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evealed that the cadres had secret meetings to mobilise Muslim youth to spread jihad in the entire Indian subcontinent especially in Gujarat, and that they had planned to wage a war against India by indoctrinating and training Muslim youth in the use of arms and ammunition. (The Hindu 21/8/08) Arrests in Gujarat reveal new evidence linking plotters to 7/11, Samjhauta too (12) Ahmedabad, August 23: As the Gujarat police and Central agencies investigate SIMI’s national network following the arrests last week, they are finding leads that could link the plotters of the July 26 serial blasts in Ahmedabad to the Mumbai train blasts in 2006 and even the Samjhauta Express explosions the next year. Given that SIMI is suspected to be behind the Jaipur and the UP court blasts as well, the picture emerging is of a sprawling network of operatives spread across several states whose paths intersect several times. Sources said SIMI’s Sajid Mansuri, one of those arrested in Gujarat, has provided crucial inputs to the Mumbai train blasts probe and has named Karnataka dentist Mohammed Salim Honali as the man proficient in liquid-bomb technology using hydrogen peroxide. Mansuri is said to have told his interrogators that Honali taught SIMI cadres how to make liquid bombs at a camp in Dharwad, Karnataka. Significantly, the devices used in the February 18, 2007 Samjhauta Express blasts had bottles with liquid hydrogen peroxide and gelatin sticks. Honali, 31, arrested last Thursday, has told the Gujarat police that he was a close associate of Mansuri and Subhan Qureshi alias Tauqeer, SIMI technical chief, and knew how to make liquid bombs. Tauqeer is the link to the Mumbai train blasts case in which the Maharashtra police chargesheeted SIMI general secretary Ehtesham Qureshi and local LeT chief Faisal Sheikh. It now transpires that they also interrogated Tauqeer and Mansuri. Tauqeer is now on the run. The Gujarat Police is waiting for the arrival of SIMI chief Safdar Nagori and his associates from Madhya Pradesh today. Nagori’s younger brother Kamuruddin is with the Gujarat police since August 15 and is said to have admitted to handling logistics and communication through three cyber-cafes in Indore. (Indian Express 24/8/08) 8 die in Jammu terror siege (12) Srinagar/Jammu: Aug. 27: Three militants holed up inside a house at Manhas Mohalla in Chinore, 20 km from Jammu, were killed in a daylong fierce gunbattle with security forces on Wednesday but the fate of the seven people they had taken hostage was not immediately known, officials said. Four civilians and an Army officer were killed in the operation. "The operation in Chinore is over as the third militant has been killed around 11.30 pm," Jammu SSP Manohar Singh told IANS. "However, the fate of the hostages is not known." The militants had gone on a shooting spree, killing five people, including an Army officer, before the standoff between them and troops began at Bantalab, 20 km south of Jammu. During the indiscriminate firing by terrorists at Mishriwala and the encounter at Chinore, three Army personnel and two labourers were injured. The terrorists had subsequently taken seven members of a family — three women and four children — hostage. One of the militants holed up in the house told two reporters over mobile phones they were "highly upset" over the "economic blockade" of the Valley by right-wing Hindu activists and their "targeting" of Jammu’s Muslims. Officials said how the terrorists got the reporters’ phone numbers just a day after sneaking across from Pakistan was a mystery. The Army and security agencies are investigating. But was the purpose of the latest infiltration: simply vengeance, or was there more A senior government official in Srinagar said the militants wanted to sabotage the talks now underway with Jammu’s Amarnath Sangharsh Samiti, which, he claimed, was nearing a solution. The reported infiltration and subsequent bloody acts by militants came at a stage when the samiti and the four-member committee set up by governor N.N. Vohra are preparing to hold the fourth round of talks, expected to be the decisive one. The samiti had planned a rally in support of its demand at Jammu’s Parade Ground on Wednesday, which it swiftly postponed "in the national interest".Police and Army authorities in Jammu said the three terrorists, donning police uniforms and carrying AK-47s, reached Mishriwala, 25 km from Jammu, hired an auto and started firing. Those who fell victim were Nasib Singh, an ex-serviceman, Sadiq Hussain, a milkman, and Jagdish Kumar, an ex-serviceman. They also killed a junior commissioned officer, V.K. Prakashan of 9 Madras, at Bantalab, where they were stopped by the officer and were asked to prove their identities. After reaching Chinore, they killed the
