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KOLKATA: NIA is getting new clues to a wider terror network with each passing day of its investigation into the Burdwan IED blast. What was suspected to be the handiwork of elements from SIMI-HuJI-LeT of India and JMB of Bangladesh now seems to point to a much bigger network that was trying to recruit, train and push back cadres into Bangladesh and parts of Assam to "revive Jihadi terrorism", say intelligence sources.
What's more worrying, neither the module nor the method seems to be pointing to any outfit that Indian agencies are aware of.
IB sources say it is not the extent but the sheer scale of planning that worries them. For instance, JMB operative Saiful Islam, arrested from Assam, has admitted to attending Bengal operations head Shakil Ahmed Gazi's training sessions at Simulia and Lalgola. He was also aware of the module's activities at Khagragarh and Mongolkot. "What was especially alarming was his statement that he took arms training in Jharkhand, too. He told us that Shakil was involved in illegal arms trade during the early days in the organization and often visited Masjidpara Lane in Metiabruz in Kolkata. It was here that a powerful blast in 2012 killed two people," said a source.
It was in Jharkhand that the SIMI men — with ties to Indian Mujahideen — had received training before carrying out the serial blasts in Patna on October 27 last year just before Narendra Modi was to address a rally, say sources. NIA IG Sanjeev Kumar Singh, who is heading the Burdwan blast probe, was part of the Patna blast probe team.
Also, a team from the Madhya Pradesh SIMI module was responsible for a low intensity blast in a house in a congested locality of UP's Bijnor district on September 12 this year, under almost exact circumstances as the Burdwan blast. In Assam, six arrested JMB men — Shaikhul Islam, Rafikul Islam, Shiraj Ali Khan, Jahuruddin, Golam Usmani and Sarbesh Ali — were hunting for new recruits in the Bengali Muslim-dominated lower Assam districts of Barpeta, Goalpara and Dhubri, say sources.
Sleuths say Ahmed frequently visited lower Assam districts over the past couple of years. This would mean a direct connect between four states, with NIA already linking the Chennai station blast on May 1 this year to the JMB module. With calls being linked to Mumbai and Kashmir, this will emerge as a pan-national network with far greater reach than IM.
ISI made plans according to Headley to unite all groups. All these different groups were supported by different compartments within ISI. The only change now is the directive to make all these groups work together to meet their ultimate objectives which is at the end of the day to destroy us.
NIA finds clues of pan-Indian terror network - The Times of India
What's more worrying, neither the module nor the method seems to be pointing to any outfit that Indian agencies are aware of.
IB sources say it is not the extent but the sheer scale of planning that worries them. For instance, JMB operative Saiful Islam, arrested from Assam, has admitted to attending Bengal operations head Shakil Ahmed Gazi's training sessions at Simulia and Lalgola. He was also aware of the module's activities at Khagragarh and Mongolkot. "What was especially alarming was his statement that he took arms training in Jharkhand, too. He told us that Shakil was involved in illegal arms trade during the early days in the organization and often visited Masjidpara Lane in Metiabruz in Kolkata. It was here that a powerful blast in 2012 killed two people," said a source.
It was in Jharkhand that the SIMI men — with ties to Indian Mujahideen — had received training before carrying out the serial blasts in Patna on October 27 last year just before Narendra Modi was to address a rally, say sources. NIA IG Sanjeev Kumar Singh, who is heading the Burdwan blast probe, was part of the Patna blast probe team.
Also, a team from the Madhya Pradesh SIMI module was responsible for a low intensity blast in a house in a congested locality of UP's Bijnor district on September 12 this year, under almost exact circumstances as the Burdwan blast. In Assam, six arrested JMB men — Shaikhul Islam, Rafikul Islam, Shiraj Ali Khan, Jahuruddin, Golam Usmani and Sarbesh Ali — were hunting for new recruits in the Bengali Muslim-dominated lower Assam districts of Barpeta, Goalpara and Dhubri, say sources.
Sleuths say Ahmed frequently visited lower Assam districts over the past couple of years. This would mean a direct connect between four states, with NIA already linking the Chennai station blast on May 1 this year to the JMB module. With calls being linked to Mumbai and Kashmir, this will emerge as a pan-national network with far greater reach than IM.
ISI made plans according to Headley to unite all groups. All these different groups were supported by different compartments within ISI. The only change now is the directive to make all these groups work together to meet their ultimate objectives which is at the end of the day to destroy us.
NIA finds clues of pan-Indian terror network - The Times of India
