amp the Raiseena Hills. How much is needed for our First Citizen.

But our people, the Have Nots have nothing to own except displacement,
unemployment, punishment, persecution and death!

I know the villages surviving among the sky raisers in New Delhi. I
saw Noida growing on Farm Land. I had been in Meerut for six years. I
studied the geography, economy, politics and history of Riots in
India. I witnessed deindustrialisation and displacement right from the
Himalayas to Ganga Sagar. I visited south India as well as North east
India. i talked to some terrorist Ideologues from North East and
south.
Physically Secession is unpragmatic, unpractical. Insurgency is
nothing different popular mass movements in the mainstream India! The
demand of secession creates an advantage to strike a deal! The best
case study may be quoted as Gorkhaland. Any Fool would assume that the
Gurkhas would like to join Greater Nepal. It is also quite a Nuisance
to float the stories of Greater Bangladesh including West Bengal and
entire North East. I am sure that either joining to Pakistan or
Independent Kashmir , none of this happens to be any option for the
Kashmir valley.

North East and entire Himalayan zone depend heavily on supply line
linked to the main land. any disruption would mean death.

Kashmir valley would never get the subsidy in Pakistan as they get in
India. Instable Pakistan may never afford Kashmir. It is a political
as well as diplomatic ploy to generate more foreign fund! nothing
else! it is a tough bargain against international community.

Demand related to liberation is rhetoric only which is related to
nationality, ethnic identity. While the Military option like AFPSA and
POTA has the only solution, ethnic cleansing! This is the softest
proactive fertile ground for the genetically modified seeds of
terrorism. Before nineties we knew CIA as the Prime harvester. But
ruling hegemony seems to claim that CIA is dislodged and ISI is solely
responsible for the mischief.

Even the hypocrite anti Imperialist anti fascist ant US Left never
dares to accuse the CIA. Security agencies are just like the one eyed
does just targeting the Muslims to solve a more complex phenomenon of
Terrorism!

It is not religion.new faces of terror exposed prove that.

The terrorists are not that fundamental however funded they might be!

They are not that dogmatic however Ideologue they might sound!

They are well educated, polished technocrats of globalisation and this
bloody Manusmriti Apartheid Post Modern Galaxy Order run by weapon
Economy based Corporate Imperialism creates them!

Without looking into this, I am afraid, no lead would enable us to
expose the forces behind the Terror!

A day after five meticulously planned serial blasts ripped apart Delhi
on Saturday evening, killing at least 26 people and injuring over 100,
a massive hunt is on to nab the culprits, including Abdul Subhan alias
Tauqeer, the alleged mastermind of the terror attack. Security is
tight across the national capital, especially around busy markets,
cinema halls, hospitals and Delhi Metro stations. An alert has also
been sounded across the country, including in the financial capital
Mumbai and other metros. On the other hand,Mumbai Police were
investigating the links and possible connection to Saturday's Delhi
serial blasts of 15 suspects whose names were passed on by the Gujarat
police, an official said in Mumbai Sunday.

The CPI(M) today denounced the terrorist network that perpetrated
serial blasts in national capital claiming 26 lives.The party stressed
on the need for effective intelligence and investigating systems to
nab those behind such activities and not "draconian detention laws
that have proved ineffective in the past".

Expressing sympathy to the families of the victims, the party's
Politburo sought an explanation from the Centre as to "why the
intelligence and the security set up have failed to identify and
dismantle the terrorist groups that are operating".

It demanded that the Central government should convene Parliament
Session immediately and table a report.

The party maintained that the serial blasts in Delhi, which was
similar to those that occurred in Ahmedabad, Bangalore and Jaipur,
indicated that the capacity of the terrorist network to strike has not
been curbed despite claims that some of the main culprits have been
arrested after the Ahmedabad blasts.

"Given this latest outrage in the capital, it is imperative for the
Central government to explain why the intelligence and security set up
have failed to identify and dismantle the terrorist groups that are
operating," it said.

The US has firmed up an "aggressive" three-phase plan to conduct cross-
border raids into Pakistan from Afghanistan to strike at the elusive
Osama bin Laden and other top al-Qaeda leaders believed to be hiding
in the tribal region, a media report said today. Last week's "snatch
and grab" raid by helicopter-borne US Special Operations forces in
Pakistan was not an isolated incident but part of a three-phase plan,
approved by President Bush, to strike at al-Qaeda's top leadership,
the National Public Radio (NPR) reported. Pentagon and White House
officials have declined to discuss the new plan. The intelligence
community already had approval from Bush to carry out operations
inside Pakistan, which included attacks by Predator drones, the report
said.


The plan calls for a much more aggressive military campaign, it quoted
a source familiar with presidential order, which allowed the US
military to conduct the raids, as saying.The plan represents an 11th-
hour effort to hammer al-Qaeda more aggressively as the Bush
administration's term ends in January next, two officials were quoted
as saying.

"Definitely, the gloves have come off," said a source who has been
briefed on the plan. "This was only Phase 1 of three phases."

The latest US move has caused much concern in Islamabad with Army
Chief Ashfaq Parvez Kayani, in an unusually strong public statement
recently, vowing to defend the country's sovereignty and territorial
integrity "at all cost".

The NPR report also said that CIA personnel from around the world were
being pulled into the Afghan-Pak border area, an intelligence-
community "surge" to go after bin Laden and other al-Qaeda
figures.

Admiral Mike Mullen, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, told
Congress this week that he is drafting a new military strategy for
both Afghanistan and Pakistan.

Terror seems to have come a full circle in the national capital which
was rocked three years back by serial blasts in busy Sarojni Nagar
area of South Delhi.

In New Delhi,Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Sunday visited a
hospital here and met some of those injured in the serial blasts.

The prime minister spent 10 minutes at the Ram Manohar Lohia Hospital.
Delhi Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit, Home Secretary Madhukar Gupta and
Delhi Police Commissioner Y.S. Dadwal accompanied him.

United Progressive Alliance (UPA) chairperson Sonia Gandhi and Dikshit
also met the injured in the hospital on Saturday night. At least 21
people were killed in the five explosions.

In Washington:As it reaches out to the Indian American community
leaders given their lobbying prowess, the Bush Administration is
understood to have assured them that the recent Presidential
submission on the 123 Agreement to the Congress had nothing (rpt)
nothing that contravened what India and the US had agreed under the
nuclear deal.

The administration is leaving no stone unturned as it races against
time to have the US-India civilian nuclear agreement completed by the
Congressional adjournment date of September 26 even if indications are
there that the lawmakers may return for a Lame-Duck Session after the
November 4 presidential elections.

It is learnt that the administration has stepped up efforts in getting
the measure approved before Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's visit here
on September 25 during which he will meet President George W Bush at
the White House.

