SECOND GENERATION OF MUSLIM TERRORISTS ARE MEDICAL STUDENTS IN

BANGALORE

Arrested student is son of LeT man

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BANGALORE: The arrest of Mohammed Ghouse alias Riyazuddin Nasir (22) in Davangere has
deepened terror links, with police discovering that Ghouse is the son of LeT member and
terrorist Maulana Mohammed Naseeruddin, the man wanted in several terror attacks across the
country.

Naseeruddin is one of the prime accused in the recent Hyderabad blasts, the sensational murder
of BJP MLA Haren Pandya in 1999 and plotting blasts in 2004 in Secunderabad.

Police also suspect Ghouse’s link to the recent Hyderabad serial blasts and a special squad has
taken him to Hyderabad for verification.

Anti-terrorist Cell officials who have been interrogating Ghouse for the last couple of days, were
in for a surprise when he revealed that his father was Naseeruddin.

"Ghouse had misguided us in the beginning, claiming that he was from Gulbarga. We had to get
a little tough with him before he revealed the truth. He has also revealed sensitive points related
to the recent Hyderabad serial blasts," the official told this website's newspaper.

A team of linguistic experts has also accompanied the special investigation team to decipher
Arabic content of the CDs and chips seized from Ghouse.

Sources told this website's newspaper they had nabbed Ghouse and his associate Asadullah based
on information given by Central Intelligence agencies, who have been tracking them. The
suspects were arrested from Vadakatte in Honnali.

"Their network is spread across North Karnataka and Uttara Kannada. We suspect that they were
planning an attack in North Karnataka and were moving around meeting associates.

There were red markings on certain areas on maps of South India, including Udupi, Mangalore
and Karwar, indicating that they were planning a big attack in Karnataka. We have also found
Pakistani and Bangladeshi SIM cards," said the ATC police official.

Mohammed Asif, a final year MBBS student, who was arrested from KIMS hostel in Hubli,
Asadullah Abubaker, also an MBBS student arrested with Ghouse in Davangere, have also been
taken to Hyderabad for enquiry.
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HYDERABAD: Though Basheer Ahmed, the self-styled supreme commander of the Harkat-Ul-
Jihad-Al-Islami (HuJI), killed in an encounter with the security forces at Doda in Jammu on
Friday, does not appear to have been directly involved on planning the August, 2007 blasts in
Hyderabad, he was in regularly touch with those who had planned the attacks and perhaps, was
even aware of its minutest details.

The Jammu and Kashmir police are now piecing together possible links between Basheer and
Abdul Shahid alias Bilal, the Hyderabadi who is said to have masterminded the twin blasts in the
city.

"There could be some connection between Basheer and those involved in Hyderabad blasts and
this connection could even be Bilal, whose name crops up every now and then," said Farooq
Khan, DIG (Doda range), Jammu, speaking to this website'sewspaper telephonically.

He, however, refused to elaborate as the investigation was still on. "There is some tell-tale sign
which points out to Basheer’s indirect involvement in Hyderabad blasts," Khan said, without
further elaborating.

The security forces in the Kashmir valley hope to get key info about the spread and activities of
the HuJI across the country from the diaries and other documents of Basheer.

The cops are hopeful that more HuJI modules could be pinned down both in the Kashmir valley
and elsewhere in the country soon.

"We are analysing them. Apparently, there could be some common factor between Basheer and
the person who actually planned the blasts at Hyderabad," Farooq Khan said.

The diaries reportedly contain names, telephone numbers of Jihadis operating in the country and
those in Pakistan, Bangladesh and Pak-Occupied Kashmir. Some e-mail addresses too were
found in one of the diaries.

"The names could be fake or even one of the many aliases. But, we are verifying the telephone
numbers, which, we hope, could provide us with some important leads," an official pointed out.

It is also learnt that Basheer was talking to his Bangladeshi and Pakistani counterparts from his
satellite phone, which was recovered after the encounter.

The police officials said with recruitment waning in Kashmir with each passing day, Basheer was
recruiting Muslim youths from various parts of the country.

"Recruitment in these parts has become easier as the HuJI network has a presence throughout the
length and breadth of the country," the officials said.

Known to be a dreaded militant, Basheer alias Sabah had played a major role in training the
Taliban in Afghanistan.

Hubli terror plot thickens

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BANGALORE: A week after suspected terrorists Mohammed Ghouse alias Riyazuddin Nasir
and his associate Asadullah Ismail Abubaker and Mohammed Asif were arrested, police officials
from the national capital and three other states have now landed in Karnataka to question them.

While a police team from Mumbai had come on Saturday, officials from Delhi police, Gujarat
and Hyderabad have now joined the team that is grilling the suspects to get information about the
links to terror groups.

While the terror plot seems to be getting thicker, there seems to be no sign of stepped-up security
at vital installations, which the arrested suspects were allegedly planning to target.

