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West Bengal besieged, India subverted
By Ram Ohri on Oct 28, 2014 05:34 pm
Uploaded on May 7, 2011
A Documentary on Infiltration into India by the Bangladeshis. by Mayank Jain, Islamic Terrorism, Demographic Aggression, India, Pakistan, ISI, Bangladesh, Madrasas, Jihad, Minorities, Naxalites,ULFA, Sonia, Rahul, Narendra Modi, BJP, Nitish, Pranab, Anderson, Priyanka, Advani, Atal, Islam, Quran, Geeta, Dharmendra, Manoj, Arun, Swapandas, R K Ohari, Prakash Singh, Tathagata Roy, Assam, Manipur, Arunachal, Mizoram, Nagaland, Mangaldoi, Chaar Rasta, Chiran Chapori, VHP, RSS, Togadia, Governor, S K Sinha, Chicken Neck, Siliguri Corridor,Bharamputra, China Mao
By Mayank Jain
The recent events relating to accidental explosions, jihadi
terror modules, bomb factories and a network of madrasas in
Pashchim Banga's various districts and Assam has left the
security establishment in "a state of shock and disbelief".
That's what the media says. This naivete is touching, to say the least, because the country's security establishment and the politicians had all along known about this!
terror modules, bomb factories and a network of madrasas in
Pashchim Banga's various districts and Assam has left the
security establishment in "a state of shock and disbelief".
That's what the media says. This naivete is touching, to say the least, because the country's security establishment and the politicians had all along known about this!
Home Ministry not unaware
Have we forgotten about the report of the Union Home Ministry's 'Task Force on Border Management' (TSFBM) in 2004, which said: "There has been mushrooming and visible growth of mosques and madrasas all along our international borders. The intriguing thing is that these have come up where there is very small or no population of the minority community and that madrasas and mosques have sprung up on both sides of the border, as if in unison. These institutions could be construed as Islamic infrastructure and have a potential for the intelligence encirclement of India. Concerted efforts are being made for the Arabisation of Indian Muslim tradition by promoting the Arabic or Salafi brand of Islam among Muslims living in border areas."
The Task Force had recorded that "on the Indian side, in close proximity to the border, there are now 905 mosques and 439 madrasas. And that on the Bangladesh side, there are 960 mosques and 469 madrasas".
Why did the security establishment 'discover' the huge network of mushrooming Madrasas on the border just after the Burdwan blast? Did they not go through the TSFBM report in the year 2004? Or, were they stopped from taking action by traitor-politicians who have little concern for national interest, all for the sake of a nebulous 'secularism?'
A slow, creeping, Talibanization
The report had gone into great detail about the dangerous demographic changes and huge numbers of madrasas in these areas: "On the Indo-Bangladesh border, growth of madrasas and mosques is taking place along with a shift in demographic composition due to illegal immigration of large number of people from Bangladesh into the border districts in India. Increasing crowding out of economic opportunities for the local population and the shift towards Islamization create potential for future strife. This is likely to put pressure on the strategic Siliguri corridor...."
On the Indo-Nepal border, the report pointed out at similarly dangerous trends: "On the Indo-Nepal border, madrasas and mosques have sprung up on both sides in the Terai region, accompanied by four-fold increase in the population of the minority community in the region. There are 343 mosques, 300 madrasas and 17 mosques-cum-madrasas within 10 kms of the border in the Indian side. On the Nepal side, there are 282 mosques, 181 madrasas and eight mosques -cum-madrasas. These mosques and madrasas receive huge funds from Muslim countries like Saudi Arabia, Iran, Kuwait, Pakistan and Bangladesh."
The Task Force had warned: "The Talibanisation of madrasas is taking place due to spread of fundamentalist ideology in these institutions. In J&K, growth of madrasas, fundamentalist teaching and consequent Talibanisation preceded the growth of insurgency".
The TFBM report had concluded: 1. Madrasas in some places are reported to be sheltering ISI agents and subversive elements. 2. With the increasing enrollment of children in madrasas, maulvis are acquiring greater centrality in community life, increasing their vote-delivering capacity and political clout. 3. Indoctrination of young children and planting of fundamentalist strains in their minds in madrasas would pose serious problems to our polity in future. 4. Presence of madrasas and mosques along the borders on both sides could facilitate trans-border movement of arms and agent provocateurs aided and abetted by the ISI.