The White House has opened yet another channel in its lobbying efforts
-- the Indian American community leaders who played a vital role in
the passage of the Hyde Act in 2006 in the 109th Congress.

It is learnt that the administration reached out to a small group of
powerful members of the Indian American community through a conference
call, the primary objective of which was apparently to explain the
significance of the Presidential submission to Congress and has
assured them that there is nothing that contravenes what India and the
US have agreed upon by way of the 123 Agreement.

In New York: With the US pushing through a broad array of foreign
weapons deals, a leading Democrat has slammed the Bush
Administration's arms sale policy arguing that military supplies to
Pakistan were doing more to stoke tension with India than combat
terrorism, a media report said.As part of its policy, the
administration seeks to re-arm Iraq and Afghanistan, contain North
Korea and Iran and solidify ties with onetime Russian allies, 'The New
York Times' reported today.

Howard L Berman of California, Chairman of the House Committee on
Foreign Affairs, who sponsored a bill passed in May to overhaul the
arms export process, was quoted as saying that American military
sales, while often well-intended, were sometimes misguided.

He cited military sales to Pakistan, which he said he feared were
doing more to stoke tension with India than combat terrorism in the
region.

Recently, Berman along with Nita Lowey, Chairwoman of the House
Appropriations Subcommittee on State, Foreign Operations and Related
Programmes Representatives, moved to suspend the release of nearly USD
230 million in counter-terrorism funds by the Bush Administration for
upgrades to Pakistan's ageing F-16 fighter-jet fleet.

They reportedly asked the Bush administration not to shift USD 226.5
million in anti-terrorism aid to the Pakistan military as they feared
the plan would impede efforts to stop terrorism and that they needed
more time to study it.

Berman was quoted as saying by the Times today that he supported many
of the individual weapons sales, like helping Iraq build the capacity
to defend itself, but he worried that the sales blitz could have some
negative effects.

"This could turn into a spiralling arms race that in the end could
decrease stability," he said.


In New Delhi: With Saturday evening's serial blasts in Delhi, the
unsolved cases have gone up with police and security agencies groping
in the dark about the main perpetrators behind these attacks. The
serial blasts in the national capital on the eve of Diwali in 2005,
that claimed over 60 lives, began a fresh chapter of unsolved cases
with central security agencies.Claims by Delhi Police about some
arrests in this case came under a cloud as Tariq Dar, arrested in
connection with the case, accused the police of framing him. No
headway was made. While there have been claims by police and agencies
of busting one module or the other, terrorists seem to have
demonstrated that they are very much active and can strike at will,
says a senior security official.


Union Home Minister Shivraj Patil chaired a high-level meeting to
assess the security situation even as police worked on eyewitness
accounts to prepare sketches of suspected terrorists who planted the
bombs. While in the ongoing Delhi blasts investigation, Students
Islamic Movement of India's (SIMI) involvement is also under scrutiny
by intelligence agencies.A SIMI activist arrested in connection with
Hubli terror camps had hinted at attacks on Bangalore, Ahmedabad and
Delhi - an operation codenamed BAD.Meanwhile, the Lt Governer of Delhi
has met police officers across the city and suggested the possibility
of making crowded markets pedestrian zone.He also emphasized on the
need to make alternate parking arrangements master plan on security to
be completed in the next three months.Earlier, talking to NDTV Delhi
Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit said that Delhi metro could have been
the target of terrorists on Saturday.The Indian Mujahideen has claimed
responsibility once again in an email sent just minutes after the
first blast that shook the national capital on Saturday evening.The
mail mentioned 9 bombs. There were 5 blasts and 4 live bombs defused,
exactly matching the details.

Cricket Australia (CA) on Sunday said it will review the security
situation in India following Saturday's serial blasts in New Delhi and
decide next week whether to proceed with the next month's four-match
Test tour or not.

CA Public Affairs Manager Peter Young said the board will seek advice
from the Australian Government and ask team security manager Reg
Dickason to compile an urgent report on the security situation in
India.

French President Nicolas Sarkozy on Sunday wrote to Prime Minister
Manmohan Singh expressing condolences over the loss of lives in the
serial bomb blasts here and conveyed his country's solidarity with
India in meeting the challenge of terrorism.

Sarkozy who will meet Singh during the latter's visit to France later
this month said he would like to use the opportunity to discuss
"strengthening our action against this scourge".

The Bush administration is pushing through a wide range of foreign
weapons deals in a bid to rearm Iraq and Afghanistan and contain North
Korea and Iran, The New York Times reported.


The deals range from tanks, helicopters and fighter jets to missiles,
remotely piloted aircraft and warships, the Times said in its Sunday
editions. The weapons and other military equipment foreign sales have
totaled more than $32 billion this year, compared with $12 billion in
2005.

While the focus has been on the Middle East, sales extend to northern
Africa, Asia, Latin America, Europe and Canada, the Times said.

"This is not about being gunrunners," the Times quoted Bruce Lemkin,
the Air Force deputy undersecretary who has coordinated many of the
largest sales, as saying. "This is about building a more secure
world."

In the past two years, Iraq has signed agreements worth more than $3
billion, and also said it planned to buy as much as $7 billion more in
U.S. equipment, the Times said. Over the past three years, Washington,
the world's top arms supplier, had agreed to buy more than $10 billion
in military equipment and weapons on behalf of Afghanistan, according
to Defense Department records, the newspaper said.

Pentagon spokeswoman Lt. Col. Almarah Belk said such deals served the
interests of Iraq and the United States because they cut the risk of
corruption and helped Iraq "in getting around bottlenecks in their
acquisition processes."

Much of the rearmament in the Gulf has been driven by fears of Iran.
The Times said the United Arab Emirates were considering U.S.-made
missile defense systems worth as much as $16 billion, while Saudi
Arabia had agreed this year to at least $6 billion in weapons
purchases from Washington, the most since 1993, and Israel was
increasing its orders.

U.S. allies in Asia have also been buying more U.S. equipment as North
Korea conducts long-range missile tests. South Korea alone signed
sales agreements this year worth $1.1 billion.

Rep. Howard Berman, chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee,
said that while he backed many of the weapons sales such as those that
helped Iraq defend itself, he worried the spike "could turn into a
spiraling arms race that in the end could decrease stability," the
Times said.

The Times, citing Defense Department sales data through the end of
August, reported that countries newly reliant on the United States as
a primary major weapons source included Argentina, Brazil, India,
Iraq, Morocco and Pakistan and former Soviet republics Azerbaijan and
Georgia.

Together the countries signed $870 million worth of arms deals with
the Bush administration from 2001 to 2004, but in the past four fiscal
years the total had increased to $13.8 billion.


