The
Root
of
Terrorism
Compiled and Edited By
Anand Shankar Pandya
Legal Advisor:
Shri R.V. Bhasin
Advocate, Supreme Court
Published by:
Desh Bachao Sangh (Regd.)
Mumbai
World Should Wake Up To Global Jihad
Introduction
The Mumbai terror attack by
Pakistani Islamic Jihadis, fully trained and equipped
by
What makes this Mumbai terror attack
unique is not only the scale and audacity but also a clear pattern of global Jihadist strategy that has now begun to move into a
different phase altogether. Unfortunately current media thinking remains myopic
and mired in the murky depths of political correctness. What clearly emerges is
the unmistakable goal of Wahabi Islam to establish
Islamic rule over the entire world. This is an approaching global conflict in
which all civilized nations like India, Europe and the US will be pitted
against an uncompromising and violent religion, whose very purpose of existence
is the end of human freedom, peace, security and civilization as perfectly
predicted long back by Hutington in his clash of
civilizations.
How prepared is the world for this
conflict hovering over its head? Do the current leaders of free nations
including
The victims of religious persecution
from all over the world have not only found refuge in
It is clear that Pakistan Jihadies had to retreat from other countries in their
ambition to establish their hegemony there. Hence to regain their lost
prestige, they have changed their track by attacking a soft target like
It is an unquestioned fact of past
and recent history that Muslim countries were the first to attack other nations
like
It is no secret that self generating
and self sustaining Jihadi terrorism has emanated
from radical backward looking Wahhabism and Salafism fed on Saudi money and
What has perhaps escaped the attention
of the world is the fact that Shia Muslim community in
The Famous Maulana Wahidduddin and many other Maulvies
are declaring today that ‘Islam is a religion of peace’ and we are with
At this stage it will not be out of
place to suggest that an international fact finding commission should be
established to place the facts before the world after full unbiased research
which would help truth to prevail and put the guilty in the dock. Ultimately it
comes to the mind that if mankind has to survive, there is no alternative to
the process of “Globalisation of peace” and as the
famous historian Arnold Toynbee said “At this supremely dangerous moment in
history, the only way of salvation for mankind is the Indian way of Ramkrishna, Ashok and Gandhi
which can make it possible for the human race to grow together into a single
family and is the only alternative to destroying ourselves” including Pakistan
and all Muslim countries.
In a distant future, vision
terrorism is a very bitter experience needed for the evolution of the human
soul towards its ultimate destiny of realization of ‘Ahimsa Paramodharma’-
‘Non-violence is the highest form of religions’, after crushing terrorism to
it’s logical conclusion. And when Khalistan
terrorism, Irish international terrorism and LTTE terrorism can be finished,
present terrorism can also be eliminated.
- Anandshankar Pandya
The Mumbai Massacre
Anand Shankar Pandya
We must hang our heads
in shame. A dozen-odd terrorists travelled 500
nautical miles of the Arabian sea from Karachi to Mumbai’s Gateway of India,
landed at Colaba, and humbled the city of 1.3 crore into utter helplessness for over 60 hours. More than
185 civilians and some distinguished IPS Officers and professional security men
had to sacrifice their lives, to redeem the city from the terrorists. If 9/11
was for
So far, terrorists
used to target railway stations, temples, market places, etc. Now, they have
started targetting the higher echelon of the society
- posh areas and five-star hotels. The November 26-27-28 Mumbai attack was one
of the most terrible wars unleashed by Pak-trained terrorists, where AK 47, Grenades, Bombs and explosives, apart
from a satellite phone, had been used. The Mumbai attack plot was planned in
The terrorists came
from
On alighting at Colaba, they branched out into groups of two each and
reached five places - Chatrapathi Shivaji
Railway Station, Taj Hotel, Oberoi
Hotel, Trident Hotel and Nariman House, a building
occupied by Jews. On reaching the targeted places, they started firing
indiscriminately.
Out of the ten terrorists,
nine have been killed by our security forces and one - Ajmal
Amir Kasab, 21 years of
age, has been caught alive. He hails from
Ajmal has revealed the name of his fellow jihadis - all Pakistani citizens - as Abu Ali, Fahad, Omar, Shoaib, Umer, Abu Akasha, Ismail, Abdul Rahman (Bara) and Abdul Rahman (Chhota).
Kasab has also revealed names and addresses of at least
five people from the city who helped the terror operation. Sources said that
help like providing shelter, taking them around and showing places, passing
information on police stations and nakabandhis
were given by these local Muslims. Joint commissioner of police (crime) Rakesh Maria said, "We suspect there could be local
Muslim assistants but it is subject to verification.”
During interrogation, Ajmal Amir Kasab,
told: “There were 24 of us who took one-year training in camps organised by Laskar-e-Taiba (LeT) at Mansera and Muzzarafabad in Punjab
One Abdul Rahman, an ex-soldier popularly called Chacha,
had given them training. The training was divided into seven phases. The first
phase was of ‘very hard physical training’ of three months which included
running 10 to 15 km. The next three months were for marine training like
swimming, surfing, diving and boating in high seas. The rest included arms and
ammunition training, according to Kasab.
After the training was
over, they were sent to Mumbai for a “short internship’’, Kasab
is believed to have told the cops. This was the period when they did the reccee of the city and even went to the five star hotels (Taj and Oberoi), the sources
said.
In this respect, the
Statement (dtd. 27th Nov. 2008) by Shri L.K. Advani, Leader of the
opposition (Lok Sabha), is
noteworthy:
“It is a curious
coincidence that starting with the attack on kar sevaks on board Sabarmati Express
at Godhra on February 26, 2002 almost every major
terror strike in India has happened on the 13th or 26th of the month. This year
alone, the Jaipur blast took place on May 13, Ahmedabad followed on July 26,
It must be noted that
our security agencies claim that there were only ten terrorists out of which
nine have been killed and one caught alive - two each in VT Station, Taj, Oberoi, Trident and Nariman House. If that is so, then who made the bomb blast
in a taxi in Vile Parle, which exploded on the highway? Were there any
terrorist-occupants in the taxi? A restaurant at Colabo
- Leopold Cafe - too was attacked. Were they the same terrorists who attacked Nariman House? Yes, there are conflicting reports about the
number of terrorists. It is suspected that a few terrorists could have escaped,
camouflaged as hostages.
Another important
question is: whether such a large scale operation could have taken place
without the support of the locals. According to the well known newsagency, PTI, underworld don Dawood
Ibrahim’s henchman, suspected to be a Colaba-based businessman, handed over arms and explosives
to Lashkar-e-Toiba militants for carrying out attacks
in Mumbai.
It is also reported
that the terrorists who carried out the 26/11 attack were carrying student
identity cards of colleges from
"The cards were
given to them when they left the training camp in
Afzal Guru of
Terrorists, whether
sponsored by al-Qaeda or its homegrown cohorts must begin to fear the State,
which is not happening today in our country. They must know that for every
innocent life they consume, the
Terrorism routed in minoritysm
Muzaffar Husain
When, on Nov, 26, 2008 Pakistani terrorists
attacked Mumbai, there was a furore all over the
country, and we demanded to know-when will our country be freed of this
scourge? If, when the attack was launched at nine-thirty at night, our airforce had instantly taken to the skies and pulverized
the terrorist camps wherever they were in Pakistan, we woukd
have received the true answer to this question.
Post "9/11" the US did not scream but
called upon the citizens to fight these devils, and the US administration dealt
with the situation with such determination that the terrorists had to hide in
their holes. In Britian too the terrorists were taught
such a lesson that they no longer dare to cast their evil eye on
In our country the inability to stand up
to terrorism is rooted in our "masterly inaction" born of cowardice.
This inaction is our bane.
At the time of the creation of
Had not the constitution of
independent
Those who do not benefit from
the nation's laws would naturally move away from the national mainstream. As a
consequence we do not see the roots of terrorism that lie hidden under
separatism. This separation has many forms in many places. At one place it is Nexalism, at another it is ULFA, at yet another it is SIMI
and Indian Mujahideen. When Religion is the basis of
society Jihad will certainly raise its head. When the Khalistan
movement began to talk of Dharma Yuddha, Indira Gandhi suppressed it ruthlessly. Thus the Khalistan movement came to an end.
