| Thursday, November 06, 2008 |
| Evolution of Terrorism |
Like most other things, terrorism too seems to have an evolution. And in India, its more visible than anywhere else. Consider this:
In the 2008 Ahmedabad bomb blasts, an unsecured wireless network of a Mumbai-based American citizen was hacked and used to send a terror email with the text - "In the name of Allah the Indian Mujahideen strike again! Do whatever you can, within 5 minutes from now, feel the terror of Death." Five minutes later, the bombs did go off.
For the 2008 Delhi bomb blasts, a complete powerpoint presentation was emailed from a cyber-cafe to media outlets. It carried gory pictures with helpless Indians dying in pain alongwith text that cannot be reproduced here, but it had the clear message "Catch us if you can".
But what easily gets the icing of the cake is the email from ULFA, after the recent Assam blasts. They sent an explicit email just to "deny" their hand in the blasts, after media and politicians started suspecting their hand on television. So now, not only do we receive email threats, we also see a race among the various terrorist outfits to accept or deny claims. Clearly they are monitoring media channels for latest updates and using them to their advantage.
Technology, it seems, is being used and abused by the terrorists in a country where there is no dearth of techies. Emails are being sent from untraceable locations and newly created email ids, mobile phones are used to trigger bombs, social networking sites like orkut are used to spread hatred and even communicate amongst each other, internet is being used to dig out material on making bombs, locations of close-circuit cameras in public places are being observed and avoided...A recent bust of terrorist module by Delhi police and subsequent confiscation revealed laptops, SIM cards, credit cards, CD's, maps, mobile phones etc. Evolution indeed.Labels: India, Terrorism |
posted by Mitesh @ 12:05 PM • 
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