The truth, without sugar-coating or varnishing
"Why did you go to a Madrasa in West Bengal? What did you want to prove?”, a reporter had asked me after the screening of my film, “The Bangla Crescent: ISI, Madrasas & Infiltration’" in October 2005, at the Press Club of India, New Delhi. The tinge of suspicion in his voice was perhaps intended to make it seem as though I was conspiring against the ‘minorities’ and digging for conspiracy theories to discredit them. Well, to put the record straight, there was no conspiracy at all. No hidden camera was used — I never use one. I had interviewed on camera, young madrasa students and their teachers in various madrasas all over India — especially in West Bengal, because my film was about infiltration from Bangladesh.
“I had gone the Madrasas to verify what the report of the Task Force on Border Management said about Madrasas on the Indo-Bangla border. As a journalist I must verify the authenticity of government reports. Shouldn’t I ?”, I clarified to this reporter who was rather concerned about the welfare of the 'minorities'.
It must be said to the credit of the Madrasa students and their teachers that they did not sugar-coat their talk and told me on camera even about their most potent beliefs with a straight face, without any hesitation whatsoever. As I stood on the Indian side of Jessore Road interviewing 6 to 8-year old boys at Madrasa Zulfikar Ali Siddiqiya, I asked one of the boys on camera to define a kafir. Young Mohammad Sheikh Shahin explained the meaning of ‘kafir’ without batting an eyelid: "Jo Allah ki baat nahin sunta, Nabi ke adesh ke mutabik nahin chalta, shaitan ki baat sunta hai" (One who does not listen to Allah, does not live according to the dictates of the Prophet, listens to Satan).
“What is Jihad?” I asked the young student. The student defined ‘jihad’ leaving no doubt about his clarity of thought and intent: "It means war"(yudh), it is "Kafir ke saath Nabi ji ke Musalmanon ki ladai." These ideas are dangerous, to say the least. Clearly, they are being indoctrinated to wage war against all those who are at variance with their system of religion and worship.
I have gone into many madrasas all over India and found that the teachings are the exactly the same as in the West Bengal Madrasas. My interviews in the Madrasa Faizul Ulum Hathishala in Laxmi Nagar, near Delhi Police headquarters, proves the point. Here the teacher Maulana Rehan Ahmad explains what ‘punishment’ a Kafir ‘deserves’: "Khuda himself has determined the punishment (sazaa) of the Kafir. A Kafir will have to reside forever in hell (jahannum). There the kafirs will burn in fire and face all kinds of horrors ..." When I asked him what Jihad was all about, he explained unhesitatingly in Urdu: “Jihad is waged on non-Muslims after he is invited to join the faith (din ki dawat), asked to place his faith on Allah, when he does not do so, then at that moment the 'Order' (hukm) for jihad is given".
The wages of 'secularism'
Whatever erupts in Bengal today is an outcome of preparations by jihadi groups nurtured by the Communists and other 'secularists' for the past many decades. The boys who were only 8-year olds in 2005 when I interviewed them, would be dangerously indoctrinated 17-year old young men by now. Much about today's events was foretold in my documentary by security experts and demographers. We went deep inside Bengal to talk to a wide cross-section of ordinary folk to report about the factual conditions on the ground. We had compiled data on infiltration and anti-national activities from various government reports like the Godbole Task Force on Border Management, General S.K. Sinha's report and former IB Chief TV Rajeshwar's report. These reports were detailed studies on the danger to national security due to infiltration from Bangladesh, influence of crores of infiltrators on the outcome of national and state elections through fake election ID cards which were made available to them by the 'secularist' establishment, the network of mushrooming madrasas on the border where minds of the young were being poisoned to wage a war against India, the presence of Bangladeshi-based terror groups in West Bengal and Assam and ISI's 'Operation Pin Code' to chop off India from the 'chicken's neck' Siliguri Corridor to form an 'Islamistan'. A scary scenario, indeed!
