India’s national security adviser has told Gulf Arab and Western states to prepare for a new wave of terrorist attacks on economic targets.
Speaking from a security conference in Bahrain, MK Narayanan said new Al Qaeda training schools along the Afghanistan-Pakistan border were breeding a new generation of terrorists.
India’s national security adviser has told Gulf Arab and Western states to prepare for a new wave of terrorist attacks on economic targets.
Speaking from a security conference in Bahrain, MK Narayanan said new Al Qaeda training schools along the Afghanistan-Pakistan border were breeding a new generation of terrorists.
According to Indian intelligence, recruits from 14 countries are being groomed to target high profile politicians as well as economic infrastructure such as oil pipelines and storage depots, electricity pylons and ocean going tankers.
Speaking from a security conference in Bahrain, MK Narayanan said new Al Qaeda training schools along the Afghanistan-Pakistan border were breeding a new generation of terrorists.
According to Indian intelligence, recruits from 14 countries are being groomed to target high profile politicians as well as economic infrastructure such as oil pipelines and storage depots, electricity pylons and ocean going tankers.
Naryanan said training had become ‘extremely vigorous’ and that Gulf Arab states were highly vulnerable to such threats. Recruits are well-funded, well-armed and being taught ‘asymmetric war techniques’ which focus on a target’s weak spots, he claimed.