"Ghouse’s movements seemed very suspicious and we are interrogating him. We have to verify
all his statements," ADGP (State Intelligence) Shankar Bidri told this website's newspaper.

As of now, there is no need to increase security at vital installations, he added. Meanwhile,

Davangere police found maps of Udupi, Mangalore, Karwar and Bangalore with some red and
green markings on sensitive places across the State, sources said.

Sources said Ghouse and Asadullah were taken to Goa after maps of that State were also found
among the materials seized. Ghouse and Asadullah were nabbed by Davangere police one week
ago, while Asif had been detained at the same time in Hubli.

Police sources said they have not been able to establish if Ghouse was related to a particular
terror group, especially HUJI or LeT. However, they have found documents on the CDs seized at
Asif’s hostel room, that mentioned the name of another LeT terrorist Zakhir Hussain.

The students have been remanded to custody till February 2.

Asif told to vacate hostel

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HUBLI: Bowing to the pressure of students, the Karnataka Institute of Medical Sciences (KIMS)
management asked Mohammed Asif, final year MBBS student to vacate his hostel room on
Sunday.

Speaking to this website's newspaper, KIMS Director M G Hiremath said that the suspected
student Mohammed Asif, detained by the police, would be out of KIMS' Anand boys hostel until
all the allegations over his terror links were dropped.

It is learnt that another suspect Asadulla Ismail detained by the Davanagere police, was expelled
from college. He was a student of Ayurvedic Medical College, Hubli.

Why terrorists struck Bangalore

December 29, 2005
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Retired Professor Emeritus in the mathematics department of Indian Institute of Technology-

Delhi, M C Puri, was killed and four serving scientists were injured when an unidentified
gunman opened fire indiscriminately on a group of scientists as they were coming out of a
conference hall in the prestigious Indian Institute of Science campus in Bangalore on Wednesday.
The victims -- largely Indian with some foreigners -- who were attending an international
conference on research relating to infrastructure, were reportedly walking to an adjacent building
for dinner at the end of the day's proceedings.
The person or persons responsible for the attack have not so far been arrested or identified. The
incident has coincided with the reported shifting of Abu Salem, a member of the mafia group
headed by the Karachi-based Dawood Ibrahim, to Bangalore to undergo a lie detector and other
forensic tests in connection with the investigation into his alleged involvement in the serial
Mumbai blasts of March 1993, in which nearly 250 innocent civilians were killed.

First look: Terror strikes Bangalore

The explosions were carried out by Dawood Ibrahim, then based in Dubai, with the help of some
Mumbai-based Muslims, who were taken to Pakistan via Dubai and got trained and armed by
Pakistan's Inter-Services Intelligence.
Abu Salem, who was arrested by the Portuguese authorities, was recently extradited by them to
India after he and Monica Bedi, a woman companion of his, had completed a prison sentence in
Portugal after having been convicted on charges of entering Portugal with false travel
documents. There is so far no evidence to connect the shooting incident with the shifting of Abu
Salem.
Sleeper cells of pro-Al Qaeda jihadi terrorist organisations of Pakistan and Bangladesh operating
in South India have come to the notice of the police from time to time.
The most active in South India has been the Lashkar e Tayiba followed by the Harkat-ul-Jihad-
al-Islami.
The cop who warned of attack on Bangalore

Occasionally, there have also been reports of the presence and activities of other Pakistan-based
organisations such as the Hizbul Mujahideen -- an indigenous Kashmiri organisation whose
Amir, Syed Salahuddin, operates from Pakistan -- and the Jaish e Mohammad, a Pakistani
organisation like the LeT and the HUJI.
Of these organisations, the LeT has been the most active.
While its activities in Jammu and Kashmir and other north Indian states are controlled from its
headquarters at Muridke, near Lahore, in Pakistan, its activities in western and southern India are
controlled by its headquarters in Saudi Arabia and occasionally from Dubai.
Its sleeper cells in South India operate either under the name of the LeT or under other names
such as the Muslim Defence Force in Tamil Nadu. While the activities of the HUJI in J&K and
other parts of North India are controlled by its headquarters in Pakistan, its activities in southern
Thailand, Myanmar, and East and South India are believed to be controlled by its branch office
in Bangladesh.
The LeT, the HUJI and the JeM -- all of whom are members of Osama bin Laden's International
Islamic Front for Jihad Against the Crusaders and the Jewish People -- look upon J&K,
Hyderabad in Andhra Pradesh and Junagadh in Gujarat as rightfully belonging to Pakistan.

