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| >>Terrorist sleeper cells can't be ignored | | Various targets are on the terrorist hit-list | | SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT
NEW DELHI, SEPT. 10:
Mandarins in the Union Home Ministry are, for the past many days, working overtime. This phenomenon is attributed to the growing threat from terrorists in many parts of the country. Intelligence agencies have identified various targets in India on the terrorist hit-list. These include religious and economic installations as well as nuclear establishments and communication networks.
And the blasts in Malegaon in Maharashtra proved it once again. But who is behind all this? Well, the usual suspect, a sleeper cell. But what is a sleeper cell? Usually it consists of one to three trained and indoctrinated jehadis sent to a particular place with a deadly mission.
Their CV is usually impressive from bringing in arms, ammunition and bombs, they pinpoint a target and then carry out terrorist strikes. Terrorists who are part of sleeper cells operate mostly in a similar fashion whether in urban India or semi-urban or rural areas. They roam around freely and live and mix with people to avoid suspicious glances. So, today anticipating their movements and fishing them out has become more difficult.
Former Joint Director of Intelligence Bureau, MK Dhar, has been quoted as saying: "To locate them either in the rural pockets or in urban areas like Mumbai we simply don't have the human resources for it".This is not because of lack of intelligence but also because one terror group might have put a cell in place but other groups can activate it - it is called resource sharing.
And by the time security agencies get a whiff of such a cell, the jehadis usually vanish. MK Dhar has explained: "Without human intelligence if you keep spending your resources then we might get it right once in a few lakh attempts". As many as 65 terrorist modules have been busted in India in the last seven months, according to a senior official concerned with national security. But many more are active, mostly handled by Pakistan's Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI).
From the deadly blasts in Delhi last year to the bomb explosion at the Sankatmochan Temple in Varanasi on March 8 this year to the serial blasts in Mumbai in July, jehadi sleeper cells have struck terror across India and their threat continues more ominously than ever before.
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