In our neighbourhood,
In
In
Has the government of
The Deoband
Madrasa may well be related to the minority
community, still such a serious charge cannot be tolerated. There can be a
Muslim vote bank but not a security bank, so the solution to the problem needs
to rise above vote-politics.
Minoritysm
is an ulcer and foreigners are infiltrating in to the country on the pretext of
putting an ointment on it. The sober response that the people and government of
the country had shown on Nov. 26 is no more in evidence. Now every leader and
every political party is talking of elections. Elections are necessary but
security is vital. If there is no country whom can the government rule? The
greed for power is the root cause of terrorism. We need to burn it with a
strong acid if we want to preserve our Nationhood, our Bharatiyata.
We can ill afford to forget
that the more we indulged in the appeasement of the Muslims during the last 50 years,
the more they moved away from the national mainstream and towards
Break the terrorist
siege of India
Just as the blazing World Trade
Centre in New York came to symbolise of the 9/11
events, television footage of the fire raging in Mumbai's landmark Taj Mahal and Oberoi
hotels has laid bare yet newer face of terror. The multiple, simultaneous
assaults in Mumbai are just the latest example of how the world's largest
democracy has come under siege from terrorist forces. The attacks are also a
bloody reminder to US President-elect Barack Obama that even as he seeks to deal with the scourge of
terrorism having spread deeper and wider.
International terrorism threatens
the very existence of democratic, secular states. Yet the
It will, of course, require a
sustained international campaign to eliminate the forces of jihad that pursue
violence as a sanctified tool of religion and a path to redemption. The
challenge is also broad: the entire expanse from the Middle East to
But as the Mumbai strikes show,
The strikes- the eighth in a spate
if attacks in India in the past five months- were exceptionally brazen and
daring, even when viewed against the high level of terrorism now
tormenting India. Indeed, since
9/11, the world has not witnessed terrorism on this scale or level of
sophistication and coordination. Transnational terrorists, including those tied
to al Qaeda, are waging an open war on India, yet the Indian leadership is
unable to declare a war on terror.
The question India needs to ask
itself is: why has it turned into a laboratory for international terrorists,
who try out new techniques against Indian targets and then perpetrated in the
west include attacks on symbols of state authority, midair bombing of a
commercial jetliner and coordinated strikes on a city transportation system.
Now, jihadists, arriving by boat, have innovatively
carried out a series of horrific assaults in Mumbai that are not only unmatched
in daring, but also set up a model for imitating elsewhere.
What
Combating terror demands at least
four different elements - a well-thought-out strategy, effective state
instruments to implement that strategy, a credible legal framework to speedily
bring terrorists to justice, and unflinching political resolve to stay the
course.
Unlike other important victims of
terror in the world,
Some shocking facts
R.V. Bhasin,
Advocate, Supreme Court
1. There are more than 100 organisations to promote Jihad.
2. Retired Military Officers of
3. Jihadis
and many others numbering about 2 lakh have joined
hands to raise funds for Jihad against Bharat.
4. The intention of the Jihadis is to capture
5. Indian Muslims who are in touch
with Pak ISI are living in Hyderabad, Saharanpur, Azamgarh, Barailey, Muzaffarnagar, Bijnore, Muradabad, Varanasi, Siwan, Patna, Sitamadi,
Katihar, Kishanganj, Gaya, etc.
6. The ISI claims that these Muslims
living in
7. Once Jihad is launched in
8. The ISI has made such a
conspiracy that under no circumstances, the
9. An amount of Rs.600 crores has been set aside by Madrasas,
for promoting Islam.
10. Ten Jihadi
organisations which are active are as under:
1. Harkat-ul-Jihadi
2. Harkat-ul-Mujahideen
3. Sepah-E-Seva
4. Lashkar-E-Jhangavi
5. Lashkar-E-Toiaba
6. Al Badr
7. Jaish-E-Mohamed
8. Tajim-ul-Ikhwan
9. Hijbul Mujahideen
10. Tahariq-ul-Mujahideen
11. The world headquarters of all Jihadi organisations is in
12. There are nearly 125 Jihadi organisations in
13. Pakistan Atomic Council is an
Islamic organisation, whose aim is to bring
14. First, the Indian subcontinent
will be made into an Islamic country, from where the infrastructure to make the
entire world into Islam will be made available.
15. One Shaukat
Usman is in constant touch with Osama Bin Laden. He
has sworn to take back
16. Paresh
Baruah lives in
17. His idea is that in about 50
years we will be ready to achieve our goal. Hindus are cowards. One Muslim can
defeat 10 Hindus. Hindus have no valour. This message
is being given to each and every soldiers and officers of Pak army.
18. The ISI of Pak is not under the
control of Pakistan Government. It is working for the promotion of Islam.
19. Musharraf
had decided to use the ISI as a weapon, and promised them that he will not
interfere in its working.
Why do Muslim Youths Join
the Jihadi Movement?
Dr. K.V. Paliwal
Liberal, secular,
tolerant and peace-loving Hindus, who believe in ‘Vasudhaiva
Kutumbakam’ (the whole world is one family) also
believe that Quran and Hadiths
are not responsible for Islamic terrorism. They also believe and declare that
terrorists have no religion. Gullible Hindus think that the real meaning of
Jihad is ‘to fight against the internal evil forces of oneself’. “Do not attack
anyone, because Allah does not like anyone who first attacks others”.
But this type of
peace-loving verses in the Quran and Hadiths were written when Prophet Mohammed was in
During his life time,
he himself has fought 82 wars, which he termed as jihad, and instructed his
followers to do so. Accordingly, purely by waging war, Muslims have captured 56
countries in the world, by force and violence
Prophet Mohammed said
that the meaning of jihad is holy war, the purpose being destruction of
non-Muslims’ lives, properties and countries, and establishing Islamic regime,
i.e. Darul Islam. A good Muslim is one who undertakes
jihad risking his life and properties and in the process causes shedding of his
and his horse’s blood (Muslim Jeevan 3.4652, pg 1262,
Bhukhari Vol.4, 45, pg.37). A Muslim who dies without undertaking jihad
during his life is a cheat and a worthless Muslim (Dawood,
Vol.2:2496, pg. 693). Jihad is a duty for Muslims. By joining Jihad, Muslims
should kill non-Muslims and become Gazhi or become a
martyr by dying. Benevolent Allah will send both to
When a follower of
Prophet Mohammed questioned how a Man can have sex with 72 girls, Mohammed
replied that he will have the sex-power of 100 men (Unveiling Islam, page 193).
If a Jihadi wills, he can have sex with a girl
through out day and night continuously for 40 years (Ibn
Abi Dunia Bhayat. pg. 46-47).
Apart from girls, handsome boys wearing silk and jewellery,
will also be provided for enjoyment.
There are nearly 2,500
such promises given in Quran and Hadith.
Hadith says, on the day of judgement,
a Jihadi can recommend
The Economic Times,
Prophet Mohammed says
that he has a special place for those who help the Jihadis
by providing money, weapon, hideouts, etc. and Allah will bless them with
special gifts (Majah, page 134, Jihad and Jannat, page 25). This is the reason that terrorists are
receiving help from Muslim traders, officers, politicians, and common Muslims,
and it becomes difficult for the security forces to capture them. But a Hindu
does exactly the opposite. The Government and the so called secularists should
understand this issue well.
Some scholars claim
that the verses relating to Jihad and War was incorporated later by some Muslim
Kings, so that they can expand their Kingdom by violence, killing and looting.
Therefore, Mullahs and Nationalist Muslims should convince the common Muslims
that Jihad is an internal war against the evil habits of oneself. Those Muslims
who do not believe in communal hatred and violence are our brethren. And Islam
too will gain in respect.
