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| Alarm Bells Ring In India Over Botched Terror Plot |
| 2016-05-27 |
| [Tolo News] A botched terror bid in New Delhi set alarm bells ringing for Indian security agencies after Lions of Islam posing as Afghan medical tourists were able to infiltrate the capital, intelligence sources told India Today this week. According to the media outlet, the criminal mastermind behind the failed December, 2015, terror plan was Maulana Abdul Rehman ‐ whom they claim played a key role in the 1999 hijacking of Indian Airlines' IC 814 flight. Quoting intelligence sources, India Today reports that Rehman launched his first terror attempt on India in November when he sent two of his men to target five locations in Delhi with chemical bombs. According to the report, at the time Rehman had been backed by Pakistain's ISI and by Haqqani network. The two infiltrators - identified as Pak Ahmed Khan Durrani and Afghan national Abdul Qadri - used medical visas to enter New Delhi, the article stated. Durrani posed as an Afghan patient and Qadri as his attendant, the officials reportedly explained. They said Durrani had a forged passport issued in the name of Sohaib Abbas and that he had undergone training in chemical bomb-making. While in Delhi, the duo reportedly remained in contact with their handler, identified as Abid, who had set up a control-room in the Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa ... formerly NWFP, still Terrorism Central... area of Pakistain-Afghan border. According to the news article, the two had a hit list, which listed the Iskcon temple, a shopping mall and three other targets. In addition the two bought bomb-making materials, such as fireworks for gunpowder, wires, bottles and watches, from Old Delhi markets. Quoting security sources, India Today said the pair was able to make six chemical bombs which they planned to use in serial attacks in the second week of December. But a test run went awry forcing them to abandon their sinister plan. The two men reportedly panicked after a bomb they tried to detonate in the bathroom of their room sent huge plumes of smoke out of their building. Scared, they apparently got rid of all devices and bomb-making material and fled to Afghanistan. After Sherlocks unearthed the terror plan, intelligence agencies alerted the police in Kabul ...the capital of Afghanistan. Home to continuous fighting from 1992 to 1996 between the forces of would-be strongman and Pak ISI/Jamaat-e-Islami sock puppet Gulbuddin Hekmayar and the Northern Alliance, a period which won Hek the title Most Evil Man in the Worldand didn't do much for the reputations of the Northern Alliance guys either.... who then jugged Don't shoot, coppers! I'm comin' out! Durrani and Qadri. Explosives and secret documents were recovered from their possession. But according to the news article, Indian Intelligence officials describe the entire modus operandi as alarming, with a new module using a new route of medical tourism to strike India. According to them, the criminal mastermind, Rehman, heads an organization called Al Barkat Trust and has an office in Beautiful Downtown Peshawar ...capital of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (formerly known as the North-West Frontier Province), 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 Pakistan's most ethnically and linguistically diverse cities, which means lots of gunfire. , security officials said. His trust has established the new group called Jaish-ul-Haq. Rehman's second-in-command has been identified as Dr Zubair. |
| Posted by:Fred |