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[size=24]<b>Alert sounded after reports of LTTE's French connection</b>
Monday July 11 2005 00:00 IST
UNI
KOLKATA: Major security agencies in the country have sounded a red alert, concerned over reports that Maoist groups in Nepal and India have been receiving training from Sri Lanka's LTTE and some French ultras.
These agencies have alerted the Union Home ministry against possible suicide attacks by Maoists in different parts of the country.
“We cannot take these reports of LTTE and French training lightly and we have already sounded the red alert,'' a senior intelligence official said here on Sunday.
The report said LTTE experts had already trained as many as 12 Maoist suicide squads from both Nepal and India. Besides, several batches of Nepalese Maoists had received training from French trainers in Uttaranchal.
“We are yet to ascertain whether the Maoists of Nepal and India had received training from LTTE or French trainers in India or not. But we have positive information about links among the Maoists, their French counterparts and the LTTE,'' the official said.
He said the Maoists were able to establish a network corridor through India between Kathmandu, Jafna, Maharashtra and Bangladesh.
Besides UP, Uttaranchal, Bihar, Madhya Pradesh, Chhattisgarh, Orissa, Andhra Pradesh, Maharashtra, Jharkhand and West Bengal, the Maoists had already set up bases in Karnataka, Tamil Nadu and Kerala.
Moreover, the police had recently recovered some documents relating to the activities of the French Maoists from a hideout in West Bengal.
“These are very serious matters and we have reasons to be worried even if a part of these reports about training turn out to be correct,'' the official said.
He said the most dangerous aspect of present day terrorism was suicide squad and no security agency in the world could evolve a foolproof arrangement to prevent human bombs or suicide missions.
“If the LTTE had trained 20 Maoist suicide squads each comprising 20 members, it would be a great threat to the security of both Nepal and India,'' he said.
The official felt that these suicide squads could pose a serious threat not only to the security installations but also to VVIPs and the VIPs, particularly in those states where the Maoists were active.
He said though the intelligence agencies were yet to receive any concrete evidence about funding for these training programmes, they suspected a portion of such funds were being organised by the international coordination committee of the Maoists, which had its headquarters in Belgium.
The intelligence agencies also suspected that a portion of these arms, ammunition and explosives were being supplied to the ultras in Nepal and India through Bangladesh, where about seven Maoist groups had been operating for quite some time, he added.
<b>Source :Newindpress</b>
Monday July 11 2005 00:00 IST
UNI
KOLKATA: Major security agencies in the country have sounded a red alert, concerned over reports that Maoist groups in Nepal and India have been receiving training from Sri Lanka's LTTE and some French ultras.
These agencies have alerted the Union Home ministry against possible suicide attacks by Maoists in different parts of the country.
“We cannot take these reports of LTTE and French training lightly and we have already sounded the red alert,'' a senior intelligence official said here on Sunday.
The report said LTTE experts had already trained as many as 12 Maoist suicide squads from both Nepal and India. Besides, several batches of Nepalese Maoists had received training from French trainers in Uttaranchal.
“We are yet to ascertain whether the Maoists of Nepal and India had received training from LTTE or French trainers in India or not. But we have positive information about links among the Maoists, their French counterparts and the LTTE,'' the official said.
He said the Maoists were able to establish a network corridor through India between Kathmandu, Jafna, Maharashtra and Bangladesh.
Besides UP, Uttaranchal, Bihar, Madhya Pradesh, Chhattisgarh, Orissa, Andhra Pradesh, Maharashtra, Jharkhand and West Bengal, the Maoists had already set up bases in Karnataka, Tamil Nadu and Kerala.
Moreover, the police had recently recovered some documents relating to the activities of the French Maoists from a hideout in West Bengal.
“These are very serious matters and we have reasons to be worried even if a part of these reports about training turn out to be correct,'' the official said.
He said the most dangerous aspect of present day terrorism was suicide squad and no security agency in the world could evolve a foolproof arrangement to prevent human bombs or suicide missions.
“If the LTTE had trained 20 Maoist suicide squads each comprising 20 members, it would be a great threat to the security of both Nepal and India,'' he said.
The official felt that these suicide squads could pose a serious threat not only to the security installations but also to VVIPs and the VIPs, particularly in those states where the Maoists were active.
He said though the intelligence agencies were yet to receive any concrete evidence about funding for these training programmes, they suspected a portion of such funds were being organised by the international coordination committee of the Maoists, which had its headquarters in Belgium.
The intelligence agencies also suspected that a portion of these arms, ammunition and explosives were being supplied to the ultras in Nepal and India through Bangladesh, where about seven Maoist groups had been operating for quite some time, he added.
<b>Source :Newindpress</b>
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