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It is not just Indian agencies and officials who regularly warn the Centre of outlandish terror threats. Foreign agencies, too have a gala time doing it. Especially adept at issuing stupendous terror threats are the American agencies. They regularly pass on information to various Indian agencies about Al-Qaida, LET and even Taliban. Sometimes they are landing by the sea along the Gujarat coast and at other times sneaking in through the Bangladesh border. Till date other than issuing alerts, Indian agencies have never been able to crosscheck any of these threats. The question then is how reliable are the American agencies.
Intelligence is not just about cutting-edge information, it is also about highly polished 360-degree analysis of situation Indian agencies, unfortunately, do not seem to enjoy a very good reputation on this front. In-fact, when Nepal was trudging through the rough ride of Maoist violence and anti-king sentiment Indian agencies were often accused of misreading the-situation, especially because of their biased anti-Maoist perceptions.
But don’t blame all the ills on-the agencies, especially nurturing the art of diary writing, collecting chocolate wrappers and bus tickets from Pakistan. Every time a Pakistan-based terrorist is arrested, investigators recover such items and establish his Pakistani links mostly through these. Officials point out the dated criminal laws and a creaking justified system demand that such evidence be available to establish the credibility of claims about terrorists. Similarly, most terrorists are arrested from crowded places such as bus stops and railway stations. This is not due to a great investigation climaxing in a movie chase. It is just convenient to have proper and a large number of witnesses around.