Whatever erupts in Bengal today is an outcome of preparations by jihadi groups nurtured by the Communists and other 'secularists' for the past many decades. The boys who were only 8-year olds in 2005 when I interviewed them, would be dangerously indoctrinated 17-year old young men by now. Much about today's events was foretold in my documentary by security experts and demographers. We went deep inside Bengal to talk to a wide cross-section of ordinary folk to report about the factual conditions on the ground. We had compiled data on infiltration and anti-national activities from various government reports like the Godbole Task Force on Border Management, General S.K. Sinha's report and former IB Chief TV Rajeshwar's report. These reports were detailed studies on the danger to national security due to infiltration from Bangladesh, influence of crores of infiltrators on the outcome of national and state elections through fake election ID cards which were made available to them by the 'secularist' establishment, the network of mushrooming madrasas on the border where minds of the young were being poisoned to wage a war against India, the presence of Bangladeshi-based terror groups in West Bengal and Assam and ISI's 'Operation Pin Code' to chop off India from the 'chicken's neck' Siliguri Corridor to form an 'Islamistan'. A scary scenario, indeed!
While the establishment sleeps...
This was about nine years back. I did not expect any solution to this crisis from the country's secularist establishment, for whom appeasement of minorities was a profitable pastime. The so-called nationalist movement too did almost nothing to rectify the situation. It remains a pathetic victim of helplessness, lacks basic sense of clarity and purpose, does not inform millions of youngsters about the impending threat on national security and engages itself in mindless activism. Consequently, it has been in no position to intervene and change the situation — intellectually, socially or politically.
The consequences of this inaction would now be dangerous for the existence of India itself if urgent steps are not taken immediately. The Jama'atul Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB) network has spread its tentacles across the central and bordering districts of West Bengal.
All-out war needed, nothing less
It is important to understand the nature of this ferocious terrorist organisation — JMB. It is a Bangladeshi terrorist outfit, having more than one lakh members. It had detonated 500 bombs at 300 locations simultaneously throughout Bangladesh on August 17, 2005 . This exercise required huge logistic support and technical expertise in making explosives and planting them in such large numbers.
The JMB works on its area of twin expertise — explosives and indoctrination. Investigating the activities of JMB and its allied outfits in West Bengal, the NIA in its preliminary report submitted to the Central Government said "that there was a conspiracy by the Burdwan terror module to convert West Bengal into a major terror hub over the next few months to carry out subversive activities in different parts of the country".
An all-out war must now be declared by the Government of India on these terrorist groups in West Bengal and Assam. The entire network of these outfits which covers many states of India including West Bengal, Assam, Madhya Pradesh, Tamil Nadu and Karnataka must be busted and neutralized before it is too late. All institutions, whether religious or secular, that are found involved in anti-national activities must be closed down immediately with a ruthless hand. The Modi government in Gujarat has done it earlier (after the Ahmedabad blasts in 2008), when it split open the entire terrorist infrastructure of Indian Mujahideen all over India. Let them do it again for India once more!
An all-out war must now be declared by the Government of India on these terrorist groups in West Bengal and Assam. The entire network of these outfits which covers many states of India including West Bengal, Assam, Madhya Pradesh, Tamil Nadu and Karnataka must be busted and neutralized before it is too late. All institutions, whether religious or secular, that are found involved in anti-national activities must be closed down immediately with a ruthless hand. The Modi government in Gujarat has done it earlier (after the Ahmedabad blasts in 2008), when it split open the entire terrorist infrastructure of Indian Mujahideen all over India. Let them do it again for India once more!
Mayank Jain is a TV journalist and a documentary maker. He has produced, directed and scripted many famous films like "The Bangla Crecent — ISI, Madrasas and Infiltration', 'The Gujarat Miracle', 'Death Warrant', 'Chhattisgarh Now', 'Gujarat Fast-Track', 'Gujarat Tomorrow', 'No to Terror — Zero Tolerance'etc.
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West Bengal besieged, India subverted
By Ram Ohri on Oct 28, 2014 05:34 pm
Published by IndiaFacts
“There was a siege going on; it had been going on for a long time,
but the besieged themselves were the last to take notice of it.”
– Paula Fox, a well-known American novelist.
Recent incidents of numerous bomb blasts in West Bengal have caused enormous shock and terror across India. Prima facie while the Intelligence Bureau and West Bengal Police slumbered, Al Qaeda and its associated jihadi outfits like the Indian Mujahideen, Jamaat-ul-Mujahideen Bangladesh and the newly created IS Caliphate, acting in cohorts with the Inter Service Intelligence of Pakistan, have managed to strike deep roots in various parts of West Bengal. And now it stands confirmed that during the last ten years the virus has spread to many other parts of the country.