On the other hand, the Indian Mujahideen, which has claimed the
responsibility for the serial terror blasts in Delhi, Ahmedabad,
Bangalore and Jaipur, killing at least 130 people in a span of four
months, has now threatened to carry out attacks in India's financial
capital - Mumbai.

Accusing Mumbai Police's Anti-Terrorism Squad of harassing Muslims,
the Indian Mujahideen, believed to be a front strike unit of the
banned Students' Islamic Movement of India (SIMI), said in its email
that it was closely watching the ATS.

"You should know that your acts are not at all left unnoticed; rather
we are closely keeping an eye on you and just waiting for the proper
time to execute your bloodshed. We are aware of your recent night
raids at Ansarnagar, Mograpada in Andheri and the harassment and
trouble you created there for the Muslims," the group said in the
email.

"You threatened to murder them and your mischief went to such an
extent that you even dared to abuse and insult Maulana Mahmood-ul-
Hasan Qasmi and even misbehaved with the Muslim women and children
there.

"If this is the degree to which your arrogance has reached, and if you
think that by these stunts you can scare us, then let the Indian
Mujahideen warn all the people of Mumbai that whatever deadly attacks
you will face in future, the only responsible elements for it will be
the Mumbai ATS and their guardians: Vilasrao Deshmukh and R.R. Patil.

"You are already on our hit-list and this time very very seriously."

The terror outfit also threatened to target a senior Rajasthan police
official. "Let us notify you, as we did to the Gujarat police that all
the Mujahideen who shook Jaipur are absolutely safe and secure, and
are heavily preparing for our next targets, one of which is A.K. Jain
- the DIG (deputy inspector general) of Rajasthan.

Jain has been instrumental in arresting several SIMI members in
Rajasthan in connection with the May 13 serial blasts in Jaipur. The
mail bears two signatures at the end, GuruAlhindi and Al-Arbi.

People continued with their daily chores and public transport
normally plied in the city, an eerie silence prevailed in the blast-
hit Karol Bagh and Connaught Place areas a day after the terror
attack. Investigations into the blasts meanwhile continued today with
the Delhi Police’s Special Cell, which is leading the probe,
continuing to pick up forensic evidence at the five blasts sites in
Connaught Place, Karol Bagh and Greater Kailash I.Zeenews
reports.Investigators believe the attackers had packed the bombs with
ammonium nitrate besides shrapnels and ball bearings for maximum
impact. But while the bombs killed people in Connaught Place and Karol
Bagh, no one died in South Delhi's upmarket Greater Kailash-I M Block
market.The blasts, however, failed to dampen the spirits of Delhiites,
who continued with normal life today. Major markets, however,
attracted fewer people. Traffic on the city's roads was sparse.City
hospitals like RML, Jasaram, Lady Hardinge, Ganga Ram and LNJP, where
the injured were admitted, saw a hectic activity overnight and in the
morning as relatives of the victims came to visit them. Some people at
RML and LNJP hospitals were seen worried as they were not able to
trace their relatives since the blasts last night.

In BANGALORE: BJP leader L K Advani said on Sunday that the stringent
anti-terror law POTA will be restored if the NDA comes to power, a day
after serial blasts rocked Delhi.

"POTA will be restored and the terror control acts forwarded by the
states would be given ratification if NDA comes to power," Advani told
the his partymen here on Sunday.

He also lashed out at the UPA government for not approving the anti-
terror law forwarded by the Gujarat government that is pending before
the President for the last four years. POTA which was enacted by the
NDA regime was scrapped by the UPA when it came to power in 2004.

Adressing a rally here on Saturday, the party's Prime Ministerial
termed Manmohan Singh led UPA regime "to be the most worthless
government in the history of free India". He said the "soft" approach
of the central government in combating terror due to "fears of loss
the minority vote bank" is responsible for the frequent terror strikes
in the country.



In New Delhi:15-year-old girl Puja, who had suffered splinter injuries
in the explosion at Gaffar market in Karol Bagh, died in a hospital
raising the toll to 21, police said.

After the 90-minute meeting chaired by Patil, Union Home Secretary
Madhukar Gupta told reporters here that "we have discussed various
measures that may be needed not only in Delhi but other major
cities".

Without going into details of what transpired during the discussions,
Gupta said the Ministry is taking all steps to "fill up any kind of
gap, strengthening the machinery, the system and processes".

In a word of caution, the Home Secretary said "neither your (media) or
anybody should say or do anything which creates unnecessary
apprehensions or whips up any kind of panic".

Meanwhile, frenzied relatives thronged several of the city hospital
where the victims of last evening's serial blasts lay admitted.

An international seminar on terrorism beginning in Delhi on Monday
will provide an opportunity to India to interact with over a dozen
countries, including Pakistan and Bangladesh, on issues related to the
menace as well as militancy.
The two-day deliberations, to be inaugurated by Union Home Minister
Shivraj Patil, will include presentations on terrorism in South Asia
and its neighbourhood and on extremism and insurgency in South East
Asia.

A panel discussion on the Indian experience in counter-terrorism
policing will be held on the second day of the meet.

National Security Adviser (NSA) M K Narayanan will deliver the keynote
address at the seminar organised by the Asia-Pacific chapter of the
International Association of Chiefs of Police (IACP). India presently
chairs the Asia Pacific World Regional Office of the IACP.

Apart from the IACP president Ronald C Ruecker, the meet will be
attended by foreign delegates from 13 countries in the Asia Pacific
region, an official release said.

IACP is the world's largest organisation of police officials with a
membership of around 20,000 spread across over 90 countries.

In London.highligting the need for launching 'a new dialogue' to
tackle terrorism, Pakistan President Asif Ali Zardari has said he
would seek an international conference on the issue at the UN General
Assembly later this month.

"Whatever medicine we've been using it hasn't ended the poison, it's
made it worse," Zardari was quoted as saying by 'The Sunday Times'
ahead of his visit here beginning on Sunday.

It was earlier supposed to be a private visit to take his Daughter
Bakhtawar to Edinburgh University to begin her degree court. But now,
he will hold meetings with British Prime Minister Gordon Brown and
Foreign Secretary David Miliband.

Zardari told the newspaper recently that he felt Pakistan was being
blamed for NATO's failure in Afghanistan. "Okay, we're really bad and
done everything wrong this side of the border, but has NATO been able
to control the situation with all its soldiers or come up with a
proper Afghan army as yet?" "I'm not pointing fingers, just saying
we've all come short of expectations," he was quoted as saying.

At the UN General Assembly later this month in New York, Zardari said
he would call for an international conference on the issue.

Zardari said "if the problem was two on a scale of one to ten, now
it's nine. I'm proposing to the world that we players should all get
together and start a new dialogue. There needs to be trust."

