Skip to main content

Posts

Showing posts from January 31, 2014

Islamic extremist ideology - SIMI the fountainhead

The First National Investigation Day and First Shri Radha Vinod Raju Memorial Lecture by M K Narayanan, Governor of West Bengal : Topic: National Security - The Expanding Terrorist Dynamic The subject of my Lecture today will be ‘National Security: The Expanding Terrorist Dynamic.’ I have taken the liberty of changing the title of the Lecture from Dimension’ to ‘Dynamic’ given the rapidly evolving nature of terrorism”. Terrorism today is ‘dynamic’ rather than static’, and hence I felt that ‘dynamic’ is more appropriate to describe the phenomenon than ‘dimension.’ The NIA was set up for the reason that existing Agencies were not adequately equipped to investigate such a rapidly changing entity as Organized terrorism or its evolving mutant – leaderless or individual jihad. NIA was constituted by an Act of Parliament, and created as a specialized investigative agency, specifically mandated to investigate and prosecute offences affecting the sovereignty, security and integrity of I