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ISIS Threat: Dance of Barbarians
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Issue Net Edition | Date : 06 Sep , 2014

In recent times, some Muslim youth in Tamil Nadu were taken into custody for supporting ISIS shirts and an Imam too was questioned in the same context. Recruitment by ISIS is not difficult considering that the internet facilitates radicalization by all terrorist organizations. The five youth from Maharashtra were reportedly influenced through the internet. But involvement of an Inam itself is indicative what other means are being used to influence youth.  And, why would SIMI and IM not assist in recruitment with the allure to serve with the top barbaric outfit in the world?

The pamphlet appeals to the local population for supporting its struggle for the establishment of an Islamic caliphate.

BBC reports that in a bid to extend its influence in the South Asian region, the ISIS has distributed pamphlets in Peshawar and border provinces of Afghanistan, some copies also sent to Afghan journalists working in Peshawar. It is not known where these pamphlets have been printed but similar documents have been published in the past by other terrorist groups in the region including the Haqqani network, which is part of Al Qaeda. Now where would Haqqanis get such material printed if not in Pakistan or the backwaters of Peshawar with a section of the ISI, Pakistani military and even Pakistan government linked with them, and when attempts by many journalists to expose such nexus have cost them their lives?

The pamphlet appeals to the local population for supporting its struggle for the establishment of an Islamic caliphate. A number of hardliner Wahabi-Salafi groups operating in AfPak region backed by Saudi Arabia, including in Nuristan and Kunar Provinces of Afghanistan, have already pledged support for ISIS. Then you also have groups like the Ahrarul Islam (another splinter group of TTP) and the East Turkistan Islamic Movement (ETIM) also working on the lines of the ISIS because the don’t respect national boundaries and want a global Islamic World.

As regards, the ISIS caliphate being far off, you don’t need to really elaborate how absurd the thought is considering the movement between India and the Gulf, both legal and illegal including the number of boats and dhows transiting to Karachi and beyond. Pakistan apart, with UAE and Qatar supporting the ISIS, travel of fresh recruits to the ISIS Caliphate should be well tied up. We also must acknowledge that the ISIS with its barbaric characteristics would gleefully indulge in chemical, biological, radiological attacks and already have access to old Iraqi chemical weapons, some half filled with Sarin. Such attacks don’t need numbers.

We also must acknowledge that the ISIS with its barbaric characteristics would gleefully indulge in chemical, biological, radiological attacks…

Coming to the announcement about formation of an Indian branch of his militant group that would spread Islamic rule raising the flag across the Subcontinent, Ayaman al Zawahiri has said that the new group “is the fruit of a blessed effort of more than two years to gather the mujahedeen in the Indian Subcontinent into a single entity.” The last part is misnomer because Pakistan with its Al Qaeda links and Al Qaeda itself has been at it for past decades, not just “more than over two years”. We must take into account global linkages of international terrorist organizations and the focus to destabilize India by forces that will remain inimical to us always.

We have an imploding Pakistan where the military’s stranglehold on the country refuses to budge from a state policy of terrorism. The military is inexorably linked with Al Qaeda through Haqqanis and the recent split in the TTP, with the breakaway group Jamat-e-Ahrar proclaiming allegiance to the ISIS may well have been engineered. As it is, the IM are the creation of the ISI and the LeT has been attending meetings of Indian Maoists on behest of the ISI. Training of a core group of Maoists in mines, IEDs and explosives was done by the LTTE under aegis of the ISI of Pakistan. Al Qaeda and LeT footprints in Kerala appeared a decade back that resulted in creation of the Popular Front of India (PFI). The PFI is armed and trained though dormant but the capability exists, though they are not banned due to vote-bank politics. Maldives is fast radicalizing and has LeT and Al Qaeda infiltration.

The danger to South India should also be viewed with ISI plans to undertake terrorist attacks against India using Sri Lanka’s north coast right from the time when veteran Colonel Basir Wali, former Director Pakistani Intelligence Bureau and active member of Tabligi Jamaat was posted as  Pakistan’s High Commissioner at Colombo. Incidentally Husaiin Haqqani, now turned pacifist, at one time was proponent of destroying India through cyber attacks.

Al Qaeda and ISIS may be at loggerheads but their recruitment base is the same in India; headed by IM and SIMI.