Times of
According to a reputed
Muslim scholar, Mufti Ajifur Rahman,
these verses were written when non-Muslims in
Thousands of young
Muslims of various nationalities, of whom many were well educated and belonged
to well to do families, have laid their lives as human bombs or embraced
martyrdom, fighting with the security forces of the ‘infidels’. What the non-Muslim world calls terrorism,
the Muslim world calls ‘Jehad’, holy war.
The foremost questions
are, “What is the purpose of Jehad? Why and how do
young Muslim boys and girls take up these deadly terrorist activities?” The
answer is simple. They are staunch believers in the Quranic
precepts as the words of God and the prophethood of
Mohammad. The Quran enjoins upon its followers to
bring the entire mankind under the Islamic flag. There are hundreds of Ayats in the Quran in support of
this theme and for sanctifying persecution, terrorism and even genocide in
furtherance of Islamisation of the world.
For example, verse 9
of Sura LXI says, “He (God) hath sent his messenger
(Mohammed) with the guidance and the religion of truth that He may make it
conquer of all religions, however much idolaters may be averse”. Verse 5 of Sura IX says, “Then, when the sacred months have passed
slay the idolaters wherever ye find them and take them (captive), besiege the,
and prepare for them each ambush....” The lives of the prophet and the
successive Caliphs bear testimony to the practical application of such verses.
Even an exalted
liberal Muslim scholar, Maulana Azad,
who had presided over the Congress for the longest period (before Partition),
had written in his journal Al-Hilal in September
1912: “It is regrettable that the Muslims have not seen Islam at its zenith. If
they had, they would not be bowing their heads in subjugation to the Hindus”.
He also held that the Muslims were born to rule, not to be ruled. (Ian
Henderson Doughlas in Abul Kalam Azad, pages 140-141).
Following this
ideology, Mohammedan armies established Islamic rule far and wide, in the
Middle-East, West and Central Asia, North Africa, parts of Europe,
Jihad in
A report from
A three day Conference
starting March 5, 2007 in the city of
In the Conference, Dr.
Babu Suseelan, a well-known
Hindu scholar presented the Hindu view point to the Conference delegates
covering
Tracing the history of
Quoting Mr. M.A. Khan of Islamic Watch, Dr. Suseelan said:
"Eleventh century saw the barbaric assault of Sultan Mahmud of Ghazni on
"Sultan Allauddin
Khaliji (1296-1316) attacked Chittor
in the present
"As recently as 1946, the Muslims
slaughtered more than 5,000 Hindus in Kolkata in one
day alone and threatened Hindus at large that this action would be repeated in
all the major Indian cities if Hindus refused to the partitioning of
"But in
"Muslims
ethnically cleansed the entire Hindu-Sikh population from
"
"The slaughter of Hindus in subcontinent
continued and the world remained unperturbed.
In 1990, more than 400,000 Hindus were forcibly driven from the Indian
controlled
There are articles in Koran which enjoin on
Muslims as under: "O Prophet! Make
war against the unbelievers and the hypocrites and be unyielding to them; and
their abode is hell, and evil is the destination." And in 8:12, the Koran
says, "I will cast terror into the hearts of those who disbelieve.
Therefore strike off their heads and strike off every fingertip of
them."
The big question that still remains is:
"Have these Koranic injunctions on Muslims
outlived their utility? Is it not
possible to adequately modify the above religious teachings in Islam so as to
suit the needs of modern civilization," quipped Dr. Suseelan.
The Rising Muslim Population in
In South Asia the number of Muslims at this time
is as under:
It is difficult for a civilized person to
understand the Muslim psyche. Hindus
foolishly thought that by conceding to the demand for
It is a matter of great regret that many Hindu
scholars, particularly the Far Left Liberals in
Why the converts to Islam ultimately end up
being the terrorists ?
Appealing to the top-notch experts on the
counter-terrorism, Dr. Suseelan asked them to ponder
over the question as to why the converts to Islam become violent and fanatic
and kill the innocent people without any remorse. Is there something in their religious
scriptures which motivates them to kill in the name of Allah?
Dhiren Barot, a Hindu convert to Islam, became Al Qaeda's top
operative. His Islamic name is Abu Musa al-Hindi. He
traveled to
Adam Gadahn, an
American, converted to Islam at the age of seventeen rose to the position of
top operative of Al Qaeda operations. In
one of his speeches in 2005, he said:
"We love slitting the throats of Infidels." He invited Americans to convert to Islam
before it is too late. He praised the
attackers of the
Mohammad Ali Jinnah,
the Father of Pakistan, was grand child of a Hindu and very secular at
heart. But when he came in contact with
Imams (Muslim priests), he became a dangerously fanatic Muslim and broke
The current ground situation in the
In February, 2007, the State Assembly of Jammu
and
Hindu leaders
killed in India
The India Government
at this time is so wracked of Islamic rowdies that two days after the Mumbai
bombings in July 2006 - that killed more than 180 people -- the government of
According to Mr. Fitzgerald of the "Jihad
Watch," 60 to 70 million Hindus were killed by Islamic Jihadists
during 1000 years.
(http://www.jihadwatch.org/dhimmiwatch/archives/015399.php#more ).
However, it is a matter of disgrace that no
Hindu leader in
One Muslim scholar Mr.
Tawfik Hamid loudly
declared in the Conference that the militant Islam is a cancerous disease and
has to be eradicated. "We have to
liquidate this mindset, or else it would wipe us out," thundered Mr. Hamid amidst a great ovation.
Jihad against
Observer 15.10.93
A recent
Yet the
In fact, RAW and other
agencies informed the government about this situation early this year. Again in
August, they warned that 700 trained terrorists, including Afghans, had crossed
over with sophisticated arms. They indicated that nothing short of a Blue
Star-type operation would help as the terrorists possessed a network of safe
bunkers. They hinted that after the four-month winter, only a full-fledged war
operation could save the situation.
The terrorism,
according to the
Hinting at Iranian
collaboration, the report says: “Iran has had a special commitment to the
Islamist struggle in Kashmir because the paternal branch of the family of the
Ayatollah Khomeini... has lived in Kashmir since the 19th century... in the
late-80’s, Ayatollah Khomeini still retained some contacts with the main branch
of his Kashmiri family and emotional ties to it.
“... With the
consolidation of the Teheran-led Islamic bloc, the struggle for Kashmir became
a primary strategic consideration and priority for Maj
Gen Hohsin Reza’.... explained: ‘Unity among
The
The report mentions:
“(Among) ISI-trained Kashmiri terrorists... were experts (in) hijacking of
airliners or sophisticated sabotage of national-level installations. Their
presence became known when a bomb exploded in
As per the report, ISI
has a network in the whole of western
The report also
mentions the training imparted to Tamil militants: “In early-August 1992, two
Pakistani operatives where captured in Vijaypur, 30
km from
The Pakistan-backed
Islamic fundamentalists thought out a strategy to exploit the divisive
tendencies of Hindu society and separatist tendencies in peripheral states. The
The
Role of Madrasas
P. Deivamuthu
What is a madarsa? It is an Islamic religious school. Madarsa is an Arabic term. It means 'centre of education'.
This system developed in
The madarsas in
Today, the whole world
is concerned about the growth of Madarsas. For, Madarsas, wherever they are, in
Now the madarsa-linked terrorism has spread everywhere. Madarsas in
It is now an
undisputed fact that many, may be most, madarsas
foster, sustain, motivate, recruit and launch terrorists. Islam is a global
faith. It places faith above nations. There is nothing like a national Islam,
different from the global. Madarsa is about Islam. It
stands for Islam. It cannot teach one Islam in
A top-secret
Intelligence report says that ‘‘there has been a systematic pattern of use of madarsas for shelter/hideouts, cover building,
communication, arms caching recruitment of cadres. It is also clear that madarsas and mosques are being used for inculcation of
fundamentalist Islamic precepts and practices among Muslim children at all
levels. Given that one of the basic tenets of Pan-Islamic revival is the
elevation of individual loyalty from nationhood to religion, this is tantamount
to systematic effort towards subversion of the population.’’
