Asserting that there had been “only two” terror attacks in the country since the Mumbai attacks of November 26, 2008 — the Pune’s German Bakery bomb blast in February 2010 and last month’s series of bomb blasts in Mumbai — Union Home Minister P Chidambaram on Wednesday said security forces must deal with right-wing terror groups “sternly and fearlessly” as they were as much enemies of the country as the Indian Mujahideen and SIMI.
“There is another group which is radicalising... the right-wing extremist terrorist groups. That also deserves to be researched and studied. They are radicalising right wing youths in the same manner that SIMI and IM have been radicalised,” Chidambaram said. He was speaking after releasing the book Indian Mujahideen: The Enemy Within, written by Shishir Gupta, Editor, Express News Service, The Indian Express.
Rebutting the assertion of senior BJP leader Arun Jaitley, who, in his speech at the launch, said the US had not witnessed a single terrorist attack since 9/11, Chidambaram said it was factually wrong to say so. “It is a documented fact... The Fort Hood shooting was a terror attack in which a radicalised person killed 13 people,” he said.
Referring to right-wing terror, Chidambaram said, “Actually, we do not have one enemy within today, we have two enemies within and hope there will not be a third or a fourth or fifth. While the security establishment must treat it as a security issue, must build capacity, must improve its intelligence-gathering capacity and must deal with these groups fearlessly and sternly, the rest of us, who are now popularly called civil society, must deal with the causes of provocation which gives rise to enemies within.”
He said the civil society owes an obligation to address reasons that give rise to young men getting radicalised.
He said Internet was being used to radicalise youths. “That’s because of mobility, the use of communication. The use of travel, above all, is a completely new phenomenon. Radicalisation no longer takes place face to face. Most terrorists today are radicalised through Internet. There are any number of recent examples where a terrorist has been radicalised through Internet,” he said.
Earlier, Jaitley stressed on the need for political will and effective mechanism to deal with the challenges posed by several enemy groups acting outside and within the country.
इंडियन एक्सप्रेस, दिल्ली संस्करण, 4-8-2011
इंडियन एक्सप्रेस, दिल्ली संस्करण, 4-8-2011
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