Thursday, December 4, 2008

Mumbai Terror Lashkar? A Way To Produce Its Undeniable Evidence

There is absolutely no doubt that some powerful terror groups behind the Mumbai terror attack. The media reports Laskar-e- Toiba is the main suspect its main evidence comes from the captured terrorist’s (Ajmal Kasam) reported confession to the police! However the “confessions” can not be considered as enough or undeniable evidence to arrest and expatriate the alleged person unless there is some concrete collaborative evidence to place it before the impartial (international) court of Justice!

So the main question is; do the intelligence agencies have any other concrete evidences in the form of recorded document signed by any of those known (or unknown) terror leaders ordering this attack? Of course it is unwise to expect such recorded documents of terror attacks. However believe it or not, today there are IT technologies widely available that can keep the physical record of every bank money transactions along with the biometric identity (fingerprints) of the persons who conducting any money transaction WHETHER THEY LIKE IT OR NOT! These IT technologies can be used to track down, arrest and convict the people engaged in money laundering or the illicit money transaction the main source of terrorist finance.


Let me present the two extraordinary anticorruption/antiterrorism IT solutions, which in my opinion can enable the Governments to concretely or physically track down, identify and capture the main culprits behind the terrorist finance. The first one is ‘to Make Biometric Identity (mainly fingerprint) Mandatory or Compulsory In All Bank Accounts’ I name it as; Mandatory Biometric Identity (MBID). The second one is to ‘conduct all money transaction above a given amount only by the electronic money transaction through ones bank to the others bank account named Mandatory Electronic Money Transaction (MEMT). For more details search “IT To Root-Out Corruption”.

Among the two, the first “MBID in all bank account” is primarily important. It also very much feasible, more easier and less expensive compared to many other antiterrorism measures that exists or being proposed today. Under the MBID in all bank account policy regulations, no large sums of cash money allowed to get transported or handed over to one to another except it is done through ones bank to the others bank account. This monetary regulation said be already in place in many countries. What’s more in the MBID policy is buying of important security matters like credit cards, phones, weapons, drugs etc, should be included it. The MBID in all bank account policy alone can significantly prevent the money laundering which is the main source of terrorist finance and the logistics intricately linked with it! If the MBID gets implemented first then the MEMT will inevitably follow sooner or latter.

The terrorist leaders, its top brass, organizations, at one stage or the other stage of their money transaction needs to have one or several bank accounts to deposit/withdraw its money, to send it to different terror locations buy weapons and other logistic to support the terror attack. We know today with the help of advance IT technologies the law enforcement agencies able to track down, identify and find from where also from which device the terror email had been sent or the phone number from which the anonymous terror call had been made and its other details. Similarly the MBID technology placed in all bank accounts can enable the law enforcement to detect, identify and track down every one involved in these terror finance and logistics with the individuals undeniable biometric identity fingerprint on it. It can be produced before the court of justice as the undeniable evidence to arrest and convict the main terror culprits. This will undoubtedly stifle down most of the terrorist finance along with it the organized acts of terrorism.
I have given some more details on this matter in my post
http://i-opinion-about.blogspot.com/2008/10/terrorist-strike-marriot-it-to-root-out.html.

Above all terrorism today is a Global phenomenon. So much so when it comes to international “money laundering” the main source of terrorist finance. Among others the illegal drug trade known to have close links with all of it. Therefore it is mainly the responsibility of worlds leading nations First of all to implement the MBID in all bank accounts in their respective countries to prevent this global terrorism and the rest of the world will follow the lead. What really needed is the “political will” to get it done.
Valerian Texeira.

http://www.anticorruption-it.info
http://i-opinion-about.blogspot.com

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