Suicide bomber may target Delhi, cops out on terror hunt

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13 Aug, 2006 0103hrs ISTTIMES NEWS NETWORK

NEW DELHI: Delhi Police raised the city’s security alert several notches higher than ever before with intelligence inputs pointing to a threat of a fidayeen or car bomb attack in the run-up to Independence Day, sending 10,000 personnel on a terror hunt.

Outlining the security threat that the city faced from the most dreaded face of terror - the suicide bomber - Special Commissioner of Police Ajay Chadha said: "We have got a few specific and a number of general intelligence inputs. But the threat is highest of a possible attack from a fidayeen or car bomb."

The involvement of Lashkar-e-Taiba and Jaish-e-Mohammed in the aborted plot to target flights out London’s Heathrow airport has brought the focus on the desperate lengths to which anti-India terror outfits can go, besides highlighting their global reach.

This has forced the police to declare a Code Red and take specific warnings of Indian agencies of terror strikes over the next week with even greater concern. These perceptions have been further buttressed by US advisories of India being targetted by Al Qaida.

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