Contours of a Jihadi Plot
On October 2 2014, around 12:00 noon an explosion occurred in a two-storeyed building in the Khagragarh locality of Burdwan.[1] The building was owned by Nurul Hasan Chowdhury who used to stay in another house across the road.[1] Hasan Chowdhury was a leader of the Trinamool Congress and the ground floor of the building was used as Trinamool Congress party office.[2] During the 2008 and 2013 Panchayat elections, it was used as the election office by the Trinamool Congress. Hasan Chowdhury had let out the first floor of the building to one Shakil Ahmed on a monthly rent of Rs.4,700/-.
“There was a siege going on; it had been going on for a long time,
but the besieged themselves were the last to take notice of it.”
– Paula Fox, a well-known American novelist.
Recent incidents of numerous bomb blasts in West Bengal have caused enormous shock and terror across India. Prima facie while the Intelligence Bureau and West Bengal Police slumbered, Al Qaeda and its associated jihadi outfits like the Indian Mujahideen, Jamaat-ul-Mujahideen Bangladesh and the newly created IS Caliphate, acting in cohorts with the Inter Service Intelligence of Pakistan, have managed to strike deep roots in various parts of West Bengal. And now it stands confirmed that during the last ten years the virus has spread to many other parts of the country.
Contours of a Jihadi Plot
On October 2 2014, around 12:00 noon an explosion occurred in a two-storeyed building in the Khagragarh locality of Burdwan.[1] The building was owned by Nurul Hasan Chowdhury who used to stay in another house across the road.[1] Hasan Chowdhury was a leader of the Trinamool Congress and the ground floor of the building was used as Trinamool Congress party office.[2] During the 2008 and 2013 Panchayat elections, it was used as the election office by the Trinamool Congress. Hasan Chowdhury had let out the first floor of the building to one Shakil Ahmed on a monthly rent of Rs.4,700/-.
Local residents informed the police when they heard the explosion and saw smoke billowing out of the first floor room. When police arrived, two women inside the building prevented the police from entering at gunpoint, threatening to blow up the building. The two women were reported to have destroyed several documents which could be used by police as evidence of terrorist activities.
Shakil Ahmed who had rented the place and hailed from Karimpur in Nadia district, died on the spot. Two persons were injured. One of them Sobhan Mondal died later at the Burdwan Medical College and Hospital.[1] The other named Abdul Hakim, from Lalgola in Murshidabad district, was admitted to the hospital in a critical condition.[1] The two women, wives of Shakil Ahmed and Abdul Hakim and their two children were left unharmed by the chance explosion. The police arrested the two women.
Nearly 55 improvised explosive devices, wrist watch dials and RDX were recovered. The police also recovered several SIM cards and tools used for making improvised explosive devices. Also recovered from the building were Micro SD cards containing Islamic propaganda songs and Taliban training videos, fake ID documents like electoral cards and passports were also found. ] Maps and half burnt books in Arabic too were recovered. Preliminary investigations by the West Bengal CID indicated that a militant group called, ‘al Jihad’ was involved in manufacturing bombs.
Long Sweep of Jihadi Terror
According to informed sources , the al Jihad module had planned a series of ten blasts in Kolkata during the Durga Puja. Initially the West Bengal government tried to avoid the probe by NIA into the Burdwan bomb blast. After a delay of eight days, the National Investigation Agency took over the investigation.
To their dismay they soon found that the terror network of Jamat-ul-Mujahideen Bangladesh was not limited within West Bengal. Its jihadi activities had struck deep roots in several other parts of India, including Chennai in Tamil Nadu and Hyderabad in Andhra Pradesh. The jihadi module of Al Qaeda had been supplying explosives and bomb making-material to many other states in India and several strategic locations in the adjoining Bangladesh.
As the plot of Burdwan bomb blast continues to thicken day after day, hour after hour, the dark contours of the global jihad raising its black banner in India’s eastern region threaten to start a major religion-based civilizational clash in West Bengal, Assam and many more States. The ongoing probe has revealed that the Simulia Madrasa of Burdwan has been actively recruiting and training hordes of jihadis from different parts of India as well as from Bangladesh.
Shakil Ahmed who had rented the place and hailed from Karimpur in Nadia district, died on the spot. Two persons were injured. One of them Sobhan Mondal died later at the Burdwan Medical College and Hospital.[1] The other named Abdul Hakim, from Lalgola in Murshidabad district, was admitted to the hospital in a critical condition.[1] The two women, wives of Shakil Ahmed and Abdul Hakim and their two children were left unharmed by the chance explosion. The police arrested the two women.
