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The Mumbai Attacks: US Policy Dilemma
10 December 2008
The initial reaction of most US security analysts to the Mumbai terrorist strike was to blame Indian Islamists for the Mumbai terror attacks. This was astonishing given that no initial evidence suggested the involvement of homegrown terrorists. Yet, many US analysts jumped the gun and insisted the terrorists had no connection with Pakistan. One of the first media reports to appear in the Western press declared that the Mumbai strike was the work of domestic Muslims and not Pakistanis. The International Herald Tribune (IHT) quoted Christine Fair, a South Asia expert at the RAND Corporation, as saying: "There's absolutely nothing Al Qaeda-like about it." How an expert sitting in the United States could speak with such authority on an event thousands of miles away was intriguing to say the least.
Dealing with Pakistan: Outrage Cannot Help
01 December 2008
The public mood in India is undoubtedly anti-Pakistan and the central government is under considerable pressure to make Pakistan pay for the Mumbai outrage. The normally measured Indian Prime Minister Dr. Manmohan Singh talked about the involvement of external elements responsible for the Mumbai attacks. The question of course is how to punish the Pakistani Army and the anti-Indian groups that it covertly supports?
LTTE & Sri Lanka: An Update
10 December 2000
The LTTE has been thwarted by the Sri Lankan Armed Forces for the time being, but not vanquished. So long as the LTTE`s determination and motivation remain strong, the Sri Lankan military would have little chance of overwhelming the LTTE on the ground, whatever be its new acquisitions and whatever be the difficulties of the LTTE. Colombo has, therefore, no other alternative but to resume vigorously its search for a political solution based on imaginative new approaches, which would satisfy the pride of the Tamils and give them the satisfaction of being masters of their own destiny, while, at the same time, not hurting the pride of the Sinhalese and damaging the unity of Sri Lanka.
Islamic Jihad and the United States
30 October 2000
The Jihadists in Pakistan have spread their influence all over the globe - even the United States is not immune. The startling part is that Pakistan"s secret service, the ISI, is deeply involved with the key Jihadist organisations and have helped set up such organisations in the United States.
Death Throes of Terrorism in Kashmir?
08 August 2000
The wave of terrorist killings in Kashmir on 1 August 2000, according to analyst B.Raman, signals the beginning of the end for terrorism in that state. The killings, which left close to a 100 people dead, was clearly the result of terrorist anger against the decision of Kashmir"s last indigenous militant group"s to talk to the Indian government. The killings evoked widespread condemnation even within Pakistan. The fact that Hindus were specifically targetted suggests that the perpetrators belonged to extremist organisation fighting under the banner of Islamic Jihad in Kashmir. Raman argues that this kind of violence in response to peace initiatives should not come as a surprise - rather this kind of violence will only increase.
Heroinisation of the Pakistani Economy
01 May 2000
The Pakistani government has, for the first time, used Heroin money to beef up its foreign exchange reserves. It has also been secretly encouraging the Taliban in neighbouring Afghanistan to step up poppy production.
Indian Home Minister LK Advani`s Statement on the Identity of the Hijackers
07 January 2000
The arrest nad subsequent interrogation of four ISI operatives based in Mumbai has confirmed that the Indian Airlines Hijack was an ISI operation executed with the assistance of Harkat-ul-Ansar, and further, that all the five hijackers are Pakistanis.
Indian Airlines Plane Hijack: Pakistani Connection?
28 December 1999
The events following the hijacking of the Indian Airlines aircraft reveal a Pakistani connection. Four of the hijackers were Pakistanis and had arrived at Kathmandu on a Pakistan International Airlines (PIA) flight just hours before re-boarding IC 814.
Indian Airlines Plane Hijack: Background Articles
27 December 1999
This section contains short backgrounders on the people and organisations involved with the Hijacking
Indian Airlines Plane Hijack
25 December 1999
Indian Airlines flight IC 814 Kathmandu-New Delhi was hijacked on Saturday 24 December 1999 at about 1730 hours shortly after it entered Indian air space.The hijacking ended on New Year`s Eve after India released three terrorists in exchange of the hostages.
US Attitude to Pakistan: The Bin Laden Factor
11 August 1999
Analyst B. Raman says that the US attitude towards South Asia is a reflection of the increasing exasperation of the US policy-makers in dealing with a Talibanised Afghanistan and a Pakistan, which due to the contagion from a self-created Taliban, runs the risk of degenerating from a progressive Islamic State, as it was valued hitherto, to an epicenter of all the destabilising extremist and terrorist forces of the region, if not the world.
Whereabouts of Bin Laden: An Analysis
16 February 1999
Mohammed Tayyab, a Taliban spokesman, told journalists at Kandahar on February 13 that Osama bin Laden has disappeared from Afghanistan. Analyst B. Raman says that there are five places where he could have found fresh shelter: the Federally-Administered Tribal Areas (FATA) of Pakistan, Southern Philippines, Chechnya, Yemen and Iraq. While it would be difficult for him to go to Phillipines, Chechnya or Yemen without being detected, it leaves only Iraq where he might be welcomed and helped in order to use him and his set-up in Iraq`s stepped- up campaign against Saudi Arabia, Egypt and the US. Raman says that bin Laden could not have gone there, or for that matter, anywhere else, without the connivance of the Pakistani authorities.
