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US needs to do more to fight LeT
Posted on April 18, 2011 | No CommentsIt is time the US government wakes up to the serious global threat this terror organisation poses. -
Best of Canary Trap in 2010
Posted on January 1, 2011 | 1 CommentA very happy and a prosperous 2011 to all the readers of Canary Trap. As we enter a new year, we bring you the top 10 posts of 2010 from different categories (Corruption, Politics, Security and Intelligence, History, Media Analysis). -
US will never extradite Headley to India
Posted on March 24, 2010 | No CommentsWhile the confusion prevails on whether India will get access to Headley, Canary Trap brings you the details of Headley's plea bargain. The government knows that Headley has signed a plea agreement while pleading guilty to all the 12 terrorism related charges against him. It is quite clear from the agreement that US wants to control access to David Headley for reasons that Canary Trap has highlighted in a previous post. The Indian Government can make tall claims of questioning/extraditing Headley, but the reality is that it is not being taken seriously by the US administration. -
Do we live in a democracy?
Posted on February 15, 2010 | 2 CommentsThe latest terror attack on the German Bakery in Pune shows how lightly we take the security threats. The police in Maharashtra (especially Mumbai) should have been on high alert given the intelligence inputs from the Centre about an impending terror strike. But instead of that, the police were busy maintaining law and order due to the volatile situation created by Shiv Sena against SRK's new film. The police were protecting cinema halls and rounding up Shiv Sena activists instead of addressing the terror threats. -
Is Headley US’s another Ali Abdel Saoud Mohamed?
Posted on January 7, 2010 | 1 CommentDavid Headley's case is frighteningly similar to another US informant, which the US would never want to forget. Ali Mohamed -- former Egyptian army officer turned CIA operative, Special Forces advisor, and an FBI informant -- is one of the most dangerous intelligence operator who compromised the US intelligence community before the fateful September 11, 2001 attacks. He trained the terrorist cell that attacked the World Trade Center in 1993. Mohamed also played a key role in the US embassy bombings in Kenya and Tanzania in 1998. There is information that he even trained Osama bin Laden's personal bodyguards. -
Waiting for the next terror attack
Posted on November 26, 2009 | 2 CommentsAs India observes the first anniversary of the deadly terror strike in Mumbai, we have forgotten the fact that its also the 20th anniversary of terrorism in India. Violence against the Indian State that began in Jammu and Kashmir in 1989 has now spread to almost all of India. Year after year, the country has been hit by terror strikes of greater magnitude but all we do is organize candle light vigils for the victims, observe the anniversaries, and talk about resilience, and courage. We forget things very easily and hence never learn from our mistakes. Nobody seems to be questioning the government as to why the Mumbai attack inquiry report has not been tabled in the Maharashtra Assembly till now. And why has it been designated as classified? If the US can make public the 9/11 Commission report and own up to the mistakes made by the administration, why can't the Indian Government? The spineless politicians of India have really failed this country.
