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Bahrain, Dec 11: Indian national security adviser M K Narayanan has warned Gulf Arab and Western states to prepare for a new wave of terrorist attacks on soft economic targets by highly motivated terrorists trained in camps along Pakistan border with Afghanistan.

Speaking at a security conference in Manama, Bahrain, he said new al Qaeda training schools along the Afghanistan-Pakistan border were breeding a new generation of terrorists.
 
According to Indian intelligence, recruits from 14 countries were being groomed to target high-profile politicians as well as economic infrastructure such as oil pipelines and storage depots, electricity pylons and ocean-going tankers, a local news website reported.

Narayanan said training had become "extremely vigorous" and Gulf Arab states were highly vulnerable to such threats.

Recruits were well-funded, well-armed and being taught "asymmetric war techniques" which focus on a target's weak spots, he claimed.