A drop of blood in the bucket

India had a few successes in its own war on terror this week. On Monday, a top militant in Lashkar-e-Toiba (LeT) was killed. Abu Hamza was believed to be behind several attacks in India.

A suspected top Lashkar-e-Toiba (LeT) militant was killed in an encounter near Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium with a Delhi Police’s special team on Monday around 9.20 pm.

Police believe the militant to be Abu Hamza, said to be the mastermind of several terror attacks in India.

The militant was taken to the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS), where he was declared “brought dead”.

The police also arrested two suspected terrorists from Nizamuddin Railway Station.

LeT has been responsible for many bloody attacks in Kashmir and India, including the one I mentioned in this post.

India apparently prevented planned attacks on film ceremonies by LeT by arresting the two terrorists mentioned above.

The two alleged Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) militants arrested by the Special Cell of the Delhi police at Hazrat Nizamuddin railway station on Monday planned to target Kandla Port, a railway bridge and a market at Ahmedabad besides film awards ceremonies in Mumbai. A huge consignment of arms and explosives and a satellite phone have been recovered from the Ballabhgarh hideout of their Pakistani accomplice who was killed in an encounter with the police outside the Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium in South Delhi on Monday night.

Also this week, India killed a terrorist who was part of a deadly attack in March.

Indian police Tuesday shot dead one of the key conspirators believed to be behind the March twin blasts in the Hindu temple city of Varanasi that claimed 20 lives.

Abu Zubair, belonging to the Harkat-ul-Jehadi-Islamia (HuJI) militant outfit, was shot dead by the police in a gun-battle in India’s northern Jammu and Kashmir state. The militant was confronted by a police team when he was trying to cross to Pakistan at the Line of Control (LoC) - a defacto-border that divides Indian and Pakistan administered parts of Kashmir - from a village in the northern Kupwara district.

“We had a specific input about him at least a month back and we were trailing him ever since. He could have been trying to flee to Pakistan,” senior state police officer K Rajendra was quoted by the PTI news agency as saying.

We don't hear nearly enough about the terrorist threat India faces. Groups based primarily in Pakistan, or which receive support from Pakistan, are active in India and Kashmir, and attacks are steady. India is on the front lines of the war on terror and our ally experiences attacks that would receive wide media coverage if they occurred here.