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AL QAEDA AND INDIA - INTERNATIONAL TERRORISM
http://www.southasiaanalysis.org/papers28/paper2787.html
By B.Raman

In response to my article titled “The Indianisation of Pan-Islamic Jihad”, I have received a number of queries from readers asking about the impact of Al Qaeda on the Indian Muslim community and its implications. This article, which is in response, is an update of an article written by me on March 20,2006, after the visit of President George Bush to India. That article titled   AL QAEDA, THE IIF & INDIAN MUSLIMS is available at http://www.southasiaanalysis.org/%5Cpapers18%5Cpaper1743.html. This article also incorporates my observations on the Students’ Islamic Movement of India  (SIMI) from my book “Terrorism: Yesterday, Today & Tomorrow” published in June,2008, by the Lancer Publishers of New Delhi (www.lancerpublishers.com )
2. The trend towards the radicalisation of the Indian Muslim youth started in the late 1980s.Groups of Muslim youth from Jammu & Kashmir (J&K) started going across the Line of Control (LOC) […]

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According to The Register, “Off the cuff remarks by Austrian government officials suggest that Skype conversations might be intercepted” via a backdoor or through the encryption keys. The comments were made at a recent meeting on lawful interception between ISPs and Austrian regulators. The off the cuff comment was from an unnamed “high-ranking” official at Austria’s interior ministry who said that listening into a conversation over Skype “presented no particular problems”
Contrast that with German police who recently expressed frustration about their inability to decipher the encryption used by Skype in order to tap into the VoIP calls of suspected terrorists.
According to the article, security experts Philippe Biondi and Fabrice Desclaux voiced concerns that Skype has the keys to decrypt calls or sessions, a claim which Skype denies.
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Shin Bet director Yuval Diskin reported to the cabinet meeting in Jerusalem Sunday, July 27, an increase of organized plans by terrorist groups to kidnap more Israeli soldiers. They are motivated by the Lebanese Hizballah’s success in gaining the release of five imprisoned members in exchange for the remains of two Israeli soldiers two weeks ago.
Reviewing the security situation in Jerusalem, Diskin sounded an alarm: Local Palestinians are increasingly ready to embrace religious radicalism and global jihadist ideas, including the practice of terrorism.
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Hyderabad (PTI): In the wake of the serial blasts, Andhra Pradesh police have initiated various steps including keeping a watch on suspected persons of different terrorist outfits.
After the serial blasts in Bangalore and Ahmedabad, we are keeping a watch on the movement of suspected modules who were earlier interrogated in connection with Mecca Masjid blast in May and the twin blasts in August last year, a top police official told PTI here on Sunday.
“If there was a need the police would interrogate those persons and also suspected who were lodged in jails”, the official said.
Two special teams have been sent to Bangalore and Ahmedabad cities to get the details and explosives used in the blasts, he said.
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As of Friday, July 25, 2008, at least 4,124 members of the U.S. military have died in the Iraq war since it began in March 2003, according to an Associated Press count.
The figure includes eight military civilians killed in action. At least 3,360 died as a result of hostile action, according to the military’s numbers.
The AP count is three fewer than the Defense Department’s tally, last updated Friday at 10 a.m. EDT.
The British military has reported 176 deaths; Italy, 33; Ukraine, 18; Poland, 21; Bulgaria, 13; Spain, 11; Denmark, seven; El Salvador, five; Slovakia, four; Latvia and Georgia, three each; Estonia, Netherlands, Thailand, Romania, two each; and Australia, Hungary, Kazakhstan, South Korea, one death each.
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PORT HARCOURT, Nigeria - Eight foreign oil workers kidnapped Saturday in Nigeria have been released unharmed, a military spokesman said.
Six unidentified men in a speed boat seized the workers at gunpoint from a liquefied petroleum tanker earlier in the day in the restive Niger delta. State military spokesman Sagir Musa said no ransom was paid to obtain their release and the nationalities of the oil workers were not immediately known.
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TEN suspected insurgents rounded up by the Black Watch in the biggest British military offensive since the end of the war in Iraq were being questioned today.
More than 100 suspects were handcuffed, blindfolded and interrogated as the Black Watch, using night vision goggles and stun grenades, launched pre-dawn raids on houses next to the Euphrates River. Many were later released but ten suspects are still ADVERTISEMENT being held at a temporary detention facility.
Some of them are believed to have been major players in recent attacks on British and US forces in and around the so-called “Triangle of Death” in northern Babil province, to the south of Baghdad.
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As the long-haired, bearded man who had become known as the local eccentric walked out of the Leotar supermarket in a suburb of Belgrade nine days ago, he unexpectedly turned back to the checkout girls.
“I want to say goodbye,” he said. “I’m going on vacation. I need a rest, I’ve been working a lot.” He could not know how prescient his words were.
Radovan Karadzic, 63, wartime leader of the Bosnian Serbs and one of the most wanted men in the world, had only a few hours of freedom left after almost 13 years on the run.
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H.E President Mahinda Rajapaksa while unreservedly condemning the terrorist attacks in Ahmedabad and Bangalore, India as cowardly attempts further extended deepest sympathies to the families of those killed in a communiqué‚ released by the Presidential Secretariat today (July 27).
He further asserted that, Sri Lanka being a country gravely affected by the scourge of terrorism for more than two decades, “our people express solidarity with India in these difficult hours, and remain firm in our commitment to jointly fight the menace of terrorism in all of South Asia”.
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