[VARIOUS THREADS MERGED]Al-Qaeda in India

[nikhil25]

Re: [VARIOUS THREADS MERGED]Al-Qaeda in India

@ravage

the counter to that is that its only a matter of time till more of the same emerge. there werent any “pakistani” suicide bombers so far, until these recent london pakistani origin folks. turns out one of the london bombers is indian origin.

likewise, there arent that many Pakistani grade A Al-Qaeda operatives either. One proper Al Qaeda operative is pretty significant in my book.

again, a couple (literally) of indian-origin muslims being alQaeda members doesn’t mean anything. the point is that there is no system, educational or otherwise, in place that will breed or attract al Qaeda style terrorists, despite having an equal Muslim population to Pakistan - and thus, you don’t see any real connection between Indians and al Qaeda.

the contrast is that in Pakistan, there is a strong madrassah system, state-backed breeding of terrorists (still active in some areas), hundreds (more likely thousands) of foreign al Qaeda agents enjoying safe haven, and a populist support (implicit or otherwise) of al Qaeda.

the environments are totally different. Extremists go to Pakistan for the Jihadi diplomas…this is very different from a few Indian-born guys who end up as al-Qaeda agents.

i havent read about them, but i would bet that the Indian al-Qaeda guys left India long back and received “training” in some other country. their connection with India is minimal.