Articles in Homeland Security
Inside Iraq: Five Days in Hell-III
By: Scott Taylor | Issue: Vol 25.3 Jul-Sep 2010 | Date: 10 Dec , 2010
“We are Ansar al-Islam.” …I knew that this group …had links to al-Qaeda. When it had proved impossible to enter Mosul safely, we had circled back into the desert and spent the night at...
Inside Iraq: Five Days in Hell-II
By: Scott Taylor | Issue: Vol 25.3 Jul-Sep 2010 | Date: 09 Dec , 2010
“She is encouraging her ‘sons’ to go out and become martyrs and die in battle…” In the morning, Tal Afar was strangely quiet except for the continuous buzzing of the unmanned Predators...
Inside Iraq: Five Days in Hell-I
By: Scott Taylor | Issue: Vol 25.3 Jul-Sep 2010 | Date: 08 Dec , 2010
This is a first hand account of a journalist, Scott Taylor, about his tryst with death at the hands of Islamic extremists in Iraq about five years back. The religious and social dynamics in the...
WikiLeaks and Indian secrets
By: Claude Arpi | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 07 Dec , 2010
We live in the WikiLeaks era when no official document is considered too secret to be put out in the public domain by whistleblowers. It’s only a matter of time before India’s archive of...
Military-Police Relations : The Kolkata Syndrome
By: RSN Singh | Issue: Vol 22.1 Jan - Mar 2007 | Date: 07 Dec , 2010
The Kolkata incident on the New Years Eve wherein the military and police clashed over the detention of two young army officers belonging to a Madras Unit, which has arrived at a peace station...
Kashmir: Lost Bearings
By: Lt Gen (Retd) MC Bhandari | Issue: Vol 22.3 Jul-Sep 2007 | Date: 06 Dec , 2010
New Delhi hosted the SAARC Summit meeting, and Musharraf was conspicuous by his absence. Whereas other nations were represented by their executive heads, Pakistan had opted to send their Prime...
26/11: Pak Army Irregulars attack Mumbai-II
By: B Raman | Issue: Book Excerpt: Mumbai 26/11 | Date: 26 Nov , 2010
According to the Hindustan Times ( December 2, 2008), the LeT’s name as the main plotter of a sea-borne terrorist strike in Mumbai directed against some sea front hotels figured in three...
Mumbai 26/11: Take Pakistan ISI to court
By: B Raman | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 25 Nov , 2010
Since the Madrid conference on “Democracy & Terrorism” held in March 2005, to which I was invited,I have been repeatedly writing and speaking on the need for victim activism in India in order...
Indian Intelligence: the fiddling has to stop...
By: B Raman | Issue: Vol 22.4 Oct-Dec 2007 | Date: 25 Nov , 2010
The evolution of the Indian intelligence community since 1947 has been on the basis of periodic reviews of our enquiries into perceived intelligence failures. After the Sino-Indian war of 1962, a...
Security forces kill nine Naxalites in Datewada in Chattisgarh
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 23 Nov , 2010
In Chattisgarh, nine Naxalites have been killed by security forces in an encounter in Datewada District. According to police sources, the Naxalites were killed in an encounter with CRPF jawans...
Nepal border vulnerable to smuggling of fake currency: Home Ministry
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 23 Nov , 2010
As per available information Indo-Nepal border has also proved vulnerable to infiltration of fake Indian currency notes (FICN), with border districts being used as transit and storage points. ...
The Subverted Indo-Bangladesh Border : II
By: VK Shashikumar | Issue: Vol 24.2 Apr-Jun 2009 | Date: 21 Nov , 2010
Illegal Migrant 1, Name Withheld: “We paid the dalals (human traffickers). The amount varies depending on the security environment extant on that day when the illegal crossing over has been for....
Security threats facing India
By: Anand K Verma | Issue: Vol 23.2 Apr-Jul 2008 | Date: 20 Nov , 2010
Threats are a matter of perception. Their assessments take into account capacities, not so much intentions, of a potential adversary. For an accurate reading, the short term and long term...
Is Copy-Cat of Mumbai 26/11 Possible in Indonesia?
By: B Raman | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 17 Nov , 2010
Is a copy-cat act of terrorism similar to the 26/11 terrorist strikes in Mumbai possible in Indonesia? That is a question that needs examination following the disclosures made by the Indonesian...
Changing Face of Terror
By: Dr Anil Kumar Singh | Issue: Vol 21.2 Apr-Jun 2006 | Date: 17 Nov , 2010
Phenomenon of terrorism as a global menace is of recent origin. History of terrorism is as old as the human civilisation. However, recent decades have witnessed exacerbation in occurrence of...
ULFA's niche war
By: Col Rajinder Singh | Issue: Vol 24.1 Jan-Mar 2009 | Date: 15 Nov , 2010
Mr Hiteshwar Saikia told me: “These ULFA boys do not understand that they can not achieve their aim. They can only create hardships for the people of Assam. Where will they get such a large...
Maoists: Enemies of India
By: RSN Singh | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 13 Nov , 2010
The anti-national character of the Maoists was quite evident during the Independence Day celebration and in the run-up to it. In Bengal, they burnt the National Flag. In Bihar, they gave a call...
Global Terrorism and Responses
By: Vikram Sood | Issue: Vol 21.2 Apr-Jun 2006 | Date: 09 Nov , 2010
In today’s context when we talk of international terrorism, we invariably refer to Islamic/jehadi terrorism. Unfortunately, the response to this, described as the global war on terror, is...
Maoist Warriors: More than foot soldiers
By: Prakash Nanda | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 05 Nov , 2010
Predictably, Delhi’s Left-dominated intellectual circles have condemned the reported move on the part of Chhatisgarh police to implicate a high-profile Delhi University Professor for her...
Terrorist Tentacles in India
By: Wilson John | Issue: Vol 21.2 Apr-Jun 2006 | Date: 03 Nov , 2010
Investigations into the recent terrorist attacks and the subsequent chain of arrests and seizures in different parts of India, particularly rural Maharashtra, have revealed a growing alliance...