Meanwhile, claiming ‘vital’ leads in the serial blasts that left 24
dead, Delhi Police has detained six suspects amid clear indications of
a similarity with the Ahmedabad blasts in July for which SIMI has been
suspected. Sources in the investigation agencies said that two people
have been picked from the walled city and two more from Okhla. The
suspects, believed to have links with banned SIMI outfit, were being
questioned by joint teams of central security agencies and police.
While two more were also being quizzed, two others detained from
Barakhamba Road have been released, they said.

Indian Mujahideen on Saturday claimed responsibility of the serial
blasts that killed at least five people in the national capital.
In an e-mail sent to media houses, the outfit that had earlier also
claimed the Jaipur and Ahmedabad blasts, said, ‘Indian Mujahideen
strikes back once more.’

"Within 5 minutes from now. This time with the Message of Death,
dreadfully terrorising you for your sins," the chilling note said.

"And thus our promise will be fulfilled. Inshallah," it read. The
outfit also threw a challenge to the security agencies, saying "do
whatever you want and stop us if you can," the mail which came from
'Arbi Hindi', with the e-mail ID of al_arb...@yahoo.com, said.

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Delhi Police spokesman Rajan Bhagat said "we have got vital leads" but
declined to give details saying "we will solve the case soon".

Initial probe pointed to a group belonging to Western Uttar Pradesh
behind the five coordinated blasts at Gaffar Market in Karol Bagh,
Connaught Place and Greater Kailash.

Police teams have been sent to neighbouring UP and Rajasthan. They
said the role of Mumbai-resident Mohammed Subhan Quereshi, suspected
SIMI activist, was being probed. Police believe that he could have
hacked the WiFI system in Mumbai to send the terror e-mail to various
media houses.

Strong similarities were found between the Delhi blasts and the serial
explosions in Ahmedabad on July 26 that left 53 dead. Indian
Mujahideen, a shadow amalgam of banned SIMI and Lashker-e-Taiba,
claimed responsibility for the blasts through an e-mail sent to news
organisations around the same time when the explosions occurred.

Sketches of suspected bombers were being drawn by the Delhi Police
with the help of five eye-witnesses including a teenage balloon
seller, who claimed to have seen them placing packets in the dustbins
at Central Park in Connaught Place.
With the serial bomb blasts in Delhi coming on the eve of Ganpati
visarjan, perhaps the financial capital’s biggest annual event, the
challenge of providing security to Sunday’s immersions came under
fresh focus today as Maharashtra Police sounded an alert minutes after
the bombings in the national capital.

Expreesindia reports: Vigil was stepped up across Mumbai and traffic
slowed down as vehicles were checked on arterial roads. Particular
attention was being given to areas near the immersion sites. “We will
be conducting many security checks tomorrow across the city and we
request citizens to be patient and bear with us and co-operate when
such checks take place,” Mumbai Police Commissioner Hassan Gafoor told
Newsline.

Officials said that a total of 20,000 policemen and women would be
guarding the streets of Mumbai on Sunday along with 1,600 traffic
policemen besides units from the National Security Guard (NSG) and
bomb detection and disposal teams.

Gafoor said that Mumbai Police has been regularly sensitising Ganpati
mandal committees on security arrangements and a detailed security
plan had been made for the city for the immersion day this year. “The
field officers have been briefed on the screening and the checks to be
conducted at various sensitive places. We will also have our anti-
sabotage teams across the city and their priority also includes
checking vehicles in which idols will be taken for immersion,” he
said.

“The traffic wing has also been asked to ensure that vehicles are not
parked at sensitive places or at crowded junctions. The other teams
already on the streets and in sensitive areas are men from the state
CID and Bomb Detection and Disposal Squad and Home Guards.”

Mumbai Police have erected five control rooms and 37 watch towers
across the city to control traffic on Sunday. They have also installed
81 CCTV cameras along important visarjan routes, four of them on the
Lalbaugcha Raja route alone. Main roads leading to the immersion sites
of Girgaum Chowpatty, Dadar Chowpatty, Juhu Beach and Versova will
remain closed for traffic.

Cars without Ganesh idols will not be allowed to enter beaches and
firecrackers will not be allowed.

US Muslim group condemns Delhi blasts
14 Sep, 2008, 0707 hrs IST, PTI

WASHINGTON: An Indian-American Muslim advocacy group has strongly
condemned the serial blasts in New Delhi in which nearly 20 people
were killed and scores of others were injured.

The Indian Muslim Council of USA, in a statement said, "We denounce
these bomb blasts in the strongest possible terms and express our
condolences to the victims and their loved ones."

"Our sympathies are with the victims and their families," said IMC-USA
President Rasheed Ahmed. The group has demanded a "through and
transparent" investigation into the incident to ensure that its
culprits are brought to the book.

Five synchronised blasts took place in New Delhi last evening. A
terrorist group called Indian Mujahideen claimed responsibility for
the blasts.

India wakes up to cybercrime after terror strikes
14 Sep, 2008, 1803 hrs IST, AGENCIES

NEW DELHI: India needs to be more aware of cybercrime, experts said on
Sunday, after extremists again apparently hacked in to an Internet
connection to claim responsibility for a new round of deadly bomb
attacks.

"Ninety-nine percent of people don't know how to secure their wireless
connection, even big companies," Neeraj Kumar, New Delhi sales
director of US web security firm BluePrint Data, said. The threat was
highlighted after an email claiming explosions that killed 20 people
in the Indian capital on Saturday was traced to an electronics firm in
an eastern Mumbai suburb.

Mumbai police's anti-terrorism squad said the company's wireless
network was unsecured and had been hacked - the third time in as many
months they have had to deal with the problem in connection with
extremists. One email sent before blasts in the western city of
Ahmedabad in July originated from the hacked wireless connection of a
US national working in Mumbai. He was later cleared of any
involvement.

Another email threatening police was linked back to a college in the
city. "Wireless has a range of about 40 metres. You don't know who is
within 40 metres and what their motive is," said Kumar.

But too few people in the country knew how to secure access to their
network by allowing only registered users and named computers to use
it, or knew that software was available to foil unwarranted hackers,
he added. Indian interior minister Shivraj Patil has described
cybercrime as a major threat to national security. But the country
lags behind others in legislation and prosecuting offenders.

As such, Kumar said the onus should be on Internet Service Providers
(ISPs) to make people aware of the dangers. "ISPs have to do more to
alert their customers," he added.

The wife of Mumbai businessman K.M. Kamath, whose Internet Protocol
(IP) address was accessed by the Indian Mujahideen to claim the latest
attacks, said she had learnt the hard way. The leaders of the Indian
Mujahideen are said to be a tech-savvy jihadi from Mumbai and a
computer graphic designer from Vadodara, in Gujarat state, according
to press reports here.

"Hacking has become a terror for common citizens like us," Sarika
Kamath was quoted as saying on Sunday. "We are innocent and hard-
working people.

