That have taken at least sixty lives and
have left more than twice that number of innocent people
wounded is a dastardly and cowardly act of terrorism
that deserves universal condemnation.
Indeed,
the condemnations have begun pouring in from all quarters.
Yet, it has become obvious over the past few years,
mere condemnation has not deterred terrorists.
Over the past few years,
it is depressingly apparent that terrorists have
taken to bombing innocent civilians in crowded places
simply because it is easier to do so.
Jaipur
only reconfirms that there are sleeper cells
all over the country and they can be activated at will,
often for no clear reason.
Earlier,
when terrorism was confined to
Jammu and Kashmir in mid and late nineties,
local groups used to take the smaller actions
leaving the special groups from across the border
to plan the special terrorist actions.
These used to be invariably planned and
executed by infiltrators.
Once the job was done,
they would return to home base.
The throwing of sundry grenades
at Srinagar's Lal Chowk
would be sub-contracted to the locals,
lower down the pecking order.
That pattern has changed.
The Mumbai blasts,
the Bangalore and Hyderabad
outrages as well as the blasts in other parts
of the country have been professionally planned and executed,
and the suspicion is, with a fair bit of local help
in many instances, pointers that sleepers
are now spread far and wide.
In the thirteen major blasts
since August 2003 about 560 people
have perished and more than thrice that number have been wounded,
a testimony that terrorism is touching more
and more ordinary lives as never before,
and leaving an indelible mark in the process.
There is no doubt that the terrorists have
enough trained manpower and are present in
sufficient numbers across the length and breadth
of the country and they have the skills and knowledge
to carry out their nefarious and deplorable activities.
The point is no amount of political statements
expressing condemnations,
which we are now used to hearing,
although important,
are going to resolve the problem.
We have said this before and we say it again:
one way to neutralize these sleeper modules
is to give spine and teeth to local level intelligence
activities in the various states.
There is no substitute for this.
There is only a limit as to
what central intelligence can do or has done,
especially these past few years.
That have taken at least sixty lives and
have left more than twice that number of innocent people
wounded is a dastardly and cowardly act of terrorism
that deserves universal condemnation.
Indeed,
the condemnations have begun pouring in from all quarters.
Yet, it has become obvious over the past few years,
mere condemnation has not deterred terrorists.
Over the past few years,
it is depressingly apparent that terrorists have
taken to bombing innocent civilians in crowded places
simply because it is easier to do so.
Jaipur
only reconfirms that there are sleeper cells
all over the country and they can be activated at will,
often for no clear reason.
Earlier,
when terrorism was confined to
Jammu and Kashmir in mid and late nineties,
local groups used to take the smaller actions
leaving the special groups from across the border
to plan the special terrorist actions.
These used to be invariably planned and
executed by infiltrators.
Once the job was done,
they would return to home base.
The throwing of sundry grenades
at Srinagar's Lal Chowk
would be sub-contracted to the locals,
lower down the pecking order.
That pattern has changed.
The Mumbai blasts,
the Bangalore and Hyderabad
outrages as well as the blasts in other parts
of the country have been professionally planned and executed,
and the suspicion is, with a fair bit of local help
in many instances, pointers that sleepers
are now spread far and wide.
In the thirteen major blasts
since August 2003 about 560 people
have perished and more than thrice that number have been wounded,
a testimony that terrorism is touching more
and more ordinary lives as never before,
and leaving an indelible mark in the process.
There is no doubt that the terrorists have
enough trained manpower and are present in
sufficient numbers across the length and breadth
of the country and they have the skills and knowledge
to carry out their nefarious and deplorable activities.
The point is no amount of political statements
expressing condemnations,
which we are now used to hearing,
although important,
are going to resolve the problem.
We have said this before and we say it again:
one way to neutralize these sleeper modules
is to give spine and teeth to local level intelligence
activities in the various states.
There is no substitute for this.
There is only a limit as to
what central intelligence can do or has done,
especially these past few years.
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