Terror operations can never succeed without the support of a local module. According to Intelligence Bureau officials, there is a need to dig deeper into the role played by such modules.
IB officials told rediff.com that there is a particular manner in which the Inter Service Intelligence activates its local modules while it facilitates an attack on foreign soil. IB sources say that when it comes to setting up modules in India, the recruitment is personally supervised by the ISI.
Of late, the ISI has outsourced a part of this work to the DGFI, the intelligence service of Bangladesh. Once the men in the local Indian network are identified, modules in Pakistan and Bangladesh coordinate with their counterparts in India every time an attack is planned.
The job of the modules is to establish cells which can actually do the ground work for a terror strike. Each module would have at least five cells working under it. These cells are established at various locations in the country but they all report to the same module.
The role of the cell members is well-defined. Apart from spreading the jihadi ideology to youngsters, cell members also help in recruiting men for terror-related operations. The cell members are also entrusted with the job of arranging a safe house for foreign visitors.
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