Cyber cafes turning terror hubs

As terrorists are going hitec and giving advance information about their strike plan using the Internet, the Hyderabad police are seriously planning to formulate rules and regulations for cyber cafes.
Indian Mujahideen, which claimed responsibility for blasts at court complexes in Uttar Pradesh, Jaipur serial blasts and the recent Ahmedabad blasts, had given information about the blasts in explosive e-mails.
To prove the authenticity, the outfit (police suspect that Indian Mujahideen is a new face of SIMI) had sent video footage of an explosive-laden cycle placed in Jaipur. In Uttar Pradesh and Jaipur cases, police were unable to trace the person who had sent the e-mails as the tracking them had led them to unknown servers in France and other countries in Europe.
The e-mail received before the Ahmedabad blasts was traced to an IP address of an American national residing at an apartment in Sanpada, Mumbai. But police officials said that the IP address was hacked for sending the email.
With the terror threat looming large, the Hyderabad police are finally working out plans for putting regulations in place at cyber cafes. Removable drives would not be allowed to use in a cyber cafe and before providing a system, photo identification card will be must. All cyber cafes have to maintain log book with details of customers, sources said.
“In the next few days, the matter will be discussed and regulations will be formulated. The Cyber Crime section of CCS will probably be supervising the implementation part of the regulations,” commissioner of police B Prasada Rao said.
The Andhra Pradesh police have been assisting the Ahmedabad police in the investigation of Saturday’s serial blasts. A city police officer went to Ahmedabad with photographs of the unexploded bomb found at Dilsukhnagar on the day twin blasts rocked the city in August 2007. “The bombs used in Ahmedabad are similar to the one found at Dilsukhnagar and the detonators are also from APEL in Nalgonda,” a police official, who is part of the blasts investigation, said.
Recently, the Uttar Pradesh police had arrested some people at Moghulsarai and seized nearly 7,500 detonators manufactured at AP Explosives Private Limited.
“The detonators sold by APEL are falling into wrong hands after they are sold. Police have to keep a vigil on buyers,” Rao added. A police team has also been despatched to Chennai to gather information about Abdul Gafoor and his terror associates.