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A few articles on ISIS:

Assad and ISIL Can Make the Political Solution in Syria Obsolete
http://mebriefing.com/?p=1860

UK's Air Force Bases on Islamic State Hit List for Lone-Wolf Attacks: Report
http://www.ndtv.com/world-news/uks-air- ... rt-1207946

Australia mulls joining Syria air strikes against ISIL
http://www.aljazeera.com/news/asia-paci ... 38078.html

Canadian air strikes against ISIL don't match Tory rhetoric
http://ottawacitizen.com/news/politics/ ... y-rhetoric

FBI to Seek Counseling, Not Handcuffs, for Some Islamic State Suspects
http://www.wsj.com/articles/fbi-to-use- ... 1438812264
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Group: ISIS beheads antiquities expert
http://www.cnn.com/2015/08/18/middleeas ... index.html
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ISIS is a cauldron which destroys all remnant vestiges of the pre-Islamic enlightened society of Syria. This could be the last death throes of that ancient civilization. The Alawites might be able to safeguard whatever's left in the region they hold.

But ISIS has also thoroughly destroyed all previous boundaries/agreements/pacts/treaties. All of that is gone. Everything starts from scratch again. Long ago nation-states used to be able to do this in Europe until they banned it in the 17th century. Napoleon or even Hitler couldn't "wipe out" borders/boundaries so efficiently.
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An IDSA Commentary

Turkey, IS, US, Syria - K.P. Fabian
There is a sudden and dramatic change in Turkey’s policy towards the Islamic State (IS). For long, Turkey has permitted, and even facilitated, the flow of young men and women from various countries to Syria to join the IS. It has bought oil from the IS and even permitted the shipment of arms into Syria meant for the IS. But, on July 24, Turkey started bombing IS targets in Syria and agreed to the pending US request for use of the Incirlik air base for bombing operations against the IS.

What is the reason for Turkey’s change of policy and what might be the calculations behind it? The official explanation, endorsed by the majority of the Turkish media, is that the July 20 attack carried out by an IS suicide bomber in Suruc, a town hardly 10 kms from the Syrian border, resulting in the death of 33 with over a 100 wounded, left Turkey with no choice but to hit back at the IS. The victims of the attack were young Kurds whom both Turkey and IS hate for different reasons. In Turkey’s view, Kurdish youth support autonomy/independence for their people. For its part, the IS viewed the youth assembled at the centre as planning to help re-construct Kobane, a town in Iraqi Kurdistan which the Kurdish fighters recently prevented the IS from capturing.

While a majority of the Turkish media and even the international media have concluded that the young man who carried out the attack was sent by the IS, there are reasons to suspend judgment until more evidence comes in. The Turkish government interrupted the Twitter service temporarily and forbade publication of photos or videos of the attack for a while. IS, normally prompt in acknowledging and boasting about such operations, has not yet made any claim for the attack. Some observers in Turkey believe that Turkish intelligence might have been behind the attack.

Apart from a change in policy towards IS, there was change in Turkish policy towards the PKK (Partiya Karkeren Kurdistan, Kurdistan Workers Party) as well. PKK, founded in 1978 by Abdullah Ocalan, has conducted, since its inception but with interruptions from time to time, an armed struggle in Turkey seeking autonomy/independence for the Kurds. There are 14.5 million Kurds in Turkey according to the CIA Fact Book. In fact, Turkey accounts for 50 per cent of Kurds in the region, with Iran and Iraq accounting for six million each and Syria for two million. (Population figures for Kurds are much contested and the CIA estimates might be reliable.) Ocalan has been in jail since 1999. He was apprehended while on a visit to Nairobi. Kenya, under pressure from the US, extradited him to Turkey. Ocalan was tried and sentenced to death but, in order to qualify for EU membership, Turkey abolished the death penalty. Turkey has been conducting negotiations with Ocalan and in March 2013 Ocalan announced the end of the armed struggle, a cease fire, and peace talks.