It would be naïve for us not to learn from the past. In hey days of the LTTE, Al Qaeda had sent a team to train with Sea Tigers of the LTTE, one fallout of which was the Al Qaeda attack on USS Cole. The LTTE has had firm links with Al Qaeda, LeT, ISI and HUA (now HuM) since 1995. Around the same time, Pakistan (through its High Commission at Colombo) in conjunction Al Qaeda had engineered the concept of an ‘Osama Brigade’ in North and North East Sri Lanka by radicalizing Muslims of  Batticaloa area. Pakistan originated ‘Osama Brigade’ literature had been circulating in North East and some parts of North Sri Lanka, some of which was recovered. The LeT has been intensifying efforts since 2002 to bring the anti-India jihad to Northern parts of Sri Lanka. Of course the ISI was grateful to the LTTE for assassinating Rajiv Gandhi and continued to use its LTTE links against India.

Obviously Zawahri’s shift of focus to the Subcontinent also aims at reneging vestiges of prestige lost to the ISIS but the threat is real as far as India is concerned considering that the mother of terrorism, Pakistan is in cahoots with Al Qaeda. The Al Qaeda threat would also include maritime and air strikes (9/11 type) but that is not all. Zawahri may take heed from his oriental cousin and lookalike Soko Asahara whose Om Shinrikyo cult had bombed the Tokyo Subway with Sarin gas in 1995. He actually wanted to kill one million people of Tokyo through aerially spraying the Sarin but providence intervened and he lost both remote controlled helicopters during practice runs plus the Russian Mi-8 helicopter he had smuggled in parts was yet to be assembled. So Al Qaeda can well try such attacks. At the same time, it would be foolish to discard the ISIS threat.

Additionally, Al Qaeda and ISIS may be at loggerheads but their recruitment base is the same in India; headed by IM and SIMI. In any case the final objectives of both these barbaric organizations are the same – kill all other than Wahabis and establish an Islamic Caliphate. There need not be a singlr Caliph either – Baghdadi has not objected to the declaration of Caliphate by Boko Haram. So we need to exercise extreme caution and put measures and resources in place. On the other front, China is sheltering Paresh Barua and the ULFA hierarchy on Chinese soil, pumping arms to the northeast insurgents and Maoists, and lethally arming the United State Wa Army (USWA) of Myanmar in our neighbourhood, which does not bode well no matter tattempts to push through the National Ceasefire Accord by the Myanmar government, which does not include disarming any militant group in the first place.

…we need to go proactive and establish “credible” deterrent against irregular warfare.

The post scrip to this article is what one has written numerous times – that we need to go proactive and establish “credible” deterrent against irregular warfare. Pakistan appears overconfident we will continue to rely on conventional power alone and therefore her rogue behaviour. Amidst all the talk of international cooperation to counter terrorism, at best one can expect only intelligence but that too when it suits the national interests of the provider.

Pakistan has actually been given a free hand in generating terrorism as well as nuclear proliferation and that will likely continue unless a major event changes the equation. That we need to go pro-active in establishing a deterrent is unquestionable but considering the incidents of communal violence being engineered by politicians in the recent past that is polarizing the society, causing demographic shifts and facilitating operations by radical terrorist organizations, establishment of the deterrence must include ruthlessly targeting such individuals.

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Lt Gen Prakash Katoch

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  1. YOU CANNOT COMPARE DR SUBRAMANIUM SWAMI WITH HEROS LIKE BHAGAT SINGH , NETAJI SUBHASH CHANDRA BOSE AND LTTE CHIEF VELLUPILLAI PRABHAKARAN , PRABHAKARAN AND NETAJI SUBHASH CHANDRA BOSE CREATED THERE OWN ARMY. PRABHAKARAN HAD IS OWN NAVY . IT REQUIRES GUTS AND BRAINS AND DEDICATION WILL POWER TO DO THIS . DOES SUBRAMANIUM SWAMY HAS THAT GUTS . THESE TWO LEADERS CAME FROM POOR FAMILY, SUBRAMANIUM SWAMY SHOULD LEAVE IS ANTI LTTE IMAGE AND SUPPORT LTTE IN ITS DEMAND FOR A SEPERATE EELAM NATION FOR TAMILIANS WHICH WILL MAKE INDIA AND HINDUISM STRONGER. HE SHOULD LEAVE IS BRAHMINICAL IDENTITY AND STRIVE FOR HINDIUSM, WRITTING AGAINST ISLAM DOES NOT MAKE HIM A PRO HINDU PERSON. IS ANTI LTTE FEELING SHOWS IS PRO BRAHMINICAL MIND , HE SHOULD LEAVE ALL SUCH FOOILISH MENTALITY

