
Indian intelligence agencies have uncovered at least 800 terrorist cells in the country operating with 8220;external support,8221; and are now looking for the brains behind them within India, National Security adviser M K Narayanan has said.
8220;We are concerned that there is a great deal of external inspiration and support, we are also concerned and are looking at a mastermind within the country,8221; Narayanan told Singapore8217;s Straits Times in an interview in Kuala Lumpur, when asked about investigations into the blasts that rocked Bangalore and Ahmedabad on consecutive days.
Narayanan said intelligence agents had 8220;disrupted8221; several modules, some of which are 8220;not entirely foreign.8221;
8220;Clearly, there is some kind of organisation. We have to find out if that organisation is localised or there is an external group or module operating,8221; he said without elaborating.
He also expressed concern over the bombing of hospitals by terror outfits in Ahmedabad 8212; the first instance of a hospital being targeted by terrorists in India.
8220;Copycat systems are coming up,8221; he said.
8220;Like putting bombs in vehicles near hospitals soon after blasts, knowing that large congregations will be there and impact will be much greater,8221; Narayanan said.