16 Aug 2004

Maldives Unrest: Security Implications For India
Institute For Topical Studies, Chennai, India
Supplied note: "The latest paper of the Institute For Topical Studies, A-2/3, Bharathi Dasan Colony, K.K.Nagar, Chennai---600078, India, on the above subject is now available at the web site of the South Asia Analysis Group (SAAG), New Delhi, at [the URL below] - br."
[Extract: "The Maldives, which receives every year a large number of tourists from West Europe (particularly Italy and France), Japan and elsewhere, provides a tempting soft target for a Bali-type terrorist strike as well as for acts of maritime terrorism such as hostage-taking. Normally, a terrorist group considers a foreign territory for a possible terrorist strike only if it has some local support. The fact that KSM [Khalid Sheikh Muhammad, the supposed masterbrain of the 9/11 terrorist strikes - ed.] suggested the Maldives for a possible future operation indicates the likelihood of a sleeper cell there [...]." - b.raman]
[The author of the paper, Mr B. Raman, is Additional Secretary (retd), Cabinet Secretariat, Govt. of India, and, presently, Director, Institute For Topical Studies, Chennai, and Distinguished Fellow and Convenor, Observer Research Foundation (ORF), Chennai Chapter. - ed.]
URL http://www.saag.org/papers11/paper1088.html
Internet Archive (www.archive.org) [the paper was not archived at the time of this abstract. However, in a few weeks time it will be available at web.archive.org/web/*/www.saag.org]
Link reported by: B. Raman (corde[use"@"]vsnl.com)
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