TERRORISM - 2008 - Indian Social Institute

'Malegaon blast arrest exposes Hindu militancy' (12)
Mumbai, October 30: : Muslim intellectuals and political leaders said that the arrest of a Sadhvi
and other activists in connection with the Malegaon and Modasa blasts, marks a good begining in
exposing the role of Hindu outfits in Terror activities. "This is just a tip of the iceberg and names
of many top brass leaders of Hindu right wing organisations would figure if the investigations are
carried out without any political pressure," said Prof Dr Anwar Amir Ansari, Secretary, Aman
Committee. "Though it (arrest of Hindu fundamentalists) is a late action, its a good beginning, let
there be impartial probe, Ansari said. "Why there are double standards in booking the accused
under soft act and why are they are they not placed under stringent laws like MCOCA," Ansari
asked. Chief Maulana Kashmiri, said, with these arrests police can lead to the real culprits
involved in the earlier blasts including the Mumbai train blasts. "Why the ATS is not talking openly
to the media. Is it under any pressure from the government" Kashmiri asked. He also rubbished
reports that the move is to appease the minorities with an eye on the forthcoming elections.
"Terrorism does not have any religion, but this is a reality, that members of the Hindu outfit have
been involved, but of course they are not members of BJP," Hyder Azam, BJP Minority Cell,
Mumbai President said. (Indian Express 1/11/08)
Top terror recruiter arrested formally (12)
Kannur: The newly formed special anti-terror squad of the Kerala Police on Monday formally
arrested Mujeeb (28) of Mouvanchery, Chakkarakkal, Kannur after the officials were convinced of
his terror links following six days of intense interrogation in a secret facility. With this those put
under arrest for terror operations so far by the squad headed in Kannur by S Sreejith,
Superintendent of Police, rose to three, the others being NDF activist Abdul Jaleel and terror
recruiter Muhammad Faizal. Sources in the police confirmed that Mujeeb, like Faizal, was a
recruiter of young men from Kerala for the terror outfits based in Pakistan. He was taken into
custody by the Kollam police from his wife’s house in Ochira on October 28. Mujeeb had gone
into hinding just when the police were observing his activities as per the information received by
them during the interrogation of the others arrested. The Superintendent of Police, Kollam, later
handed him over to Sreejith. Sources confirmed that Mujeeb had recruited several young men
from Kannur for terror outfits. The hunt for two other top Lashkar-e-Taiba recruiters, Nazeer of
Neerchal, Kannur and Ibrahim Moulvi of Vellamunda, Wayanad district, were still on, and sources
said they could fall into the police net anytime. Officials indicated that Mujeeb was an associate of
Nazeer and Ibrahim Moulvi in recruiting young men to be sent to Pakistan for training in terror
operations. Sources suspected that Jaleel, Faizal and Ninar of Thayyil, Kannur, who was already
in custody but yet to be arrested formally, were sub-agents functioning under the top recruiter-trio
of Nazeer, Ibrahim Moulvi and Mujeeb. However, a clear picture would emerge only after further
investigations. But the police had already got convincing information that the four Malayalee
ultras — Muhammad Yasin, Muhammad Fayaz, Muhammad Faiz and Abdul Raheem — killed by
security forces in Kashmir last month had been recruited by the Nazeer-Ibrahim-Mujeeb trio. The
police were of the belief that Nazeer, trained in terror operations in Pakistan and elsewhere, was
the seniormost recruiter in Kannur. Ibrahim Moulvi was mostly in charge of taking classes for
recruited and prospective recruited young men, by traveling all over the State. Sources in the
police said that they had got evidences to prove that he had organised classes in Kannur city,
Neerchal, Thana and Maithanappally. They said that Ibrahim Moulvi, who had married a girl from
Kappad, used to visit her house regularly. Meanwhile, the Jammu and Kashmir Police handed
over the bodies of the four Malayalaee militants killed by security forces in Kupwara sector while
trying to sneak into Pakistan early October to the Lalpura Masjid Committee. The relatives of the
killed terror operatives, Yasin, Fayaz, Faiz and Raheem, had refused to receive the bodies
despite the Jammu and Kashmir Police’s offer to hand over them. At the same time, Islamist
organisation NDF and Adbul Nasser Madani’s PDP, presently under the shadow of suspicion in
the context of the Kerala Police’s terror hunt, launched pre-emptive campaigns to project
themselves as peace-loving outfits. The NDF held a massive demonstration followed by a public
meeting in Kannur, in which hundreds of activists participated asking the Government “not to
destroy Kerala by creating terror”. Senior leaders of the organisation addressed the participants
at the public meeting. PDP’s working chairman Poonthura Siraj alleged that the Indian Union