That was the time Prime Minister Erdogan was preparing the country for his candidature in the 2014 Presidential election. The agreement with Ocalan helped project Erdogan as a leader with vision who can put an end to the Kurdish revolt, which has cost about 40,000 lives. Erdogan won the 2014 election in the first round itself with 51.79 per cent of votes. But the parliamentary election in June 2015 upset Erdogan’s plans for changing the law to enhance the powers of the presidency. His Justice and Development Party (AKP, Adalet ve Kalkinma Partisi) lost its majority for the first time since 2002, winning only 258 out of the total of 550 seats. Subsequently, the AKP also found to its chagrin that other parties were not keen to form a coalition government with it. There was one more reason for Erdogan to be upset with the parliamentary election result. HDP (Halkarin Demokratik Partisi, People’s Democratic Party), which advocates reconciliation with Kurds and supports their aspirations for equal treatment, won 80 seats. Till now afraid of falling below the qualifying threshold of 10 per cent of the popular vote, the party had put up only independents. But this time it gained 13 per cent of the popular vote.

With the AKP finding itself in a difficult situation, Erdogan concluded that it was necessary to change the country’s political situation. He wanted to create a situation where other parties might feel compelled to join an AKP-led coalition in view of the perceived threat to national security from IS and PKK. If f that does not work out, fresh elections can be called, thus making it possible for the AKP to win a proper majority. As of now, AKP’s efforts to form a coalition have not succeeded and Turkey might have fresh elections. Erdogan's hope of winning a majority for his party might or might not be realized.

Immediately after the Suruc attack, tension mounted between the government and PKK, leading to violent incidents. On July 24 Turkey started bombing not only IS but also PKK targets in Iraq. In fact, there have been more strikes on PKK than on IS. Turkey has proposed, and the US appears to have agreed to, the establishment of a ‘safe zone’ about 60 km long and 40 km wide in Syria near the border with Turkey. This has been a Turkish proposal for a long time. Turkey has said that it could transfer the 1.7 million Syrian refugees in its territory to this zone. The proposed zone is now controlled mainly by the IS and the YPG (Yekineyen Parastina Gel, People’s Protection Force) – an affiliate of PKK. Turkey is worried that an independent or autonomous Kurdistan in Syria will embolden the Kurds in Turkey and that eventually an autonomous or independent Kurdistan would be formed within its territory as well. The ‘safe zone’ idea is a work in progress and we cannot say what shape it might assume or even whether it will materialise. Incidentally, Jordan with 625,000 refugees from Syria, has been signalling that it might establish a similar zone in the south along the Syrian border. The only difference is that Jordan might do so in consultation with President Assad.

This brings us to the question of Assad’s diminishing hold on Syria. According to some reasonably reliable estimates, he holds only one-sixth of Syria. For months, he has been losing territory and facing manpower shortages. In a televised interview on July 26, Assad admitted that it might be necessary to pull out from some territories that are difficult to hold and concentrate available military power to tightly hold the Damascus-Homs-Hama-Latakia coastal belt. As of now, IS holds half of Syrian territory, though much of it is desert. The rest is held by the Al Qaeda-linked Al Nusra, the Kurds, the ‘moderates’ fighting Assad, and others. In short, Syria no longer exists; it is already dismembered into a number of fiefdoms.

How long will the IS last? On September 10, 2014, President Obama said “We Will Degrade and Ultimately Destroy ISIL”. As a matter of fact, IS has been hardly ‘degraded’ and the bombings carried out by the US and its allies for nearly a year have not seriously crippled it. General Robert Neller, head of operations against IS, has told the Senate Armed Forces Committee that there is a “stalemate’ in the war between US and IS. US plans for training 5,000 Syrians to fight against Assad, announced a year ago, have failed miserably. So far only 60 Syrians are being trained.

