U Sudhakar Reddy Maoists are adopting the strategy of international terror organisations like Al Qaeda by video shooting their attacks on security forces and distributing them to their party cadres.Video clips said to be of the attack on a base camp in Chhattisgarh were sent to TV channels in the state on Sunday. In the video, the armed Naxals are seen crawling under police vehicles and planting explosives, and later the explosion ripping the vehicle apart. There are also shots of Maoists attacking the camps and the ensuing gunbattle. The video features Tipparti Tirupati, alias Devaji, the top Maoist specialist in military affairs, who participated in the recent Dantewada massacre. Intelligence sleuths who analysed the video clips believe they relate to the Maoists attack on a Salwa Judum base camp in Chhattisgarh and may not be related to the Dantewada massacre as they initially believed.A senior police official said that a similar video had surfaced earlier of a July 2009 attack in which 30 police personnel including a superintendent of police of Rajnandgaon district in Chhattisgarh, Vinod Kumar Choubey, was killed.Experts say that the Maoists may be trying to boost the morale of their cadres in the state by showing visuals of the attacks, a strategy adopted by other terror groups. Al Qaeda has released videos of their operatives blowing up United States tanks, said a police official. It is also part of the propaganda war of the Maoists where training visuals and actual attack shots are mixed, say police officers with experience of Naxal methods.
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