So these apparently
pious centres are really Jihadi
dens which subvert the mind of the pupil against the nation. For, Pan Islam
does not recognise any nation. It recognises
only religious loyalty.
How many madarsas exist in the country? The report cites a recent
survey, which puts the figure at about 32,000, Kerala
leading with a high tally of 9,975. They have over 74,000 teachers and 18.29 lakh students. The numbers are far less in
Where from do these madarsas get their funds? From the Muslim world. Even from
the underworld, the report says.
The report goes on to
record even more startling facts. ‘‘A disconcerting trend which has emerged
during the interrogations of terrorists arrested during counter-terrorist and
counter-espionage operations by security agencies in India in recent times is
the use of madarsas for providing logistic support
for terrorist actions or modules.’’
Says the report,‘‘many madarsas located in
J&K, UP, Delhi, Maharashtra, West Bengal, Andhra
Pradesh, Assam, Bihar, Gujarat etc have been used by terrorists for contact
building, shelters, hideouts, cover-building, motivation, recruitment, storage
of arms, acquiring fake documents.’’ ‘‘This”, the report says, “has been done
with the active connivance of the madarsa officials”.
Several terrorists modules launched from
Obviously these
seemingly pious schools are a great security risk. Even
The funding of Jihadis
The sources that feed
these organizations are much more varied than one might assume. The Saudi
government has admitted to spending more than $87 billion over the last decade
in an effort to spread Wahhabism. This money has been
spent on the creation of Mosques, madrasas, and other
institutions that have constituted the breeding grounds for the foot soldiers
of the global Islamic terrorist movement. Political considerations, and oil,
have prevented
However, the Saudis
are far from the only source of terrorism funding. Funding for terrorist
organizations comes mainly from national governments, including but not limited
to Iran, Saudi Arabia, and a number of other Arab states; charitable
organizations like the Arab League and the International Islamic Relief
Organization; "legitimate" business fronts, such as travel agencies
and cell phone distributors; the exploitation of the unregulated commodities
market and other financial markets; and various forms of international trade
that convert cash into diamonds and gold. Terrorists also generate money from
criminal activities such as extortion, prostitution rings, video pirating, and
drug trafficking.
Linkages between
terror outfits executing bomb blasts across the country and jihadi
cells that have been circulating fake Indian currency notes (FICN) may not be a
secret but its extent has caused concern among the security agencies.
Seizures of huge
amount of FICN worth crores of rupees from agents
working closely with the perpetrators of the twin blasts in
Furthermore, terrorist
organizations have created links with the Russian Mafia, Colombian drug cartel,
and a number of other international criminal organizations. These links of
politics, money, geography, and arms create a mutually beneficial relationship
that allows both the terrorists and the criminal organizations to prosper. Drug
trafficking, an estimated $2 trillion market per year, has become the best
weapon for terrorists. Beyond helping terrorists to finance their wide range of
illegal activities, the drug market has also allowed terrorist organizations to
undermine targeted countries both politically and economically, while at the
same time creating a crisis in the targeted country's public health system.
Furthermore, the illegal drug trade has helped Islamist terrorist organizations
recruit new members by citing drug use as an indication of Western degeneracy,
and a sign that such corrupt societies need to be destroyed.
SIMI factions is running
all-India terror network....
The same kind of bombs were used in
Jaipur and
Josy Joseph, DNA
Credible evidence
linking the May 13 Jaipur blasts and last year’s bomb
attacks in
Based on clear
evidence and other inputs, the investigators are carrying out an intensive
search of jaipur for local SIMI (Students Islamic
Movement of India) sympathisers, who may have escaped
surveillance by intelligence agencies and played a crucial role in carrying out
the serial blasts two weeks ago.
According to
dependable sources, the detonators used in the Jaipur
and
The bombs had a
similar chemical composition - based on ammonium nitrate, the same brand of samay digital clocks, and detonators from the same batch
manufactured in the same factory.
Every terror group,
whether in
From the available
evidence and analysis, the central agencies are now convinced that a local
group, in all possibility former members of SIMI, are behind the blasts across
Several recent blasts
- Mumbai train blasts, Varanasi, Samjhauta
Express, Delhi, Malegaon, Hyderabad, Jaipur - are all yet not solved satisfactorily, and police
claims on culprits are “unreliable”, dependable sources in the security
establishment are now beginning to admit.
SIMI men still out there
Josy Joseph, DNA,
The Indian security
establishment is racing against time to prevent the next terror strike. A
nationwide coordinated effort to trace terror suspects may have resulted in a
few arrests, including that of cleric Mufti Abu Bashir
from Uttar Pradesh, but security agencies believe that he is not the terror
mastermind.
Investigators believe
that several key operatives of the banned Students Islamic Movement of India
(Simi) may be still planning more terror attacks.
“Bashir
may have led the operation (in
Sources say the
Gujarat police’s haste in announcing that Bashir
masterminded the July 26 Ahmedabad serial blasts has
hampered their efforts to get those who plotted the terror attacks as well as
other Simi supporters who were part of the Safdar Nagori faction.
Nagori and about 10 other members of the hardline
Simi faction were arrested in
Many sources in the
security establishment, while attaching credibility to the claims made by the
Gujarat police, say that the real masterminds behind the serial blasts that
have rocked Ahmedabad, Jaipur,
According to the
Intelligence Bureau, there are more than 2000 Simi members, and the
Blood, sweat and anger
The people’s rejection of terrorism is now
far more emphatic
KPS Gill, DNA - 14.07.2006
The Indian political
perspective and agenda on terrorism remain unalterably muddled. For those who
are hoping that the sheer enormity of the Mumbai attacks will shake the
establishment out of its complacence, it is sobering to reflect that an even
larger attack occurred in Mumbai as far back as in 1993; that there have been
thousands of other attacks across the country; that more than 40,000 people
have been killed in J&K alone; and that this is yet to secure even a
minimal political consensus on counter-terrorism legislation and policy.
There is evidence,
however, that the people’s response to terrorism in
The power of public
sentiment and mobilisation is a great force, and in a
democracy it should have found immediate and natural expression in the policies
and practices of the state and of its political leadership. That this has failed
to happen in India is evidence to the utter corruption, immorality and
isolation of the country’s ruling classes, as collusion with terrorist and
extremist groups, apologetics for terrorism, political protection to terrorists
and their front organisations, and electoral
alliances with terrorists and ex-tremists, remain
quotidian facts of the national political culture.
ISI threat to security till 2025: Govt report
Times:of
Despite recent efforts
at peace, there is no change in ISI objectives which incorporate the
“liberation” of Kashmir, revival of militancy in Punjab, use of the Bihar-Nepal
border for smuggling arms, explosives and fake currency, cooperation with Ulfa, control of insurgent networks from
The overview of
internal security challenges in “perspective plan of training in CRPF” provides
a hard-headed analysis of the emerging challenges to the security
establishment. Though many of the threats are not new, the document makes the
point that these are increasingly interlinked and need an equally determined,
well thought out response.
‘Become a holy warrior’: Pak text book
This
is an extract from the OP-Ed Page of Asian Age of 17 Feb 03.
“In
our press two weeks ago came a story on an institution which calls itself the Jamaat-Ud-Dawa and distributes text books to our school
children all over the country. An official in
There
is only one country bordering
Munshi prepared for jihad
while
sitting for Class 10 exams
D.N.A. 20.08.2008
Hammaad Munshi, 18, of Dewsbury was
convicted under
The teenager, whose
grand-father is a leading Islamic scholar, led a double life, obediently
attending lessons by day and surfing jihadist
websites at night.
Prosecutors told the
court Munshi was recruited at 15 by Khan, who offered
to help the teen fulfil his wish to go overseas for
jihad. They said one Internet exchange involved a discussion on how Munshi might smuggle a sword through airport security.
The youngster,
described as part of a “worldwide conspiracy” to “wipe out” non-Muslims,
downloaded detailed instructions about making napalm, other high explosives,
detonators, and grenades, and “how to kill”.