Turkey’s new policy will make it difficult for IS to get new recruits, but it claims to now have 20,000 fighters from 100 countries. There might be a degree of exaggeration for propaganda purposes in the claim. But the fact remains that IS has attracted thousands of young people from all over the world already, and with the closure of the Turkish border those who want to leave might find it difficult or impossible to do so. IS treats women mainly as sexual objects and its strict imposition of the Sharia will alienate many, if such alienation has not already taken place. But IS leaders are dedicated to their cause and are prepared to die for it. There is no possibility of sending a sufficiently large ground troop contingent as of now and air action can only inflict damage but not bring down the regime. Meanwhile, IS has started acting like a state by issuing fishing licenses and identity cards. As of now, it is not possible to determine the life-expectancy of IS.

For its part, a virtually dismembered Syria might see a cease-fire agreed to by the exhausted, if the external powers pumping in money, weapons, and fighters come to the conclusion that there is a real stalemate. In any case, sooner or later, sooner rather than later, the external donors fuelling the conflict – Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Iran, Russia and US, to mention only the more prominent – will have to sit down and talk with or without the UN as a facilitator.
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10 Indians fighting for IS, anti-terror officials reveal - Bharti Jain, ToI
As many as 10 Indian youths are currently engaged in the Islamic State (ISIS) "war" in Syria/Iraq, according to an assessment shared by India with Australia at a meeting of their joint working group on counter-terrorism here [New Delhi] on Thursday.

The figure of 10 Indians now with ISIS is higher than the assessment put forth at a meeting of chief secretaries and police chiefs of 12 states convened by the Union home ministry here earlier this month. At this meeting, called to discuss the ISIS' appeal among a section of Indian youth and ways to counter it, the participants were told that 13 Indians had joined ISIS so far. Of this, seven were believed to be located in ISIS territory, while six had been killed.

Incidentally, unlike India where ISIS has had limited success in drawing the young into its ranks, Australia has witnessed a notable outflow of its youth to jihadi theatres controlled by the outfit. As many as 150 young Australians have travelled to Iraq/Syria to fight alongside the ISIS. Of these, around 30 have come back while 60 are believed to be fighting for ISIS. Australia also perceives a threat to its citizens travelling to countries like Indonesia, where ISIS had picked up many recruits, as tourists.

Australia, during the session on counter-terrorism at the joint working group meeting on Thursday, shared with India its efforts to counter ISIS influence among its youth. This includes prevention by counseling young Muslims against getting drawn into jihadi ideology; discouraging travel of citizens to jihadi theatres by means such as seizing of passports; strengthening legal processes; taking stern action against radicalized elements who indulge in terror acts; and tracking the youth who have returned from ISIS territory, besides making a conscious effort to integrate them into the mainstream.

India, on its part, has also devised a counter-radicalization strategy to fight the ISIS' growing appeal among a section of young Muslims. This involves counseling the vulnerable youth and their families, and countering ISIS' advocacy of violent extremism by propagating "moderate" interpretations of Islam.
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The question is what drives and motivates Indian youth to travel as far as Syria/Iraq to join this jihadi group.

According to a recent study on radicalization, Muslims in western countries struggle with identity issues and the majority white culture is hostile to the Islamic culture in those countries so they try to search for their belonging and join the extremists like ISIS

Contrary to the Muslims in western countries joining the ISIS, the non Muslim westerners themselves join ISIS, particularly because of broken home background who tend to be detached from the society, and make matters worse the report claims, the western popular culture such as youngsters who listen to rap music are increasingly becoming violent and join extremists.

Experts also warn that governments' anti-terror legislation could even play into hands of jihadists

The Children of ISIS
http://www.rollingstone.com/culture/fea ... 325?page=5

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Contrary to the Muslims in western countries joining the ISIS, the non Muslim westerners themselves join ISIS, particularly because of broken home background who tend to be detached from the society, and make matters worse
This kind of behavior is exactly the same that of kids with low self-esteem that end up joining gangs or cults, because that gives them "self-worth" even if based on falsehood and fantasy. At some level, the kids are ignorant and flexible enough to believe that the world's problems are because of it not being muslim enough, or otherwise getting affected by propaganda from islamist groups that show gory pictures indicating that such kind of "injustice against muslims" is common. Islam is just a large cult, and exhibits the same characteristics as a gang, which is seen in the way it treats apostates as being marked for death, much like how gang members are warned against leaving a gang on pain of death...but while they are in the gang, they are all "family" with everyone looking out for each other. In my observation, many Muslims exhibit such behavior in the way they view followers of islam from Kafirs (seen in christians too), and in their eyes "someone being a good muslim" (even if an asshole in reality) is considered a worthy compared to a non believer who may be a good person in reality.

