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| ISI pumps more ammo to ULFA |
| 2008-02-14 |
| Pakistan-based Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) has recently supplied a huge cache of explosives and weapons to United Liberation Front of Asom (ULFA) and other terror outfits to pep up their dwindling morale, suggest communication intercepts with Indian intelligence agencies. These agencies have warned the Centre that this was the part of a plan to trigger major trouble in North-Eastern States where interlinking of various outfits and logistic support by the ISI to the local groups are established facts. The intercepts suggest that the insurgent groups operating out of Bangladesh and supported by the ISI have recently received 100 tonnes of explosives and five lakh rounds of small and medium sized ammunition. The ship carrying mandated consignment of shoes, belts and other normal ordnance was sent by the Pakistan Ordnance Factory to Dhaka in a vessel registered in the Caribbean. The ship was apprehended in September last around Colombo port by the Sri Lankan authorities during routine security checks. However, after the intervention by the Pakistan Ambassador to Sri Lanka, the authorities allowed the arms and ammunition to be transferred to a Dhaka-bound Chinese ship. "But strangely, instead of going to Dhaka it anchored at Chittagong, which is the hub of IIGs in Bangladesh,'' a senior intelligence official said. The consignment included TNT, RDX and plastic explosives apart from AK series weaponry and grenades. Such explosives and weaponry have been widely used by the terror outfits across the country, especially in the trouble-torn North-East States. The consignment was reportedly received by organisations like the ULFA, the NDFB, the NSCN (IM) and the PLA. The consignment is being used to bolster the weakening capability of the ULFA and other such insurgent outfits operating in the region. The same route has been used by the ISI to smuggle fake Indian currency notes to India in high volumes, the official added. The North-East region, according to the intelligence agencies, remains a disturbed and sensitive area with a high degree of militant violence reported in Assam, Manipur and Nagaland last year, with the direct ISI support. Lethality of ULFA violence in Assam has increased manifold with the killing of about 200 persons in about as many incidents in 2007. The outfit was responsible for three forth of the total killings by the insurgents and 50 per cent of the total incidents in the State. The situation in Manipur remains most difficult with the continued rivalry between Naga and Meitei outfits accounting for more than 35 per cent of the total violence and 30 per cent of the killings. Likewise, the struggle for supremacy and area dominance between various underground factions of the Naga outfits have kept Nagaland on the boil. According to the intelligence officials, all these insurgent groups are benefiting from the funds and weaponry supplied by the ISI. |
| Posted by:John Frum |
| #3 India potted 3 ULFA gunnies the other day... |
| Posted by: Seafarious 2008-02-14 15:55 |
| #2 Hey, I didn't get my latte with the ammo. |
| Posted by: JohnQC 2008-02-14 15:46 |
| #1 India will nuke your waki paki asses as the west cheers. |
| Posted by: wxjames 2008-02-14 15:12 |