Sunday, September 14, 2008

Delhi Bomb Blasts 2008


Delhi was hit by a serial bomb blasts on 9/13 when 5 blasts took place in different parts of city. The target areas where prime markets and a public park. The terrorists chose a weekend as the number of people outside in the markets is obviously more on such days. The blasts took place in Karol Bagh, GK M-block market, Central Park in C.P. and Barahkhamba road again in C.P. Around 3o are dead and 100 injured. 3-4 live bombs were found in the following raids. One was found near India gate (which draws huge crowds on weekends during evening hours), Regal Cinema (a popular theater in C.P.) and then one in Central Park. Bomb disposal squads of NSG were in action and detonated all live bombs. A 10 year old balloon seller, who has become prime witness to one of the bombing locations had seen tow men in black clothes, getting down from an auto-rickshaw and putting a black polythene bag in a dustbin. All bombs were put in trash cans at the bombing locations. A terrorist Outfit named Indian Mujaheddin has claimed responsibility in an email which was sent to many media organizations, 5 minutes before the blasts actually took place. The email was traced back to Mumbai.

This whole episode is connected to Bangalore and Ahmedabad blasts which took place earlier this year. The same outfit was behind those blasts. In the email released before Ahmedabad bomb blasts, the group has shown their dirty face and the venom against India and the Hindus in particular.

Abdul Subhan Quereshi, the alleged mastermind behind Delhi bomb blasts as well as Bangalore and Ahmedabad blasts, it the current most wanted man in India. He is still not traceable by police or security agencies and he is continuing to mock security establishments and threatening more bloodshed!
He presents the ugly face of Islamic terrorism, where again and again educated people are surfacing as masterminds and executors of heinous act of slaughter. Such people let me think the strong brain washout centers which the Islamic terrorists are running. How they do it and how long they take to washout an educated civilian before he becomes a hard-core terrorism expert? If they can get an educated person to do such things, how easy it would be for them to do the same to an illiterate fell coming from a village? Again these things throw a challenge to the world as to completely track and destroy every single center and immediately terminate every single human being associated with such centers, where such insane teachings are imparted and people are trained to become beasts who are zombies. We all know how strong the terror network has become and every day, its proved in our face like a slap that they are getting better and more gruesome and obviously we are showing again and again that we are helpless!

Why can't we come up with solutions and master plans for hunting down the terrorists like we come up for city development? Why is it so hard for the central government and state governments to launch an offensive drive country wide against such inhuman bastards? I do understand that terminating the current breed of terrorists won't do good and so some people might question my offensive statements. But at the core of heart, I guess most of us know that offense is the only thing left with us at this hour. This is the reason, I had said in last para that we have to track and demolish every such institution where such immoral and heinous teachings are imparted! Unless and until the source is cut off, we will not be completely safe. The time is ripe for all political parties to come together and join hands so that their state governments can work in tandem with the center in launching a drive which will make sure that Islamic terrorism is eradicated from it's roots. If we don't start it now, we will be too late for sure.

Intelligence Bureau, the Indian Army, RAW, CBI, CID, STF and every police unit of this country has to come together and share information and launch drives if we want to put an end to this fight in our country. Those bloody bastards can't hide in our country unless we let them. We have enough resources to track every damn bastard and show doors to hell. We can do it, all we need is a day when we decide it is time! And I don't know how many more cities we are waiting to blast before we actually do anything? How many more dead bodies?

