Intelligence Bureau chief Nehchal Sandhu....... was it a self-defeating remark? Why did he utter this before media?

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India vulnerable to global terrorists: IB

Vishwa Mohan |TNN | Sep 7, 2012, 03.31AM IST 

New Delhi: In an attempt to sensitize top cops of the country about new trends in international terrorism, Intelligence Bureau (IB) chief Nehchal Sandhu on Thursday said the attack on an Israeli diplomat's vehicle in the Delhi earlier this year indicated India's vulnerability to the designs of global terrorists to attack non-Indian targets. 

"The attack on the Israeli vehicle with an innovated IED on February 13 indicates that India will not be spared by international terrorists seeking to attack non-Indian targets on Indian soil. This incident brings to the fore the need to be sensitive to the trends developing in the sphere of international terrorism," Sandhu said, addressing chiefs of state police, paramilitary forces and intelligence agencies during a security meet. 

Use of cyber space by terrorists to radicalize vulnerable youth and to spread "motivated rumours" for creating communal disharmony was also discussed in the meeting. These matters came up in the context of the recent Assam violence, exodus of northeast people from several cities and arrests of over a dozen educated persons, including a DRDO scientist, for plotting terror strikes. 

Setting the tone for the meet, home minister Sushilkumar Shinde pointed to terrorists using internet and social networking sites, taking advantage of the "anonymity that the user acquires in this medium". 

As part of efforts to face these new challenges, Shinde told top cops that the ministry had constituted a nine-member standing committee of director generals of police, headed by the IB chief, to suggest "best practices and SOPs for any aspect of police operations and also recommend assessments on any issue of national security". 

The minister, however, preferred not to mention the controversial anti-terror body, NCTC — in contrast to his predecessor P Chidambaram who not only conceived the body but also pitched for it as an instrument to deal with terrorism...............http://epaper.timesofindia.com/Repository/ml.asp?Ref=Q0FQLzIwMTIvMDkvMDcjQXIwMjMwMQ==&Mode=Gif&Locale=english-skin-custom