JeM stamp on Red Fort attack? Terror group’s tactics of homegrown fidayeen, radicalisation in Kashmir

The National Investigation Agency (NIA) has described the Red Fort terror attack as the handiwork of a ‘suicide’ bomber who conspired with the Kashmir valley-based associates to assemble a vehicle-borne Improvised Explosive Device (IED) designed to cause maximum damage and claim lives.

The NIA’s first arrest- Amir Rashid Ali, in whose name the car involved in the attack was registered- hails from Pampore in Jammu and Kashmir. He came to Delhi to facilitate the purchase of the car that was ultimately turned into an IED and detonated by the alleged suicide bomber Umar Un Nabi.

The return of a homegrown fidayeen module to carry out the IED attack points towards at least two new patterns in the changing terror landscape of Jammu and Kashmir. Cross-border terror outfits like the Jaish-e-Moh