A blast in Jaipur; Can We Not Leak these from Our Midsts?

Another set of 6 bomb blasts hit India yesterday, killing 80 people, this time in Jaipur, the capital of Rajasthan, India's largest state and a famous stopping point along the Golden Triangle for tourists and jewelry and gem shoppers.

The Dawn had a write-up putting the event in political perspective given other increasing tensions between India and its rival Pakistan in the last several weeks.

I've been to Jaipur several times. II've shopped in Johri bazar where several of blasts occurred yesterday.  I still know people who live in the city. This seems personal in a way to me.

Is there not a way for technology, capitalism or some web-based clearinghouse for leaks and information to make a dent in halting these kinds of senseless tragedies?  Whenever a plan like this gets hashed in a country as populous as India or Pakistan, I always think of how many people must learn about it ahead of time, there must be a dozen people not directly involved in a plot like this who learn or know about it ahead of time. 

Supposing I'm right, and that such community or outsider knowledge exists prior to such events, is there better way to give these people a channel (or an incentive) to leak information before its too late?

Surely some people who learn about these plots have had hesitation or guilt about knowing what acts were about to transpire and if they don't agree with them, they still stay silent for fear of their own lives if they expose acquaintances.  And of course citizens of foreign countries would not trust the CIA or FBI (or in many cases their own police forces) enough to report terrorist plans to those authorities.

Is there not then, a more easily conceived central and international repository on the web for leakers to expose terrorist events anonymously before they happen?  Could Wikileaks serve such a purpose?

Comments

[Kasia]

I applaud you rational and your yearning to utilize the human aspect, but in this instance I believe that your ideas unfortunately succumb to two problems. The first is that of mass mentality, which sadly, I witnessed firsthand today. This is the mentality that if one person is in need and there are many people present or available to provide aid, everyone assumes that someone else is providing said aid. There was an elderly woman today, passed out and slightly delirious with heat exhaustion/stroke on the sidewalk at the bus stop in the financial district of San Francisco, Twenty to thirty people looked at her in her white pants and pink top, and then patiently waited for their bus. I finally spoke with her then hailed her a cab home, per her request. A simple act that no one else had thought to do. Though wikileaks is a wonderful idea, I wonder how many people would succumb to the mass mentality and not speak up simply because they assumed someone else might.
Secondarily, how many of the people in the position to report these actions or plans actually have knowledge of wikileaks or even knowledge of, or access to, the internet? I think that you have touched on something significant with you suggestion of incentive to leak information and am anxious to hear your expansion of that idea.