Nearly 55 improvised explosive devices, wrist watch dials and RDX were recovered. The police also recovered several SIM cards and tools used for making improvised explosive devices. Also recovered from the building were Micro SD cards containing Islamic propaganda songs and Taliban training videos, fake ID documents like electoral cards and passports were also found. ] Maps and half burnt books in Arabic too were recovered. Preliminary investigations by the West Bengal CID indicated that a militant group called, ‘al Jihad’ was involved in manufacturing bombs.
Long Sweep of Jihadi Terror
According to informed sources , the al Jihad module had planned a series of ten blasts in Kolkata during the Durga Puja. Initially the West Bengal government tried to avoid the probe by NIA into the Burdwan bomb blast. After a delay of eight days, the National Investigation Agency took over the investigation.
To their dismay they soon found that the terror network of Jamat-ul-Mujahideen Bangladesh was not limited within West Bengal. Its jihadi activities had struck deep roots in several other parts of India, including Chennai in Tamil Nadu and Hyderabad in Andhra Pradesh. The jihadi module of Al Qaeda had been supplying explosives and bomb making-material to many other states in India and several strategic locations in the adjoining Bangladesh.
As the plot of Burdwan bomb blast continues to thicken day after day, hour after hour, the dark contours of the global jihad raising its black banner in India’s eastern region threaten to start a major religion-based civilizational clash in West Bengal, Assam and many more States. The ongoing probe has revealed that the Simulia Madrasa of Burdwan has been actively recruiting and training hordes of jihadis from different parts of India as well as from Bangladesh.
Investigations by the NIA have disclosed that Simulia Madrasa, has been functioning as a well organised terrorist training camp – a fact belatedly discovered by the Intelligence Bureau and State Police intelligence sources. The investigations have revealed that a trans- Bengal jihadi network allegedly plotted blasts in Patna’s Gandhi Maidan during Narendra Modi’s election meeting last year. The group is believed be involved in a bomb blast in Chennai.
The investigations have revealed that both Shakil Ahmed Ghazi ( a Bangladeshi terrorist of JMB), who died in the blast at his home at Khagragarh in Burdwan district while making bombs, and another suspect, Mohammad Qauser (who has fled to Bangladesh), were behind the blast at Chennai railway station on May 1, 2014. The timer used in the twin blasts in the Bangalore-Guwahati Express at Chennai Central Railway Station were similar to that which was found by the NIA in Burdwan. Mobile call records too indicated that several calls had been made by Shakil and Qauser to their contacts in Chennai in April, 2014. The sleuths of the central agency felt that JMB was in league with the Indian Mujahideen which had received outside help to carry out the blasts in Patna as well as Chennai.
In all probability, the terrorists also used the “Sigma” watches for timing the bomb blasts. During searches at the home of Shakil and the injured JMB terrorist Abdul Hakim at Khagragarh Sigma watches were reported to have been seized. After analysing mobile call records and cracking fake e-mail IDs in a laptop found in the Khagragarh house, the sleuths discovered that Qauser had visited various states in South India.
SIM cards purchased in West Bengal were also used to make calls to their links in various states and even Bangladesh when the duo operated from Chennai just before the blasts.
Shakil’s widow, Raziya Bibi, now in NIA custody, has started singing like a canary. She is said to have confessed that her husband and Qauser had visited Chennai in April and May 2014 just a few days before the blasts. The tags found in the time bombs in the train compartments had tags of a manufacturer in West Bengal, which they had taken there, Razia reportedly told them.
The investigations have revealed that both Shakil Ahmed Ghazi ( a Bangladeshi terrorist of JMB), who died in the blast at his home at Khagragarh in Burdwan district while making bombs, and another suspect, Mohammad Qauser (who has fled to Bangladesh), were behind the blast at Chennai railway station on May 1, 2014. The timer used in the twin blasts in the Bangalore-Guwahati Express at Chennai Central Railway Station were similar to that which was found by the NIA in Burdwan. Mobile call records too indicated that several calls had been made by Shakil and Qauser to their contacts in Chennai in April, 2014. The sleuths of the central agency felt that JMB was in league with the Indian Mujahideen which had received outside help to carry out the blasts in Patna as well as Chennai.
