Activists of anti Pakistan nationalist groups were the focus of Indian search for recruits who received cash, weapons and ammunitions from undercover RAW operatives masquerading as Al Qaeda agents
APP, New Delhi-Even as India and Pakistan were actively engaged in laying a framework for normalizing their relations in the aftermath of Operation Parkaram (Dec 2001- Oct [...]
Of all the world’s potential hotspots, one of the most unlikely is tucked into the folds of the Himalayas. It is a slice of ground that is little more than frozen rock fields and soaring peaks that is decidedly short on people, resources and oxygen. But for the past year it has been a worrisome [...]
As a leading authority on counter-terrorism, Ali S. Awadh Asseri’s much awaited book, Combating Terrorism, Saudi Arabia’s Role in the War on Terror, forms the definitive source to understanding the development of terrorism, its ambiguous and ever-widening definition and Saudi Arabia’s effective counter-terrorism strategy.
He quotes extensively from leading authorities, placing their analyses squarely within a [...]
Political experts remark, “Terrorism comes in a variety of forms, but these days religious terrorism is the most commonMTT - India - The charred bodies of Muslim after the Hindus attacked, murdered and burned them in Gujarat in 2002. The fate of Mulsims in India. and leads to the most destruction. Not all terrorism is [...]
Millions of Muslims have recently returned from hajj, the pilgrimage to Mecca, Saudi Arabia, the birthplace of Islam. Every year, Muslims from around the world, and with every kind of background, converge on this city, resulting in an amazing display of diversity. In many ways, the hajj is an experiment in ethnic and gendered pluralism.
While [...]
The Internet has become one more tool hijacked by corporate interests to accelerate our cultural, political and economic decline. The great promise of the Internet, to open up dialogue, break down cultural barriers, promote democracy and unleash innovation and creativity, has been exposed as a scam. The Internet is dividing us into antagonistic clans, in [...]
Neuroscience and national security go together somewhat uneasily. Stick the two in a single sentence, and University of Pennsylvania historian Jonathan Moreno starts getting e-mails from all kinds of people who are sure they’ve been brainwashed by the CIA. (It might not help his inbox that he wrote a book called Mind Wars: Brain Research [...]
In late January, the Justice Department’s Office of the Inspector General released a report that provided startling new details on illegal operations by the FBI’s Communications Analysis Unit (CAU) and America’s grifting telecoms.
For years, AT&T, Verizon, MCI and others fed the Bureau phone records of journalists and citizens under the guise of America’s endless, and [...]
Editors’ Note: This week the trial of one of the most wanted women in the war on terrorism begins in a federal courtroom in Manhattan. The defendant, Aafia Siddiqui, is a 37-year-old, MIT-educated neuroscientist and suspected Al Qaeda operative. Siddiqui lived in the U.S. for ten years before mysteriously vanishing from her hometown in Karachi [...]
Indian Border Security Force (BSF) has killed yet another Bangladeshi citizen on the border Thursday taking the number of such killings to 93 during the period from January 1, 2009 to January 28, 2010 and to 818 in nine years from January 2000 to January 2010.(The BD Today)
The latest incident of killing a Bangladeshi citizen [...]
