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2021-07-15 India-Pakistan
No politics please: UP’s deep rooted problem of radicalisation, terror have to be cleaned up
[OneIndia] A war of words broke out after former chief minister of Uttar Pradesh,
...whose population was 19.3% Muslim in 2018, as good a reason as any for its current problems...
Akhilesh Yadav reportedly said that he does not trust the state police. The comments are said to have been made after the arrest of two Lions of Islam in UP. Yadav said that he cannot trust the UP police and especially the BJP government. His party however said that an edited clip is in circulation.

Terror modules in UP are nothing new. One can trace the birth of the Indian Mujahideen
A locally recruited auxilliary of Pakistain's Lashkar-e-Taiba, designed to give a domestic patina to Pakistain's terror war against its bigger neighbor...

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to UP when the outfit announced itself following a blast at a court premises. Investigations conducted painstakingly over the years found the Azamgarh connect to the Indian Mujahideen.

As recently as 2018, the National Investigation Agency busted an ISIS inspired module in Amroha, a city in north-western Uttar Pradesh. Intelligence Bureau officials tell OneIndia that Amroha is shaping up to be the next Azamgarh. When the agencies were chasing the Indian Mujahideen, it was found that a bulk of the members were from Azamgarh. In fact if one traces the IM to its early days, it can be said that the outfit took shape in Azamgarh.

Azamgarh had become a hot spot for terror. Officials say the atmosphere in Azamgarh was conducive for operatives and hence they were able to carry out their activities and return there safely and hide. In Amroha, the agencies find a similar trend and it has been found that the Moulvis have been driving the modules. In one recent case relating to a Lashkar-e-Tayiba module in Haryana, it was found that funds were being channelised through hawala transactions, which a Moulvi oversaw.

In the latest case, it was found that operatives of the al-Qaeda linked Ansar Ghazwatul Hind
...the Kashmiri branch of Al Qaeda, which was mistakenly thought to have been completely wiped out in 2019, after they strongly objected to President Trump moving the American embassy in Israel to Jerusalem. Not that we’re claiming cause and effect, but still...
were planning on carrying out a series of explosions in Uttar Pradesh using human bombs.

The ATS arrested two persons identified as Minhaz Ahmed and Maseeruddin. The ATS also revered a huge cache of arms and ammunition. Additional Director General of Police (Law and Order) Prashant Kumar said that the accused were planning on unleashing terror activities ahead of August 15 in various parts of the state including Lucknow. They were working on the instructions of Umar Halmandi, who is the chief o the al-Qaeda module in UP. The ATS also learnt that the accused had their handlers based in Beautiful Downtown Peshawar
...capital of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, administrative and economic hub for the Federally Administered Tribal Areas of Pakistan. Peshawar is situated near the eastern end of the Khyber Pass, convenient to the Pak-Afghan border. Peshawar has evolved into one of Pakistain's most ethnically and linguistically diverse cities, which means lots of gunfire...
and Quetta in Pakistain.

In 2019, the chief of the Al Qaeda in the Sub Continent, Asim Umar
...chief of al-Qaeda's Sharia Committee for Pakistain, named head of al-Qaeda in India. His video appearances are frequently accompanied by clips of al Qaeda's senior propagandist in Pakistan, Ahmad Farooq. Umar the author of The Army of Anti-Christ: Blackwater, Documentation of the Dreadful Terrorist Activities of America's Blackwater in Islamic Countries...
referred to as Sheikh Umar was killed in Afghanistan. Umar took over as the chief of the al-Qaeda in the Sub-Continent (AQIS) in 2014. He has been referred to as a Pak national, but tracing his origins suggests that he was born in Sambal in Uttar Pradesh.

IB officials had been studying the antecedents of Umar since the launch of the India outfit and his origin has been tracked to Uttar Pradesh.

Officials, OneIndia spoke with said that the radicalisation problem in UP is deep rooted. Hence, it is best to let the agencies do their job and not politicise such arrests. The bust by the UP ATS his a major one as the operatives were planning suicide strikes. Let the cops do their job and in the interest of national security it would be best from making comments on such issues, the official cited above also said.
Last year, the NIA had arrested scores of Al-Qaeda operatives from Kerala and West Bengal. It was found that the 22 members of this group were part of a chat group called Ghazwa-e-Hind.

Ghazwa-e-Hind, when loosely translated means destruction of India. It had been propagated several years back by Ilyas Kashmiri, the head of the Al-Qaeda's 313 Brigade.

Interestingly, these terror groups have attributed Ghazwa-e-Hind to the Prophet. Citing the Prophet, the group tells its cadres that it had been said that the Army would rise from the west and seize India from Islam.

These groups during its various conclaves had cited this and attributed the same to the Prophet. During recent meetings of the two terror outfits, the leaders spoke about rolling out Ghazwa-e-Hind in a big way.

The first priority would be take over Kashmir, they had said. Once this is done the entire map of India can be changed. On the Kashmir issue, the commanders pointed out that Kashmiris has been fighting the Hindus even before the birth of Pakistan. Islam and Kashmir and Islam and Pakistan are not separate, they also said.

The terrorist groups, with close links with the Al-Qaida, had resolved at a conference held in Okara district in Pakistan on November 27, 2017, that it would continue its "Ghazwa-e-Hind" irrespective of the Indo-Pak ties.
Posted by trailing wife 2021-07-15 00:00|| || Front Page|| [16 views ]  Top
 File under: Lashkar e-Taiba 

#1 ...For a second, I saw 'UP' and thought 'Upper Peninsula', and wondered why the heck those nice folks would be radicalized.

Well, that much SNOW every year would radicalize anybody, but...

Mike
Posted by Mike Kozlowski 2021-07-15 05:49||   2021-07-15 05:49|| Front Page Top

#2 Same problem, Mike, only I thought it was UPI - United Press.
Posted by Mercutio 2021-07-15 08:42||   2021-07-15 08:42|| Front Page Top

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