In all probability, the terrorists also used the “Sigma” watches for timing the bomb blasts. During searches at the home of Shakil and the injured JMB terrorist Abdul Hakim at Khagragarh Sigma watches were reported to have been seized. After analysing mobile call records and cracking fake e-mail IDs in a laptop found in the Khagragarh house, the sleuths discovered that Qauser had visited various states in South India.
SIM cards purchased in West Bengal were also used to make calls to their links in various states and even Bangladesh when the duo operated from Chennai just before the blasts.
Shakil’s widow, Raziya Bibi, now in NIA custody, has started singing like a canary. She is said to have confessed that her husband and Qauser had visited Chennai in April and May 2014 just a few days before the blasts. The tags found in the time bombs in the train compartments had tags of a manufacturer in West Bengal, which they had taken there, Razia reportedly told them.
The NIA team discovered that similar timers had been used in West Bengal bomb blasts. Prima facie this discovery confirms that the Patna and Chennai terrorists had connection with Shakil and Qauser. The seven bombs which exploded last year during the Patna rally had been manufactured in West Bengal. In fact, one of the terrorists arrested from Barpeta in Assam, admitted having learnt to make IEDs in Jharkhand where underground spy nests of Indian Mujahideen and Al Qaeda had been strategically positioned by the militants, perhaps by Pakistan’s ISI.
Further investigations confirmed their links with some Indian Mujahideen operatives functioning from Karnataka. Raziya admitted the two terrorists making calls to Abdul Qader Sultan Armar, who hailed from Bhatkal in Karnataka State. Now, however, Sultan Armar was operating from Waziristan in AFPAK region and adjoining Pakistan.
According to reliable sources, Qader Sheikh, brother-in-law of Shakil, was acting as a courier, providing logistics like RDX and raw explosive materials for training.
Meanwhile the NIA and other Central intelligence agencies continue their hunt for approximately 150 plus jihadis linked to the Bangladesh module. There is some evidence of the attempted cover-up by the West Bengal Police in the Burdwan accidental bombing case. Information received from various sources detailing the Simulia Madrasa terror apparatus reveals that the suspected terrorist Shakil Ahmed prepared self-motivated modules who have gained expertise in making IEDs and carrying out terror strikes as independent operatives. Shakil was aided by the absconding suspects Sheikh Yusuf and Abdul.
India Subverted By Fifth Columnists and Fellow Travellers
The Simulia Madarsa is reported to have trained more than 140 Muslim youth recruited from India as well as Bangladesh. They were trained to unleash new terror operations which Al Qaeda was planning to launch. Allegedly Shakil Ahmed was providing paramilitary training and giving lessons in the technology of making IEDs to new recruits in Simulia Seminary which is an hour’s drive from Burdwan.
The Central agencies seized several issues of INSPIRE magazine, a well-known publication of Al Qaeda from the suspects’ hideouts in Burdwan. The interrogation of captured Jihadi Hasan Molla revealed that Inspire magazine was an excellent guide for making lethal IEDs in kitchens. Al Qaeda magazines, especially THE INSPIRE, teaches how a bomb can be assembled from common items like cooking gas cylinders and iron nails. It can be set off by a remote detonator.
Further investigations confirmed their links with some Indian Mujahideen operatives functioning from Karnataka. Raziya admitted the two terrorists making calls to Abdul Qader Sultan Armar, who hailed from Bhatkal in Karnataka State. Now, however, Sultan Armar was operating from Waziristan in AFPAK region and adjoining Pakistan.
According to reliable sources, Qader Sheikh, brother-in-law of Shakil, was acting as a courier, providing logistics like RDX and raw explosive materials for training.
Meanwhile the NIA and other Central intelligence agencies continue their hunt for approximately 150 plus jihadis linked to the Bangladesh module. There is some evidence of the attempted cover-up by the West Bengal Police in the Burdwan accidental bombing case. Information received from various sources detailing the Simulia Madrasa terror apparatus reveals that the suspected terrorist Shakil Ahmed prepared self-motivated modules who have gained expertise in making IEDs and carrying out terror strikes as independent operatives. Shakil was aided by the absconding suspects Sheikh Yusuf and Abdul.
India Subverted By Fifth Columnists and Fellow Travellers
The Simulia Madarsa is reported to have trained more than 140 Muslim youth recruited from India as well as Bangladesh. They were trained to unleash new terror operations which Al Qaeda was planning to launch. Allegedly Shakil Ahmed was providing paramilitary training and giving lessons in the technology of making IEDs to new recruits in Simulia Seminary which is an hour’s drive from Burdwan.