Army chief: 40 jihadi camps in Pak
Says about 800 terrorists currently
Active in J&K
Times of
“The latest assessment
pegs the number of terrorist-training camps still operating across the border
at about 40,” said army chief General Deepak Kapoor,
in an exclusive interview with TOI.
While 20 of these
camps are operational in
Moreover, around 750
to 800 terrorists - 40% of them being of “foreign origin” - are already
“present and active” in J&K, and there is apprehension that terror outfits
will try to ramp up their activities in the runup to
the state assembly polls. “One cannot be complacent as the terrorism network
and infrastructure across the border remains intact and continues to function
as before. The terrorist camps have now been cleverly hidden and are being run
covertly,” said Gen Kapoor.
SIMI terror module of Pune students busted
3 Arrested Youths Lift Lid Off Sleeper Cell
Set Up in 2005
Times of
Mumbai: Three
Students’ Islamic Movement of India (SIMI) activists were arrested recently
from Pune, lifting the lid off a sleeper cell that
was possibly planning another round of terror attacks and swivelling
the spotlight on the emerging IT centre as an indoctrination and training
centre for jihadi elements.
Before Gujarat police
announced cracking the Ahmedabad blasts case on
Saturday, the Anti-Terrorism Squad (ATS) in
In police records, Ayaz and Nadeem were shown as
involved in a fake currency racket while Kazagi was
wanted in an old extortion case. But top sources in the police said
investigations showed they were part of a sleeper cell that was being groomed
from 2005 for another attack.
Kazagi is a third-year student at A K Khan Law College on
the Pune-Sholapur road and has also done a diploma in
human rights laws. Nadeem is a second-year student of
the same institute. The college, managed by the MCE Society, was established in
1991 and offers three-and five-year degree courses.
There were 10 others
in the group, most of them former students of the same law college, who were
being in-doctrinated by one Yusuf
Khan who organised lectures outside the campus. Khan
and these former students, who are from Pune and neighbouring districts, went underground after the Ahmedabad blasts.
The lectures were held
in a little shop outside the college, owned by Ayaz,
who dealt in SIM cards of a prominent mobile service provider. At times, the
lectures would take place in nearby lodges to ward off unwanted attention, said
senior police officers. “Kazagi has confessed that he
attended jihadi lectures outside the college campus since
2005,” said a source.
The ATS and crime
branch in separate operations picked up Ayaz, Nadeem and Kazagi on August 8,
Joint commissioner of police (crime) Rakesh Maria
said the department is trying to put Kazagi through a
narco analysis.
ISI firm on bleeding
Says Pak Intelligence Agency Mentoring LeT, JeM
To Spew Terror At Nation
Times Nation 27.03.2008
“We have seen no
change in the ISI’s attitude to mentor terror groups
like Lashkar and Jaish....
attacks on India from Pakistan’s soil are likely to continue,” said national
security advisor M K Narayanan, while delivering the 25th Air Chief Marshal P C
Lal memorial lecture on Wednesday.
Turning to
Armies of God
There is a worrying growth of jihadi networks within
The Times of
The case of Kafeel Ahmed, the man who drove a burning jeep in a bid to
crash into the main foyer of the
It’s tempting to see
the terror attacks in Ahmedabad and the botched ones
in
One has to look at
Several scholars have
pointed to high unemployment, social frustrations and even communal alienation
as being necessary conditions for communities, in part or whole, getting radicalised. Cultural alienation and language barriers were
until recently seen as factors which led to young men from diasporas in UK and
France turning Jihadi and ready to take up arms for
the cause of restoring Islam to its pristine glory. But these theories can only
partly explain the phenomenon. In
Yet in both these
places, there are large swathes where young Muslim minds are being fed an
ideological diet of hatred. What we failed to realise
is the fertile recruitment ground created by the infiltration of the ideology
of hatred in the form of Wahhabism dished out by
groups such as Ahle Hadees
and the Tablighi Jamaat.
What is this Wahhabism? John Esposito of
Indian security
policymakers have for decades been apathetic to the notion that Islamic
terrorism can spring from the ideological radicalisation
happening in our own cities and towns. Groups preaching this variant were left
to operate freely. That has to stop. Fighting the war against ISI alone won’t
help. The local crucibles where minds are being reshaped have to be crushed as
well.
Terror’s in the air again
The Times of
London: Barely a month
after the first anniversary of the 7/7 attacks in London, the spectre of homegrown terror came back to haunt the UK on
8/10 as British police and intelligence foiled a suspected Al Qaida plot to blow up 10 US-bound flights from here in
three simultaneous waves using liquid explosives smuggled in handbags. The plot
triggered an extreme worldwide security alert and chaos at airports on
Thursday.
British authorities said
the terrorists planned to blow up the aircraft in mid-air by detonating
explosives leading to “mass murder on an unimaginable and unprecedented scale”,
potentially bigger than even 9/11. The plotters had targeted United, American
and Continental airlines, US counter-terrorism officials said.
Police arrested 21
persons in
What other nations are doing to curb terror: Lessons for us
Times of
As the bombings in
Bali, Madrid, Mumbai and London provided chilling evidence that New York’s 9/11
was not a one-off event, a number of mature democracies like the UK, France,
Germany, Australia, the US and even New Zealand - all with a decent track
record on human rights - have either enacted new laws or tweaked the existing
ones to give greater teeth to their counter-terror operations. (
In
Take
Tougher Laws, Closer Coordination
US:
Laws: US PATRIOT Act.
Defines “domestic terrorism”. Max sentence: Life
Investigative Powers:
Wire, Oral and electronic intercepts. DNA database, record keeping. Banks share
info, penalty now $1,00,000. Analysis of suspicious fiscal activity
Intelligence Set-up:
Sharing criminal info, foreign terrorist tracking centre, tripling of border
guards
Safeguards: Congress
oversight, bi-annual treasury reports
Laws: Anti-terror law
for preventive policing. Max sentence: Life.
Investigative Powers:
Airlines, banks, posts info. Tough asylum laws. Covert probes
Intelligence Set-Up: Jt counter-terrorism centre, expertise on Islamist
terrorism
Safeguards: Annual
review by Parliament, independent report every three years
Laws: Bill on
terrorism and frontier control. Max sentence: 30 yrs
Investigative Powers:
Video survey of businesses, public spaces, ID checks, cyber records, anonymity
for cops.
Intelligence set-up:
Monitoring radical Islam; secret service, police coordination
Safeguards: Review by
National Assembly, public hearings in bill
Laws: Terrorism
Suppression Act. Max sentence: Life
Investigative Powers:
Terror probes cover infecting livestock, food contamination. Intercepts
allowed, criminal charges for withholding info
Intelligence Set-Up:
Special tactics group for terror emergencies, Bomb data centre
Safeguards: Terror
designations to be renewed 3 years
Laws: Terrorism Act
2000, prevention of terrorism Act 2005. Max sentence: Life
Investigative Powers:
Control orders on suspects. Freeze accounts at start of probe
Intelligence Set-Up:
Multi-agency terrorist finance unit
Safeguards:
Independent review every year
Laws: Rapid response
to armed attacks, revision of self defence laws. Max
sentence: Life
Investigative Powers:
Powers to freeze assets
Pre-emptive strikes
allowed
Intelligence Set-Up:
Strategic council for policy formation and coordination
Safeguards:
Parliamentary oversight, defence and foreign
committees.
Laws: Four anti-terror
acts, special laws for secret service, banking. Max sentence: Life
Investigative Powers:
Control order on individuals, “reckless” funding punishable, shoot to kill for
suspects
Intelligence Set-Up: Jt counter terrorism intel
centre.
Safeguards:
Parliamentary oversight
At a Strategic Level,
some of the Anti-Terror measures being taken:
Integrated laws to
allow wiretaps; doubling or trebling of border guards, customs and
investigators; enhanced coordination between banks and other financial
institutions and regulators; easier sharing of data banks; video surveillance,
mandatory maintenance of telephone records, designation of terrorist crime and,
above all, fast trials and tough sentences for the convicted. Firewalls between
intelligence agencies, police, customs, immigration, airport security, border
guards, white collar crime investigators and narcotics control are being
brought down. Joint command centres and shared radio
frequencies for emergency management.