  2. ltte ban should be lifted. the recent arrest of bangladeshi militants and isil using sophisticated anti aircraft shoulder guided missile shows the capacity and the funding these islamic terrorists are getting and the danger they pose to the world if these terrorist attack europe.. the ban on ltte should be lifted . ltte as been known to attack muslims

  3. I AM NOT AGAINST MODERATE MUSLIM WHO DO NOT SUPPORT TERRORISM ONLY THOSE TERRORISM WHICH IS GIFTED BY AMERICANS LIKE ISIL , TALIBAN , AL-QUIDA AND OTHER ISLAMIC TERRORISM AND LATER FUNDED BY PAKISTHAN AND MUSLIM COUNTRIES WHICH IS THREAT TO INDIA MUST BE COMPLETELY WIPED OUT. THOUGH LTTE EARLIER TRAINED AL-QUIDA FOR SUICIDE BOMBING IN RETURN AL-QUIDA GAVE MONEY AS LTTE WAS FACING BAN, IN INDIA AND WORLDWIDE.ONE SHOULD NOT LOOK AT THOSE CASES. I AM ALSO NOT AGAINST SINHALESE. IN MY OPINION THE RECENT WITHDRAWAL OF AMERICAN AND BRITISH SOLDIERS FROM AFGHANISTHAN WILL LATER PROVE DANGEROUS FOR INDIA.. ALSO SRILANKA BECOMING FRIENDLY WITH IRAN , INDIA , CHINA , INDIA MUST THINK ABOUT ITS POLICY IN FIGHT AGAINST TERRORISM. INDIA SHOULD GIFT LTTE TO SAVE HINDUISM , INDIA AND THE WORLD FROM THE EVILS OF ISLAMIC TERRORISM . A EELAM NATION WITH LTTE IN CHARGE IS GOOD FOR INDIA AND UNITED STATES OF AMERICA. SO MR MODIJI KINDLY LIFT BAN ON LTTE OF SRILANKA SO THEY CAN GET EELAM AND LATER ON TACKLE ISLAMIC TERRORISM SPREAD ACROSS THE WORLD. a humble request to save the world

  4. A SMALL POPULATION OF JUST ABOUT 3 MILLION TAMIL POPULATION CAN NEVER BE A THREAT TO INDIA , INDIA SHOULD REMEMBER THAT BEING A SUPERPOWER INDIA SHOULD HAVE THAT MUCH BRAINS , IT WILL BE A FRIENDLY HINDU TAMIL NATION COUNTERING PAKISTHAN , OTHER MUSLIM COUNTRIES AND CHINAS SUPREMECY IN INDIAN OCEAN

  5. WITH THE MUSLIM EXTREMIST THREAT TO EUROPE AND LTTE BAN BEING REMOVED IN EUROPEAN COUNTRIES , THOUGH ASSETS TEMPORARY FRIEZED. WITH ISLAMIC TERRORISM ALL AROUND US INDIA SHOULD ALSO LIFT BAN ON LTTE COMPLETELY.

  6. IED BLAST INJURES 3 MILITARY PERSONNELS IN BARAMULLA KASHMIR. THE MAIN RESON FOR SUCH ATTTACKS IS PERVEZ MUSHARRAF EVEN DANGER THAN DAWOOD, AND OTHER TERRORIST ORGANISATION LEADERS , PERVEZ MUSHARRAF AFTER MANY YEARS OF HIBERNATION AS RETURNED TO PAKISTHAN AND AFTER IS RETURN TO PAKISTHAN ALL SUCH PLANNED ATTACKS ON BORDER AND RECENT IED BLAST. I AM STILL REQUESTING NARENDRA MODIJI TO LIFT BAN ON LTTE OF SRILANKA THOUGH DEFEATED AND DEFUNCT.