I was thinking about the steps which we need to take at the earliest. Some of my thoughts are here under:
1. We need to step up security everywhere in our country. The first in these should be more secure checking of every person leaving or entering our borders, which should span our international land borders (esp the Indo-Nepal and Indo-Bangladesh borders), Airports, docks and for sure the entry-exit routes through water (which will include the whole coastal line).
2. We need to install more numbers of high-clarity close circuit cameras at all strategic locations mentioned above and need to have the supporting back-end infrastructure. I am pretty sure our government has enough money to support such installations. If not, cut the fuel bills of the politicians in offices for a week. I am sure, that will bring in so much revenue that it will cover one month bill of such installations and the man-power behind that. (Well, I may be wrong in the estimates, but then this is the initial draft).
3. The next step should be stepped up security at all public places in each and every city. This should include railway stations, bus terminals, multiplexes, theaters (the owners should be responsible for this as a community service effort), shopping malls (again the owners should be responsible), public parks, government offices and buildings.
4. This whole information (the surveillance and other digital information) should be hosted on a distributed network where all government security agencies can have access to without much red-tape. Obviously, we are talking about READ access here and not the write access. The subsequent action by a non-owner of the information has to be shared with the owner. This will make sure that the credit is made to both the owner of information and the information grabber. And secondly, this will make sure an efficient and timely execution.
5. This whole computerized infrastructure will not be hard to build, operate and maintain as we have NIC for our help. They already have offices in every state capital and so building such a network won't be so tough. On a side note, some more jobs will also be created!
6. The next step should be hiring more computer security experts and training officers in cyberspace crimes and computer security. If the terrorists want to use technology as their helping hand, let's tell them who is more of an expert. A team should come up which has all computer experts, who can track information flowing on web, the hosting parties, the emails, the phone calls and related stuff. This organization should be under purview of some central agency (CBI can have a department under them, if they don't have one already). Again the base will be the distributed network where all state agencies are pouring information for one-another.

This will be an example of community effort towards a good cause. A front-end website will be of great use, where the interested citizens and of course the media can keep track of things which are safe to broadcast.

Well this is just an initial draft of a master plan which I have in my mind. I will be brainstorming on more such ideas and ways which we can have in place and which are completely feasible.

Every single citizen of this country has to know that the terrorists are not killing only a single religion when they preach their fabricated statements of hate towards other religion. It's humanity they hate and not non-Islamic religions. And it's all due to some of the insane people who are bringing more people with them and killing them morally before they actually die. We as citizens have to know that we have to cooperate and come together if we want this all to stop. You may never know when you or someone of your family and known ones become a target to their fanaticism.

The bottom line is United we Stand, divided we fall

Rock on and A Wednesday ...

Tuesday, September 02, 2008

Back with a Bang!

Prison Break returned on Fox with its 2 hour special first episode of Season 4 on Fox. Of all the current thrillers going on TV right now, this one is the best in my opinion. Wentworth Miller is as always...tight acting and yes Sarah is back!!! Yippe... Thanks a lot to the writers and producers who got her back. Sarah Wayne Callies is so cute that had she been taken out of the series, half of the excitement for the series would have died down.
Keep Watching ...

Google Chrome


Google launched Beta version of its own web browser named Chrome today. It's available for download and use, currently only for Windows users. They will be unveiling the Mac and Linux versions pretty soon as listed on their website.
Google has announced the launch on Sep 1 on the Official Google Blog. The project is Open-Source and Google has credited Apple's Webkit and Mozilla Firefox for some of the components and ideas. Chrome is based on Google's V8 engine, which is Google's open source JavaScript engine.
They have come up with a comic introduction for the inception and features of Google Chrome, which is worth read! Do read it here for two reasons, you will get to know about the ideas behind the browser, technical as well as non-technical. Then the best thing I liked was the thought and presentation! God, I never had thought that someone will introduce some tech app through a comic. What a brilliant thought it is! Whoever thought of the comic deserves accolades. It keeps you with itself and you keep on reading all pages. I don't remember when was the last time that I was reading about some product's brainchild and technical details. Whew, Well done Google! Another innovative idea, I will say!

Hiccups
I tried to install the browser and it was smooth. A 474 KB exe was downloaded in a snap and installation also was fast like other Google Apps. But, but but the pages failed to load and the browser threw an application error :(


I am gonna reinstall it and try again after some time.
 
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