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| Sunjwan, Kaluchak army brigades on alert after Lashkar threat | | ** Alert sounded on IB too | |
BHARAT BHUSHAN
JAMMU, Dec 24: The Sunjwan and Kaluchak army brigades on the city outskirts were Friday put on high alert following intelligence inputs that Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) planned to carry out suicide attacks on them.Official sources said security was further tightened at the two army enclosures after the country's top intelligence agencies -- RAW and IB -- apprised army of the LeT plan to target them.Additional troops were soon deployed in and around these two army installations and other army areas here to prevent fidayeens from making a strike, the sources added.A terror alert had also been issued on the International Border (IB).Both the army brigades have been targeted by suicide attackers earlier also. While the Sunjwan brigade was attacked on June 28, 2003, the Kaluchak camp was targeted on May 14, 2002. On both the occasions, the militants had come from across the IB.As the inputs suggested that the fidayeens could come from across the IB this time also, BSF was put on extra alert to foil any infiltration bid by the Pak-based militants, the sources added.The 2003 suicide attack was the first after prime minister’s Srinagar Initiative and the resulting Indo-Pak thaw.
Two LeT militants in army uniform had struck at the Sunjwan army camp at about 4.30 am on June 28, 2003, the third day of the then President APJ Abdul Kalam’s visit to the state, killing 12 soldiers. Both the fidayeens, who were Pakistani nationals, were later shot dead by army’s Quick Reaction Team in a 5-hour gunbattle. Just two days before this attack, LeT’s chief commander Idris Gauri had said that the outfit’s cadres in J&K had been directed to step up attacks on security forces. The militants had entered the camp after cutting the barbed wire fence on the rear. They first shot dead a sentry and then, throwing grenades, entered the barracks and sprayed bullets on the sleeping jawans, killing 12 and injuring seven.
The attack on the Sunjawan camp had come 13 months after the fidayeen attack on the Kaluchak camp in which 35 army personnel and their family members, including women and children, were killed. The tension between the two countries had heightened after the
Kaluchak attack on family accommodation camp on May 14, 2002. Three militants had arrived by bus, and after opening fire on the passengers, they had entered the lightly-guarded camp. The militants had turned their guns on the family quarters of soldiers. They had systematically fired at the families of army personnel. The gunmen were killed in an intense battle with soldiers that followed. The attack was the worst in Jammu.Sources said apart from BSF, border police had also been alerted. Multiple ambushes were laid on the known infiltration routes and the Tawi river bed, a most preferred route of the intruding militants in the past, the sources added.
Sources said city police were also directed to carry out checking in hotels and lodges in search for suspects. Night patrolling in and around the city was also intensified, the sources added.Quoting intelligence inputs, sources said several militants were camping in the forward Pak posts in wait for an opportune moment to sneak into the Indian territory.
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