  7. NOSTRADAMUS PROPHECIES MAN FROM THE EAST WILL COME OUT OF IS SEAT HE WILL STRIKE EVERYONE WITH IS ROD WITH THE BATTLE RAGING IN MIDDLE EAST HE WILL BURN THE CITIES OF MIDDLE EAST TP PIECES. IT APPEARS ABOUT LTTE CHIEF PRABHAKARAN WHOS DEAD BODY NOT SHOWN ONLY IS PHOTO SHOWN TO WORLD HE IS DEAD BUT IS DEATH IS STILL A MYSTERY . THE LTTE CHIEF ALONG WITH LTTE HAD KILLED MANY MUSLIMS BURNED ENTIRE MUSLIM VILLAGES , IS THIS PROPHECY SUITING HIM OR SOME OTHER LTTE LEADER WHO WILL ARRIVE TO SAVE HUMANITY AND EUROPE FROM THE CLUTCHES OF ISLAMIC TERRORISM

  8. NOSTRADAMUS PROPHECIES BY ERIKA CHEETHAM. IF ONE OBSERVES CENTURY TWO QUITRAIN NO 30 IT CLEARLY MENTIONS ABOUT ISIL CHIEF BAGDADI
    A man who revives the infernal gods of Hannibal, the terror of mankind.Never more horror nor the papers ( evertime bagdaidi using video to show how he kills is captors by knife) tell of worse in the past ,then will come to the romans through Babel( confusion around the world). last sentence clearly shows how bagdadi enters europe with is terror army.

  9. True. ISIS is a serious threat to us. The sooner the powers that be recognize it the better.

    But what exactly should we do about it? That is the question that needs an answer.

    In concrete terms what does establishing a credible deterrence against irregular warfare mean? Given the legal framework within which we operate, what kind of deterrent measures does the General have in his mind?

    An efficient intelligence network at the grass root level is part of the solution, to my mind. If our intelligence agencies are going to get a whiff of radicalization of some young lads only when a video goes viral showing them wearing ISIS T shirts, God save us!

    Ultimately, though, we have to fight a fierce, open, public and in-you- face battle against the Jihadist-Wahabi-Salafist thought, even if it seems politically incorrect and/or anti-secularist to some.

    And yes, we have to fight a battle against politicians who turn a Nelson’s eye to the growth of Jihadist organizations right under their noses, so as to keep their vote banks purring contentedly. Remember the Burdwan blast case and political attempts to hush up facts and destroy evidence?

  10. IF YOU SEE NOSTRADAMUS PROPHECIES IT CLEARLY MENTIONS A EASTERN LEADER WITH THREE WATER SIGNS WILL COME AND DESTROY ISLAMIC TERRORISM , INDIA TELLS HE IS FROM INDIA ,CHINA IS TELLING HE IS FROM CHINA , BUT IF YOU TYPE ON GOOGLE SEARCH ENGINE NOSTRADAMUS ON LTTE CHIEF VELLUPILLAI PRABHAKARAN YOU MIGHT COME CLOSER ,OR PROBABILY ANOTHER LTTE LEADER OR THE SAME ONE NAMED BEFORE. I THINK IF THE INDIAN GOVERNMENT LIFTS BAN ON LTTE , THE TAMIL DIOSPORIA WHICH IS SPREAD ACROSS THE GLOBE AND WHO ARE RICH WILL PROVIDE MONEY TO REVIVE THE LTTE MOVEMENT TO ESTABLISH A SEPERATE NATION FOR TAMILIANS IN NORTH EAST OF SRILANKA. THIS NATION ONCE IT IS CREATED AND ACCEPTED BY UNITED NATION WILL BE OPPOSED BY PAKISTHAN , IRAN , NORTH KOREA, SAUDI ARABIA, ALGERIA, CHINA, CUBA, OTHER COMMUNIST NATIONS AND MUSLIM WORLD. AS THIS CREATION OF A TAMIL NATION IN NORTH EAST OF INDIA WITH LTTE IN CHARGE WITH BACKING OF NARENDRA MODI WILL SIGNAL DEATH KNELL OF ISLAMIC RELIGION AND GLOBAL ISLAMIC TERRORISM.

