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A Strategy to Deter Terrorism continues....
The terrorist outfit, Al-Qaeda, has issued an open warning to India saying that the country should be “ready” to see “a series of terror attacks on Indians,” of course targeting Hindus but unconcerned if Muslims too die. In a video issued in July 2007, featuring Adam Yahiye Gadahn—an American Al-Qaeda member, Terrorist said in that video that Indian and American diplomatic missions all over the world are their legitimate targets “We shall continue to target you at home and abroad just as you target us at home and abroad,” he added.
He accused India of killing more than a hundred thousand Muslims in Kashmir with “US blessing.” The video, one hour and 17 minutes long also has Gadahn warning that President Bush to withdraw his troops from Muslim lands or he can expect worse than September 11. Responding to the threat message by Al-Qaeda junior Home Minister Sri Prakash Jaiswal blandly told the media that “despite reports from the media, we haven’t received any official confirmation [sic] regarding the threats. But our country, our paramilitary forces, out security forces are ready to combat any attack of any kind,” he added. But earlier, in a TV 18 network exclusive, National Security Advisor, M. K. Narayanan told Karan Thapar that Al-Qaeda was looking for an opportunity to strike in India and had even done the necessary reconnaissance for it.
“We are concerned. We are all the time on the lookout for Al-Qaeda’s movements here. We know that on a couple of occasions they have done a reccee and gone back. But they have not yet done something, which is terrorizing in a big way,” he said. Mr. Narayanan also said that the LeT is also an “integral part of al-Qaeda. In a sense you can always say that the al-Qaeda is present in India.”
Hence, the blinkers should be cast aside, and we should see the terrorist threat to India, without equivocation and temporizing, as against especially the Hindu civilization.
to be continued.....
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