Plagiarism of my article "No More Chasing Shadows" by Ravi Visvesvaraya Prasad, published in Times of India, Edit Page, Fri 09 Sept 2011

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This article by Ajmer Alam Wani in JK Monitor plagiarizes my original article "No More Chasing Shadows" by Ravi Visvesvaraya Prasad, published in Times of India, Edit Page, issue of Friday, 09 September 2011.



I have filed criminal complaints and civil suits for damages against Ajmer Alam Wani of JK Monitor for plagiarizing my original article "No More Chasing Shadows" by Ravi Visvesvaraya Prasad, published in Times of India, Edit Page, issue of Friday, 09 September 2011.







Are terrorists using ‘internet’ to target minds, create fear psychosis?

Friday, 09 September 2011 23:59 | Written by Ajmer Alam Wani | | | User Rating: / 0

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Cyber terror goes unchecked, 3rd e-mail surfaces 3rd mail warns attack in Ahmedabad; IM mail traced to WBTime to focus on sleeper cells, flow of fundsUS on alert after 'credible' 9/11 bomb threatJAMMU: If the terrorism and terrorist related activities during the recent few decades are deeply analyses, is has been observed that terrorists are using the internet as best weapon against the Governments, and people to create fear psychosis and target the minds.With the surfacing of third mail which has reportedly warned of attack in Ahmedabad clearly indicates that the terrorists have well established sleeper cells all over the country, and funds are being circulated smoothly to run the terrorism. The time come the Govt should act tough against the sleeper cells and the slow of funds.Relevant to mention hare that media has reported that the investigators probing Wednesday’s bomb blast outside the Delhi high court are expected to question Amjad Khwaja, a top commander of Harkat-ul-Jihad-al-Islami (HuJI), who was arrested by the Chennai police last year. Besides, the role of India’s most-wanted terrorist Abu Al Qama, the top Lashkar-e-Tayiba (LeT) commander based in Pak-occupied Kashmir (PoK), is also being probed. According to reports, initial investigation into Wednesday’s blast reveals that Pakistan-based LeT’s plan has been executed by HuJI and Indian Mujahideen (IM) militants.Reports added that the unconfirmed reports indicated Al Qama and another Lashkar terrorist, Abdul Karim Tunda, were recently in touch with the sleeper cells of IM as well as HuJI based in Jammu and Kashmir, Gujarat, Uttar Pradesh and West Bengal (WB). Investigation by Central agencies has already established that Al Qama and Tunda, both operating from Pakistan, are the pointmen of Lashkar, responsible for transferring funds to militants belonging to LeT, IM and HuJI for carrying out terror activities in the country, reports added. Both operate at the direction of Pak’s ISI.“Amjad Khwaja was in regular touch with Al Qama as well as Tunda before his arrest last year. Khwaja, wanted in connection with the Hyderabad blasts (2007) and the Ajmer blasts (2008), is likely to be questioned about the role of Al Qama and Tunda in yesterday’s blast,” reports mentioned.The latest inputs with Central intelligence agencies reveal that Pakistan-based militant outfits are bringing weapons and explosives from outside Pakistan through Afghanistan border and supplying them to new recruits in PoK for carrying out terror activities in India. Investigators are suspecting that the explosives used in Delhi Court blast might have been provided by top LeT commanders to IM or HuJI militants.Worth mentioning that the Delhi Court blast suggests that Harkat-ul-Jihad-al-Islami (HuJI), which had been on the defensive since the reported death of its commander Ilyas Kashmiri in Waziristan in June 2011, has managed to reorganise in just three months. Intelligence agencies had been receiving inputs for the last month that Bangladesh-based HuJI had recruited about 200 people in West Bengal (WB) to set up sleeper cells.The National Investigating Agency (NIA) has done well to trace the emails sent from the web-based address harkatuljihadi2011@gmail.com, by HuJI to various media houses claiming responsibility, to a cybercafe in Kishtwar in Jammu and Kashmir. The authenticity of the email is yet to be ascertained, and it is to be determined whether the IP (Internet Protocol) addresses were spoofed or anonymyzers were used.The utilisation of a proxy server in South Africa indicates that the senders were experts in computers and communications technologies. The profile of the new Indian Islamic terrorist is in stark contrast to the public stereotype of a desperately poor, illiterate, uneducated, rural-based or ghetto-based, religious fanatic, a single young man in his late teens or early twenties.In contrast to the recruits of the Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) who are Madrassa students from poor families, the present set of terror activists of the Students Islamic Movement of India (SIMI) and HuJI have no prior criminal records; are usually highly educated professionals such as engineers, doctors and architects; are usually married men with children; and have never displayed any religious extremism. They come from upper middle class families and exhibit only moderate religious behaviour. A feeling of being discriminated against in their professional careers because of their religion is the major reason which turns them towards jihad. Also, a perception that they are being denied entry to social circles commensurate with their education and financial standing is a major cause for their seeking refuge in jihadi terrorism. Most of them had joined SIMI or HuJI only a few weeks earlier, and their families, colleagues and close friends had detected no indications of their having done so. The act of terror is often the first illegal or even immoral act which they have ever committed. This profile of the upper class Indian jihadi terrorist is in line with the findings of Marc Sageman, a forensic psychiatrist who worked for the CIA in Pakistan and Afghanistan for several years. Sageman found of terrorists in Pakistan and Afghanistan that: "Three quarters were from upper-class families, two-thirds were professionals with Masters degrees - engineers, physicians, architects or scientists. The average age for making an active commitment to violent jihad was 26. Three-quarters were married, most of them with children. They came from moderately religious, caring families. They spoke at least three languagesa¦ Unlike the lone serial killer, these men functioned well in groups." Sageman emphasised: "Those persons who are least likely to cause harm individually are most likely to do so collectively." Many studies among the Pakistani diaspora in Europe, especially UK, found that it required only three to four weeks for a person nurturing a mild grudge of discrimination to graduate into a person who would carry out a terror attack.