Sayed Abu Nasir believed to be close associates of Osama Bin Laden
22 January 1999
Press reports of the Police version have alleged that the Sayed Abu Nasir, along with 6 others—4 from Egypt and one each from the Sudan and Myanmar "are believed to be close associates of Osama Bin Laden" and that they had " active assistance and guidance from the ISI to blow up the US consulates." The Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) is the military-controlled Pakistani external intelligence agency.
Terrorism 1999: Changing Profile
07 January 1999
Analyst B. Raman looks at the changing trend of international terrorism. He says that terrorism inspired by ideology is on the decline and it is the religion and ethnicity based terrorist groups, which have become more active.
Osama Bin Laden: Rumblings in Afghanistan
23 December 1998
Analyst B. Raman says that there are indications that following the US bombing of the terrorist camps of Osama Bin Laden and the Harkat-ul-Mujahideen in the Khost-Jalalabad area of Afganistan on August 20,1998, there was probably an unsuccessful revolt against Mullah Mohammad Omar.
An Analysis of United States Bombing of Terrorist Camps in Afghanistan
04 November 1998
Analyst B. Raman looks at the impact of the US bombings on terrorist camps based in Afghanistan.
An Analysis of United States Bombing of Terrorist Camps in Afghanistan
04 November 1998
Analyst B. Raman looks at the impact of the US bombings on terrorist camps based in Afghanistan.
Rajiv Gandhi`s Assassins to be Hanged
29 January 1998
Judge awards Death sentence to 26 people found guilty of killing the former Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi on 28 January 1998. Sixteen of them are Sri Lankans while the rest are Indians. But LTTE supremo Prabhakaran and his two key aides are not in the list. India has declared Prabhakaran a "proclaimed offender" and sought his extradition from Sri Lanka in 1995.
Kandy Blast Forces Sri Lanka to Outlaw LTTE
28 January 1998
The wave of Sinhala protests all over Sri Lanka following the powerful bomb blast near the gate of the country`s most sacred Buddhist shrine, Dalada Maligawa or the Temple of the Tooth at Kandy, has forced the Kumaratunga Government to finally outlaw the LTTE (Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam). The LTTE is believed to be responsible for the 25 January blast that left about 13 dead and scores injured. The attack came just days before Sri Lanka was to celebrate 50 years of independence from British rule. At 6:10 am on 25 January 1998, two suspected LTTE suicide bombers crashed through a gate of the temple and set off a truck bomb killing themselves in the process. Despite the damage to the building`s roof and facade, the tooth, housed in a chamber at the building`s center, was unharmed. Kandy is the ancient capital of Sri Lanka and is about 112 kilometres west of the present capital, Colombo.
23 Kashmiri Hindus Gunned Down on Republic Day Eve
27 January 1998
Terrorists shot dead 23 civilians in the village of Wandhama, near the town of Ganderbal in Jammu and Kashmir. The victims, all civilians, included four children, nine women and 10 men. Wandhama, a village at the foothills of the mountains just 30 km outside Srinagar, boasted four families of Kashmiri Hindu Pandits, numbering around 24. A boy is the only survivor of the tragedy. The attackers also torched a small Hindu temple and blew up a house.
Major Bomb Blasts in New Delhi during 1997
04 January 1998
A series of bomb blasts occured in the National Capital Region of Delhi in 1997. According to intelligence sources, these bomb blasts are being perpetuated by isolated groups funded by Pakistan`s secret service, the Inter Services Intelligence (ISI).
Four Americans Killed in Retaliation to Kansi Conviction
12 November 1997
Unidentified gunmen killed four American auditors and their Pakistani driver in Karachi on November 12, two days after Pakistani national Mir Aimal Kansi, 33, was convicted for the murder of two agents of America`s Central Intelligence Agency.
Mir Aimal Kansi The Most Wanted Man on the FBI list, Arrested
30 June 1997
"After a four-and-a-half-year manhunt that reached from Washington`s suburbs to Afghanistan`s deserts, the suspect, Mir Amal Kansi, a 33-year-old Pakistani,was handed over by "Afghan individuals" after the United States had placed a $2 million reward on his head, the FBI said on Tuesday night (17 June 1997). Government officials refused to say whether the money had been paid to the Afghans or how they had captured the suspect".
Antecedents of Ramzi Ahmed Yousef
01 October 1996
Ramzi Ahmed Yousef, the best known Islamist terrorist in the world who is currently undergoing trial in the United States for committing acts of terrorism on American soil including the bomb blast at the New York World Trade Center, is actually a Pakistani and not an Iraqi or Kuwaiti as reported in sections of the Western media.
Al Faran and the Hostage Crisis in Kashmir
10 March 1996
A shadowy terrorist outfit calling itself Al Faran abducted six Western tourists last year. One of them, an American, escaped while another, a Norwegian, was brutally executed last year (1995). Nothing is known of the fate of the remaining four, although it is more than a year since they were abducted. The wives of the four hostages had flown in to Srinagar in October 1996 to appeal to the terrorists and local Kashmiris to secure the return of their husbands. One of the wives appealed to the people and the Indian authorities to at least let them know whether the four men were alive. She said that if the men had been executed, then they ought to be told and the bodies returned to them for proper burial. There has been no response from the terrorists.
World Terrorism: An Introduction
01 January 1996
Not so long ago, the biggest danger to contemporary civilisation was the nuclear tipped ballistic missile. With the end of the Cold War and the realisation that nuclear wars can leave no winners, that danger has diminished. But another, more insidious, threat to mankind has emerged: this time in the form of ideologically motivated terrorists who, given money and materiel, are willing to perpetrate the worst of crimes against humanity.
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