Thursday, December 11, 2008

Terror orgs and Finance-Connection

The Big Bang happened on 9/11/01, when 19 al-Qaida affiliated Islamic terrorists hijacked 4 commercial airliners. The story is well known: we witnessed an event, which was been until then considered “Unbelievable”. Three years later was the turn of Madrid and in 2005 London. This year the “Intercontinental Terror & Co. Inc“ thought well to target an Asian Country: India. Even on this occasion the strategists of terror based their plan exploiting a crucial factor: the timing.
Unlike the other elements (logistic, choice of the targets etc) a right timing can produce the greatest damage on a global level, causing indirect effects on a large scale.
To be mainly affected by the shock wave caused by such “terror attacks of the new generation”, -apart of the loss the lives- is the financial economy.
Since September 2001 a general climate of insecurity is gripping the financial markets, several long term investments have been frozen or diverted, the map of places where to invest has undergone significant changes. This of course facilitates the growth of wide ranged speculations, and it is in this area that terror orgs´ managers are able to interact effectively. Masking themselves behind the appearance of fervent religious observant, these “characters” in reality devote their attention to the evolution of financial markets
analysing the possible reactions to a given event in a certain place at any given circumstances. Examining the latest series of attacks, we may deduce that the primary objective of al-Qaida is to undermine relations between two countries, India and Pakistan. India is undergoing a fast economic growth while the second is on the way to inclusion in various sectors of the global economy. The theatre is Asia, a Continent where political and economical divergences could have unpredictable repercussions worldwide. A scenario that al Qaida & Co has already provided and will not hesitate to take once more advantage of its effects in order to finance future terror projects.
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Sunday, November 30, 2008

Mumbai, the Day after the hell. Who is behind that?

The day after India`s longest nightmare, still is not known which terror organization is responsible for the series of attacks carried out in Mumbai, a masterminded action that has transformed the heart of the Indian metropolis into a fire ball for 60 hours, leaving some 200 victims and over 350 injured
Heavy armament, grenades and a full-calculated tactic have allowed the terror commando (consisting of only 10 men) to launch the series of attacks with bestial savagery.
Initially it was thought to suspect of "Deccan Mujahideen", which would have issued a series of emails about one hour after the start of attacks.
The existence of "Deccan Mujahideen" is not never been confirmed, although it is not to rule out a link with the "Indian Mujahideen", authors of previous attacks in Uttar Pradesh (23.11.2007-serial blasts) Jaipur (13.05.2008-bombings) Bangalore (25.07.2008-serial blasts) Ahmedabad (26 July 2008-serial blasts) and Dehli (13 September 2008-serial blasts).
Formed back in 1977 under the name "SIMI" (Student`s Islamic Movement of India) "Indian Mujahideen" is an Islamic-radical terror organization, with strongly anti-Western believe.
Deeply influenced by the al-Qaida philosophy (to note that Osama Bin Laden is considered by ?IM" the highest expression of Mujahid). Is very likely that "SIMI" changed its name in "IM" when the Indian Government banned it for the third time, on 8 February 2006.
Strangely, the collision of "IM" with al-Qaida seems to have never been taken seriously into account by the officials of the Indian Ministry of Security.
The only terrorist arrested claimed to belong to another organization, the Pakistani-based -but in 1991 in Afghanistan founded- "Lashkar-e-Taiba", which entirely denied to be connected to the attacks in Mumbai.
"Lashkar-e-Taiba" runs numerous terror-training camps (which are also used by members of al-Qaida) and is among the most active terror organizations in South-Asia.
"Lashkar-e-Taiba" draws financial support from various factions of the International Muslim community, mostly from NGOs that hide their terrorist activities under the guise of charity.
Led by Hafiz Muhammad Saeed, this organization is characterized by a deep anti-Semitic and anti-Western thought and is strongly linked with al-Qaida.
Looking at the dynamism with which were made the Mumbai`s attacks and nature of the targets, is to exclude a priori that it was the work of low-ranking terrorists. According to sources in the Indian Ministry for Security, the terror-commando`s plan was just to cause maximum damage (arms and ammunition brought in by the terrorists were enough to kill around 5,000 people) and return with hostages protecting themselves.
A terror-group consisting of only 10 men, full-trained and perfectely armed to carry out a massacre that probably took months to be refined. A tactical plan that bring out how a relative small terror commando can paralize a 16 million people metropolis for 3 days.
The aim of the investigators should now be to investigate how deep al-Qaida & Co are able to infiltrate and tap the resources with which to plan their bestial terror attacks.
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