  11. THE ISIS OF IRAQ IS LESSER THREAT TO INDIA, IF YOU SEE NOSTRADAMUS PROPHECIES A BLUE TURBAN LEADER ENTERS EUROPE THOUGH BAGDADI IS WEARING BLACK TURBAN SIMILAR TO COLOUR BLUE. AND TYPE NOSTRAMUS ON PRABHAKARAN LTTE LEADER , PROPHECIES OF NOSTRADAMUS ON INDIA. THOUGH ISLAM WILL RULE EUROPE, THEN A MAN FROM EAST WITH A ROD HITTING THE ENEMY , THE BATTLE IS CARRIED IN MIDDLE EAST ULTIMATELY ISLAM IS WIPED OUT BY THIS EASTERN LEADER . INDIAN CALL HIM TO BE FROM INDIA . CHINA TELL HE IS FROM CHINA. BUT THERE IS SURITY HE FROM CHINA OR INDIA . THIS EASTERN MASSIEH WILL COME FROM CHINA OR INDIA , EVEN BABA VENGA OR VANGA OF HUNGARY AS PROPHECISED ABOUT THIS EASTERN LEADER. THE TAMIL OF SRILANKA COMPARE PRABHAKARAN OF LTTE TO THE RECLUSIVE 10 CENTURY SHIA SAINT WHO FOUGHT AGAINST EVIL OF SUNNIS.

  12. INDIA SHOULD NOT JOIN NATO , THIS IS FIGHT BETWEEN EUROPEANS , AND MUSLIMS I MEAN CATHOLICS AND MUSLIM. INDIA SHOULD LIFT BAN ON LTTE . THE LTTE HUMAN BOMBS ARE A DEADLY WEAPON. I READ NOSTRADAMUS PROPHECIES . I TYPED GOOGLE TYPE NOSTRADAMUS ON LTTE CHIEF VELLUPILLAI PRABHAKARAN . THE WORLD NEEDS HINDUISM WITH ITS RICH YOGA KNOWLEDGE AND THE MODERN RESEARCH CARRIED BY SCIENTIST WILL MAKE THE WORLD A BEAUTIFUL PLACE . WITH NARENDRA MODI WHO WILL DEVELOP INDIA AND FINISH ISLAMIC TERRORISM . I REQUEST IF ANY OF DEFENCE PERSON OF INDIA IS READING THIS MESSAGE TO FORWARD MY SMALL LITTLE IDEA TO COUNTER ISLAMIC TERRORISM . ALL OTHER HINDU ORGANISATION AND LTTE BAN SHOULD BE LIFTED IMMEDIATELY. THE CONGRESS BANNED LTTE FOR 20 YEARS . LTTE NEEDS A BASE IN NORTH SRILANKA TO ATTACK PAKISTHAN AND OTHER ISLAMIC COUNTRIES IT WILL ACT AS BUFFER AGAINST ISLAMIC TERRORISM IN SOUTH ASIA.

  13. The West is a very bad learner. Its hubris as also the greed and lust of its decision and opinion makers stand in the way. The US “strategy” had been tried before. By Hitler in the Battle of Britain. We wait with bated breath for the day when the US will start bombing ISIS aka Al Qaeda aka Islam ghettos in Britain, France and New york. Al Qaeda was armed and trained by the US to make Islamic Warriors out of Wahabis nurtured as students (Taliban) in Saudi sponsored Madrassas throughout the World. The sole reason why Al Qaeda divorced ISIS is because ISIS has repudiated the loyalty demanded from Wahabis to the Guardians of Mecca and Medina i.e. the Saudi Crown. ISIS and many Wahabis now hold the Arab “Crowns” to be “haram’ and corrupt. In essence the enemy is the US, and its allies. i.e. Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Kuwait, Pakistan i.e. Saudi-Wahabi (Sunni) Islam.

  14. We got to have a very relevant and effective security policy implemented on priority basis to deal with the increasing threat from these militant outfits. Bureaucrats and diplomats handling this subject will be effective only to a certain extent, and experts in defence and security affairs along with a very highly effective intelligence network must deal with this threat. Most important is that the government must be pro active and must authorize desired flexibility to the operators.

