Strike like 9/11 earlier planned against India: ex-RAW official

A decade before 9/11, plans to use aircraft for terror strikes were mooted by a militant group to target India, B Raman, ex-additional secretary in RAW, said. “What was new about the 9/11 strikes was the dramatic manner in which they were executed,” Raman said. In his latest book Terrorism: Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow, he said an arrested Babbar Khalsa terrorist confessed during interrogation that the ISI had asked him to join the Mumbai flying club and to crash his plane on the Bombay High oil platform on a solo flight.