MH370: India’s intelligence challenge

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Amidst all the talk about the missing Malaysian Airlines MH370 flight being hijacked for a possible September 11-style attack on an Indian city, it is necessary to look at the state of our security preparedness and whether India has adequate air defences to deal with such an aerial attack.

Since the 2008 Mumbai attacks, a number of internal intelligence reports have mentioned the possibility of the next terror attack being from the skies. Corroborating these was the 2012 interrogation of the arrested Lashkar-e-Taiba operative and Mumbai attacks mastermind, Abu Jundal, which pointed out that terrorists were looking at using paragliders to carry out suicide attacks targeting vital installations on the Western seaboard – including our nuclear installations.

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