  15. WITH ISLAMIC COUNTRIES SURROUNDING INDIA LIKE AFGANISTHAN , PAKISTHAN, MALDIVES, BANGLADESH WITH JUST 10 PERCENT BENGALI HINDUS DOWN FROM 30 PERCENT , SRILANKAS MUSLIM POPULATION 9 TO 10 PERCENT CALLED MOORS . MALAYSIA, INDONESIA, AND INDIAS OWN MUSLIM POPULATION OF 15 TO 20 PERCENT IS A THREAT SIMILAR TO YAZIDHIS OF IRAQ. ACCORDING TO LATEST AMERICAN REPORTS LTTE OF SRILANKA THOUGH DEFUNCT AND DEFEATED IN SRILANKA ITS INTERNATIONAL NETWORK IS INTACT.. THE TAMIL DIOSPORIA SPREAD ACROSS THE WORLD IS STILL PROVIDING MONEY. INDIA SHOULD LIFT BAN ON LTTE TO COUNTER ISLAMIC TERRORISM SPREAD FROM NORTH AFRICA TO PAKISTHAN TO ABU SAYAF GROUP IN PHILLIPHINES. THE LTTE HUMAN BOMBS CAN BE LETHAL TO ISLAMIC TERRORISTS ONCE LTTE ESTABLISHES BASE IN NORTH EAST OF SRILANKA

  16. highly reflective article .Katoch ji is zillion percent right.Even if our politicians have 1/100000…n of his wisdom there would be no repetitions of 26/11`vacuum headed ones will need to learn from these.

  17. The Western countries headed by the US Hydra (NATO) play their games in the middle east. The American arms industry is well serviced by camel driving arabs. The Brits are follow dogs of the Americans. The Gremans are still washing away the sins of Hitler and havent found their feet as individual identity in Europe. The Russians thankfully are waking upto the the games people (NATO) play. The Chinese aim to challange the world in Asia and are on the way. The problem with India is that the politicians know nothing more than vote bank politics and becoming crorepatis with government funds(read tax payers). The babudom doesnt care a jack about this nation as long as their perks as safe and they keep ahead of the armed forces. The armed forces somnambulate because of weak generalship and lack of vision. What this nation lacks is BALLS in pure terms. If we had them we wouldnt be floundering in Kashmir, Naxalites and the North East. To appease a 13% population base we throw national security to the dogs. We as Indians are weak minded people who seek te easier path out of anything – thats why we are so corrupt and thats why a British trading company could conquer the sub-continent starting with about 6000 british mercenaries. What the General has said is right point blank …lets wake up before its too late.

  18. AS LONG AS THE AMERICANS AND THE WEST WHO PREACH HUMAN RIGHTS AND DEMOCRACY TO ALL SUPPORT AND ENCOURAGE THE GULF DESPOTIC MONARCHIES AIDED AND ABETTED BY RELIGOUS, POLICE AND ANCIENT BARBARIC LAWS THE WORLD WILL FACE STRIFE . THE SAME FATHERS AND SONS IN PRIVATE BOEING AND AIRBUSES GO TO SOUTH OF FRANCE TO WINE DINE AND ENJOY ENGLISH , FRENCH FLOOZIES , COME BACK AND ROBE THEIR OWN WIVES AND DAUGHTERS IN HIJAB AND CRUELLY TRAMPLE THE LOCAL POPULACE . . THE MAD MULLAHS AND MAULVIS PREACH JIHAD AND THE HOUSE OF SAUDS AND OTHER MONARCHIS FUND THE MADRASSAS , ISIS , AND OTHER TERROR GROUPS . THE MUSLIMS IN EUROPE WITH THEIR MADRASSAS ARE HELL BENT ON SLAUGHTERING THE WHITE MAN AND HIS DECADYANT CIVILSATION. IT IS FOR THE AMERICANS AND EUROPEONS TO COME BACK AS CRUSADERS , CONVERT BACK THE MUSLIM WORLD TO LIBERAL MODERN DEMOCRACIES , BY FORCE , WAR , OR COERCION . THE CHOICE IS LEFT TO THEM . WITH AMERICAN DEPENDANCE ON GULF OIL PRACTICALLY NIL AND NO GREAT STRATEGIC INTERSTS THE AMERICANS CAN CHOOSE THE HARD STICKWITH THEIR ALLIES .

