“India hopes to unravel rebel group network”
Published: Jan. 29, 2008 at 10:28 AM
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NEW DELHI, Jan. 29 (UPI) —
ARTICLE SNIPPET: “The resident of Bangalore city, who was arrested recently on a charge of car theft, was responsible for a string of terrorist bombings that claimed more than 100 lives across the country in 2005-2006, a senior Intelligence Bureau official said Tuesday.
The official who is linked with the interrogation of Hyderabad-born Ziauddin Nasir said evidence has emerged that Nasir was trained by a Pakistan-based HuJI cell responsible for attacks in Andhra Pradesh, Uttar Pradesh and Rajasthan states for six months, before returning to India through Bangladesh in August 2007.”
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http://www.satp.org/satporgtp/detailed_news.asp?date1=1/26/2008
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Harkat-ul-Jihad-e-Islami ‘commander-in-chief’ for operations in India killed in Jammu and Kashmir
Bashir Ahmed Mir, the Harkat ul-Jihad-e-Islami’s (HuJI) ‘commander-in-chief’ for operations across India was shot dead by police in the Doda district on January 25, reports The Hindu. Operating under the code-name “Hijazi,” Pakistan-trained Mir is believed to have ordered a string of strikes across north and south-east India in 2007, including the court complex bombings in Uttar Pradesh, the bombing of the Ajmer Sharif shrine in Rajasthan, and the multiple bombings which took place in Hyderabad in Andhra Pradesh.
A resident of Chatroo village in Kishtwar tehsil (administrative division), Mir joined the Harkat-ul-Ansar, which later transformed itself into the Jaish-e-Mohammad (JeM), in 1992. He trained in Pakistan occupied Kashmir (PoK) from 1994 to 1995, and was then assigned the charge of instructing new recruits at a HuJI-run camp near Mansehra. He is believed to have returned to Jammu and Kashmir in 1999, and served with a HuJI unit operating out of the Pir Panjal Mountains in the Doda-Anantnag mountain belt. He was arrested from the village of Kapran in 2000, and served two years under the Public Safety Act until his detention was revoked just before the 2002 Assembly elections. After his release he went underground. In 2004, he was appointed ‘commander-in-chief’ of the HuJI in India.
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(THE AUSTRALIAN - News.com.au)
January 29, 2008
“New generation of jihadists ‘set to step up’ in Australia”
ARTICLE SNIPPET: “Dr Gunaratna said the home-grown terror suspects had been under investigation by Australian law enforcement agencies for some time. The new networks were very similar in “character and composition” to those that had been disrupted by law enforcement agencies.
“Law enforcement has only peeled back one layer of jihadis,” he said. “The second rung is maturing and ripe for another operation, possibly in the coming months.”
Intelligence sources say they are aware of the new threats, but deny there is any evidence that the groups may be close to planning an attack in Australia.”