Serial blasts case solved

[IceCold]

Again the same post in a longer version, if you don't have anything to add shut up

Wow. Now certainly that was a surprise. I could have reported you for this abusive remark however i don't think i need to file a report against a jerk like you i can handle you on my own. And as far as the topic is concerned certainly what i am saying is not off topic, reason is that for every ill in India, we are blamed for it and frankly speaking we are tired of this **** of your country, this proxy war of words against us and this nonsense should now come to an end. The sooner it does the better it will be for all of the region.

 

[IceCold]

Inter-Services Intelligence - the name does not match the organisation........

And your point is exactly? by the way Research and Analysis wing name also does not seem to match the organization, don't you think.

 

[nitesh]

Wow. Now certainly that was a surprise. I could have reported you for this abusive remark however i don't think i need to file a report against a jerk like you i can handle you on my own. And as far as the topic is concerned certainly what i am saying is not off topic, reason is that for every ill in India, we are blamed for it and frankly speaking we are tired of this **** of your country, this proxy war of words against us and this nonsense should now come to an end. The sooner it does the better it will be for all of the region.

And I am getting sick of you guys blaming every one else for your own ills.

 

[jaison]

And your point is exactly? by the way Research and Analysis wing name also does not seem to match the organization, don't you think.

yes i do think the same way

 

[asaad-ul-islam]

yaar, if there's one thing i've grown tired of, it's indian whining. I really hope some of you people on this forum are females. goodness!

for the past year, pakistan has been taking bomb blasts and bullets from all three opposing forces in afghanistan, did we complain? NO!

it's only starting to reinforce the martial race theory in my head, it's become apparent to me that we are "made for war".

i hope some of you people consider Testosterone because I think there's a deficiency here. Please stop whining, toughen up, show it where it really counts! Below the Waist!

 

[Contrarian]

And your point is exactly? by the way Research and Analysis wing name also does not seem to match the organization, don't you think.

And I am getting sick of you guys blaming every one else for your own ills.

And you BOTH need to chill out. We'r discussing issues here, and it can be done without losing temper dont you guys think so? All of us get heated from time to time, but its best that we discuss with a cool head, otherwise in the end everyone would be hurling abuses at each other and nobody learns anything.

Even if you feel the other dude is getting to your nerves, try to remain calm please, for this forum's sake.

Now, let the looove flow b/w you two!

 

[QADRI]

Guys Icecold is saying right....be optimistic....Don't you people think that there are enough blames or useless and false blames on ISI, even you have no proves for their involvement. On the other hand Mush....what could i say about him..PA found your(Indian ) weapons in Tribal Areas and Balochistan especially but he always supported you...i don't know why..why he couldnot able to say "RAW" altough its not a difficult word.....i know you could understand what i want to say...

 

[jaison]

absolutely correct..........no one is going to gain or loose anything by arguing here........pak is pak.......india is india........keep cool and enjoy your conversation..........but to be frank its fun watching u guys reaching the limits of your tempersorry gentlemen no offences

 

[Neo]

Guys agree to disagree with eachother and keep it civil.
Thanks!

Neo

 

[Neo]

absolutely correct..........no one is going to gain or loose anything by arguing here........pak is pak.......india is india........keep cool and enjoy your conversation..........but to be frank its fun watching u guys reaching the limits of your tempersorry gentlemen no offences

Its won't be fun with Neo on your tail...

 

[nitesh]

Its won't be fun with Neo on your tail...

Bhago Bhago Neo sahab danda le kar aa gaye

I am sorry ICE and to all for those posts.

 

[indiapakistanfriendship]

for the past year, pakistan has been taking bomb blasts and bullets from all three opposing forces in afghanistan, did we complain? NO!

Errr.. when did you not complain and whine.. .... The 7 embassies in Afghanistan, RAW and Balochistan, RAW and FATA..... I can go on and on ....

 

[Flintlock]

Cracked in 3 weeks

RK Misra | Ahmedabad

Gujarat police grabs blasts' mastermind

Abdul Rashid alias Mufti Abu Bashir Ilahi, suspected to be the national head of Indian Mujahideen which took responsibility for the 17 blasts in Ahmedabad, has been arrested by a joint team of the Gujarat and UP Police.

Ilahi's organisation had also owned up for planting the 20 explosive devices in Surat on July 29.

Ilahi was arrested from his native village Tarai Mir in Azamgarh district of Uttar Pradesh by a joint team headed by Himanshu Shukla who was incharge of Gujarat's Special Investigation Team (SIT), and the Anti-Terrorist Squad (ATS) of UP Police. He is being held at Lucknow till official formalities are completed to get him to Ahmedabad.

Incidentally, Tarai Mir is also the native place of underworld don Abu Salem.

Addressing a Press conference here on Saturday, Gujarat's Director General of Police PC Pandey announced the formal arrest of 10 persons, including Illahi.

"They would be charged with various offences, including murder and waging war against the State," he said.

The contours of the entire conspiracy leading up to the Ahmedabad blasts and the Surat recoveries, besides vital inputs which would help unravel the 11 other explosions in Bangalore, Jaipur, Maharashtra, UP, Delhi and Hyderabad, are expected to crystalise soon.

