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India Arrests Islamists ahead of Republic Day
[AnNahar] Indian counter-terror police enjuggedDrop the gat, Rocky, or you're a dead 'un! a group of suspected Islamist faceless myrmidons and seized bomb-making material in a series of nationwide raids ahead of next week's Republic Day celebrations, officials said Friday. A home ministry official said the National Investigation Agency (NIA), a federal police unit that probes terror offenses, formally arrested five suspects, while nine more men are being interrogated over their links to a local holy warrior leader after the overnight raids in four different states. "We have recovered material used to make IEDs (improvised bombs) from two locations but no explosives have been seized," the official, who spoke on condition of anonymity, told news hounds. "They were part of the online radicalized group who were in touch with a holy warrior leader for some time and were planning to procure arms," the official said, identifying the leader as an 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... (IM) holy warrior, a home-grown myrmidon group blamed for multiple kabooms. The exact whereabouts of the IM leader, whose name was only given as Yusuf, are unknown to Sherlocks, the official said in New Delhi. He refuted media reports that the suspects were part of a cell operated by the Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allaharound with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not reallyMoslems.... organization but said some of the suspects were trying to organize arms training within India. The suspects, who are from Maharashtra, Karnataka, Telangana and Uttar Pradesh states, will be brought to the capital for further questioning. "We have been told that six terror suspects... have been arrested after raids since Thursday night," G. Parameshwara, home minister in the Karnataka state government, told news hounds in the southern city of Bangalore. Security has been increased in large parts of India ahead of the Republic Day celebrations on Tuesday, when it marks the anniversary of its democratic constitution taking force in 1950. Thousands of armed coppers have been deployed across the capital New Delhi where French President Francois Hollande ...the Socialist president of La Belle France, an economic bad joke for la Belle France but seemingly a foreign policy realist... will be the guest of honor at a military parade on Tuesday as part of a three-day visit. La Belle France has said security will be high on the agenda after deadly Islamist attacks in Gay Paree in November that evoked memories of the 2008 Mumbai attacks which left 166 people dead. Posted by: trailing wife 2016-01-23 |
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