Unlike Khalistani terrorism which was crushed by excellent human intelligence, it is much more difficult for Indian security agencies as they are set up at present to penetrate HuJI or SIMI cells and plant moles or informants. They are immune to being enticed by security agencies with the lure of money, sex, drink or drugs. Even their families and close friends would have no inkling of their having been recruited by SIMI or HuJI.A pointer could come from the brilliant manner in which the Indian government used Jat Sikhs in the police and armed forces to work on the Jat Sikhs in the Khalistani secessionist organisations. It is high time that the intelligence agencies and the police recruited large numbers of Muslims of various sects in middle to senior positions, and built bridges with imams in mosques all over the country. In the UK, police have asked imams to report instances of people who were earlier only nominally religious suddenly showing increased religious fervour, or of people developing deeper friendships with members of the congregation with whom they were earlier only on nodding terms.These are thought to be the first signs of an impending inclination towards terrorism. Sageman calls this the 'Band of Boys' theory of Jihad - one person recounts how he was insulted or discriminated against for being a Muslim, and a small group sympathises. Soon, by a process of 'group think', each member adopts a much more radical position than he otherwise would while alone in order to project himself as more loyal to this small group than his peers. Within three weeks, this small group is ready to carry out a terror attack to avenge the perceived discrimination.Not wanting to appear disloyal to this small group of peers, every member goes along even if he has inner qualms. This is what was supposed to have happened with the doctors originating from Bangalore in Glasgow. Dealing with such types of Jihadi terrorists requires original innovative thinking on the part of India's intelligence agencies, and a great appreciation of the psychology of urban Indian Muslim professionals. The third email claiming Delhi High court blast has reportedly been received, according to media reports.Sources have told news channel that the third e-mail related to the Delhi High Court blast has been deciphered. The name of Ahmedabad has figured in the e-mail which was sent under a numerical code, which has been deciphered. The e-mail threatens an attack in Ahmedabad. Gujarat, specifically Ahmedabad has been put on a high alert.Home Minister P Chidambaram meanwhile has advised other states to remain vigilant. In two days post blast, three emails have been received - first one from Pakistan-based militant group Harkat-ul-Jihad al-Islami (HuJI), second claimed to be Indian Mujahideen (IM) and third email has been received today from a Yahoo account.The National Investigation Agency (NIA) sources on Friday told a news channel that the e-mail supposedly sent by the Indian Mujahideen (IM) claiming responsibility for the Delhi blast has been traced to West Bengal (WB). However, efforts are still underway to trace the IP address of the Indian Mujahideen e-mail. The first mail, purportedly sent by HuJI following the bombing on Wednesday, was initially traced to a cybercafe in Kishtwar town of Jammu and Kashmir. After detaining two brothers who owned the cafe and an employee on Thursday for questioning, a police official said two college students -- identified as being in the cafe when the email was sent -- had also been taken into custody."The owners have told interrogators that they don't keep a record of the visitors and that students were the main customers at the cafe," the official said. The United States describes HuJI as a terrorist group with links to al-Qaeda, and it has been accused of carrying out attacks in India, Pakistan and Bangladesh. But the group has not been active in Kashmir for years. Federal investigators have yet to confirm whether the email was indeed from HuJI. Another claim of responsibility, apparently from a home-grown militant outfit called Indian Mujahideen (IM), was sent to media on Thursday.Wednesday's powerful blast ripped through a crowd of litigants queuing to enter the court complex in the heart of the Indian capital. Eleven people were killed on the spot, and two have since died in hospital from their injuries. It was the first major attack on Indian soil since triple blasts in Mumbai on July 13 that killed 26 people. It has still not been established who