Explosion near Red Fort: At least 9 dead, several injured in blast

@Defc0n @redpanda

One of founders of this forum @Aashish aka PARIKRAMA ( please read Citizen charter - IAF chronicles thread if you don't know him ) met Hellfire and was highly saying about him in this forum..
( Fyi I thought PARIKRAMA was working in South block or something..means Hellfire level was higher than PARIKRAMA himself )

Offcourse his assumptions on Twitter comes from his experience..

He wouldn't let out even the simplest of insider information openly.

Ooh! Interesting! Will go through, thanks for sharing!
 
The scale of this thing is quite extensive. People are being picked up in Southern India as well. I do not know if this article was shared previously. OSINT reporting late night raids in AP.


The National Investigation Agency (NIA) has filed a chargesheet against two terror accused persons – from Andhra Pradesh and Telangana, respectively – in a conspiracy case. The duo was arrested in May this year in a joint operation by the counter intelligence cells and the central agencies.

According to an official release by the NIA, the two accused, identified as Siraj Ur Rahiman of Vizianagaram in Andhra Pradesh and Syed Sameer of Hyderabad in Telangana, were arrested by the Andhra Pradesh police on May 16 and 17 respectively.

Siraj, son of an assistant sub-inspector of police in Vizianagaram, got attracted towards extremist activities and left his job in Hyderabad and returned to Vizianagaram to avoid suspicion. Investigators claimed that Siraj procured explosive materials online and manufactured an improvised explosive device (IED) and conducted a trial of the same in the forest area of Alluri Sitarama Raju district.

In the chargesheet, filed before the NIA Special Court, Visakhapatnam, the investigation agency named them for their involvement in radicalising and preparing gullible youth across India through social media platforms to carry out terrorist attack at various places in the States of A.P. and Telangana and across the country.
 
My take is, Modi does not want this to become and treated as a failure of intelligence on his government.

Finally some one on to the point, Modi may face some political hickups, BJP has to extend the definition of Op Sindoor due to this. But from intelligence point of view, this was a nail on coffin for ISI's big plans, hats off to R&AW and IB, it was race against time proper bollywood style. There are already news coming the ISI's S1 unit was onto it with chemical experts.

Military and Intelligence may have asked the highest leadership for the retaliation, and the signal is red. This is why Hellfire is upset, that's what I believe.

Another point is the trade deal with USA is almost done. Or so the Indian Babus think. A derailment of that will be a major setback for Modi and his business backers. Which is why so much delicate handling.

All that being said, Modi is acting like Manmohan.

One catch, Pakistan may have wanted to sabotage this trade deal with US, who knows? Their all chaplusi and chatukhori with Trump will go in vein if this trade deal is signed.

Bigger challenge is the political fallout and this qurban ali doctrine of Pakistan which seems to have restarted by Pakistan under this Failed Marshal. This is why my first post was about this only.
 
Bigger challenge is the political fallout and this qurban ali doctrine of Pakistan which seems to have restarted by Pakistan under this Failed Marshal. This is why my first post was about this only.
Well, if Field Marshall becomes a dictator, it will make pakistan dangerous in short term but pathetic in long term. if that was even possible... best that can happen for India is an internal red on red civil war in Pakistan's military...
 
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this was a nail on coffin for ISI's big plans, hats off to R&AW and IB, it was race against time proper bollywood style. There are already news coming the ISI's S1 unit was onto it with chemical experts.
Well it's setback for them, but it's not biggest nail in the coffin by any means, no matter how Hard you try you aren't stopping this radical ideology unless you are addressing the root cause, pakistan has money & muscle, you aren't beating them at this who have mastered spreading jihad ideology to various continents be it asia ,europe, Africa,
Training the jihadist in bosnian war, training the terrorists in Nigeria & other part of Africa, creating the taliban & other terrorists factions or be it pakistan terrorists fighting in iraq, Syria, they have connection everywhere, there's a beautiful investigation documentry from DW France which they had to delete later but some YT channel kept it, the documentry shows how the terrorism business runs & spreads it's ideology outside pakistan,

