Serial blasts in Assam

Looks like you are new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!There appears to be little respite for the common man in India from terrorists. 56 people were killed and 350 injured in over 13 blasts in the North Eastern state of Assam. [TOI]
Bangladesh-based HuJI is suspected to [...]

4 more years of the same. Sarah Palin agrees.

From the ABC interview that will air soon. The emphasis, of course is mine.

GIBSON: And let me finish with this. I got lost in a blizzard of words there. Is that a yes? That you think we have the right to go across the border with or without the approval of the Pakistani government, to [...]

Indian Intelligence Agencies, anything but?

Following the recent terrorist attacks on Bangalore and Ahmedabad, one can be forgiven for wondering what purpose do the intelligence agencies, Intelligence Bureau (IB) for internal intelligence and Research and Analysis Wing (RAW) for foreign operations, serve if they’re clueless about such threats. The BBC has a telling commentary on the (lack of) intelligence in [...]

The faceless terrorist

Last year, Outlook India published a list of ‘villains’ that Über Desi blogged about here, and what struck me was an entry into the list that is probably the most relevant today, the faceless terrorist. This entry made it into a list in a respected Indian journal. Would you ever see such an entry [...]

US citizen suspect in Ahmedabad blasts?

via NYT
An obscure group calling itself the Indian Mujahedeen warned Saturday that an attack was about to take place “in revenge of Gujarat,” plainly referring to the 2002 killings. The statement was sent in an e-mail message, written in English, to television stations just before the first blasts.
Police in Mumbai traced the email back to [...]

Terror and Technology: Taliban uses text messages, ringtones to spread terror

It would be a cliché to state that technology could be a boon or a bane. In this case it’s turned out to be the latter. [MSNBC]
“WTF! Hve u 4gotten wot my bff Osama wil do? ROFL!”A sample text message by the Taliban
The cell phone because of its ease of use, portability, low overhead [...]

Ahmedabad blasts kill 45

After Bangalore, it was the turn of Ahmedabad in Gujarat. A series of seven synchronized explosions ripped through the city killing 45 and 161 wounded. Several TV stations reportedly received threatening emails 5 minutes before the blast. [MSNBC]

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Blasts in Bangalore: Update

Major IT hub, Bangalore, has been rocked by a series of blasts - 7 total within the span of 60 minutes killing 2 and wounding 20, per latest counts. [TOI]
Update: Bangalore as we all know is the IT and outsourcing hub of India. The blasts mainly hit the suburbs as opposed to the business districts [...]