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10 Local Realities of Terrorist Threats
10 Local Realities of Terrorist Threats
Pages 85-90
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In Punjab, shortly after I took charge as director-general of police, Rajiv Gandhi, our young and dynamic prime minister, told me to take "Black Cats" with me. These are specialized security agents that operate in Delhi.
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In response, the Sikh terrorists struck at easier targets and at targets that people did not expect them to hit, including buses, trains, marketplaces, and places where Hindus congregated for religious purposes, called jaagarans, at night. The terrorists pulled people off of buses and separated the women, whom they did not 86
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Corruption is another closely related problem facing India. A specific case in which terrorism and corruption were linked was the illegal importation of RDX-based explosives,49 facilitated by bribes, and the subsequent detonation of those explosives in attacks on the Air India building in Bombay and the Bombay Stock Exchange.
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What can science and technology do to detect terrorist strikes of this nature? Islamic terrorists succeeded in putting explosives under the last seat of buses and caused enormous damage.
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Perhaps there are innovations that can help in detecting weapons that are used to hijack airplanes. Contraband-detection sensors, personal access control by biometrics, and other innovations mentioned by our U.S.
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