Special: India's porous border, HuJI's lifeline

Published on Thu, May 15, 2008 at 09:28, Updated at Thu, May 15, 2008 in Nation » India section



Tags: Jaipur, Blasts , Guwahati

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INCONVINIENT TRUTH: India-Bangladesh border has been providing militants easy passage into India for a long time.















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Guwahati: With Bangladesh-based terror outfit HuJI under scanner for carrying out the Jaipur blasts, Assam’s porous border has become the focus of intelligence agencies.





Experts say the India-Bangladesh border has been providing militants easy passage into India for a long time. Even the use of bicycle bombs is a terror strategy common to the attacks in the Northeast.





"Through these porous borders, along with illegal Bangladeshis, the Jehadis, the ISI agents and the HuJI terrorists are entering into India. They are roaming in Assam and throughout the country,” says Advisor, AASU, Samujjwal Bhattacharya.





There are at least 30 militant groups in the Northeast. Many reportedly have camps in Bangladesh and the leaders of the United Liberation Front of Assam (ULFA) are allegedly hiding somewhere in Dhaka.





However, these groups often do not share Islamist militancy ideologies.













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