9/11 Anniversary

9/11 Anniversary

11 September marks the 10th anniversary of terrorist attacks on World Trade Center and Pentagon headquarters in the United States. This is the solemn occasion to take stock of what the governments must do to ensure that their respective countries never experience another such terrorist attack. Unoubtedly, the United States is safer than it was on September 10, 2001—at least 40 terror plots against the U.S. have been foiled since 9/11—but the war on terrorism still continues. It is heartening to see that so many plots have been foiled, their number also points to the magnitude of the ongoing threat that must not be ignored

However, India continues to be the worst victim of terrorism having suffered extraordinary terror attacks on Indian Parliament in December 2001 and Mumbai attack on 26 November 2008, apart from many incidents of bomb blasts in trains and corwded places in urban areas, latest being the suitcase bomb blast at the gate of Delhi High Court on 7 September 2011. The recurring incidents of terror attack point towards failure of intelligence networks, lack of good governance, absence of inter-sectoral convergence between and amongst different police and security agencies and inadequacy of existing laws in nipping the evil of terrorism in the bud. If no timely measures are taken in plugging the chinks in our security armoury, we are destined to be doomed.