Deccan Mujahideen email threatens Delhi

[OhioChick]

Source: Times of India

1 Dec 2008, 0506 hrs IST

NEW DELHI: Three-wheeler autos in the capital have come under the security scanner after the terror siege of Mumbai. According to highly placed government sources, there are intelligence inputs on the possible use of autos for triggering a blast in a crowded area of Delhi.

The Intelligence Bureau has also sounded a fresh alert to Delhi Police asking them to step up security at vital installations in the capital after an email, which police sources said was signed by the "Deccan Mujahideen", warned of a repeat of the Mumbai terror attack at Indira Gandhi International Airport and the three major railway stations.

Acting on the three-wheeler threat, police are conducting random checks on autos, particularly around the airport. During the last serial blasts in Delhi, a bomb had gone off in an auto at Ghaffar Market in Karol Bagh. At that time too there had been intelligence alerts on the possibility of key installations in Delhi coming under threat from autos.

Experts say, since three-wheelers run on CNG, an 'auto bomb' is likely to cause more damage than an explosion in a petrol or diesel vehicle.

"The information said that explosives in an auto were likely to be planted and set off in a crowded area. After that, the airport has been checking on idle autos and those which enter the premises without passengers. The threat still holds and checking has been intensified," said a government source.



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[Sarah Ibarruri]

1. Why are they attacking India? Maybe that's a dumb question.

I mean, we got it on 9/11 too, and so did Spain, and so on.

[nyy1998]

2. India has had a decades long problem with religious diversity

It started in the late 30s/early 40s when the Muslims starting lobbying the British for a separate state. It got ugly from that point on, especially when India and Pakistan both got their independence. It remained ugly ever since. Religion killed Gandhi and both Prime Minister Indira Gandhi and Rajiv Gandhi....This whole fight is about religion.

P.S. Someone might come in and correct me saying that it started when the Mughals came to India, but the modern fight started in the 1930s/40s

[rainbow4321]

3. Wonder if they traced it to the same place the Mumbai email came from?

Per India's CNN channel, the email claiming responsibility for Mumbai was written on a Russian website and traced back to an ISP in Lahore, Pakistan..sent thru "several servers" to try and hide it's origin and a voice recognition software was used to "write" the email.

[KakistocracyHater]

4. what is cng?

I read somewhere that the very next day, after Britain relinquished control, Pakistan broke away from India. I have read of angry Hindus trying to tear down a Muslim mosque because the mosque was built over a Hindu temple. The need to be flexible is obvious, but....human nature being what it is...I think fundamentalists will be THE problem of the 21st century-everywhere.

Police need to be retrained, people need to be trained on what to do, in this case duck & run for cover. Notice all exits & entrances when going into a building, there should be emergency maps on the walls in many places showing exits. The method of terrorism is awful & too easily done; at least it wasn't thousands killed, but now they're threatening another place in India.

"Here is the Rand Corporation study on terrorism:
U.S. Should Rethink "War On Terrorism" Strategy to Deal with Resurgent Al Qaida...In looking at how other terrorist groups have ended, the RAND study found that most terrorist groups end either because they join the political process, or because local police and intelligence efforts arrest or kill key members. Police and intelligence agencies, rather than the military, should be the tip of the spear against al Qaida in most of the world, and the United States should abandon the use of the phrase "war on terrorism," researchers concluded....

The most common way that terrorist groups end -- 43 percent -- was via a transition to the political process....

The second most common way that terrorist groups end -- 40 percent -- was through police and intelligence services either apprehending or killing the key leaders of these groups. Policing is especially effective in dealing with terrorists because police have a permanent presence in cities that enables them to efficiently gather information, Jones said....

Military force was effective in only 7 percent of the cases examined
from here http://www.rand.org/news/press/2008/07/29/index.html

[Alamuti Lotus]

5. natural gas *nt*

[nyy1998]

7. Keep in mind that these terrorist have attacked Luxury Hotels

And maps of the hotels are everywhere like they are in our hotels. Maybe for lesser hotels, but these hotels were top-of-the-line hotels appeaing to may foreigners. Safety maps are definitely in the Taj and Oberoi Hotels, that wasn't the problem. the problem was that these terrorist knew both hotels so well that they could block the main exits. Many people had to escape through back entrances and the kitchens.

[KakistocracyHater]

8. no, I'm not talking about what happened

there, I'm wondering outloud/online the cultural changes needed for any future attacks. All buildings should have the street-side walls made out of that honeycomb "bomb-proof" stuff & front windows made from shatter-proof glass. If this is done in the future it may reduce the impact of guerilla warfare.

http://www.freepatentsonline.com/4529640.html "Spaced armor
Document Type and Number:
United States Patent 4529640

Abstract:
A configuration for a light-weight composite armor comprises an outer layer of high content carbon steel; an inner laminate of multiple plies of ballistic grade fabric; and an intermediate core material interconnecting the outer steel to the fabric laminate in an established spaced relationship to defeat armor piercing projectiles from the outside while providing a reverse offensive threat from the inside."

http://www.patentstorm.us/patents/6826996.html
....."A pair of sheets 22, 24 are respectively secured to the oppositely facing sides of the honeycomb core to close the openings, thereby containing fracture debris after impact, and to provide reinforcement"....

[AusDem]

6. Hmm, that's not good, I'm gonna be in Delhi Airport

in about 48 hours. I'll be alert for anything I suppose, things are going to be very jittery I imagine. But can't let the terrorists win.