"We did not feel the need to secure or password-protect our Internet
connection. But now it has become a necessity for all citizens to
secure their connections."


Kashmiri trade bodies snap ties with Jammu counterparts
14 Sep, 2008, 1734 hrs IST, PTI

SRINAGAR: In retaliation to the "economic blockade" during the
Amarnath agitation, Kashmiri traders have snapped trade ties with
their Jammu counterparts.

Trade organisations in Kashmir said the decision to snap ties with
Jammu was largely driven by "economic blockade" of the valley and
"insistence of people here to severe links with Jammu even if meant
getting goods and products at expensive rates".

Kashmir Chamber of Commerce and Industry president Mubeen Shah said
here today, "How can we think of maintaining trade ties with the
traders of Jammu when they were part of recent economic blockade in
the sense that they never tried to use their influence to stop it?"

He alleged traders in Jammu did not oppose the blockade and contrasted
this with trade organisations in Kashmir. "We are also part of the
coordination committee, yet one of our constituents, Kashmir Houseboat
Owners Association organised a free 'langar' for the Amarnath yatris.

Kashmiri drivers and passengers were attacked during the agitation, he
alleged. Shah said, the "wounds inflicted by the blockade" will take a
lot of time to heal. Should the face-off continue, it would mean a
loss of around Rs 30,000 crore of annual business, traders said.

The KCCI president said Kashmiri businessmen would seek to make the
valley the hub of consumption and trade, as it was prior to
militancy.

The KCCI and Kashmir Traders and Manufacturers Federation recently
refused to meet a delegation of traders from Jammu headed by Jammu
Chambers of Commerce and Industry president Ram Sahai and Anil Suri of
the Federation of Industries Jammu.

WiFi system comes under cloud, agencies favour early measures
14 Sep, 2008, 1833 hrs IST, PTI
NEW DELHI: The wireless fidelity (WiFi) Internet service of telecom
companies has come under scanner and security agencies are likely to
harden their stance on having a fool-proof mechanism in place at the
earliest.
The move comes close on the heels of militants of the Indian
Mujahideen using the WiFi service to send an email around the same
time of the serial blasts in Ahmedabad and Delhi.
"We are seized of the matter and it would be taken up with appropriate
authorities soon," a senior Home Ministry official said. The official
said the security agencies had pointed out that password protection
should be made mandatory in every customer using the WiFi technology.
However, the recent hacking in its proxy server while sending the
email ahead of the weekend blasts was a glaring example of how
terrorists took advantage of unsecured networks, sources in the union
Home Ministry said, adding that the Department of Telecom may not have
placed in stringent measures.
While before the Ahmedabad blast, militants had used the unsecured
WiFi system of an American national, Kenneth Haywood, in case of Delhi
blasts, they used the unsecured network of a family in Chembur.
An iconic melting pot turns crucible of terror
SUJAN DUTTA
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New Delhi, Sept. 13: Her bangles broke when a limp and dangling hand
hit a lamp-post as two men ran with the woman’s supine form between
them and bundled her into a police van that sped off.
She was probably in her early twenties, in jeans with shimmer. The
face was in a shadow and dark with blood that was dripping on the
road, the Inner Circle. The light was not good enough to see the other
bodies either.
There were at least four of them inside the van, a Police Control Room
(PCR) Toyota Qualis. I don’t know if they were alive or dead. She was
moaning, so she was alive. I first saw them as silhouettes against the
mercury vapour lamps of Central Park, Connaught Place, where Janpath
meets the Inner Circle. The police van was in front of the Palika
Underground Car Park.
It was shortly after 6.30pm. One of the two men, both sardars, later
told me his name: Baljit Singh Bengali, an electronics shop owner in
Palika Bazar. A stain of fresh blood — not his — spread across his
shirt at the chest.
“There were many women and some children, stunned, unconscious,
writhing — on that lawn over there — when my brothers and I went into
Central Park and started bringing them out. I think we must have put
about 20 men, women and children into the police vans — four or five
in each,” he said.
I was in Connaught Place when the bombs went off. I heard them. It was
close to 6.30. Connaught Place is crowded on Saturday evenings. It
takes time to park. The parking attendant in front of a publisher’s
office asked me to wait in the car. I was idling.
It’s always like this here since CP — as it is better known — was
revived after the Delhi Metro authorities rebuilt Central Park. The
three-storeyed underground station is the hub of the Delhi Metro where
the red, blue and yellow lines intersect. Since the authorities
restored Central Park in the middle of the circle — which is the dome
of the station — this has become one of the best-known hangouts.
CP is still known in Delhi as CP, not as Rajiv Chowk. Most visitors
who come to Delhi and can afford the time, visit CP. There is always a
babble of tongues — Bengali, Hindi, Tamil, Telugu, Assamese. It is the
iconic centre of the national capital. And it costs nothing to sit on
the lawns of Central Park or stroll around in it.
Outside Central Park, around the Inner Circle, traffic was heavy. At
least three other cars queued up behind mine.
Then the first bomb went off. Having heard bombs explode earlier, I
wondered if I was mistaken. (I learnt later as I walked around it that
the bomb was on Barakhamba Road between Gopaldas Bhavan and Statesman
House).
Within what must be 30 seconds, a second one, louder or closer or
both, went off. I was convinced. “Dhamaka suna (heard the explosion)?”
I asked the attendant.
“Karol Bagh mein bhi hua hain (there’s been one in Karol Bagh also),”
the attendant replied. The rear-view mirror was reflecting running
silhouettes in Central Park. I called my wife who was driving here too
with her sister. They were 10 minutes behind.
We were to meet and go for a movie at PVR Rivoli. I asked them to come
to Baba Kharak Singh Marg, in front of the state emporia complex, told
them we were in the middle (possibly) of serial blasts, cancelled the
evening’s programme and asked them to drive home.
The drill in these circumstances is to keep moving. Two bombs in quick
succession... and I thought of Srinagar where a photojournalist
colleague was killed by a second bomb as he went to take pictures of
the devastation left by the first.
Then I ran to Central Park. A brown dustbin and some bottles were
lying on the red pathway between the lawns. Three twisted cans of soft
drinks too and packets of wafers and fries. That is where the bomb
probably was.
The spot is just opposite the Palika entrance from the Inner Circle,
about 500 metres from where I was trying to park. From where to buy
cheap DVDs. When I reached there after coaxing my wife and sister-in-
law to leave I found it was cordoned off by the police.
Police vans and ambulances were hooting in an out and, I now recall, I
heard the first hooters within a minute or two after the second
blast.
For the Delhi police, CP has always been high on the list of possible
terrorist targets. On any given day, there will be at least two PCR
vans in the Inner Circle at any time and on weekends possibly more.
It’s as secure as a secure city centre in India can be. In fact, it
probably has more police presence than any other city centre in this
country and on Saturday evenings even that is reinforced.
And most of the bigger shops and establishments around Central Park --
showrooms for Nike and Reebok and Bata, Levi’s and Colorplus and
Woodlands, restaurants Thank God It’s Friday and Q’Ba’s and McDonald’s
and United Coffee House, publishers Harper Collins and Living Media,
stock firm Indiabulls -- have close-circuit TV cameras.
From where the dustbin now lay, its stand, a scrap of twisted metal
had flown clean over the Inner Circle when the bomb went off, hit a
lamp-post across the road and was now at its base. The twisted T-
shaped piece with sharp uneven edges was enough to slice through a
human body. Rajiv Bhagat, another shop owner and a civil defence
warden, said the dustbin was about three metres from where it stood.
Central Park has now been emptied. Only the police, forensic
specialists and a bomb detection squad are allowed in.
The blast was in the southern lawn of Central Park. Even in peak
summer, Central Park is crowded and, with the weather beginning to
change in the evenings in Delhi this week, families were whiling their
time. It costs nothing to get there except the fare to travel to the
place from wherever you are. Entry is free.
It is impolitic, perhaps, for a journalist to report in the first
person. But the coincidence today is not to be easily forgotten. All
of this afternoon, I was watching documentaries on terrorism and
violence in Israel and Palestine in the West Bank, the Gaza Strip, in
Jerusalem and Tel Aviv at a film festival at the India Habitat Centre
called with the theme “exploring conflict”.
In one city, a documentary showed, an Arab was picked up by the police
because someone reported him standing near an unidentified package at
a kerb, the people were so paranoid.
Thirty minutes later, I drove into Connaught Place and paranoia.

