‘Underwear bomber’ gets attention
The failed airline bombing in the United States in 2009 involving an AQAP bomber, Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, drew the keen attention of the Indian security establishment on Friday as the US homeland department introduced its new homeland security practices to India. The first of its kind terror threat posed by the “underwear bomber’’ on a US-bound flight on Christmas Day in 2009 not only set the alarm bells ringing, but has added a new dimension to the US homeland security apparatus which was displayed during the meetings between the US deputy secretary for homeland security Jane Lute and Union Home secretary R.K. Singh on Friday.
The American security officials shared with their Indian counterparts the move to set up a new office which deals only with the private sector in the US for collaborative security practices with the non-governmanetal sector. Part of the US delegation was a joint director-level officer who represented this office and outlined the fresh steps being taken in the US to comprehensivly deal with the private sector for homeland security collaboration, senior government officials said.
The idea has been taken note of by the Indian delegation led by the Union home secretary.
The government is mulling to incorporate the practices in the US to work more closely with the private sector on national security concerns. Indian authorities are also believed to have shared their wish list of high tech equipments like scanning machines for airport among others with the US authorities.
Amidst concerns of terror financing, the United States also shared its stringent practices to tackle fake currency where every seized fake currency is photographed and archived by the United States authorities.
The FICN menace has been dominating India’s security concerns for long.
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