Author: Agencies
Publication: The India Express
Date: August 12, 2008
URL: http://www.expressindia.com/latest-news/800-terror-modules-operating-in-India-with-external-support/347904/
Indian intelligence agencies have uncovered
at least 800 terrorist cells in the country operating with "external
support," and are now looking for the brains behind them within India,
National Security adviser M K Narayanan has said.
"We are concerned that there is a great
deal of external inspiration and support, we are also concerned and are looking
at a mastermind within the country," Narayanan told Singapore's Straits
Times in an interview in Kuala Lumpur, when asked about investigations into
the blasts that rocked Bangalore and Ahmedabad on consecutive days.
Narayanan said intelligence agents had "disrupted"
several modules, some of which are "not entirely foreign."
"Clearly, there is some kind of organisation.
We have to find out if that organisation is localised or there is an external
group or module operating," he said without elaborating.
He also expressed concern over the bombing
of hospitals by terror outfits in Ahmedabad -- the first instance of a hospital
being targeted by terrorists in India.
"Copycat systems are coming up,"
he said.
"Like putting bombs in vehicles near
hospitals soon after blasts, knowing that large congregations will be there
and impact will be much greater," Narayanan said.