The missing & missed signs
Tears for father and friends
CHARU SUDAN KASTURI
http://www.telegraphindia.com/1080914/jsp/nation/story_9832128.jsp
Accompanied by his child on a trolley, an injured man being wheeled
into Ram Manohar Lohia Hospital. Picture by Rajesh Kumar
New Delhi, Sept. 13: His left shoulder bleeding from shrapnel wounds,
Sudhanshu Kumar tried to push his way through a virtual sea of people
to the emergency ward at Ram Manohar Lohia Hospital.
The 25-year-old, doing his MPhil in Asian studies at JNU, pushed aside
with his right hand dozens of volunteers as they rushed to help him.
“I’m fine,” he said, eyes anxiously scanning stretchers wheeling in
patients with critical injuries.
“But I don’t know where my friends are... Anuj and Rajiv... we were
together at Central Park when the blast occurred. I was knocked
unconscious for a few moments. I haven’t seen them since,” he pleaded
with policemen guarding the emergency wing as they blocked anyone
other than medical staff and patients from entering.
Around him, sobbing relatives searched for victims, their non-stop
wail broken only by the siren of ambulances bringing in the injured.
Volunteers cleared the 20-metre stretch from the trauma centre to the
emergency ward and camera bulbs flashed every time a patient was
stretchered in.
Some 30 metres away from the emergency ward, Naeem Khan sobbed as his
younger brothers tried to comfort him.
The eldest among his siblings, Naeem said he had a bitter argument
earlier in the day with his father. Out on the streets of Karol Bagh’s
Gaffar Market at the time of the blast there, his father now lay in a
hospital bed.
The hospital’s chief medical officer said over 60 people had been
admitted. By 9.15pm, nine had been declared dead. Five were critical.
Officials said victims from Karol Bagh, Connaught Place and Barakhamba
Road had also been admitted to Lok Nayak Jai Prakash Hospital and Lady
Hardinge Hospital.
Those injured in Greater Kailash — reportedly the site of the weakest
of the blasts that rocked the capital today — were taken to the All
India Institute of Medical Sciences.
Delhi mayor Arti Mehra — of the BJP — said around 80 people had been
admitted to hospitals.
Congress president Sonia Gandhi, party leader Sajjan Kumar and the
CPM’s Sitaram Yechury also visited the injured, as did junior home
minister Sriprakash Jaiswal.
Tanvir Kumar, a private security guard at Ram Manohar Lohia Hospital,
said he didn’t know about the blasts till the first ambulance reached
around 7.05 in the evening.
“The images,” he added, “are going to stay with me forever.”

Press Release

Source : USIBA
Category : General
President Bush Sends US-India Nuclear Deal to Congress
WASHINGTON ( Saturday, September 13 , 2008 02:43:16 PM)
WASHINGTON, Sept. 12 /PRNewswire-AsiaNet/ --
USIBA Galvanizes Support by Hosting Briefing Featuring US Assistant
Secretary
of State Richard Boucher
On Wednesday, September 10th, US President George Bush sent the text
of a
proposed US-India nuclear agreement to Congress for approval.
Today, in response to the President's actions, the US-India Business
Alliance (USIBA) and the US Congressional Task Force on US-India Trade
held a
briefing on Capitol Hill with Assistant Secretary of State Richard
Boucher
regarding the deal's current status.
Ambassador Boucher congratulated Mr. Sanjay Puri, President of the US
India Business Alliance (USIBA) for organizing this most timely event,
which
was the first briefing to be held by the Administration on Capitol
Hill since
India was given a waiver by the 45-nation Nuclear Suppliers' Group
(NSG) on
Saturday, September 6, 2008. Recognizing the importance of the
briefing,
Ambassador Boucher said, "This is where the action is," referring also
to the
fact that it is now up to Congress to get the deal done. "We hope the
legislation can be passed,"
The Chairman of the Taskforce, Rep. Eni Faleomavaega (D-AS), who also
serves as Chairman of the Foreign Affairs' Subcommittee on Asia, the
Pacific,
and the Global Environment, commended USIBA for the important role it
has
played in galvanizing the Indian American community. "USIBA's work has
not
gone unnoticed. We will continue working in hopes of seeing this deal
through,
and Mr. Puri and I will be meeting with Chairman Berman of the Foreign
Affairs
Committee in the very near future for further discussions."
Rep. Joe Crowley (D-NY), a member of the Foreign Affairs Committee and
a
key Democratic leader in the US House of Representatives, stated,
"Senate
Majority Leader Harry Reid has indicated he would like to see this
move, I
share that. It's high on the agenda even if it goes to the lame duck
session.
I am confident that we will pass it."
Rep Ed Royce (R-CA), also a member of the Foreign Affairs Committee,
said,
"India today views the US as a reliable, dependable partner. If our
actions
are to match our rhetoric, if we are truly concerned about our ally in
a tough
neighborhood, now is the time to extend this helping hand."
Rep. Jim McDermott (D-WA), Chair of the Caucus on India and Indian
Americans offered a more cautious note. "Congress has received a
report from
the White House and that sets the clock in motion but you can't expect
this to
go through like a rifle shot. The chances are fifty-fifty. But if it
doesn't
go through now, I will emphasize it doesn't mean any disrespect for
India."
"The accord will strengthen economic, military and diplomatic ties
with an
emerging power and will bring a new source of energy to a fast-growing
country
working to lift millions out of poverty," Sanjay Puri, President of
USIBA,
said, "and USIBA is fully committed to doing its part to help get this
deal
done."
About USIBA
The U.S.-India Business Alliance (USIBA) is a trade association based
in
Washington, DC. By drawing its strength from the Indian-American
community,
USIBA is recognized today as one of the most influential trade groups
working
for increased commerce between the United States and India. For more
information, go to www.usiba.org.

