Investigators probing the terror module busted in Karnataka have claimed that the arrested 11 youths were inspired by the contents of an online magazine which glorifies activities of al-Qaeda in Afghanistan.
Sources in a joint team of central security agencies comprising officials of Intelligence Bureau and RAW conducting the probe claimed today that during questioning of the arrested people it has emerged they had been apparently indoctrinated to join the terror module by various inflammatory speeches uploaded on Internet and writings in the magazine of the sleeper cell of Pakistan-based terror outfit Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT).
The arrested include a journalist working with a prominent newspaper in Bangalore and a Junior Research Fellow of premier Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO).
The arrested persons have spoken extensively about an online magazine Inspire linked to al-Qaeda and published from somewhere in Yemen where articles relate towards drawing youth to an “armed war” against Americans, India, Israel and other Western countries who have allied with the US in Afghanistan, the sources said.
The laptop and pen drives seized from the arrested people also showed their extensive visit to websites that spoke about joining of terror modules and how to conduct reconnaissance and surveillance of individuals and important targets.
Among those arrested are Muthi-ur-Rahman Siddiqui, a journalist, Riyaz Ahmed Baihatti, a BCA graduate and salesman, Mohammed Yusuf Nalabund, also a salesman, Aijaz Ahmed Mirza, a software engineer at DRDO, Shoaib Ahmed Mirza alias Chotu, an MCA student, Obeidullah Imran Bahadur alias Sameer alias Imran, Mohammed Sadiq Lashkar alias Raju, Baba alias Mehaboob Bagalkote, Abdulla alias Abdul Hakim Jamadar, Dr Zafar Iqbal Sholapur and Wahid Hussein alias Sahil.
The magazine has been touted by many US think-tanks, as an effective tool of banned al-Qaeda terror group for recruiting youths without getting in physical contact with them.
According to US think-tank Center for Strategic and International Studies, al—Qaeda and its Associated Members (AQAMO) recognised the importance of Information and Communication Technology and has exploited it for training purposes.
It says that the magazine has provided instructions on topics such as “how to make a bomb in the kitchen of your Mom” and how to clean AK-47 besides other traditional propaganda pieces.
Parents and kin of the arrested youth have denied allegations levelled by the police and have also demanded an impartial probe to ascertain the truth.
However, sources privy to the probe claimed that the youths arrested in Bangalore were inspired by the writings of the magazine and had contacted brother of Shahid Bilal, a Hyderabad resident killed in a gun-fight at Karachi in Pakistan.
The sources said that at least four youths had expressed their desire to fight along the al-Qaeda cadres in Afghanistan, a proposal which was turned down by brother of Bilal, who is believed to be holed up in Saudi Arabia.
The youths had told the investigators that they were instructed to carry out some attacks in India before graduating to fight the American troops in Afghanistan, the sources claimed.
Some of the members of this group have been arrested from Maharashtra and Andhra Pradesh as well.
Keywords: Bangalore stadium blast, Indian Mujahideen, LeT, HuJI, al-Qaeda
Lies after lies to justify the framing with the media playing truant.How
long this wicked ways to go?
I have been reading about these news from past three days. There was an outcry from Media and muslim community that innocent youths being dragged into this. Many people alleged police dept of partiality and organized conferences to rescue these youths. Today when police produced the proof, astonishingly there are 'NO' comments on this article and sadly no one appreciated police dept for its presence of mind which foiled another terror attack.. It is vary sad to that all these youths are highly educated but they are to ruin their own nation, their motherland.. Outsiders are not threat to India, threat lies within 'mislead minds' of such youths. So I sincerely urge to all these youths to know the outside world then they will realize how peaceful and secular India is.. All parents must ensure that their children are being not mislead by the perpetrators, otherwise these children will not only ruin their own lives but also they will spoil everything their parents did for them..
Its well cooked.
What happend to Ameer Mohammad and his family? As per "Charged with
terror, damned by aliases" published by The Hindu on Feb 7, 2012.
Mohammad Aamir had just turned 18, when one February day in 1998, he
was ambushed by a police van. A month later, he found himself thrown
against the cold, forbidding walls of a prison cell in the capital's
Tihar jail. The charges were murder, terrorism and waging war against
the nation.Aamir, released in January this year after 14 years, was
named the main accused in 20 low-intensity bomb blasts executed over
10 months — between December 1996 and October 1997 — in Delhi,
Rohtak, Sonepat and Ghaziabad. Aamir has his own questions:
“Madamji,” he asks me, “if at 18, I became a dreaded mastermind with
so many aliases, surely I would have been but a child when I started
out?” And also,“I spent 14 years in jail for allegedly causing five
deaths. What about the policemen who shot dead so many Muslims in
cold blood in Hashimpura and Gujarat?
After destroying their carrier and future court will give verdict after 8 to 10 years that they are innocent and will be set free.
It continues to do so in previous cases like makkah masjid blast etc..
May God protect the innocent citizens.
I'm originally from OOty which has always been a peaceful place from 1960 to 1987 .I left India in 1980 and revisited in 1987.
The first impression at that time was a palpable tension between the local Muslims and Hindu population.Further analysis with long standing family/friend residents lead me to ONE firm conclusion which was that Saudi Arabia was behind all the mischief in Ooty and Mettupalayam.
This development is no surprise to me.
It is shocking to see how foreign elements are able to inflict home
grown Indian new papers. The media houses should take appropriate action
in retaining the faith of people.
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