The recent visit of Pakistani isi & LeT & JeM in Bangladesh is no suprise, they want to create another front, Bangladesh india border is porous, also they can easily spread Thier jihad ideology in the States of West Bengal, Assam, Tripura among Indian Bengali Muslims,

This thing can only stop if you take on the main prepeatuors make them feel the heat, which is by the way pakistan army,
 
Well it's setback for them, but it's not biggest nail in the coffin by any means, no matter how Hard you try you aren't stopping this radical ideology unless you are addressing the root cause, pakistan has money & muscle, you aren't beating them at this who have mastered spreading jihad ideology to various continents be it asia ,europe, Africa,
Training the jihadist in bosnian war, training the terrorists in Nigeria & other part of Africa, creating the taliban & other terrorists factions or be it pakistan terrorists fighting in iraq, Syria, they have connection everywhere, there's a beautiful investigation documentry from DW France which they had to delete later but some YT channel kept it, the documentry shows how the terrorism business runs & spreads it's ideology outside pakistan,

The recent visit of Pakistani isi & LeT & JeM in Bangladesh is no suprise, they want to create another front, Bangladesh india border is porous, also they can easily spread Thier jihad ideology in the States of West Bengal, Assam, Tripura among Indian Bengali Muslims,

This thing can only stop if you take on the main prepeatuors make them feel the heat, which is by the way pakistan army,
They will attempt covert terror attacks, but in case of hostilities with BD it won't be enough to save BD from the day of reckoning.
 
@Defc0n @redpanda

One of founders of this forum @Aashish aka PARIKRAMA ( please read Citizen charter - IAF chronicles thread if you don't know him ) met Hellfire and was highly saying about him in this forum..
( Fyi I thought PARIKRAMA was working in South block or something..means Hellfire level was higher than PARIKRAMA himself )

Offcourse his assumptions on Twitter comes from his experience..

He wouldn't let out even the simplest of insider information openly.

I remember those early days, but where on Earth is Parikrama?
 
Simplest Rationale - They know who did it but can not pin it and the without clincher proof, diplomatic fallout is too much to bear. Lack of diplomatic support was a takeway in 1.0 too.

Now if there is a climbdown on IWT, the sab changa si process will be complete. Lets see. Not happy today TBH

@_Anonymous_ your thoughts ?
Plenty of points. In Pahalgam tourists were selected on the basis of religion & shot in cold blood with a message openly challenging Modi . Far too many witnesses , media overdrive , terrorist groups in Paxtan claiming responsibly etc.

This was an accidental discovery . Had the cops in Kashmir not been pro active I don't think we'd have discovered the plot . In all probability we'd have woken up after they went off exacting a very heavy toll.

Which brings me to the crux of the matter. These cells have been accumulating explosives for the past 2 years if not earlier. What was the scene like 2 years ago ? Relations between India & Paxtan was of no peace no war , their relation with Afganistan was frosty , the TTP & Balochi Sarmachars weren't exacting a heavy toll on the PA as they're doing now. The only element worth noting is the presence of Munira as CoAS.

If this guy can cultivate sleeper cells who're instructed to conduct bio / chemical warfare & bomb blasts on an unprecedented scale all I can say is this man is not just a fanatic but someone who's not thought through the consequences of this.

As far as our intelligence goes it's definitely a failure for not having detected the plot all this while . Having said that the agencies certainly moved with alacrity once they did find out to nip the problem in the bud.

Which brings me to the next dimension of this entire drama. Why was news of capture of some members of this cell made public without apprehending all the members or even accounting for all the explosives along with the vehicles which was supposed to carry them ?

The incident in Delhi two nights ago could've been avoided. Was it a goof up or was it deliberate ? Which brings me to the next point. Operation Sindoor is still on going. Why would you persist with a operation , go about on an emergency arms procurement spree , hold all those intensive exercises on the scale we're undertaking them at without any end goal ?