Karnataka to review Bangalore security

They want to 'liberate' them from Indian control as a first step in their plan to 'liberate' the
Muslims of North and South India and incorporate their 'homelands' in the so-called Islamic
Caliphate advocated by bin Laden.
They also similarly want to 'liberate' the Muslim majority areas of Sri Lanka's Eastern Province.
In addition to such political and religious reasons, their focus on South India has also a strongly
economic angle. That is the large concentration of information technology and outsourcing
companies -- Indian as well as foreign -- in Bangalore, Hyderabad and Chennai.
A defining characteristic of the post-9/11 terrorist strikes of al Qaeda and the IIF has been to
step up acts of economic terrorism. The terrorist strikes in Bali, Mombasa in Kenya, on the
French oil tanker Limburg, Casablanca in Morocco, Istanbul in Turkey, and Egypt had a strong
economic motivation.
Hyderabad, Bangalore and Chennai, in the calculation of the terrorists and their sponsors in
Pakistan, are attractive targets for acts of economic terrorism.
They believe successful acts of economic terrorism there could affect an important source of
India's foreign exchange earnings, keep foreign information technology companies away from
India and affect India's stock market, which attracts a large volume of foreign institutional
investment based on the value of the shares of the IT companies.
Since General Pervez Musharraf seized power in Pakistan in October 1999, he has embarked on
a programme for the diversification of the Pakistani economy, which is now mainly dependent
on the export of textiles, sports and leather goods. In this connection, considerable attention is
being paid, with Chinese assistance, to develop Pakistan's IT capability and attract foreign
software and outsourcing companies to Pakistan.
The ISI too calculates that uncertainties in the minds of foreign IT and outsourcing companies
about security conditions in South India could benefit Pakistan.
After the neutralisation of a sleeper cell of the LeT in Delhi in March, the Delhi police had
repeatedly been sounding wake-up calls about the plans of jihadi terrorists to target IT companies
in Bangalore.
Media reports have also been speaking of a number of hoax threats addressed to IT companies in
Bangalore since March. The recent hoax message of an attempt by the Al Qaeda to blow up the
Indian Parliament had also reportedly originated from Thirunelveli in Tamil Nadu, a hotbed of
the activities of the Al Ummah, which had organised a number of serial blasts at Coimbatore in
Tamil Nadu in February 1998.
All these were not hoax calls from pranksters trying to create a sensation. These were probably
hoax messages of suspected jihadi terrorists, apparently trying to test the reflexes of the security
authorities and create in their mind a hoax fatigue.
Why did the persons responsible for Wednesday's incident target the scientists attending an
international conference? It does not appear to have been a targeted attempt to kill any particular
scientist though media reports speak of the presence of some space scientists in the conference.
South India in general and Bangalore in particular not only have a large concentration of IT
experts, but also famous scientists. How to strengthen physical security in South India without
creating unnecessary alarm and nervousness, which could economically prove counter-
productive?
This is a question that needs urgent attention from the Government of India and the four state
governments.

IT in Bangalore vulnerable to terrorism

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IT HUB Bangalore is a soft target for terrr attacks, the state of Karnataka's chief minister, HD
Kumaraswamy said.
The Deccan Times reports him as saying that terrorist organisation Lashkar-e-Toiba had already
infiltrated the area.
Intelligent reports, said Kumaraswamy, indicated the IT facilities based in Bangalore were high
on terrorist plans and were a "soft target".
The IT firms based there, which include Microsoft, Intel, Dell, IBM, SAP, and many many
others, have been urged to tighten up their security both for visitor access and for their
boundaries.

Bangalore appears on terror radar

Police unearth a plan by a Kashmiri separatist militant group to target IT companies in India's
tech hub.
By Dinesh C. Sharma
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Published: March 7, 2005,

NEW DELHI, India--Bangalore is starting to appear on the radar of militant groups,
Indian police warned this weekend, after uncovering a terrorist plan to target IT
companies in the city widely regarded as the country's technology hub.
Bangalore, which is in the southern part of India, had been considered safe from possible terror
attacks by separatist groups, which so far have mostly struck in India's northern and western
states. But last week, Delhi police seized evidence pointing to a possible attack on certain IT
companies in Bangalore.
They obtained the evidence after arresting one member of the Laskhar-e-Toiba group, or LeT,
and killing three others. LeT has been demanding separation of Kashmir from India.
Several of India's top technology companies, like Infosys and Wipro, are based in Bangalore, and
a large number of American companies have their engineering and development centers there.
Among the companies that have a sizable presence are Accenture, Hewlett-Packard, IBM, Intel,
Microsoft, Motorola and Texas Instruments. Additionally, America Online, Google and Yahoo
opened centers in the city last year.
Leading IT companies in Bangalore that handle outsourced jobs from American clients often
maintain disaster recovery centers at offshore locations, as well as in other Indian cities.
"We have heightened our alert," Bangalore Police Chief S. Mariswamy was quoted as saying by
New Delhi Television. "The intelligence machinery has also been briefed and (is) also looking
for information, and...our forces generally have been kept on alert. We are also likely to enlarge
the force and possibly bring in some quick-reaction teams."
The police did not name companies that were on the hit list of the militant outfit. Militant groups
usually target government installations, but the Bombay Stock Exchange and other commercial
buildings in Mumbai have been attacked in the past.