With I-day round the corner, Al-Qaeda begins its mission in Kolkata
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The article mentioned in the post was published in The New Indian Express, dated August 14 2005 00:00 IST (url broken).
The second news-report was titled, “Guard down, Bengal becomes a haven for terror” by Ravik Bhattacharya published in the Hindustan Times, Kolkata edition, August 20, 2013. The image below is from the article (the url is now broken)
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FENCING AND KITBUSH ARE THE ANSWER.
Israel when faced with this infiltration and terrorism menace ,finally fenced off the neighborhood and armed its citizens in the border area.
If Indian state and treacherous political parties,fail to check this any soon,then citizen initiative is justified and inevitable.
As the last resort after failing to bring this pressing issue centrestage or force take the right action,citizens must be given funds to arm themselves and groups to patrol the border area.
They can spot and fire at intruders and this alone will send a clear message that thier demographic aggression will not be a cake walk anymore.
Even with as little a force of thousand armed units of ten each, taking on aggressors,will make it impossible to infiltrate with impunity.
For no one knows when and where the raiders will spot and gun them down and only foolhardy fanatics will risk it.
As we see it,there doesnt seem to be any effective way,since the media is pro jihadi and the polity compromised.
There are historical turns when a little force can prevent large scale bloodshed.
For instance ,at the close of the eighties, the mosques in Kashmir valley were increasingly and openly giving calls for jihad agaisnt the hindu minority and indian state.
The army could have helped with its intelligence and couldve armed the pandits to square off these agent provocaeuteurs.
Instead , thier misplaced values and sense of right and wrong ,took a haevy toll-of the lives and properties of the entire hindu minority aswell as thosands of jawans.
They could have taken off these jihadi infiltrators with ten times less casualty and human suffering.
The Infiltration from bangladesh can only be solved by help arming the hindu natives and the armys help.
From: More terror tracks in Kolkata corridor dt 20th Mar ‘09:
Placing this here for the record:
Guard down, Bengal becomes a haven for terror by Ravik Bhattacharya , Hindustan Times Kolkata, August 20, 2013
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A senior state home department official said on condition of anonymity: “Since the Kashmir borders are too well secured for the terrorists to slip in men and materials easily, the porous India-Bangladesh border serves their purpose perfectly.â€
He says outfits, such as the Lashkar-e-Taiba, Jaish-e-Mohammed and Indian Mujahideen, find it easy to push in their men into India. And after that, it’s a matter of simply catching a train to any target spot in India. There’s no other hurdle to cross.
The reason is simple. A huge stretch of the border Bengal shares with Bangladesh is porous and lying virtually unguarded. Consider this: The Swarupnagar police station in North 24 Parganas district has a 42-km-long border with Bangladesh under its jurisdiction. But only less than half a km (420 metre) is fenced.
Thus, Bengal has been silently serving as a lifeline for terror outfits since the nineties. And maybe that’s why the state and its capital didn’t have to face any major terror act apart from the American Center attack, in which five policemen were killed in 2002. For, the terrorist doesn’t want his hideout to get noticed.
A Kolkata Police special taskforce officer said, “Border districts and even parts of Kolkata with large minority populations are perfect hideouts for terrorists. Arms, explosives, men and fake currency are routed mainly through Malda, Murshidabad and North and South Dinajpur districts.â€
Bengal continued to be the natural breeding ground for the Students Islamic Movement of India — even though it was banned in 2001 and despite the crackdown by the Left Front government in 2006 just after the Mumbai serial blasts. Police sources said a large number of madrasas and local clubs in Bengal are still run by the SIMI.
The transition from an amateurish student body to an elaborate killing machine began when Kolkata born brothers Asif and Amir Reza helped found the Indian Mujahideen. Asif, a resident of Beniapukur — a central Kolkata locality of a mixed population of mainly Muslims and Anglo-Indians — made his mark by abducting Partha Roy Burman, owner of shoe-manufacturing company Khadim, in 2001.
Asif was arrested in 2001 and was killed in an encounter a few months later by the Gujarat police. But before that, he managed to raise the Asif Reza Khan Commando Force along with Harkat-ul-Jihad al-Islami, another city-based outfit which claimed responsibility for the American Center attack.
Amir, who succeeded Asif, is responsible for a number of blasts in India. Police sources say Amir is wanted both by the Indian security agencies and the Interpol. He is currently in Pakistan and is one of the Indian Mujahideen leaders.
There’s more. The co-founder of the Indian Mujahideen, Yasin Bhatkal, was another big fish caught in Bengal. In 2009, Bhatkal was arrested by the Kolkata Police in a fake currency case and was lodged in jail for a month.
But the police failed to identify Bhatkal and allowed him bail. Bhatkal duly jumped bail and fled the country. He later engineered a number of blasts, including the ones in Pune’s German Bakery and in Hyderabad.
Placing this link here for the record: Don Unleashes Economic Terror, by Arup Chanda Published: 21st December 2015.
Excerpts from Malda Violence Was ‘BSF Vs People’, Claims Mamata Banerjee, reported by Monideepa Banerjie, Edited by Divyanshu Dutta Roy, January 09, 2016:
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After maintaining complete silence on the incident at Malda’s Kaliachak for days, Ms Banerjee today responded to a question, saying, “That’s different. It was a BSF versus people struggle. State was not involved. It was not a communal programme.”
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On Sunday, over one lakh Muslim protesters took out a procession at Kaliachak against a hate speech by a right wing leader in Uttar Pradesh in December. The demonstrators then went on a rampage, setting a police station and several vehicles on fire. One person sustained a bullet injury.
A rally of nearly one lakh Muslim protesters went on a rampage in Malda on Sunday with demonstrators setting a police station on fire.
According to police sources, the demonstrations had spiralled out of control after a BSF vehicle got stuck in the traffic jam caused by the procession and an altercation flared between the protesters and BSF personnel.
Some sources also suggest the Kaliachak police station was targeted to burn down crime records. With Assembly elections just months away, the police is expected to begin a crackdown on people with criminal records.
Malda is believed to be a hub of a fake currency racket and according to the National Investigation Agency, 90 per cent of the fake currency that enters India from Pakistan via Bangladesh comes in from Malda which borders the neighbouring country.