Terrorists thinking about Bangalore IT companies?
This came across my desk this morning:
From EE Times:
India software firms on terrorist radar
BANGALORE, India — Police in India’s capital New Delhi who shot and killed three terrorists on Saturday night said that some of Bangalore’s software firms had been targeted by the slain terrorists.
According to a top police officer in New Delhi on Sunday, the terrorists had visited Bangalore in December and surveyed the locations of many software firms here. The police gathered this information from a diary seized from two captured associates of the slain terrorists. A military training academy was also a target, police said.
From Computerworld:
Documents seized from three members of the Lashkar-e-Toiba (LeT) terrorist group killed in an encounter with police on Saturday revealed that they planned to carry out suicide attacks on software companies in Bangalore, Karnal Singh, joint commissioner of police in Delhi, told reporters.
Items recovered during the capture include: maps of call centers in Bangalore, 100 kilos of dynamite, 10.5 kilos of RDX explosive, 450 detonators, three AK-56 rifles and a satellite phone.
It’s interesting to compare news coverage for this story. I don’t think it made it at all into the SJ Mercury News this morning. The US technology trade press ran this with a focus on outsourcing and IT operations in Bangalore, while the Indian news articles seem to mostly focus on the ongoing problems with domestic terrorism by the Lashkar-e-Toiba organization.
More at ExpressIndia, sify.com, and Times of India.
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