04-29-2005, 04:07 AM
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin--><b>Ultras in Kashmir running out of fire power: Intelligence</b>
Pramod Kumar Singh / New Delhi
<b>"Hello Alpha-3, it's Victor-3, Hamara bura hal hai, jaldi kuchh hathiyar aur grenades bhejo, hamare pas kuch bhi nahi hai (we are in bad shape, send some weapons and ammunition immediately, we do not have anything)". "Fikra mat karo kuchh na kuchh ho jayega (Do not worry, something will be done)".</b>
This is not the transcript of a police wireless message but an SOS of a LeT militant, holed up somewhere in the Kashmir Valley to his handlers in Pakistan Occupied Kashmir (PoK), requesting for some urgent arms supply.
This is one of the hundreds of messages intercepted by Intelligence agencies a few days back, denoting the acute shortage of fire power with various terrorist outfits active in the Kashmir Valley. Intelligence intercepts in the possession of the Intelligence agencies suggest that at <b>the current rate the ammunition reserve of almost all the militant groups in the Valley will be finished by the end of June.</b>
Intelligence sources said that owing to the intense pressure mounted by the security agencies, terrorist groups such as Hizb-u-Mujahideen (HuM) and Jaish-e-Mohammad (JeM) are harking for arms, ammunition and explosives. While LeT is faced with a shortage of new recruits and weapons, HuM and JeM are waddling owing to the shortage of ammunition and explosives.
LeT and JeM, whose cadres come from Pakistan and Afghanistan, are also battling with a shortage of men apart from ammunition. HuM has some local support in the Valley. But all these groups, which once held sway in Jammu and Kashmir, have been effectively checkmated by security agencies.
<b>The latest attempt by the two LeT militants to launch an attack in the Capital was intended to mark the outfit's presence and lift the sagging morale of its cadres.</b> However, they were stopped in their tracks by the irrepressible Rajbir Singh, the ACP of Delhi Police's anti-terrorist unit, the Special Cell. The group's earlier attempt to attack the Indian Military Academy (IMA) was also foiled by the Special Cell of the Delhi Police in March this year. There are indications that LeT and Al-Badr can try to target the "Durbar Move" from Jammu to Srinagar, the summer capital, just to make their presence felt, Intelligence sources added.
Though the training camps in PoK have not stopped functioning as intercepts emanating from <b>Muzaffarabad indicate that over 400 new recruits are waiting to enter the Valley, three-layer fencing with thermal sensors and the proactive measures by the security forces have made it really bad for the terrorist outfits</b>, a Border Security Force (BSF) personnel posted in the Valley said. Thermal sensors can smell the body heat of infiltrators and then alert the security personnel manning the posts. Their usage has helped in reducing infiltration considerably, the officer added.
However, the agencies are facing some difficulty in mounting technical surveillance of mobile phone conversation of the militants. It has been found that they use a cash card and then discard the number. Prior to the launch of the mobile phone service in the Valley, various security agencies had expressed apprehensions about this factor and it is coming true. It is definitely creating problems <!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->
Pramod Kumar Singh / New Delhi
<b>"Hello Alpha-3, it's Victor-3, Hamara bura hal hai, jaldi kuchh hathiyar aur grenades bhejo, hamare pas kuch bhi nahi hai (we are in bad shape, send some weapons and ammunition immediately, we do not have anything)". "Fikra mat karo kuchh na kuchh ho jayega (Do not worry, something will be done)".</b>
This is not the transcript of a police wireless message but an SOS of a LeT militant, holed up somewhere in the Kashmir Valley to his handlers in Pakistan Occupied Kashmir (PoK), requesting for some urgent arms supply.
This is one of the hundreds of messages intercepted by Intelligence agencies a few days back, denoting the acute shortage of fire power with various terrorist outfits active in the Kashmir Valley. Intelligence intercepts in the possession of the Intelligence agencies suggest that at <b>the current rate the ammunition reserve of almost all the militant groups in the Valley will be finished by the end of June.</b>
Intelligence sources said that owing to the intense pressure mounted by the security agencies, terrorist groups such as Hizb-u-Mujahideen (HuM) and Jaish-e-Mohammad (JeM) are harking for arms, ammunition and explosives. While LeT is faced with a shortage of new recruits and weapons, HuM and JeM are waddling owing to the shortage of ammunition and explosives.
LeT and JeM, whose cadres come from Pakistan and Afghanistan, are also battling with a shortage of men apart from ammunition. HuM has some local support in the Valley. But all these groups, which once held sway in Jammu and Kashmir, have been effectively checkmated by security agencies.
<b>The latest attempt by the two LeT militants to launch an attack in the Capital was intended to mark the outfit's presence and lift the sagging morale of its cadres.</b> However, they were stopped in their tracks by the irrepressible Rajbir Singh, the ACP of Delhi Police's anti-terrorist unit, the Special Cell. The group's earlier attempt to attack the Indian Military Academy (IMA) was also foiled by the Special Cell of the Delhi Police in March this year. There are indications that LeT and Al-Badr can try to target the "Durbar Move" from Jammu to Srinagar, the summer capital, just to make their presence felt, Intelligence sources added.
Though the training camps in PoK have not stopped functioning as intercepts emanating from <b>Muzaffarabad indicate that over 400 new recruits are waiting to enter the Valley, three-layer fencing with thermal sensors and the proactive measures by the security forces have made it really bad for the terrorist outfits</b>, a Border Security Force (BSF) personnel posted in the Valley said. Thermal sensors can smell the body heat of infiltrators and then alert the security personnel manning the posts. Their usage has helped in reducing infiltration considerably, the officer added.
However, the agencies are facing some difficulty in mounting technical surveillance of mobile phone conversation of the militants. It has been found that they use a cash card and then discard the number. Prior to the launch of the mobile phone service in the Valley, various security agencies had expressed apprehensions about this factor and it is coming true. It is definitely creating problems <!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->