– KOLKATA CORRIDOR

HUJI-B, Lashkar-e-Toiba, and al-Bader, a new group, are on the list of terror organizations using the “safe corridor” of Kolkata to enter India.  The safe corridor refers to a region in Northern West Bengal, the province which stretches on the border between India and West Bangladesh, and the Indian province of Jharkhand. A strong Maoist underground is operating there with a degree of support from local villagers who generally are very suspicious and uncooperative with the Indian authorities. The difficulty police is facing in the region is used frequently to smuggle the Bangladeshi border in and from India. 

Poor intelligence network and a total lack of coordination between security and intelligence agencies in India have already led to several embarrassments in the past.

Blueprints of blasts across the country have been drawn out in the “safe corridor”. Terrorists have come to Kolkata, taken shelter and left for the attack venue. The arrest of Shahwaz Ismail, a Pakistani national and Al-Bader member, on Thursday 03/19/2009, follows the same pattern. Shahwaz Ismail’s arrest came exactly 13 days after Lashkar-e-Toiba operative Abu Taher was picked up from Narkeldanga, in the outskirts of Kolkata. Like Shahwaz Ismail, Abu Taher had also sneaked into India and was en route to another destination.

 

 

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