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| Indian Police Arrest Islamic State 'Jihadi Tweeter' | |||
| 2014-12-13 | |||
[IsraelTimes] Indian police on Saturday placed in durance vileDrop the rosco, Muggsy, or you're one with the ages! a 24-year-old believed to be the handler of an influential Twitter account supporting 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.... group, officials said. Mehdi Masroor Biswas, who works for an Indian food conglomerate in the southern city of Bangalore, is alleged to be behind the Twitter account @ShamiWitness. The account had 17,700 followers, including many foreigners fighting for the Islamic State group in Syria and Iraq, until it was shut down following a report by Britannia’s Channel 4 News on Thursday. Tweets from @ShamiWitness contained jihadist propaganda as well as information for would-be recruits and messages praising fallen fighters as deaders. Police in Bangalore raided his house in an upscale suburb early Saturday and seized his mobile phone, laptop and other documents for evidence. “On the basis of credible intelligence inputs… we have apprehended Mehdi Masroor Biswas from his rented one-room apartment,” police director general L.R. Pachuau said at a news conference. “He has confessed to the fact that he was operating Shami Witness Twitter account for the last many years… he used to work in the office in the day and became active on the Internet late at night." India’s moderate population of 150 million Moslems have not often been drawn into sectarian conflicts in the Middle East and elsewhere.
if you can't say something nice about a person some juicy gossip will go well... an Indian student was recently charged with terror-related offences after he returned home from Iraq where he is alleged to have worked for the jihadists. Biswas’s arrest has further fueled fears that IS snuffies are attempting to recruit radicalized Moslem youngsters online. Source of information Pachuau said Biswas used to tweet “ferociously” after gathering information from TV and news websites on the situation in Iraq, Syria and the rest of the troubled region. Biswas was “particularly close to English-speaking terrorists” and had become a source of “incitement and information” for youngsters trying to join the IS group. “Through his social media propaganda, he abetted IS in its agenda to wage war against the Asiatic powers,” Pachuau said. A preliminary case of abetting war against the state has been registered against Biswas. The British channel said he shared jokes, funny images and talked about superhero movies on his Facebook page. He also used to post pictures of pizza dinners with friends and parties at work.
if you can't say something nice about a person some juicy gossip will go well... in an interview to the Indian Express newspaper published Saturday, Biswas said his claims to Channel 4 were meant to get the television news hound off his back. “When Channel 4 called me first and asked if @ShamiWitness was my Twitter handle, I did not oppose it… my outright rejection would not have convinced them. I therefore decided to admit that I was indeed @ShamiWitness in the hope that they would not air the program,” Biswas told the newspaper.
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