09-20-2012, 09:37 AM
(This post was last modified: 09-20-2012, 09:37 AM by G.Subramaniam.)
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The recent riots in Masuri Village of Ghaziabad is not a stray incident; the area has earned notoriety for being a ââ¬Ëhavenââ¬â¢ for radical elements and terrorists. It was in Masuri when in a chance encounter in 1994, the local police had arrested British-born Ahmed Omar Saeed Sheikh, a London School of Economics student and son of a Pakistani clothes merchant.
A close associate of Maulana Azhar Masood, founder of the banned outfit Jaish-e-Mohammed (JeM), he was accused of kidnapping three British tourists ââ¬â Myles Croston, Paul Rideout and Rhys Partridge and a US national Béla Nuss. The three Britons were taken to Saharanpur and kept captive by his associates while Béla Nuss was the last to be kidnapped and kept hostage in Masuri.
In fact, this belt came into notice after locals forcibly freed Abdul Karim Tunda from Delhi Police that had raided his place in Pilakhuwa after a specific intelligence input in 1998. A hapless Delhi Police watched in dismay as local police ran for cover. Tunda was to be named in serial blasts that had rocked Delhi in 1997. He along with Dr Jalis Ansari of Ahl-e-Hadis (a militant outfit) was involved in planning and execution of over three dozen terrorist strikes in the national Capital. Tunda was said to be housed by Lashkar handlers in their training camp at Murdike in Pakistan.
The recent riots in Masuri Village of Ghaziabad is not a stray incident; the area has earned notoriety for being a ââ¬Ëhavenââ¬â¢ for radical elements and terrorists. It was in Masuri when in a chance encounter in 1994, the local police had arrested British-born Ahmed Omar Saeed Sheikh, a London School of Economics student and son of a Pakistani clothes merchant.
A close associate of Maulana Azhar Masood, founder of the banned outfit Jaish-e-Mohammed (JeM), he was accused of kidnapping three British tourists ââ¬â Myles Croston, Paul Rideout and Rhys Partridge and a US national Béla Nuss. The three Britons were taken to Saharanpur and kept captive by his associates while Béla Nuss was the last to be kidnapped and kept hostage in Masuri.
In fact, this belt came into notice after locals forcibly freed Abdul Karim Tunda from Delhi Police that had raided his place in Pilakhuwa after a specific intelligence input in 1998. A hapless Delhi Police watched in dismay as local police ran for cover. Tunda was to be named in serial blasts that had rocked Delhi in 1997. He along with Dr Jalis Ansari of Ahl-e-Hadis (a militant outfit) was involved in planning and execution of over three dozen terrorist strikes in the national Capital. Tunda was said to be housed by Lashkar handlers in their training camp at Murdike in Pakistan.