Shillong: Security forces in the
North-east are on alert after the ULFA threatened to launch
attacks targeting the forces and their installations.
"Our bases have perimeter walls and tiered-security
layers to thwart any possible attack," Eastern Air Command
AOC-in-C Air Marshal KK Nohwar said today.
Stating that 'base defence' was among his top
priorities, Nohwar said, "the region lies close to the
foothills of Himalayas and base defence is of utmost
significance in the region which has a peculiar terrain."
"All our commanders have been briefed to remain
professional and retain combat edge. They have to be
operationally ready at all times," the EAC chief said, adding
the command will induct more assets into this area to warn of
approaching threats.
There are five key air bases in Assam -- Tezpur,
Chabua, Jorhat, Mohanbari and Guwahati.
The ULFA had threatened to strike primarily central
forces, including BSF, Assam Rifles, ITBP, CRPF, CISF, SSB,
Border Roads Organisation.
A spokesman at the BSF Assam-Meghalaya headquarters
said the force was on alert to thwart any attack by militants
on its installations and units. Assam Rifles and CRPF were
also on alert.
Hit hard by the arrest of some of his close aides,
ULFA 'commander-in-chief' Paresh Barua threatened series of
attacks targetting mainly security forces.
PTI
First Published: Thursday, January 07, 2010, 17:26