This is a great article on who could be behind the recent terror in Mumbai. It seems to be about 4 different Islamist groups that are loosely behind the troubles in Kashmir. This part is especially harrowing though:
None of the India-based operatives would most likely know one another, nor for the most part would even meet. Contact with the handler woould always be through a public call center to make it difficult to trace calls. If an operative were picked up by police, there would be no way for him to identify fellow plotters. "It assures total anonymity," Sahni told TIME last year. "The handler is in Bangladesh or Pakistan, and the people here don't know each other. It's the most significant tactical shift in the near past and is a model for international terrorism in the future."
These groups working as a team all from command and control facilities that are fairly anonymous could make ferreting out these terrorist cells pretty difficult. I think this Sahni guy needs to mention that these groups are probably using some anonymous Internet communication as well. That means they might be able to have up to the moment communication that is very hard to track.
The Obama Administration better use some of that technocat power that won them the election to keep tabs on these guys. I think this Indian model could work very well with any US based terrorist groups.
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