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Frank Hyland & Animesh Roul Archives

Jaipur Bombings - A Wake-Up Call for India

By Frank Hyland & Animesh Roul

This column is another in the ongoing series on the terrorist threat to India and the surrounding region by Frank Hyland and Animesh Roul. The near-simultaneous terrorist bombings in the “Pink City” of Jaipur, India, on May 13th - numbering...

Jaish-e-Mohammed: Prophet’s Army is Down but Certainly Not Out

By Frank Hyland & Animesh Roul

This column is another in the ongoing series on the terrorist threat to India and the surrounding region by Frank Hyland and Animesh Roul. Following severe setbacks in Jammu and Kashmir (J&K) in 2007 at the hands of security forces,...

India Reaches Out

By Frank Hyland & Animesh Roul

This column is another in the ongoing series on the terrorist threat to India and the surrounding region by Frank Hyland and Animesh Roul. Realizing the benefits that accrue to nations that operate within a large, active international “web” of...

India: Resurgent Babbar Khalsa International

By Frank Hyland & Animesh Roul

This column is another in the ongoing series on the terrorist threat to India and the surrounding region by Frank Hyland and Animesh Roul. The number of terrorist groups in the world that can claim to have killed more than...

CPI-Maoist: The Threat from Left-Wing Extremists

By Frank Hyland & Animesh Roul

This column is another in the ongoing series on the terrorist threat to India and the surrounding region by Frank Hyland and Animesh Roul. Discussion of the terrorist threat in India’s troubled eastern region would not be complete without including...

India: The Threat in the Northeast - Part II

By Frank Hyland & Animesh Roul

This column is another in the ongoing series on the terrorist threat to India and the surrounding region by Frank Hyland and Animesh Roul. All seven of India’s northeastern states have been plagued by militancy, with the states of...

India - The Threat in The Northeast

By Frank Hyland & Animesh Roul

This column is another in the series on India, with a focus on the threat in the Northeast area. As is true in other nations elsewhere in the world, a number of the terrorist groups extant in India have...

Hizb-ul-Mujahideen: Reaching Beyond Kashmir

By Frank Hyland & Animesh Roul

This column is another in the ongoing series on the terrorist threat to India and the surrounding region. Hizb-ul -Mujahideen (HM or the party of freedom fighters), considered to be the “mother” of Kashmir militancy, is spreading its tentacles beyond...

India - The Melting Pot Simmers

By Frank Hyland & Animesh Roul

The single most important job we have as Intelligence Officers is to alert policymakers to impending crises. CT experience makes one a firm believer in and proponent of The Casey Stengel Theory of International Terrorism. Casey (and others) is reported...