carried out those bombings. The Delhi High Court had been targeted four months ago, when a low-intensity bomb exploded in the parking lot, causing no casualties and only minimal damage. The probe into Wednesday's bombing is being run by the National Investigation Agency (NIA), a body set up in the wake of the 2008 Mumbai attacks by Islamist gunmen that left 166 people dead.The terror threat is not to India only, media reports suggest that the heavily armed police were on alert in and around New York City on Friday after US officials warned of a ‘credible’ but unconfirmed bomb threat on the 10th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks. "There is specific, credible but unconfirmed threat information," the Department of Homeland Security said Thursday, as the White House confirmed President Barack Obama had ordered boosted counterterrorism efforts. "We have taken, and will continue to take all steps necessary to mitigate any threats that arise," the department added in a statement. A White House official confirmed that President Barack Obama had "directed the counterterrorism community to redouble its efforts in response to this credible but unconfirmed information."Federal officials in Washington, speaking on condition of anonymity, said there was a potential terrorism threat involving bomb-laden vehicles against either the capital or New York. Few details were given, but one US official told AFP a car bomb was "at the top of what we would be looking for." "There's enough information that's specific and credible that you have to run it to ground," the official said, adding: "I would stress that this is unconfirmed." Although there was no immediate change to the official national threat level, New York authorities immediately announced sweeping extra measures, including vehicle checkpoints. The police department "is deploying additional resources...some of which you will notice and some of which you will not," Mayor Michael Bloomberg told reporters. City police commissioner Raymond Kelly told the press conference that measures included police "trained in heavy weapons positioned outside of Manhattan to respond citywide." Extra shift hours would effectively increase by a third the size of patrols around New York, with checks on ferries, tunnels, bridges and landmarks, Kelly said.There will be increased towing of illegally parked cars and more bomb detection sweeps in car parks, as well as "increasing the number of bag inspections on the subway," Kelly said. Bloomberg said the threat was credible, but "at this moment has not been corroborated. I want to stress that." US Senator Susan Collins, a ranking member of the homeland security committee, confirmed that she had received a classified briefing on a "specific and credible" terrorist threat Thursday morning. "I am confident that the administration is taking the threat seriously and sharing intelligence with state and local enforcement officials in the targeted locations," she said in a statement.Earlier, US military bases had raised their alert levels, but officials would not say whether this was related to the new threat report. The scare came days ahead of Sunday's anniversary ceremonies for the September 11, 2001, attacks, when Obama and his predecessor George W. Bush are due in the city, along with large crowds. Despite frequent threats and a string of failed plots, Al-Qaeda has not succeeded in mounting a major attack on US soil since 2001, when it hijacked passenger planes and crashed them into New York's World Trade Center, the Pentagon and a Pennsylvania field, killing nearly 3,000 people. However, officials have warned of a possible backlash following the US commando operation in May that killed Al-Qaeda founder Osama bin Laden in a secret compound in Pakistan. According to US officials, documents and computer files were seized at the compound showing bin Laden was considering strikes to coincide with the 9/11 anniversary.Last Updated (Friday, 09 September 2011 22:45)





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This article by Ajmer Alam Wani in JK Monitor plagiarizes my original article "No More Chasing Shadows" by Ravi Visvesvaraya Prasad, published in Times of India, Edit Page, issue of Friday, 09 September 2011.



I have filed criminal complaints and civil suits for damages against Ajmer Alam Wani of JK Monitor for plagiarizing my original article "No More Chasing Shadows" by Ravi Visvesvaraya Prasad, published in Times of India, Edit Page, issue of Friday, 09 September 2011.