autorickshaw driver, identified as Vijay Kumar. The ultras barged into the house of one Billu Ram at 5.50 am. (Asian Age 28/8/08) Hostages relive terror (12) Jammu: Aug. 28: The Army and state police intensified search operations across Jammu Thursday, a day after the fierce 19-hour gunbattle at Chinore, ending 1 am Thursday, with the Army managing to rescue seven of the 11 hostages, including four children, and killing all three militants. Three hostages — Sandeep Singh Chib, eyewitness to the killing of the autorickshaw driver (who had been forced at gunpoint to drive the militants to Jammu); Territorial Army jawan Sham Murari; and Ashok Manhas, a tutor — were killed by militants at Billu Ram’s house, where they had holed up. According to Billu’s wife Sunita and mother Biro Devi, who too were among the hostages, along with Billu’s children Sheetal, Kajal, Vipin and Nishant; and his brother Tarsem and his wife Ritu, it was Tarsem’s presence of mind which saved their lives. Sources claimed that Sham Murari (an informer), who was following the militants right from Mishriwala, had entered Billu Ram’s house minutes before the militants stormed in. Sandeep too entered the house to escape from the militants who were firing indiscriminately. Ashok was already there along with other members of the family. "I made an escape from there when I was directed by them to lock the door which leads to our roof," claimed Biro Devi. Said Tarsem, recalling those hours of terror: "The terrorists barged in and asked those present not to raise a voice. Yet after they killed three persons, two of them unknown to us, I requested them to have mercy on the children. Blood was spilled everywhere, we were terror-struck. The condition of children can be well-imagined. I pleaded — kill us but, spare the children and women. I managed somehow to send them (the women and children) into another room. (But) after they (terrorists) felt they had no escape route, they asked the children to come out." Tarsem, showing considerable presence of mind, sought permission to bring the children himself. "As I entered the other room where the children and women were hiding, I bolted it from inside and placed a bed and almirah to block the door. They started banging on the door and opened fire. Two bullets hit my sister-in-law Sunita, and she started bleeding profusely. But we did not open the door," Tarsem recalled. The children, who are now with their mother Sunita, who is being treated at Jammu’s Medical College Hospital, have still not come out of the trauma. Kajal and Sheetal, though, did manage to speak briefly to reporters. "It was simply scary," they said about their long ordeal. Jammu IGP K. Rajendra, speaking to the media, said searches were being conducted at Samba, Kathua and Reasi districts, in addition to the Jammu region. "There are reports that more terrorists have sneaked in and they can even target religious places to create terror," he warned. (Asian Age 29/8/08) Serial blasts rock Delhi (12) New Delhi: Five explosions rocked the busy central and south Delhi areas of the national capital late Saturday evening, killing at least 30 and injuring over 90 persons as terrorists returned to their favourite hunting ground after a gap of almost three years. Two unexploded bombs, one near India Gate and the other in Connaught Place, were recovered by Delhi Police. The first of the five blasts went off around 6.30 PM in Gaffar Market in the popular shopping of Karol Bagh, barely four kms away from the Parliament House. The second explosion happened within ten minutes in the busy Connaught Place area, near Nirmal Tower along the Barakhamba Road. Two more explosives went off within the next twenty minutes within 100-metre distance from the second one - one near Gopal Das Bhawan, along the Barakhamba Road and the other in the central park area of Connaught Place. The spot shifted to the elite M-Block market in Greater Kailash Part-I in South Delhi located around 15 kms from Connaught Place area, where another blast took place. Giving the details of the blasts, Delhi Police spokesperson Rajan Bhagat said the injured were shifted to hospitals in the vicinity of the blasts. Several victims were removed from the blast sites to hospitals in autos and taxies by people who were witness to these blasts, even before the Police arrived at these spots. Virtually mocking at the country's intelligence and security establishment, the Indian Mujahideen-the breakaway faction of the banned militant outfit Students Islamic Movement of India (SIMI) -- claimed the responsibility for the serial blasts. In e- mails sent to media houses in the national capital, the outfit that had also claimed responsibility for the Jaipur and Ahmedabad blasts announced that "Indian Mujahideen strikes back once more." The impact of the blasts in Karol Bagh could be gauged by the fact that an auto rickshaw
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