Illegal Bangla migrants a threat
Times of
It argues that big
changes in demographics in terms of an illegal influx from
The George C Francis
Committee Report, which drew up the document, is part of the materials for specialised training to paramilitary forces deployed for
counter-insurgency operation in J&K, N-E and other parts of the country.
Referring to various
kinds of threats, the report made it clear that the county would face the
challenges due to this not only in short-term or mid-term future, but also till
2025 when the terrorist outfits too have all kinds of sophisticated equipment
at their command.
The menace of money
laundering, tax evasion, existence of rogue off-shore banking facilities on
behalf of small countries, circulation of fake currency at the behest of the
ISI and role of the under-world-ISI nexus in Maharashtra
and
Third-class governance can’t give first-class response to terrorism
Tracking Terror - Ceding
Arun Shourie, 9Indian Express, Aug. 02, 2006
Just look at the
hundreds of places from which suspects of the July train blasts in Mumbai are
being picked up - that itself shows the long reach of the ISI and its terrorist
limbs within India, of the faraway places at which they have been able to set
up sanctuaries. Which terrorist group, which potential recruit to terrorism
will be deterred when he sees the solicitude with which the prime suspect in
the
The representatives of
the CPI(M) come calling on him in jail to seek his help in fighting elections.
He sees the Kerala Assembly pass a unanimous
resolution on his behalf - and sees that the Assembly has not passed any
comparable resolution for any other individual.
When he sees a Chief
Minister defend SIMI, an organization that has been banned for seccessionist and anti-national activities? When he sees
how, even after the Supreme Court has struck down the IMDT Act as
unconstitutional and as a threat to national security, the Government, the
principal party of which depends on votes of illegal infiltration from
Finally, that the
blasts and other terrorist operations have continued unabated shows that the
cells which have been located are but a fraction of the ones that have been set
up. Several factors have afforded such easy access for the ISI. The principal
one is the near collapse of law enforcement - from intelligence to
investigation to combat to the courts.
Why should anyone be
deterred from executing another round of blasts in Mumbai trains when he sees
that those caught for the blasts executed 13 years ago are well and kicking;
when he sees that their lawyers have been able, and with such ease, to ensure
Government prosecutors in the courts?
In particular, of the
perversion of public discourse - by which every action against terrorists,
their sponsors and their collaboration is called into question and the national
resolve dissipated; second, by the ever-strengthening nexus of rulers and
criminal elements.
By contrast, in the
statement that Prime Minister Manmohan Singh signed
with General Musharraf in April 2005,
And then? The Prime
Minister goes to
So,
Blasts in Mumbai,
Blasts in
The Home Minister
repeated all the standard phrases in his statement to Parliament last week. He
also implied that his ministry had done its job.
Their Success
But while we keep
repeating. “Terrorists will not be allowed to succeed,” the fact is that
through them
It has succeeded in
creating the impression - I dare say, in
‘Secularism is international AIDS’
Organiser 27.8.95
On Sunday 7th August
1994, about 8000 fundamentalist Muslims held an International Muslim Khilafah Conference in
Dr. Mohammad Malkawi, one of the speakers said that Islam was a supreme
system and it could not co-exist with any other system such as Socialism,
Capitalism, Secularism or Democracy. He said that they wanted to “build an
Islamic State that would resolve all the problems as Islam dictates.
They asked for the
liberation of Muslim lands naming
Kashmir and
Their official magazine
Khilafah called for a “strong army, the army of
Jihad” to liberate the Muslims “in
(Muslims have the
right to disagree with any ideology and reject it including Socialism,
Capitalism etc. but what is most irritating is to thrust Islam by force on
non-Muslims as has been the case in Kashmir for centuries and even after 1947)
- Voice of Jammu and Kashmir, March-May, 1995
Pakistan officers, ISI colluding with Taliban, says
Economic Times 11.6.2008
Even as the
one-month-old peace deal between the Pakistani government and the Taliban
collapsed in the Swat valley, a leading
The Pentagon-funded
study, which was brought out by US think tank Rand Corporation said that the
ISI and Frontier Corps have not only failed to root out Afghan insurgent groups
based in Pakistan but that individuals from these organisations
are providing direct assistance to the Taliban and Haqqani
network. The support, the report said, included “assistance from some officials
in the
“Right now, the
Taliban and other groups are getting help from individuals within Pakistan’s
government, and until that ends, the region’s long-term security is in
jeopardy,” the report’s author Seth Jones, a senior political scientist at
Rand, said in a press release issued by the think tank. The assistance, the
report said, included providing medical aid to wounded Taliban insurgents,
training insurgents at camps in
Even though the author
does not name any individuals, the findings of the study, which is called
counter-insurgency in
In fact, the author
further said that
The terror groups, the
report said, are finding shelter in Pakistan’s Federally Administered Tribal
Areas (FATA), North West Frontier Province and Balochistan
Province and regularly ship weapons, ammunition and supplies into Afghanistan
from Pakistan. A number of suicide bombers have come from Afghan refugee camps
based in
The report, which has
been prepared for the
Approach Paper on Economic Impact
of Terrorism
International youth conference on terrorism
Several countries
across the globe are affected by the menace of terrorism. This does not mean
that other countries remain unaffected. In an interconnected economy, any
action by terrorists anywhere in the world would reverberate throughout the
world. For instance, due to the 9/11 event, wherein just two buildings in a
city were the target of an attack, the entire world economy was led into
recession. Or the
Terrorism has been a
major stumbling block to economic development. Terrorism tends to accentuate
the economic disparities. Terrorist activities displace innocent people from
their homes and rob them of their livelihood. For example, due to mindless
destruction caused by terrorists, more than 300,000 persons are displaced from
Kashmir and spend their lives in rehabilitation camps at
Areas infested with
terrorism loose their share in economic development, as terrorists destroy
precious public property and the ability of the State to mobilise
resources into the region is severely hampered. In areas affected by terrorism,
no amount of incentives by the state will lure entrepreneurs to set up
business. Because of the disturbed law and order situation, agriculture is also
affected and rural development is hampered. Therefore, people residing in
terrorist affected areas are not in a position to take part fully in the
development process. As generally, geographically remote and peripheral areas
are affected by terrorism, these areas tend to be peripheral in economic terms.
In the arena of
international trade too, terrorism creates adverse impact on movement of goods,
people and economic services. The cost of movement of goods increases due to
higher insurance costs and increased security checks at ports. These increased
frictional costs will tend to make trading activities more expensive and as a
result reduce trade flows. Visa regimes become strict, restricting movement of
people going for business, education and medical purposes.
Industries like
Airlines industry, Tourism industry and Services are worst affected due to
terrorist activities. A recent report by ILO (International Labour
Organization) states that short-term forecasts for Airline industry are
negative and recovery will be delayed due to the worldwide recession, increased
security costs and passenger safety concerns. As per the report, the crisis
will force some airlines to cease operations and others to re-nationalize or
receive subsidies and for every airline layoff, at least four airport ground
jobs and three support services jobs are lost. The slump in air cargo for Asia
dropped by 35 per cent, in the
Another industry which
is a direct sufferer of terrorism is the Tourism industry. Millions of jobs are
lost in this industry after terrorist incidents in
After the 9/11
incidents, number of visas issued by
As reported by the AP
in October, nearly 200,000 people were laid off in
An airline industry
spokesman estimated in October that the world’s airlines may have lost as much
as $15 billion due to passenger and freight cut backs.
The world’s insurance
industry took an estimated $50 billion hit. The cost to insurers will be passed
on to all of us, but primarily to businesses.
The increased cost of
internal security has an impact on economic development, particularly on
countries like
In light of the above
considerations, it is useful to ponder over the following issues and try to
find solutions.
1. Steps to be taken
to dissuade terrorists from destroying precious public property
2. Promote measures by
which public would resist destruction of property by terrorists.
