Chapter 2 continues…

Third, easy communication through internet and cell/satellite phones enabled active cooperation and networking between various disparate terrorist groups. The pilgrims at Lod Airport in Tel Aviv, Israel, were massacred by Japanese Red Army (JRA) members acting for the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO). The terrorists who raided the Vienna OPEC meeting were made up of elements from the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP), a PLO group, and the Baader-Meinh of gang (Rote Armee Fraktion, RAF), the West German anarchist group.

Within India, the LTTE, PWG, ULFA, Naxalites, Nepal-linked Maoists, Al Qaeda are all coordinating their terrorist activities and training due to these communication and weapons technology. The ISI of Pakistan is engaged in assisting this enterprise to unravel India, and push it toward balkanization. Hence, a terror cartel and networking has emerged in India. A counter-terror strategy for India thus requires a holistic approach and a paradigm shift from the traditional law and order approach of providing more personnel and more sophisticated weapons.

In 2004, the report of the Washington D.C. based official National Counterterrorism Centre in its publication: Chronology of Significant International Terrorism for 2004 has reported that “India suffered more significant acts of international terrorism than any other country in 2004.” It was a wake up call to reality, but India is still in a dazed stated, unaware the looming danger of balkanization by terrorism.
A deterrence strategy will now have to be formulated for a pre- emption of terrorists acts, and annihilation of terrorist organization for safeguarding India’s national integrity and security.

On June 27, 2021, the situation of potential terrorist threat from Islamic extremists back by their Pakistan patrons has remained the same, except the technology has become more sophisticated.

On this day, Pakistan sent drones equipped with GPS to Jammu to provide cover to terrorists trained in Pakistani hideouts to terrorize the people of Jammu, where Hindus are in majority.

To be continued…