CONTACT: Geetanjali Bhushan of USIBA, +1-202-628-3450,
gbhu...@usiba.org
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India has conflicts with several of its neighbors: Pakistan, China,
and Sri Lanka. The situation in Sri Lanka pits a Sinhalese-majority
population, against the Tamil minority. Many of these conflicts stay
at the level of intelligence and special operations, but periodically
break into major conflict.

The Research and Analysis Wing (RAW) is India's foreign intelligence
organization, while the Intelligence Bureau (IB) is responsible for
counterintelligence. The military has a separate Defence Intelligence
Agency (DIA) India prides itself as having a history of skilled
intelligence going back to antiquity.[1]

CIA activities in India need to be seen in the context that India and
its neighbors involve a complex interplay among their intelligence
services, as well as interested services from the US, UK, Russia,
Israel and China.

Contents
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1 India 1955
2 India 1958
3 India 1965
4 India 1968
5 India 1969-1974
6 India 1974
7 India 1984
8 India 1985
9 India 1987
10 India 1992
11 India 2002
12 India 2004
13 India 2006
14 References



[edit] India 1955
A chartered Indian airliner, Kashmir Princess, was bombed. There is
substantial evidence that the Kuomintang (Taiwan) service may have
planted it, attempting to assassinate Zhou Enlai, who had been
expected on it. CIA involvement is much less clear, although some
general claims are made in the linked article.

In a 1971 face-to-face meeting in the Great Hall of the People in
Beijing, Zhou directly asked Henry Kissinger about US involvement,
whose response included the line "As I told the Prime Minister the
last time, he vastly overestimates the competence of the CIA."[2]
Kissinger denied any US policy to kill him, and the two discussed the
CIA at some length, in a manner unusual to find in US records.


[edit] India 1958
India's nuclear programs were assessed.[3]


[edit] India 1965
SNIE 31-1-65 examined India's nuclear weapons policy for the remainder
of the 1960s. In doing so, it examines India's technical capabilities,
the pressures for a weapons program, and the opposition to a weapons
program. A final section, "The Indian Decision," tries to assess
India's decision calculus and notes that India might try to represent
any underground test as being for peaceful purposes.[4]


[edit] India 1968
When India's intelligence community was built around RAW in 1968,
RAW's first director, R.N. Kao, held meetings with his CIA
counterparts in the U.S., as well as the United Kingdom's SIS and the
Soviet Union KGB. Much of the liaison was essentially political in
character — what is today known as `back channel diplomacy' — but
RAW's special operations and SIGINT/IMINT unit, the Aviation Research
Centre, received technical assistance from the U.S. in return for
information on China.[5]


[edit] India 1969-1974
Further information: Inter-Services Intelligence#India 1969-1974

[edit] India 1974
India's first nuclear test, on India's May 18, 1974, was a surprise to
the Intelligence Community, although the overall nuclear program and
incentives to build a bomb had been discussed.[6]

"India conducted an underground nuclear test at a site in the desert
at Pokhran - making it the world's seventh nuclear power and the sixth
to test (Israel having achieved nuclear status in 1966 without
testing). India claimed as CIA analysts had previously suggested it
might that the test was for peaceful purposes. This Top Secret
Codeword item in the Central Intelligence Bulletin relays press
reporting and public statements by officials of other governments,
including Pakistan, and contains analysts assessments of the
implications for China.[7] As predicted in the 1965 SNIE 31-1-65, the
test was described as being for peaceful purposes.[4]


[edit] India 1984
Sheel Bhadra Yagee claimed that the CIA orchestrated the Sikh uprising
which later led to Indira Gandhi assassination by her Sikh body guards.
[8][clarify]


[edit] India 1985
In 1985, according to Frontline magazine, RAW counter-intelligence
obtained a confession, from a field officer in Chennai to admit that
he had passed on sensitive information to the CIA and Sri Lankan
intelligence. RAW confronted him with footage showing him making
contact with a U.S. national on a beach in Chennai and at a resort in
Kerala. RAW had sought to tighten in-house security after the public
fracas that broke out in the wake of the scandal. The Chennai case was
a particular embarrassment because it came hot on the heels of another
spy scandal" involving French and Polish intelligence.[9]


[edit] India 1987
In 1987, when the Indian Peace Keeping Force (IPKF) was in Sri Lanka,
Paranthan Rajan came into contact with RAW officials.[10] He came to
Indian intelligence officials’ attention when he formed a political
group, Tamileela Iykkia Viduthalai Munnani. Given his background,
observers feel Rajan’s alliance with Karuna might be RAW’s handiwork.


[edit] India 1992
In 1992, the State Department threatened to impose economic sanctions
on India after it refused permission for US sleuths to go on an aerial-
photography mission along the Sino-Indian border.[5]


[edit] India 2002
Until recently, only RAW was authorised to have contacts with foreign
intelligence agencies — and the job was restricted to a select few
within its ranks. Under the National Democratic Alliance coalition
government, RAW, IB, and DIA could interact with counterpart
organizations in other countries. Former Deputy Prime Minister L.K.
Advani, for example, met the heads of the CIA and Israel's Mossad
along with Intelligence Bureau staff.[11][citation needed] Brajesh
Mishra, former Principal Secretary to Prime Minister Atal Bihari
Vajpayee, is known to have had direct contact with the head of
Pakistan's Inter-Services Intelligence as well. While meetings in
themselves are not inappropriate, they can lead to the breakdown of
protocols - for example, that intelligence officers will meet a
foreign contact only in teams of two - and eventual penetration.[9]
There is little oversight of this process, which has had the
unexpected consequence that "hundreds of Indian agents have been
exposed, the term professionals use to describe individuals whose real
jobs are known to foreign intelligence organisations. "As things
stand," says a senior RAW officer, 'we hardly have anyone left who can
serve in a genuine covert role.'".[citation needed]

Rabinder Singh has been described, in Indian media, as a CIA asset
inside the Indian Research and Analysis Wing (RAW), the national
intelligence service. It is not clear if he is a member of a larger
clandestine HUMINT network. The suggestion has already been made by a
number of well-placed observers that he had acted as a conduit or
cutout for a number of highly placed US 'assets' operating deep within
the Indian intelligence community, the military and scientific centres
working on nuclear and missile development, and others inside the
political establishment.