3. Measures needed for
economic rehabilitation of victims of terrorism by way of establishment of
special funds by nations and international organizations.
4. Need to evolve low
cost security methods to detect and prevent possible terrorist attacks and
5. Need for promotion
of international and cross border trade as a positive means to combat terrorism.
Special laws will help our warriors
trump terror
Rajeev Deshpande, Times Nation - August 31 2007
The world over, the
fight against terror has resulted in countries giving more teeth to existing
laws of passing tough new laws.
In
CIA presents Gilani dossier
on ISI’s terror links
Times of
Pakistani Prime
Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani was handed a “chargesheet”
by CIA chief Michael V Hayden on Pakistani intelligence agencies’ links to
militant activities and was told to “rein in the ISI” during their meeting in
Washington.
“Some information in
the CIA chargesheet was so damning that the
Pakistanis could not deny them,” a senior Pakistani official familiar with the
talks told the Dawn newspaper.
Diplomatic and US
sources said the allegations included in the “chargesheet”
were almost identical to what The New York Times had reported on Wednesday.
The
CIA chief Hayden, who
met Gilani on Monday, is believed to have told the
Prime Minister that
Hayden also told Gilani that even a change of government in Washington would
not help Pakistan as whoever occupied the White House in January would want
Islamabad to “rein in the ISI”, said the senior official.
US President Geroge Bush too expressed “concern and some annoyance” over
the leaking of information to terrorists by the ISI during his meeting with Gilani on Monday. Bush told Gilani
that
pan-Islamic forces
Rajat Sharma, Observer, 11.4.93
The
Interrogation of the
Pak-trained terrorists reveal that the ISI, backed by some Islamic
fundamentalist organisations, has used smuggling
syndicates to spread terrorism. With the help of the
Islamic
fundamentalists seem determined to exploit charged feelings between Hindus and
Muslims following the unfortunate demolition of the Babri
structure. The Memon brothers and Dawood
Ibrahim have become willing carriers of such
propaganda and agents of pan-Islamic terrorism. The conspirators are desperate
to impress upon Muslims that unless they take to arms, Islam cannot be
protected.
Activists from
Since the fencing of
the border has stalled the movement of terrorists and arms from across the
Punjab border, Pak intelligence agents have converted
One report says that
those involved in the
The ‘jehad factories’: Inspired by slogans that appeal to
religious sentiments, thousands of young people in
In recent years,
scores of Pakistanis from different social backgrounds have joined the
“struggle” for
In the earlier stage
of jehad, the majority of militants came from
impoverished families. They used to be recruited from religious schools known
as madrassas. Nearly three million young people study
in thousands of madrassas in
The militants share
the conviction that Western countries, particularly the U.S, and
Inside the mind of the bombers
(
On the evening of
Saturday, September 13, a series of bomb blasts ripped through the capital. The
blasts took place in the most popular and crowded shopping centres,
killing 25 and injuring 200.
Six days later, the
Delhi Police conducted a raid on a flat in Zakir Nagar, an area where many students of nearby Jamia Millia Islamia
stay. Two persons inside the flat were killed as was a highly decorated officer
who led the raid.
One occupant, Mohammed
Saif, was arrested. The police announced that one of
those killed was Atif, the mastermind behind the
blasts. Two members of the terror module managed to escape.
The caretaker of the Zakir Nagar flat, Abdul Rehman, was the key to three more arrests on September 21,
three educated young men: Zia-ur Rehman,
Saquib Nisar and Mohammed Shakeel.
The three were charged
with being a major operational arm of the Indian Mujahideen
and with planting bombs, not just in
Principal
correspondent of India Today (13.10.08) Mihir Shrivastava meets three of the Delhi Bombers to probe their
attitude and motivation. What emerges is chilling and a huge challenge for the country.
Zia
“Whatever knowldege I have about Islam, I have no regrets about What
I did” by exploding bombs and killing Hindus.
Saquib Nisar - “Allah does miracles
to save a Zihadi that is true. One has to adopt evil
to prevent a bigger one. It is not for me or you, its for Allah”. Mohammad Shakeed - “I experienced an awakening after I committed my
life to Allah. Now life and death are the same for me.
You will not find such
a single fanatic youth in Hindus including Bajrang Dal and yet secularists demand a ban on Bajrang
Dal While pardoning “SIMI” (our opinion).
Watch Out For
Terror continues to come from across the
border
*G. Parthasarathy, The Times
of
As Pranab
Mukherjee packs his bags for his forthcoming visit to
Mukherjee will meet an establishment primarily focused on
tensions on
On March 12, General Kiyani proclaimed that in keeping with its solidarity with
the sentiments of the people of Pakistan, the Pakistan army will never “turn
its back” on the aspirations of the people of Kashmir. Politicians across
The ISI-backed, Muzaffarabad-based, United Jihad Council joined the chorus
proclaiming continuing jehad against
On the positive side,
the new government has spoken of liberalizing people-to-people contacts and
promoting trade and economic ties. While welcoming such moves and proposing
additional and innovative confidence-building measures, Mukherjee
would hopefully tell his hosts that any dialogue on Jammu and Kashmir would
have to be taken forward from where it had reached earlier last year and that
Pakistan would find the diplomatic and other costs rather high if it escalates
cross-border terrorism pretending, as Gilani has
done, that there are no terrorist training camps in Pakistan-occupied Kashmir.
*The writer is a
former Indian high commissioner to
Jihadi videos a hot pick in
(DNA - 13.11.2008)
Riaz Basheer, an 18-year-old,
moved to
On the road side in
the federal capital, it is not unusual to find graffiti welcoming the Taliban
to
You Tube has banned
videos that incite others to commit violent acts, videos on the things like how
to make bombs and footage of sniper attacks. The decision was taken because
what was once conducted at secret training camps in
ISI + AI - Qaida:
Sunday Times of
Experts say ISI hand
in terror acts can be traced back to Zia ul-Haq’s time. However, jehadi
terrorism in Indian territory outside
It signals a new phase
of terrorism in
Can we do an
Atul Sethi - TNN
Almost two weeks back,
two terror acts took place. The first were the blasts in Mumbai and the second,
the capture of two Israeli soldiers by Lebanese militant group Hezbollah. Both
were acts of aggression against specific countries. But that’s where the
similarity ended. While
Notice that
So, does
Glocal Terror
Even as global jehadi groups target
Ranjan Roy - Sunday Times of
What a way for Madhubani to get international fame. The tiny corner of
Bihar, known for its stylistic paintings, is now a site in the terror war being
fought in
If once the pashtun Taliban, their fierce eyes darkened with kohl, were
the faces of global terror, recent attacks, whether in
Lashkar mantra: Catch them young
Times of
Sayyad Zabiuddin, 28
Education: Did MA from
Beed, trained as an electrician
Family: Son of
insurance agent, he has five sisters
Charge: Key suspect in
Mumbai blasts. Said to have been indoctrinated by Ahl-e-hadees
Mohd Faiyyaz alias Faiyyaz Kagazi, 24
Education: Did BSc and BEd, was unemployed
Family: Son of an
assistant headmaster of a high school. He has a younger brother and three
sisters
Charge: Key suspect in
Mumbai blasts. Was member of Ahl-e-hadees.
Ring of Terror
Times of
Generally regarded as
the fountainhead of terror in the world. From sectarian terror groups to
pan-Islamist jehadis to the master-handler of them
all, the ISI, and a state policy that unashamedly uses the instrument of terror
to achieve political and strategic ends, Pakistan has it all.
