All along,the word terrorist connoted burly bearded men somewhere in the afghan-pakistan border and closer home in the kashmir valley.Now the word has taken an all new meaning with youth from Indian metro’s and small cities being lured into terrorism,some lured by the money,others by misleading ideology and religion.Though cities like India’s capital Delhi and Economic capital Mumbai have borne the brunt of terror attacks,the relatively “SAFE” Bangalore,India’s IT capital has found itself dragged deeper and deeper into the vicious terror web.
Once known as the pensioners paradise with salubrious weather,lush greenery and a peaceful life,the 90’s brought the IT boom into the city which catapulted bangalore into INDIA’s IT Capital which brought along prosperity and development at a frenetic pace.Old timers began to complain about the growing traffic and pollution levels and Bangalore’s Infrastructure was crumbling,unable to keep pace with the rapid expansive development the city was undergoing.Amidst all this,on 28th december,2005,1900hrs,Bangalore’s calm was shattered by a terrorist attack on Indian institute of science,bangalore.The institute,one of India’s Premier Research institute was hosting an international conference on operations research whwn two gunmen entered the campus and started firing indiscriminately from a chinese made ak56 rifle.Prof Munish Chandra Puri of IIT,Delhi succumbed to bullet injuries enroute to hospital and many others were injured seriously.The gunmen fled before anybody could bat an eyelid.Incidentally the shooting took place less than 200m from the sadashivanagar police station which is located very close to the Sprawling IISc campus.
Investigative agencies were quick to name Lashkar e taiba among other mujahideen groups among prime suspects.Bangalore went on high alert with IT companies,Government offices and the now mushrooming shopping malls adopting security measures and tightening the security.Bangalore’s tryst with terror had just begun.9th july,glasgow.Two men in a blazing jeep cherokee laden with explosives drove into the glasgow airport and crashed into a doorway.Fortunately,the jeep didn’t explode.But the men were badly burnt,one man was critical and was batting for life and the other was arrested for questioning.
Bangalore was shocked yet again to learn that the two men involved in the glasgow bombing’s were Bangaloreans.Both the men,Kafeel and Sabeel Ahmed,were highly qualified post graduates from educated upper middle class backgrounds from respectable families.Yet,they chose to give up their promising careers for the Barbaric world of internatonal terrorism.What would have motivated these young qualified people to take life of Innocent people.Not money ofcourse.It is here where the international terror web comes in to misinterpret Islam.To sow seeds of violence and hatred among young people and to brainwash them into joining the terror ring “to protect” ISLAM not to mention “avenge the west”.Hard disks recovered from kafeel ahmed’s computer pointed out to a long correspondence with the terror groups and a carefully co ordinated attack over a fairly long period of time.Bangalore was stunned.India too.
And now the Triple whammy.Enter terror camps in Karnataka.The South of India which though was more than a little perturbed at the previous incidents in Karnataka was never prepared for something of this magnitude.
FEb 2nd,2008.The karnataka anti terrorist wing unearthed a terror camp deep into the jungle off the university town,Dharwad,North karnataka.This chilling evidence came to light during the interrogation of three Islamist radicals arrested recently - Riyazuddin Nasir alias Mohammed Ghouse, Asadullah Abu Bakar and Mohammed Asif,the SIMI activists arrested earlier.Just two days later another terrorist camp in the same jungle was arrested.Terror camps right here at home.Days later,on feb 22nd,2008,Mohammed yahya Kammakutty,
a computer engineer and a SIMI activist from the prestigious regional engineering college of calicut,kerala and a former employee of GE software was arrested from his house in gurrappanapalya,a bangalore suburb bear the IT belt.The terror web is getting deeper and deeper.