The Central agencies seized several issues of INSPIRE magazine, a well-known publication of Al Qaeda from the suspects’ hideouts in Burdwan. The interrogation of captured Jihadi Hasan Molla revealed that Inspire magazine was an excellent guide for making lethal IEDs in kitchens. Al Qaeda magazines, especially THE INSPIRE, teaches how a bomb can be assembled from common items like cooking gas cylinders and iron nails. It can be set off by a remote detonator.
According to reliable sources, substantial jihadi literature and printed material seized from the house of Shakil’s relative Qader Sheikh’s house had slogans like ‘Jihad—f from Bangladesh to Baghdad’ and radical promptings for the indoctrination of trainees. Mercifully, some residents of Khagragarh have now started approaching the officers of the NIA with fresh inputs about which they dared not speak earlier due to the fear of pro-jihadi goons and paid politicians
Monumental Failure of Intelligence Bureau
In early 2004, a Mumbai-based strategic think tank, Foresight Group, chaired by Sundeep Waslekar had published a book titled ‘Cost of Conflict between India and Pakistan’. The tome gave copious details of the activities of the Inter-Services Intelligence of Pakistan in India, largely managed and monitored through multiple strings of Madarsas embedded across various States. Waslekar’s research highlighted several sinister aspects of the fast-rising network of spies planted across India by Pakistan to subvert and destroy the Indian nation (read the Hindu identity of India). It drew pointed attention to the virulent anti-national preaching in most madarsas of India.
Waslekar’s tome contained useful details of the activities of the ISI, presumably culled from a leaked secret official White Paper allegedly prepared during the tenure of Lal Krishna Advani who was Home Minister during the previous National Democratic Alliance (NDA) regime. Mysteriously, the so-called white paper, originally tom-tommed by L.K. Advani as a great expose of the rising crescendo of the ISI’s footprints in India, never saw light of the day.
Mindboggling Sweep of ISI Spynests in India
According to Waslekar’s study, by 2004 itself, the ISI had spread its tentacles all over India by establishing sixty Spying Centres across various states in which nearly 10,000 spies were employed. As many as ten States, namely Uttar Pradesh, Maharashtra, Bihar, Andhra Pradesh, West Bengal, Tamil Nadu, Kerala , Jharkhand and Assam have been actively flooded by the ISI modules. Additionally an effective network of jihad- promoting madrasas had been spread throughout the country.
The latest disclosure about a super spy codenamed ‘Honeybee’ planted in India by the ISI has given a new twist to the narrative of Pro-Pakistani fifth columnists and fellow-travellers embedded in Indian polity. Interestingly the news that the super-spy Honeybee is aided by a retinue of ‘chuhes’ (i.e. rats), as disclosed by Adrian Levy and Cathy Scott-Clarke in their scholarly book, The Seige, appears to be another major failure of Indian intelligence agencies.
Monumental Failure of Intelligence Bureau
In early 2004, a Mumbai-based strategic think tank, Foresight Group, chaired by Sundeep Waslekar had published a book titled ‘Cost of Conflict between India and Pakistan’. The tome gave copious details of the activities of the Inter-Services Intelligence of Pakistan in India, largely managed and monitored through multiple strings of Madarsas embedded across various States. Waslekar’s research highlighted several sinister aspects of the fast-rising network of spies planted across India by Pakistan to subvert and destroy the Indian nation (read the Hindu identity of India). It drew pointed attention to the virulent anti-national preaching in most madarsas of India.
Waslekar’s tome contained useful details of the activities of the ISI, presumably culled from a leaked secret official White Paper allegedly prepared during the tenure of Lal Krishna Advani who was Home Minister during the previous National Democratic Alliance (NDA) regime. Mysteriously, the so-called white paper, originally tom-tommed by L.K. Advani as a great expose of the rising crescendo of the ISI’s footprints in India, never saw light of the day.
Mindboggling Sweep of ISI Spynests in India
According to Waslekar’s study, by 2004 itself, the ISI had spread its tentacles all over India by establishing sixty Spying Centres across various states in which nearly 10,000 spies were employed. As many as ten States, namely Uttar Pradesh, Maharashtra, Bihar, Andhra Pradesh, West Bengal, Tamil Nadu, Kerala , Jharkhand and Assam have been actively flooded by the ISI modules. Additionally an effective network of jihad- promoting madrasas had been spread throughout the country.
