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| SIMI working in tandem with LeT |
| 2003-08-03 |
| Last week’s Ghatkopar bomb blast in Mumbai is an indicator of how terrorist networks are tightening their noose around the city. The police claim the banned Students Islamic Movement of India (SIMI) is now working in tandem with the Lashkar-e-Taiba to spread instability across the country. The police says it now has information: That most of these operations are controlled by Dubai based mafia don Abu Hamza, who is also the chief of the Muslim Defence Force. Recruitment operations under Hamza have reportedly spread to Andhra Pradesh, Karnataka, Tamil Nadu, Maharashtra where young boys are being lured into the business with easy money. They are then trained abroad and armed by the Lashkar-e-Taiba. SIMI gives them local support to carry out operations within the country. "They have established links with the Hizbul Mujahideen and the LeT. Here in Delhi, after the grenade attack on the CGO complex, we had traced their links with the Hizb. The Mumbai police have also unearthed their links with the LeT," said Ashok Chand, DCP, Special Cell, Delhi. The police suspect SIMI was involved in the last four bomb blasts in Mumbai, in which 16 people died and close to 160 were injured. Twenty eight SIMI activists have been arrested so far and six are missing. Intelligence agencies believe SIMI has now forged links with terrorist organistaions in other countries as well. "The training and funding happens in foreign countries and is controlled by the ISI, which looks after the network," said Nikhil Kumar, Advisor, Home Ministry. Some believe the blasts may be in retaliation to last year’s violence in Gujarat with three blasts in areas, which have a sizeable Gujarati population. |
| Posted by:Paul Moloney |
| #3 11A5S - the Thai papers use the "bandits" euphemism, too - but I've asked around among local Thai friends and they all know it's Islam they're referring to down South. |
| Posted by: ·com 2003-8-3 9:58:27 PM |
| #2 I gotta admit I keep getting confused by the "mafia" references in Indian press accounts of terrorism. I'm starting to suspect that this is some sort of coded language like "alky smugglers" in Saudi or the Russkies calling terrorists "bandits." |
| Posted by: 11A5S 2003-8-3 8:45:13 PM |
| #1 So why hasn't Indian services taken this asshole out yet? Black Cats? Clancy lol? |
| Posted by: Frank G 2003-8-3 8:29:02 PM |