But what is worrying most,is the growing trend of young qualified professionals joining the terror network.This trend hasn’t been new to other islamist countries,but is indeed new unknown territory for India and the Indian investigative agencies.More than money,the misguiding,hatred inducing Ideologues of banned organizations like SIMI,JAMAAT E ULEMA,etc are inducting more young people into the terror web.This spells a huge problem,for,india is a country with the most number of youth in the world.The location of the terror camps off dharwad,a university town,also points out to students being regularly recruited.We,indians are a secular bunch of people encouraging and tolerating a diverse range of religions to co-exist with India’s primary religion,Hinduism.Now,this religious tolerance has been misused by terrorist element to start organisations like the now thankfully banned students islamic movement of india(SIMI).Terrorism,being funded by the rampant piracy industry,if unchecked has the potential to be an industry in itself since money is available in plenty to the terrorist orgaisations.A stronger government at the centre which comes down heavily on any kind of religious extremism is the need of the day.Also,The exponential growth of technology has forced the terror groups to hire highly skilled technology professionals to help grow their killing networks.Law enforcement agencies,though are doing their best to curb terrorism are more often than not,years behind the new generation terrorist who now operate with various new technologies and the world wide web which is very difficult to track and the new gen terrorist is not a rifle-toting bearded male somewhere in the kashmir valley but is a smart,sauve professional sitting somewhere in a BPO or a Technology company.Bangalore’s growing disparity between the have’s and havenot’s is prime hunting ground for new recruits or foot soldiers as they are commonly called,for the terrorist groups.Bangalore,being a cosmopolitan city,with horde’s coming in from all over India to make thier living riding on the economic boom is creating huge problems for the investigative agencies as it is getting tougher to monitor the newer younger population who are more mobile.Identification cards and screening of all new settlers in Bangalore might be a viable solution if handled sensitively and enforced stringently.Also,while Bangalore is growing each day,the smaller towns are not.Lesser opportunities and more unemployed or underemployed dissatisfied youth means more time for them to kill.This time can be harnessed by the sleeper cells of terror groups to use these youth to collect intelligence information and prepare plans for future terror strike’s.IT is moving to smaller cities like mysore,mangalore,etc.More cities of karnataka need to prosper to tackle terrorism.At the same time Bangalore’s premier status of being internationally recognised and respected as an IT capital puts it under tremendous risk as the terrorist’s want for a high visibility can be easily achieved by attacking Bangalore.The future ofcourse will depend upon improving various factors ranging from economic prosperity to better intelligence and investigating by the anti terrorist squad.
IT IS UPTO US TO SAY NO TO ANY KIND OF RELIGIOUS EXTREMISMTHAT IS THE EASIEST WAY TO FIGHT TERRORISM
HINDU,MUSLIM,SIKH,ESAHI,SAB AAPAS KE BHAI BHAI.
Once known as the pensioners paradise with salubrious weather,lush greenery and a peaceful life,the 90’s brought the IT boom into the city which catapulted bangalore into INDIA’s IT Capital which brought along prosperity and development at a frenetic pace.Old timers began to complain about the growing traffic and pollution levels and Bangalore’s Infrastructure was crumbling,unable to keep pace with the rapid expansive development the city was undergoing.Amidst all this,on 28th december,2005,1900hrs,Bangalore’s calm was shattered by a terrorist attack on Indian institute of science,bangalore.The institute,one of India’s Premier Research institute was hosting an international conference on operations research whwn two gunmen entered the campus and started firing indiscriminately from a chinese made ak56 rifle.Prof Munish Chandra Puri of IIT,Delhi succumbed to bullet injuries enroute to hospital and many others were injured seriously.The gunmen fled before anybody could bat an eyelid.Incidentally the shooting took place less than 200m from the sadashivanagar police station which is located very close to the Sprawling IISc campus.
Investigative agencies were quick to name Lashkar e taiba among other mujahideen groups among prime suspects.Bangalore went on high alert with IT companies,Government offices and the now mushrooming shopping malls adopting security measures and tightening the security.Bangalore’s tryst with terror had just begun.9th july,glasgow.Two men in a blazing jeep cherokee laden with explosives drove into the glasgow airport and crashed into a doorway.Fortunately,the jeep didn’t explode.But the men were badly burnt,one man was critical and was batting for life and the other was arrested for questioning.
