04-18-2008, 06:29 AM
Unravelling Terror
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<b>The police swoop that took out several key leaders of the Students' Islamic Movement of India (SIMI) last month might also have aborted the birth of a Hamas-style terrorist squad under the aegis of the banned extremist organisation. </b>SIMI's national secretary general Safdar Hussein Nagori, his brother Qamruddin Nagori and close aide Aamil Parwez revealed during recent narco tests that they were <b>in the process of raising their own armed squads to reduce dependence on operatives sent from Pakistan.</b>
<b>The three men, along with 10 others picked up in Indore on March 26, make up "90 per cent of the top leadership of SIMI's pro-jehad radical faction," </b>intelligence sources said. They were put through narco-analysis at the Forensic Science Laboratory in Bangalore.
IGP Indore Range Anil Kumar refused to reveal details of the results, but confirmed Nagori and his comrades had revealed plans for an armed squad. "Nagori told us that SIMI's current focus is only on building an armed squad to execute terrorist attacks and operations.
It is a departure from its practice till now of sending its men to Pakistan for terrorist training" Kumar told HT. A top IB sleuth said Nagori had told his interrogators that a decision to set up combat training bases was taken at a secret meeting in Ujjain a few weeks before the 11/7 train bombings in Mumbai.
"It was decided to set up a training base near Indore to raise an armed squad. <b>The outfit had considered setting up the base somewhere along the Naxal Red Corridor </b>from Andhra Pradesh to Jharkhand, but abandoned the idea fearing detection by the police," the officer said.
Sources said SIMI wants to emulate Hamas's armed wing, Izz Al-Din Al-Qassim Brigades. <b>Sheikh Yassin Ahmed, who set it up in 1987, was allegedly one of Nagori's contacts</b>.
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<b>The police swoop that took out several key leaders of the Students' Islamic Movement of India (SIMI) last month might also have aborted the birth of a Hamas-style terrorist squad under the aegis of the banned extremist organisation. </b>SIMI's national secretary general Safdar Hussein Nagori, his brother Qamruddin Nagori and close aide Aamil Parwez revealed during recent narco tests that they were <b>in the process of raising their own armed squads to reduce dependence on operatives sent from Pakistan.</b>
<b>The three men, along with 10 others picked up in Indore on March 26, make up "90 per cent of the top leadership of SIMI's pro-jehad radical faction," </b>intelligence sources said. They were put through narco-analysis at the Forensic Science Laboratory in Bangalore.
IGP Indore Range Anil Kumar refused to reveal details of the results, but confirmed Nagori and his comrades had revealed plans for an armed squad. "Nagori told us that SIMI's current focus is only on building an armed squad to execute terrorist attacks and operations.
It is a departure from its practice till now of sending its men to Pakistan for terrorist training" Kumar told HT. A top IB sleuth said Nagori had told his interrogators that a decision to set up combat training bases was taken at a secret meeting in Ujjain a few weeks before the 11/7 train bombings in Mumbai.
"It was decided to set up a training base near Indore to raise an armed squad. <b>The outfit had considered setting up the base somewhere along the Naxal Red Corridor </b>from Andhra Pradesh to Jharkhand, but abandoned the idea fearing detection by the police," the officer said.
Sources said SIMI wants to emulate Hamas's armed wing, Izz Al-Din Al-Qassim Brigades. <b>Sheikh Yassin Ahmed, who set it up in 1987, was allegedly one of Nagori's contacts</b>.
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