Jehadis now control NWFP. The Al-Qaida
is holed up in
Major groups operating
in and out of
Fast emerging as a
terror hub. A list of 172 camps of Indian insurgent groups was handed over by
the BSF D-G to his Bangladesh Rifles counterpart in 2005. Post 9/11, many
fundamentalist outfits found
With pro-Pakistan Jamaat and Islami Oikya jote in Khaleda
Zia’s government, Pakistan High Commission in
Main jehadi groups in Bangladeh:
Harkat-ul-jehad-al-Islami, the Jagrata Muslim Janata
The favoured transit route for terrorists, thanks to its porous
borders. Has also become a transit point for arms smuggling. A number of terror
attacks in
Although Maoists are
now part of the peace process in
The Nation that failed
The frequency of the
attacks and their magnitude say a lot about the jihadist
and the victim. The killer is precise; he chooses his target for maximum
effect; and he seems to enjoy the kind of freedom that is denied to his
brotherhood elsewhere. Ahmedabad comes just two
months after Jaipur which was preceded by Hyderabad
2007, Mumbai 2006, Delhi 2005 and the audacious attack on Parliament in the
afterglow of 9/11. Come to think of it: the most favoured
nation for those who want to invest in Jihad is not the United States of Israel
any longer. It is
And
A Soft Target
Terrorists have left a
deadly trail across
Instruments of Terror
1. Mumbai, Aug 25,
2003
What happened: Two
blasts ripped through Zaveri Bazar
and Gateway of India
Death Toll: 46
Device used: RDX
packed in two taxis
Status: Solved, SIMI
module busted
2.
What happened: Three
serial blasts rocked the capital before Diwali in
crowded market places and a DTC bus.
Death Toll: 62
Device used: IEDs in satchel
Status: Unsolved
3.
What happened: Three
explosions including one at crowded Sankat Mochan temple and at a railway station
Death Toll: 21
Device used: IEDs in pressure cookers
Status: Mastermind
held
4. Mumbai, July 11,
2006
What happened: A
series of seven bomb blasts struck six local trains at peak travel time in the
evening
Death Toll: 209
Device used: IEDs in pressure cookers
Status: Unsolved
5.
What happened: Two
bomb blasts ripped through the town in Nashik
district in
Death Toll: 40
Device Used: IEDs on bicycles
Status: No arrest
6. Panipat,
Feb 19, 2007
What happened: Two IEDs went off on the
Death Toll: 66
Device used: Firebombs
triggered by timer
Status: No arrest
7.
What happened: Twin
blasts at the Mecca Masjid
Death Toll: 12
Device Used: Pipe bomb
triggered by cell phone
Status: No arrest
8.
What happened:
Suspected HUJI militants struck with twin bomb blasts at Lumbini
park and a popular snack stall
Death Toll: 42
Device used: IEDs with timers
Status: No arrests
9. Jaipur,
May 13, 2008
What Happened: Nine
blasts in a market place
Death Toll: 63
Device used: IEDs on bicycles
Status: No arrests
10.
What happened: Six
low-intensity blasts rock
Death Toll: 1
Device used: IEDs
Status: Under
investigation
11. Ahmedabad, July 26, 2008
What happened: 22
blasts in 17 places
Death Toll: 53
Device used:
Improvised directional anti-personnel mines, car bombs
Status: Under
investigation
12. Mumbai Massascre: November 26, 2008
What happened: Ten
terrorists landed in Colaba, Mumbai, on the night of
26th November 2008. They came from
Death Toll: 200
Device used: Modern
weapon, hand grenades, etc.
Status: Out of the 10
terrorists, one is captured alive, thanks to our brave policemen. He is being
interrogated. He has confirmed that he is from
Terror Laws Hang Fire
The Union Government
has shown no urgency in clearing anti-crime bills of the State Governments
Rajasthan: The
Rajasthan Control of organised Crime Bill, 2006, was
sent for approval to
Uttar Pradesh: On
directions from the high court, the Mayawati
Government introduced the Uttar Pradesh Control of Organised
Crime Bill to contain the mafia and growing terrorism in the state, about six
months back. The bill has been pending approval before the President.
Madhya Pradesh: A
draft of the Madhya Pradesh Control of Terrorism, Unlawful Activities and Organised Crime Bill (Aatank Vadi Evam Uchhedak
Gatividhiya Tatha Sangathit Apradh Niyantran Vidheyak), is awaiting
Central nod since last year. An approval is mandatory for all criminal laws
passed by the state.
Andhra Pradesh: A
draft of the Andhra Pradesh Control of Organised
Crime Bill was passed by the earlier Government, headed by Chandrababu
Naidu, in the state Assembly in 2001. But the Bill
has been awaiting the clearance of the Central Government since 2006.
What Muslim Leaders have said
(Courtesy: Rashtriya Chetna, Aug. 2006)
Abul Kalam Azad: Abul Kalam
Azad, while addressing his students, said “A country
like
On another occassion, Maulana Azad, who held the responsible position of the president of
All India Congress, burst out venomously in an irresponsible manner: “Against
the non-Muslim Government, Islam prescribes only sword, protracted battle and
the cutting of throats.”
Liaqat Ali Khan: Liaqat Ali Khan was the secretary of the Muslim League. He
was the right hand of Jinnah. It was Liaqat Ali, who, during the election campaign in 1946,
boasted in
H.S. Suhrawardy: Hassan Shahid Suhrawardy
was political disciple of Jinnah. He is notoriously
known in history as the great killer of Hindus in the
Feroz Khan Noon: Feroz Khan Noon, a fanatic leader of the Muslim League,
while addressing the Muslim League legislators’ meeting, said: “The havoc, that
the Muslims would play, would put to shame what Changez
Khan and Halaku did.”
Ghaznafar Ali Khan: Ghaznafar Ali Khan, who was the health minister in the
Viceroy’s Interim Government, headed by Pandit Nehru,
spoke at
Dr. Ali Mohammed Naqvi: Dr. Ali
Mohammed Naqvi was a follower of the
Hamid Dalwai: Hamid Dalwai,
a nationlist Muslim and true son of Hindusthan, rightly reveals the attitude of fanatic Muslims
in his book, Muslim Politics in
F.K. Khan Durrani: In the preface to his book. The Meaning of
Pakistan, Mr. Durrani boastfully brags: “There is not
an inch of the soil of
Attaullah Suhrawardy: Attaullah Suhrawardy, a senior leader of the National Conference of
Kashmir, and former minister and deputy speaker of
Syed Ali Shah Geelani: Syed Ali Shah Geelani, a leader of Jama’at-i-islami
categorically expresses his political ideology: “The politics of socialism and
secularism is totally unsound. I do not like any Muslim to adopt socialsim and secularism as his political ideal.”
Dr. Mushir-ul-Haq:
Dr. Mushir-ul-Haq honestly unfolds the inner psyche
of the Muslims of India in his book, Islam in Secular India. He candidly
states: “The Muslim community of
Syed Ahmad Hussain: Syed Ahmad Hussain, another leader of Jama’at-i-Islami
addressed the Muslims in a mosque in
Syed Shahabuddin: Syed Shahabuddin,
MP, the leader of Samata Party, once expressed his
venomous views: “Muslims should have ruled
Syed Abdullah Bukhari: Syed Abdullah Bukahri, the Imam of Jama Masjid Delhi, poured out a poisonous statement in December
1986: “Secularism has no place in Islam. Propagation of Islam is the first duty
of Muslim. Muslim youths will propagate Islam with swords in their hands.”
On another occasion in
1987, he openly uttered: “I consider Islam greater than the country. I am first
a Muslim, then everything else.... For me there is no meaning to Independence
Day (of
Azam Khan: Azam Khan, the then MLA of UP Legislative Assembly burst
into vile words against the motherland, Bharat Mata,
at a public meeting in Kanpur on March 23, 1987: “Is
this our motherland? This is a blood-thirsty mother. This is not mother, this
is a witch.”
Salahuddin Oweisi: Salahuddin Oweisi, a member of the Andhra Pradesh Legislative
Assembly, publicly suggested: “There should be a separate Muslim state within
each state of
In sharp contrast to
all this, Jagadguru Shankaracharya
of Sringeri, in his interview with me, said that
Muslims are our brothers as our forefathers were common. Hence I wish them
prosperity and happiness.
Now if Muslims want to
prove that Jehad means peace and terrorism is against
Islam, then they will have to show it in their thought and action, instead of
mere statements and slogans. This will bring them world wide respect.