Bangalore was shocked yet again to learn that the two men involved in the glasgow bombing’s were Bangaloreans.Both the men,Kafeel and Sabeel Ahmed,were highly qualified post graduates from educated upper middle class backgrounds from respectable families.Yet,they chose to give up their promising careers for the Barbaric world of internatonal terrorism.What would have motivated these young qualified people to take life of Innocent people.Not money ofcourse.It is here where the international terror web comes in to misinterpret Islam.To sow seeds of violence and hatred among young people and to brainwash them into joining the terror ring “to protect” ISLAM not to mention “avenge the west”.Hard disks recovered from kafeel ahmed’s computer pointed out to a long correspondence with the terror groups and a carefully co ordinated attack over a fairly long period of time.Bangalore was stunned.India too.And now the Triple whammy.Enter terror camps in Karnataka.The South of India which though was more than a little perturbed at the previous incidents in Karnataka was never prepared for something of this magnitude.
FEb 2nd,2008.The karnataka anti terrorist wing unearthed a terror camp deep into the jungle off the university town,Dharwad,North karnataka.This chilling evidence came to light during the interrogation of three Islamist radicals arrested recently - Riyazuddin Nasir alias Mohammed Ghouse, Asadullah Abu Bakar and Mohammed Asif,the SIMI activists arrested earlier.Just two days later another terrorist camp in the same jungle was arrested.Terror camps right here at home.Days later,on feb 22nd,2008,Mohammed yahya Kammakutty,
a computer engineer and a SIMI activist from the prestigious regional engineering college of calicut,kerala and a former employee of GE software was arrested from his house in gurrappanapalya,a bangalore suburb bear the IT belt.The terror web is getting deeper and deeper.
But what is worrying most,is the growing trend of young qualified professionals joining the terror network.This trend hasn’t been new to other islamist countries,but is indeed new unknown territory for India and the Indian investigative agencies.More than money,the misguiding,hatred inducing Ideologues of banned organizations like SIMI,JAMAAT E ULEMA,etc are inducting more young people into the terror web.This spells a huge problem,for,india is a country with the most number of youth in the world.The location of the terror camps off dharwad,a university town,also points out to students being regularly recruited.We,indians are a secular bunch of people encouraging and tolerating a diverse range of religions to co-exist with India’s primary religion,Hinduism.Now,this religious tolerance has been misused by terrorist element to start organisations like the now thankfully banned students islamic movement of india(SIMI).Terrorism,being funded by the rampant piracy industry,if unchecked has the potential to be an industry in itself since money is available in plenty to the terrorist orgaisations.A stronger government at the centre which comes down heavily on any kind of religious extremism is the need of the day.Also,The exponential growth of technology has forced the terror groups to hire highly skilled technology professionals to help grow their killing networks.Law enforcement agencies,though are doing their best to curb terrorism are more often than not,years behind the new generation terrorist who now operate with various new technologies and the world wide web which is very difficult to track and the new gen terrorist is not a rifle-toting bearded male somewhere in the kashmir valley but is a smart,sauve professional sitting somewhere in a BPO or a Technology company.Bangalore’s growing disparity between the have’s and havenot’s is prime hunting ground for new recruits or foot soldiers as they are commonly called,for the terrorist groups.Bangalore,being a cosmopolitan city,with horde’s coming in from all over India to make thier living riding on the economic boom is creating huge problems for the investigative agencies as it is getting tougher to monitor the newer younger population who are more mobile.Identification cards and screening of all new settlers in Bangalore might be a viable solution if handled sensitively and enforced stringently.Also,while Bangalore is growing each day,the smaller towns are not.Lesser opportunities and more unemployed or underemployed dissatisfied youth means more time for them to kill.This time can be harnessed by the sleeper cells of terror groups to use these youth to collect intelligence information and prepare plans for future terror strike’s.IT is moving to smaller cities like mysore,mangalore,etc.More cities of karnataka need to prosper to tackle terrorism.At the same time Bangalore’s premier status of being internationally recognised and respected as an IT capital puts it under tremendous risk as the terrorist’s want for a high visibility can be easily achieved by attacking Bangalore.The future ofcourse will depend upon improving various factors ranging from economic prosperity to better intelligence and investigating by the anti terrorist squad.
IT IS UPTO US TO SAY NO TO ANY KIND OF RELIGIOUS EXTREMISMTHAT IS THE EASIEST WAY TO FIGHT TERRORISM
HINDU,MUSLIM,SIKH,ESAHI,SAB AAPAS KE BHAI BHAI.
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