The issue also involved problems with the Intelligence Bureau, the
domestic security agency, and an overall concern with trust of
security officers.

In 2002, Singh visited the US under a liaison initiative based on
counter-terror, teaching skills for hostage negotiation and dealing
with hijackers. Singh, however, is a Southeast Asia analyst not
working on terror issues.[12].

In 2002, the last year for which figures are available, the U.S.
hosted 80 courses for officers from India, along with 17 other
countries in Asia and Africa. "Intelligence cooperation and liaison
have always been chaotic," says former RAW officer and analyst B.
Raman, "but we cannot afford complacency any more."


[edit] India 2004
Singh disappeared from India in May 2004, and has applied for asylum
in the US. <name=Rediff2004-09-07> {{ciFrontline, an Indian
newsmagazine, described him as "Joint Secretary handling South-East
Asia" for RAW.[12] He came to RAW as an Indian Army major, who had
"served with distinction in Amritsar during Operation Bluestar, the
counter-terrorist assault on the Golden Temple in 1984. At some point
after this, he again attracted the attention of his superiors, this
time by procuring classified U.S. government documentation.

"Rabinder Singh's source seems to have been one of his relatives, a
U.S. citizen who has worked for over two decades with the United
States Agency for International Development (USAID). Rabinder Singh's
relative is alleged to have visited India regularly on official work,
sometimes staying at his residence. This relationship, RAW
investigators claim, enabled Rabinder Singh to pass on documents with
only a minimal risk of exposure.

"In the early 1980s, the son of then RAW chief N. Narasimhan left the
U.S. after efforts were made to approach the spy chief through him.
Narasimhan's son had been denied a visa extension, and was offered its
renewal in return for his cooperation with the U.S.' intelligence
services. "Not all," says a senior RAW officer, "would respond with
such probity."[9]


[edit] India 2006
Charges against Singh were filed in 2006. The RAW charges said that
they had located Singh in New Jersey and the process should start to
seek his extradition.“Now, we will be moving to extradite Singh from
the US,” stated the complaint. The Home Ministry had earlier invoked
the National Security Act and issued orders to attach Singh’s property.
[13]

After losing a first petition for asylum in the US, Singh won on
appeal.[14]

Singh is not the only person in international controversy. Sri Lanka’s
Army-backed Tamil paramilitary group, the ENDLF, is seeking recruits
amongst Tamil refugees in Tamil Nadu, offering hefty salaries. The
recruitment is being conducted with the knowledge of India’s external
intelligence agency, RAW (Research and Analysis Wing), the report
added. The ENDLF, reportedly headed by Paranthan Rajan, has been
recruiting cadres for the Karuna Group (named after the renegade LTTE
commander who heads it) from refugee camps in Tamil Nadu.[10]

“Rajan’s unusually lengthy stay in India — he first arrived in India
in 1990 — and his unrestricted movement here, coupled with his anti-
LTTE activities on Indian soil, are seen as concrete proof that he is
a RAW agent,” the website said. The recently defeated Jayalalithaa
government had arrested Rajan in 2004 – observers feel that he misread
signals following Jayalalithaa’s crackdown on pro-LTTE groups in Tamil
Nadu and felt he could have a free run with his anti-LTTE propaganda.
But he was released at the behest of RAW, the report said.

The ENDLF is being used by RAW to as a rallying point of anti-LTTE
groups, the report said. Rajan’s actions could have had RAW’s
blessings as it might have had an interest in promoting Karuna and
neutralising LTTE leader Vellupillai Pirapaharan’s appeal in Tamil
Nadu, the report said.


[edit] References
^ Hali, SM (Feb-Mar 1999), "Raw at War-Genesis of Secret Agencies in
Ancient India", Defence Journal (Pakistan), <http://
www.defencejournal.com/feb-mar99/raw-at-war.htm>
^ Memorandum of coversation (Henry Kissinger, Zhou Enlai, and staff),
Foreign Relations of the United States, 1969-1976, Volume E-13,
Documents on China, 1969-1972, October 21, 1971, <http://www.state.gov/
r/pa/ho/frus/nixon/e13/72454.htm>
^ Office of Scientific Intelligence, Central Intelligence Agency,
(February 18, 1958), Indian Nuclear Energy Program, <http://
www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/NSAEBB/NSAEBB187/IN01.pdf>
^ a b Central Intelligence Agency (October 21, 1965), SNIE 31-1-65:
India's Nuclear Weapons Policy, <http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/NSAEBB/
NSAEBB187/IN09.pdf>
^ a b Chaulia, Sreeram (August 18, 2007), Book review: India's silent
warriors,The Kaoboys of R&AW: Down Memory Lane by B Raman, <http://
www.atimes.com/atimes/South_Asia/IH18Df03.html>
^ Richelson, Jeffrey, ed. (April 13, 2006), U.S. Intelligence and the
Indian Bomb: Documents Show U.S. Intelligence Failed to Warn of
India's Nuclear Tests Despite Tracking Nuclear Weapons Potential Since
1950s, National Security Archive Electronic Briefing Book No. 187,
<http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/NSAEBB/NSAEBB187/index.htm>
^ Central Intelligence Agency (May 20, 1974), India [Redacted],
Central Intelligence Bulletin, <http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/NSAEBB/
NSAEBB187/IN17.pdf>
^ Yajee, Sheel Bhadra (1985), CIA Operations Against the Third World,
Criterion Publications, pp. 120-39
^ a b c Swami, Praveen (June 19, 2004), "Our Man in New Delhi",
Frontline (The Hindu) (13), <http://www.hinduonnet.com/fline/fl2113/
stories/20040702004403200.htm>
^ a b "India & the Struggle for Tamil Eelam: RAW aiding paramilitary
recruitment in India", TamilNet, June 25, 2006, <http://
www.tamilnation.org/intframe/india/060626raw.htm>
^ Bennett, Richard M (September 07, 2004), "For the US: India's
untrustworthy", Rediff India Abroad, <http://www.indiaabroad.com/news/
2004/sep/07guest.htm>
^ a b Swami, Praveen (June 14, 2004), "Open doors for mole
recruitment", The Hindu, <http://www.hinduonnet.com/2004/06/14/stories/
2004061408020100.htm>
^ Tripathi, Rahul (November 02, 2006), "Rabinder in US, we want him
back: RAW in court", IndianExpress.com, <http://www.indianexpress.com/
story/15865.html>
^ Surender Jeet Singh vs. John Ashcroft, [1] (United States Court of
Appeal for the Ninth Circuit November 1, 2004).
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