Members of the banned Student Islamic Movement of India (SIMI) and Indian Mujahideen (IM), nabbed from Jabalpur and Bhopal earlier this week, used the internet to recruit and train young men for jihad.
The Madhya Pradesh ATS on Sunday arrested eight alleged terrorists from the Indian Mujahideen and the SIMI from Jabalpur and Bhopal. Out of the eight arrested alleged terrorists, four were nabbed from Jabalpur and the rest from Bhopal.
According sources in the ATS, the arrested militants circulated jihadi literature and video CDs among youth of 15 to 18 years. The police have also recovered many CDs, pen drives and jihadi literature from those arrested. They also used jihadi blogs to reach the young minds.
Dr. Abu Faizal and Wasim, who were among the eight nabbed terrorists, had Facebook accounts through which they spread propaganda and encouraged them to join the holy war. The suspects have revealed that they had recruited several young men from Indore, Ujjain and Bhopal into their army to fulfill their nefarious aims. They targeted young men in mosques. |