  19. The Indian Establishment needs to make a BIG STRATEGIC DECISION-ie Bring the KSHATRIYAS [Armed Forces,Martial races etc ] into all major Decision making regarding Defence,Internal security,National Security & Even Foreign policy. Ever Since Lord Parshuram Destroyed the Kshatriyas over & over again,The Kshatriyas have been looked upon with suspicion in india.. Thus, Foreign Armies easily conquered india..The Trend continues even today & Armed Forces are kept out of almost all important Decision making regarding,Defence,Security etc & looked upon with suspicion..A NATION STATE needs Kshatriyas for Defence,War,Internal security etc…Remember,that only a true Kshatriya can Plan,anticipate problems,Execute & win wars with finesse..eg Late Field Marshal Sam Maneckshaw in the 1971 war.. Unfortunately,” Kaul boys “, Mercantile minded,Scheming,Manipulative,corrupt & incompetent generals have taken over the Indian Army…P.S. one has to just look at the CHOICES given by cadets at NDA,IMA,OTA etc..The Toppers are mostly going into ASC,Ordnance etc instead of Infantry,Armoured [ARMS ] as is the trend in War academies of USA,UK etc.

  20. The SOLE reason that Al Qaeda has distanced itself from ISIS is because ISIS has repudiated one of the three Wahabi allegiances which is the allegiance to the Saudi Crown, the custodians of Mecca and Medina. Islam is going through one of its periodic “purifications” as Wahabis repudiate the various Arab crowns for being corrupt and “haram”. But unlike previous such nodes of History such as the “Mahdi” and so on, this time a round they are very powerful and technologically adequate to take on their detractors. This is a comment in addition to my previous observation. India has been in the cross-hairs of Islam since before the US armed and trained Al Qaeda to aim and fire Taliban (students) raised to Wahabism in Saudi sponsored and funded mosques world-wide. Islam carried out the ethnic cleansing of Kashmir in 1990 and recently proved the potency of its call-to-arms with the All India Moslem Riots of Ramzan 2012. India’s security establishment has been bracing for an escalation ever since the US planned to do its customary thing of “cut and run” from Afghanistan after fanning the embers of Islam to its own advantage. (US strategy which is formulated by policy and decision makers on various (mainly Islamic) pay rolls always trumps US propaganda, tactics and operations designed to appease vote fodder as in the bombing of Belgrade and the invasion of Iraq) It is fortunate that India has a strong BJP Government that is committed to the rule of law rather than to appeasing the Sharia as was the Congress Party that took after the Western “Liberal”, “Secular”, “Democracies” in fomenting Islam (an alien Imperium masquerading as a religion) within the borders. However, decades of Congress rule and the “reservations” and corruption policies have taken their toll and left India very weakened. Islam knows this. There is a convergence right now with a weakened India, a cut-and-run by the US from Afghanistan and a proven wide spread presence of a Moslem Army within India.

  21. Celebrity fools (like diplmats,politicians or news mongers in denial) are groomed to be fools. As is Indian soil, Indian populace is also very much fertile and capable of breeding ISIS/AQ aspirants in large number. There could be so many unexplored, unrecorded pockets of population which could rise simultaneously to pose dangers in India.
    Noise made over Ishrat case has dented our preventive capabilities, physical & psychological, to large extent.

  22. this article is best example of enmity of kafir (indian hindu) for islam and Quran but how Allah makes kafirs miserable condtion best example is these indian hinduuos are using pure jihadi quranic word “shaheed” for their dead soldiers.lol>hindusm was not not able to produce 1 word for their dead soldiers.jiihad meaning in Quran to fight with aggressors to safe lifes of muslims. Allah say don’t feel fear from death next life is much better this present life>indian army raped thousands innocent kashmries girlsssssss and even old womens and killed their men so jihad is bad?

      • Yazkhan, your thoughts are hateful, poisonous, and debasing of a human being. Is this what Islam teaches you? How long are you and your likes are going to take a stone age tribal rules for fighting and call it a religion. It is dark, inhumane and dead end and that is the reason for all the senseless violence and terrorism in the muslim world. The bright and the intellectuals were the Sufis who have been systematically driven out leaving a black hole of nothingness where people like you reside.

    • Yazkhan before 3000 years of Islam The importance of being Martyr or being Shahid is told in Bhagavad Gita the sacred text of Hinduism.If you read articles by Pakistani officers,you will come to know even art of creating Intelligence department or officers is mentioned in Hindu mythology much before Greek statecraft leave alone Islamic era..Since your knowledge of your own religion is Limited as can be judged by your thoughts which you have expressed. Hence you can not be expected to have knowledge of other religion. Abhay Sawant

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