After all this comes at a huge cost to the exchequer , finances we can deploy for more productive ends.

Which brings me to the next point. With the element of surprise gone , you aren't going to catch them with their pants down. The only alternative is for you to tire them out & get them to match your build up which we know they're incapable of . Much like what China's doing to Taiwan in the SCS.

Sooner rather than later complacency sets in . Besides Paxtan is such a happening place , those troops being aggregated here means some other part of Paxtan is thinly guarded leaving that area vulnerable.

Then again what are our goals ? Beginning the surgical strikes till date we've seen incrementalism in our approach. IMO we should see action . Where & when will depend on the nature of evidence we manage to accumulate for if we're going for a high intensity campaign like decapitation strikes you need a very strong case to present the west who even otherwise aren't too well disposed towards you .

And if not decapitation strikes you would definitely see what we ought to have completed in the first place namely the destruction of Paxtan's war machinery targeting the PAF & PN.

In the interim the focus will be on internal clean up & building up a case. I'd like to think we will see various laws being enacted too which the SC can dismiss at their own peril like what do we do to a terrorist nursery like Al Falah set up with foreign funds ?

Ideally we should shut it down without a second thought . However that brings the Milawdas into play who'd strike down such an order. Lots of such gaps need to be filled for the number of such cells we've busted in the past 2 years isn't a joke at all .

Nearly all of them were highly qualified white collar professionals with a very good standard of living courtesy good academic qualifications all of whom were radicalised online or within closed groups. This is a new phenomenon & the numbers are going up .

Lots of other points as well but I'd leave it at this.
 
A video from ANI that details the events so far. It starts from the very beginning and then proceeds to list the events as they took place in a sequence. Not too long and provides a good summary.


DNA Testing results are out and IANS posted this on X.

#BREAKING: The Red Fort blast accused — Dr. Muzammil, Dr. Adeel, Umar, and Shaheen — jointly raised around ₹20 lakh, which was handed to Umar. They procured over 20 quintals of NPK fertilizer worth ₹3 lakh from Gurugram, Nuh, and nearby areas for IED preparation. A DNA test confirmed that Dr. Umar Un Nabi carried out the blast, as his DNA matched a leg recovered from the i20 car. Before the explosion, Umar visited a mosque in Old Delhi for over 10 minutes. The death toll has risen to 12, with 21 samples sent for DNA testing: Sources


 
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Folks... i had a rather.... epiphany. Or very dangerous realization this time around. You see, unlike other times, the explosives and bio-chems used or planned to be used this time around are a bit different.

poison is ricin. You do not need to produce it in factories. it is extracted from castor oil plant seeds.

explosive is ammonium nitrate. this is used for fertilizers and i am sure as hell in india ammonium nitrate is still available chemically or there are factories that can produce it or use it for commercial use.

the second a high explosive used (though not reported clearly) is PETN. Now this is used in medicines for angina. Plus it can be made using food grade components. The only bad thing about PETN is that it is a rather sensistive explosive, even if it is secondary one. meaning... it can go off .... with just simple friction and shock.

So.... now the horrible part. They do not need to bring in any of deadly explosives into India. they only need to radicalize well educated muslims who will then produce all that is needed to carry out terror attack...

The brilliant part is, this approach leaves nothing pointing to Pakistanis. Radicalization and training can happen via even internet and phone. And occassional visits to third countries like Turley and UAE or Saudi or similar. For transfer of all know how.

Not to mention these people (radicalized muslim doctors etc) are upper middle class... so they are well off and respected enough that they will not raise any flags if they are going abroad.

Since no material crosses, nothing is there to trace....

There is a reason why India is on slight back foot. We have no hard evidence to share unless we get real intercepts of communication or something like that.
 
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Apparently they were also planning to do a big attack on Red Fort on Republic day next year. So this blast probably was done in haste because most of them got caught.
 
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