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On Lashkar radar: Doon, Woodstock, Defence college too

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Anubhuti Vishnoi

Posted: Nov 05, 2009 at 0907 hrs IST
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New Delhi Two of India’s most prestigious boarding schools — Doon in Dehradun and Woodstock in Mussoorie — and the National Defence College (NDC) in Delhi could be targeted by the Lashkar-e-Toiba, it has emerged from intelligence shared by the FBI following the interrogation of David Coleman Headley and Tahawwur Hussain Rana.

Schoolmates Headley, an American, and Rana, a Pakistan-born Canadian, were arrested by the FBI in Chicago last month on charges of planning major terrorist attacks in India and Denmark.

The Uttarkahand government is learnt to have received information on October 27 about a possible attack on the schools. The state police have since deployed plainclothesmen on the campuses and stationed Quick Reaction Teams of 15-odd men with sophisticated weaponry close by, and are reportedly running background checks on school employees.

The police declined to divulge details of the threat and their response.

But an officer said “there were some unconfirmed and unverified inputs”. “We are not taking them lightly. We are in touch with school authorities,” he said.

The reference to the NDC was made in a conversation Headley and Rana had on September 7, which the FBI recorded. “Headley and Rana discussed Denmark and other targets, including the National Defence College in India... Rana, in fact, used the English word ‘target’ in this discussion,” the FBI informed a Chicago court.

(With PTI)

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Lashkar has prestigious private schools in northern India as targets! by n.r.i.(oz) on 07 Nov 2009

The PERRENIAL problem India faces,is that there are MILLIONS of muslims in India!How many of these muslims are TRULY LOYAL to India?! How many of these are "SLEEPERS" working for Pakistan &the I.S.I? BHAGWAN HELP INDIA!!

Woodstock School Promotes Peace Amongst Religions, Cultures by Rebecca Elmore on 06 Nov 2009

As a graduate of Woodstock School, I can attest to the strength of the curriculum and atmosphere in teaching the universal principles of compassion, brotherhood,and non-violence (ahimsa). This expression of deepest love for all, including one's opponents, includes not only a lack of physical harm to them, but also a lack of hatred or ill-will towards them. Seems like a philosophy that should be encouraged rather than squashed, whether it be via physical or intellectual means. We're all in this together.

Another Beslan in the making thanks to UPA's Votebank politics by Dipak Ghosh on 05 Nov 2009

Congratulations to all those who voted Congress to power. Here is a regime that deliberately flirts with islamistsm water down laws for votebank an now we are on the verge of another major attack.

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