The latest disclosure about a super spy codenamed ‘Honeybee’ planted in India by the ISI has given a new twist to the narrative of Pro-Pakistani fifth columnists and fellow-travellers embedded in Indian polity. Interestingly the news that the super-spy Honeybee is aided by a retinue of ‘chuhes’ (i.e. rats), as disclosed by Adrian Levy and Cathy Scott-Clarke in their scholarly book, The Seige, appears to be another major failure of Indian intelligence agencies.
It is amazing that the boast of Major Iqbal of the ISI about the cleverly planted Honeybee, highlighted by Adrian Levy and Cathy Scott-Clarke, has not been taken seriously by the Indian intelligence agencies. No one knows the reason for ignoring such a vital clue about the shadowy operations of fifth columnists, boldly highlighted more than one year ago by two reputed researchers.
Sundeep Waslekar’s assessment was that by the year 2004 the ISI had successfully set up as many as sixty regular Espionage Centres all over India in which nearly 10,000 trained spies were employed. That was a rough estimate made by the researchers of Waslekar’s thinktank ten years ago. Since then much water has flowed down the Ganga.
According to reliable intelligence sources, by now the number of active ISI-planted Espionage Centres in India has more than doubled. These espionage centres constitute formidable sleeper cells of Pakistan-financed fifth columnists whose numbers have grown exponentially during the 10 years of misrule by the UPA. According to a former intelligence expert (name withheld to protect his identity) by now the number of core ISI agents plus their cleverly embedded fellow- travellers operating in India is believed to be in the range of fifty to sixty thousands, or more. That makes a formidable corps of spies and saboteurs planted within India. No wonder, India is heading for a major faultline conflict.
It is difficult to believe that senior officers of the Intelligence Bureau have no knowledge of Sundeep Waslekar’s ten years old research. Far more difficult is to believe that they have remained ignorant of the contents of Cathy Scott and Adrian Levy’s widely discussed book, The Seige.
Apparently while West Bengal Police slept under the protective shield of Mamata Banerjee, the Intelligence Bureau went into Kumbhakaran-like slumber for ten years under the UPA’s long spell of non-governance. It is time for some soul searching by India’s current Home Minister for weeding out incompetent security professionals. But can Rajnath Singh use his big broom to clean the Augean stables thriving under his nose ?
What has happened in West Bengal is inexcusable, especially after a strong warning was conveyed nine years ago by the senior journalist, Mayank Jain, in his video-film, The Bangla Crescent .
Indian citizens demand answers. Now.
Sundeep Waslekar’s assessment was that by the year 2004 the ISI had successfully set up as many as sixty regular Espionage Centres all over India in which nearly 10,000 trained spies were employed. That was a rough estimate made by the researchers of Waslekar’s thinktank ten years ago. Since then much water has flowed down the Ganga.
According to reliable intelligence sources, by now the number of active ISI-planted Espionage Centres in India has more than doubled. These espionage centres constitute formidable sleeper cells of Pakistan-financed fifth columnists whose numbers have grown exponentially during the 10 years of misrule by the UPA. According to a former intelligence expert (name withheld to protect his identity) by now the number of core ISI agents plus their cleverly embedded fellow- travellers operating in India is believed to be in the range of fifty to sixty thousands, or more. That makes a formidable corps of spies and saboteurs planted within India. No wonder, India is heading for a major faultline conflict.
It is difficult to believe that senior officers of the Intelligence Bureau have no knowledge of Sundeep Waslekar’s ten years old research. Far more difficult is to believe that they have remained ignorant of the contents of Cathy Scott and Adrian Levy’s widely discussed book, The Seige.
Apparently while West Bengal Police slept under the protective shield of Mamata Banerjee, the Intelligence Bureau went into Kumbhakaran-like slumber for ten years under the UPA’s long spell of non-governance. It is time for some soul searching by India’s current Home Minister for weeding out incompetent security professionals. But can Rajnath Singh use his big broom to clean the Augean stables thriving under his nose ?
What has happened in West Bengal is inexcusable, especially after a strong warning was conveyed nine years ago by the senior journalist, Mayank Jain, in his video-film, The Bangla Crescent .
Indian citizens demand answers. Now.