Ilahi, who was teaching at a madarsa in Hyderabad for the past two years, besides editing a journal, is believed to have taken over as head of the Students Islamic Movement of India (SIMI) after the arrest of Safdar Nagori. While in Hyderabad, Ilahi was in touch with Naseer, a Pakistan-trained terrorist whose father is in a Gujarat jail for his involvement in the Haren Pandya murder case.Pandey confirmed that Indian Mujahideen is the new name given to SIMI after it was banned. Specialised manpower had been pooled from Gujarat, Maharashtra, Kerala, Jharkhand, UP, Karnataka and MP to carry out the blasts in Ahmedabad.

"To unravel such a conspiracy, the police of all these States as well as Central agencies pooled in information to bust the case in record time. I attribute the success to the police", Pandey said.

Ashish Bhatia, the Ahmedabad joint commissioner heading the investigation, said the genesis of the plot lies in the SIMI training camp organised in the jungles of Waghamon near Alua in Kerala in December 2007 where 40 recruits from abovementioned States were put through a capsule commando training course. This camp was addressed by both Safdar Nagori and his brother Karimuddin. It was here that the plan to carry out blasts in various parts of the country was hatched. As a follow-up, the two SIMI leaders had come to Gujarat and addressed a combined meeting of Gujarat SIMI workers with the intent of carrying out terror activities here.

Thereafter, a training camp to acclimatise the Gujarat workers and further indoctrinate them was held in the jungles of Pavagadh near Vadodara in January 2008. The broad contours of the plan for Ahmedabad and Surat were prepared at this camp, Bhatia said.

The plan suffered a major setback after Nagori and other SIMI workers were arrested in March 2008. However, Ilahi moved in to plug the void aided by Kayamuddin of Vadodara and a top techno-activist from Mumbai who had earlier worked with Wipro. The reconstituted core group toyed with the idea of initially carrying out a hijack or a very high profile kidnapping to bargain for the release of Nagori but postponed it. Instead they decided to concentrate on carrying out blasts in key cities in a phased manner to establish the profile of Indian Mujahideen. Interestingly, the initials IM (Indian Mujahideen) are the middle alphabets of SIMI," Bhatia said.

Piecing together the evidence, the investigating team found that Zahid Sheikh, a resident of Juhapura in Ahmedabad, had attended both the camps and had also provided the local logistics for a team of nine -- five from Madhya Pradesh, two from Maharashtra and two from Karnataka -- which had assembled in Ahmedabad. The team held meetings in Bapunagar area of Ahmedabad in April, another one in at a different city in May and the final one on July 20 at Zahid's residence. The elusive Mumbai man is both the cyber as well as explosive expert, Bhatia added.

It was Zahid who was first picked up and, under intense interrogation, spilled the beans leading to the arrest of Yunus Mansuri, Shanshuddin Sheikh, Arif Kadri, Gyasuddin from Ahmedabad and Imran, Usman Agarbattiwala, Iqbal Sheikh and Sajid Mansuri from Vadodara.

Pandey said that the sleuths now have a fairly clear picture of the planning and execution of the blasts and the Surat plan, including intricate details of the procurement of four stolen cars from Mumbai, two of which were used in the blasts at the two hospitals and the other two which were recovered along with raw material for manufacture of explosives from Surat on July 28.

"We have identified the people who stole the cars and the place in MP from where the raw material for the explosives was procured. We also know where and how the explosives were put together. A timer was used in Ahmedabad and a chip in Surat only because the core group was the same and a time gap was needed to reach the other city after carrying out the blast in the first one.

"A timer holds only for 12 hours while a chip can be timed for a longer interval. Nevertheless, we will soon be able to get to the reason why the Surat explosives failed to go off", Pandey said.

The important clue came from information that five sim cards had been purchased under different names meant only for one-way usage and these had been discarded after the July 26 explosions.

Also, all the Ahmedabad cycle-bombs were set to the same time to detonate so that the two hospitals would be chock-a-block with the injured, their relatives, medicos and the para-medical staff when the major explosions take place. This was designed to inflict maximum casualty.

How it happened

# Cops from Gujarat, M'rashtra, Kerala, Jharkhand, UP, Karnataka and MP pool in manpower to crack case


# IM head Abul Bashir Ilahi nabbed in Azamgarh


The Plot

# SIMI camp in Kerala jungles in December 2007 hatches serial blasts plan, gives commando training to 40 recruits


# Nagori brothers come to Gujarat in January 2008 to indoctrinate locals. nAcclimatisation camp held in Vadodra jungles


# Plan set back as Nagori is arrested in March 2008.


# Ilahi moves in with Kayamuddin and top techno-activist formerly from Wipro.


# Reconstituted core group plans hijack/kidnapping to get Nagori back. Change mind, stick to Plan A: Blasts in key cities to get IM a name


# Team of nine put in place for Ahmedabad blasts. Zahid gives local logistics


How it was cracked

# Zahid held after blasts Spills the beans


# Car thieves identified, raw explosives came from MP


# Timer used for Ahmedabad, chips for Surat to get a time gap. Timer holds for 12 hours, chip can be timed for longer interval.


