India Sitting on Terror Precipice

MSN
Mar 28, 2008

India’s fight against terror seems to be reaching nowhere. The arrest of almost the entire leadership of Students Islamic Movement of India (SIMI) from a hideout in Indore on March 27 reveal that a ban on the extremist organization in 2002 has not helped in containing its influence. 
Its runaway chief leader Safdar Nagori and his associates, who had gone underground after the ban, have been masterminding a series of terror attacks across the country, including the 2006 Mumbai blasts that killed 187 people and the twins blasts at Gateway of India and Zaveri Bazar in 2003 that killed 53 people.
 SIMI leadership is found to have close links with the terror group Lashkar-e-Tayyeba.

Police found that the SIMI activists have been plotting to attack the police headquarters in Hyderabad and two key nuclear facilities — the Nuclear Fuel Complex in Hyderabad and the Kaiga nuclear complex at Karwar in Karnataka.

The Uttar Pradesh police have unearthed a plot by terrorists to attack Kashi Vishwanath temple and Gyanwapi mosque.