Radical Islam and internal security

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Pioneer.com
Rakesh K Singh | New Delhi
Nagori was in talks with Jamia student
Safdar Nagori, the commander of the Students’ Islamic Movement of India (SIMI), has revealed the banned outfit’s plan to target Nepal through Mohammad Arif, a Nepalese citizen and an undergraduate student at the Jamia Millia Islamia.

The report of the narco analysis examination of Nagori, conducted at the behest of the Madhya Pradesh police, reveals that he had had discussions about the targets in Nepal with the Jamia student.

Nagori has also disclosed that SIMI decided to procure weapons through the Nepal and Bangladesh borders through funding and support from the Lashkar-e-Tayyeba (LeT) for an arms dump in Darjeeling.

<b>Nagori further admitted in the narco analysis test about the Chinese connection of SIMI, revealing that Azeez-ul-Haq, the outfit’s West Bengal president, had helped two terrorists — responsible for killing a policeman — cross over into China. </b>

The report of Nagori’s narco analysis examination, which was conducted at the Forensic Sciences Laboratory, Bangalore, quotes the SIMI leader as having said, “Mohammad Arif was studying BA at Jamia and basically was a Nepali.” The report further quoted the SIMI commander as saying that he (Nagori) had “discussed with Arif the targets in Nepal and after the discussion, Arif left for Medina”.

Apparently with terror designs on the Himalayan Kingdom, Haq planned a base camp at his in-laws’ house in Saliguda, Darjeeling, and planned to get weapons for the camp as he was in regular touch with the members of LeT, Nagori — who frequented places like Nepalganj in Nepal — told the team of doctors who conducted the drug interrogation on him.

After being “harassed and tortured” following his arrest by the West Bengal police, Haq dumped the weapons at his place in Darjeeling and frequently used to visit Bangladesh in order to get the arms lifted by other SIMI terror associates, Nagori revealed. Former SIMI head Shahid Badr Falahi was “very much aware of the arms dump at Darjeeling”, he added.

SIMI, which has a countrywide terror network, had according to Nagori’s revelations also planned to target officials of the Mumbai police who had allegedly been lax in ensuring safety for Muslims during the Mumbai riots after the Babri Masjid demolition in 1991. For that purpose, the outfit had also identified targets like the so-called encounter specialist Daya Nayak of Mumbai Police, the report quotes Nagori as saying.

According to the SIMI commander’s admission in a state of trance, the outfit was responsible for most of the serial bomb blasts in the country executed during the UPA Government’s rule, including the Samjhauta Express train blasts, serial blasts in a Mumbai train, Malegaon blast (2006), blast at Gokul Chat shop in Hyderabad and the Aurangabad and Ajmer blasts.

The report quotes Nagori as having revealed in the narco test, “The Gokul Chat owner was not a good man so they (SIMI members) had blasted there, but innocent people also had to suffer.”

About the Mumbai train blasts, Nagori said, “The whole of SIMI network in Maharashtra was involved in the train blasts. There are hundreds of SIMI members in Maharashtra.”

He revealed that Asif Khan, hailing from Maharashtra, was his friend and involved in the Mumbai train and Aurangabad blasts. Besides, one Rahil from Pune was also involved in the Mumbai blasts and is currently staying in London.

Nagori also said, “In the Malegaon blast (2006), some of the Muslim members were involved and I was aware of it.”
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