Crucial clue

# 5 sims purchased under different names only with incoming facility, discarded after the blasts


# All cycle-bombs set to same time -- for maximum damage at two hospitals

 

[Flintlock]

In a way, these blasts have shaken Indian Police out of their slumber, and are ushering in a new era of cooperation and unity between Indian states.

They might just turn out to be a blessing in disguise.

 

[Flintlock]

Indian Mujahideen is just hardline version of SIMI
17 Aug 2008, 0142 hrs IST, Pradeep Thakur & Vishwa Mohan,TNN


NEW DELHI: With the solving of the Ahmedabad blast case, investigators have also been successful in cracking the IM code. Indian Mujahideen (IM) is the hardline faction of Students Islamic Movement of India (SIMI) that broke away in 2005 to protest against the diffidence of the moderate faction about declaring a full-scale war on India.

Hardliners, led by its general secretary Safdar Nagori who was nabbed along with 10 key associates in Indore last March, wanted jihad against India on the same lines that al-Qaida was fighting in Iraq and Afghanistan, say investigators.

Confirming the cracking of the IM code, Gujarat DGP PC Pande said, "IM is nothing but SIMI activists who were behind the serial blasts in Ahmedabad." He said the hardliners first removed 'I' from SIMI, reducing it to SIM before opting for only 'IM' as their visiting card.

While the choice of Mujahideen — holy warrior — was in keeping with the group's avowed objective to wage holy war against non-believers, the prefix 'Indian' served another purpose — that of helping the group's mentor, Pakistan's ISI, to claim that it had no role in the acts of terrorism in India.

It is important to recall that the email sent on behalf of IM warning of the terror attack on Ahmedabad minutes before the blasts went to great lengths to emphasize the group's claim to be an indigenous affair, with no link from ISI-supported gangs like LeT and Jaish.

"The Ahmedabad blasts were planned out in the city at the home of one of SIMI activists," said Ashish Bhatia, head of the probe team and joint commissioner of police.

The drift away from the 'moderates', who lay stress on speeches and propaganda to achieve the objective to make Islam the dominant system in India, dates to the 90s and was facilitated by the community's anger against the Babri demolition. But the complete identification with the objective of global jihad and embrace of the strategy to inflict "a thousand cuts" had to wait till the latter part of the decade. The rift was complete by 2005.

Fresh evidence of the involvement of SIMI activists, a faction of whom now banded under IM, comes within days of the refusal of the Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Tribunal to extend the ban on the fundamentalist outfit inspired by the Deobandi school of Islamic thought and which was formed in the flush of the success of the Islamic Revolution in Iran in 1979.

SIMI general secretary Safdar Nagori, who refused to toe the moderates' line of shunning violence, led the hardliners in setting up of terror camps and organizing blasts across India.

After the split in the SIMI camp, the hardliners met in Ujjain just before the serial blasts in Mumbai (July 11, 2006) and continued their terror campaign with strikes in Malegaon, Samjhauta Express, Hyderabad, Ajmer, Jaipur, Bangalore and Ahmedabad. The hardliners also began organizing terrorist training camps in the forests of many states starting with Kerala, Karnataka, Indore and to be followed in all states where the underground cadres of the banned outfit had established a base.

Investigation in the Ahmedabad case has revealed that a training camp was organised at Ernakulam in December 2007 and January 2008 under the leadership of Safdar Nagori. SIMI youths from the southern states participated in the camp. The mastermind of the Ahmedabad serial blasts, Bashar, acted as the chief ideologue of the outfit who motivated cadres. At the training camps, terror interns were given a crash course in making of explosives with locally available bomb materials, a complete survival tactics in jungle warfare and how to survive interrogation in case of arrest.

The serial blasts in Ahmedabad marked the third time that the Indian Mujahideen had claimed responsibility for the act. The previous blasts in which they had claimed responsibility included the strikes in UP courts in Varanasi, Faizabad and Lucknow in November last year and later in Jaipur on May 13.

Nagori was largely responsible for organizing the hardliners as he enjoyed good working relationship with Pakistan's ISI and with terror outfits both in Pakistan and in Bangladesh such as LeT, Jaish-e-Mohammed and HuJI.

Nagori, on the run since 2001 when SIMI was banned, had managed to recruit from the upwardly mobile section of the society, many of them trained engineers, doctors and IT professionals. The hardliners soon spread influence in Maharashtra, Karnataka, Kerala, Andhra Pradesh, UP, Bihar and West Bengal.

After the arrest of Nagori and his top lieutenants in Indore, the outfit suffered initial setback but Ahmedabad mastermind Bashar reorganized the cadres assisted by a former Wipro executive who is also on the run to motivate and orchestrate serial blasts. It was not clear that the former Wipro staffer was Shibly Peedical Abdul, a computer engineer from Kerala who escaped a Karnataka raid on terror suspects this year. Abdul is said to have helped organise the July 2006 bombings in Mumbai.

Indian Mujahideen is just hardline version of SIMI-India-The Times of India