Approaching the problem in the same way violent gangs and religious cults are handled seems appropriate.
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Surprise, surprise: Egypt is now arming Assad Regime:

https://now.mmedia.me/lb/en/NewsReports ... ria-regime

Retired general: Egypt arming Syria regime
Rebels have claimed the Syrian army is shelling Zabadani with Egyptian-manufactured missiles.
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Pakistan bans Islamic State - PTI
Pakistan has banned the Islamic State militant group that has overrun vast stretches of Iraq and Syria after repeatedly denying the dreaded outfit’s presence within its territory.

“The Islamic State or Daesh has been banned in Pakistan,” an Interior Ministry official said on Saturday.

The decision was taken on recommendation of the Foreign Office, which regularly updates the Pakistan government about international militant groups banned by the United Nations.

Banners and graffiti in support of Islamic State (IS), also known as Daesh in Arabic, have often appeared in Pakistan but the government has until now rejected its presence inside the country.

However, the official said the outfit has been declared a proscribed entity.

The group — which is banned under a UN sanctions regime — is believed to have gained a foothold in the border regions of Pakistan and Afghanistan.

The brutal organisation has made major inroads into Afghanistan and the tribal areas of Pakistan, overtaking its weaker contenders, the Taliban and al-Qaeda.


Some top Taliban militants joined IS last year and the group fought pitched battles with Taliban inside Afghanistan.

Following the death of Taliban leader Mullah Muhammad Omar, the IS has become particularly powerful in Afghanistan.
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So the Pakis will now fight their own creation called "ISIS" (lead by the replacement for Mullah Omar) in Afghanisthan and pretend that ISIS does not operate in Pakistan? How come ISIS only gained a foothold in the "border regions" of Af-Pak. Smells pretty fishy.
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NIA for softer cases against youth saved from terror path - Vijaita Singh, The Hindu
Taking forward a debate in government on whether to book young men stopped from joining terrorist organisations such as the Islamic State under stringent penal provisions, the National Investigation Agency (NIA) has asked the Union Home Ministry to invoke “lighter” sections of the law against them.

The agency, which investigated the case of Areeb Majeed from Maharashtra, the only IS recruit who managed to return, has said that potential young terror recruits should be identified and “bind-down” orders issued against them.

The Bureau of Immigration, which records the movement of passengers to and from the country, has been asked to “study immigration patterns of Indians in a systematic manner and generate red flags”.

An official said that unlike western countries, where a potential IS recruiter comes on the radar just by his travel plans to the Middle East, that was difficult in India.
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Ex-Osama aide urges Muslims not to join IS - PTI
A former aide of Osama bin Laden has appealed to British Muslims not to join Islamic State for the so-called jihad in Syria as he denounced the group’s beheadings and mass rape as “completely against Islam.”

Abdullah Anas is the most senior former jihadist and one of the architects of the Afghan jihad against the Russians.

In a rare interview, Anas told The Sunday Times that ISIS was exploiting conflict to advance its own agenda, rather than helping oppressed Syrians. “This jihad is not legitimate,” Anas said.

He denounced the group’s beheadings and mass rape as “completely against Islam.”
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Abdullah Anas,

An unfortunate name, translates into Anas the slave of allah. I can imagine how an American may pronounce it.
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IS in Afghanistan - Edit, DT

DT argues for the Taliban in a clever-by-half editorial. This is the official Pakistani line on the IS, IMHO.
News reports suggest that the Islamic State (IS) is struggling to achieve its ambitious expansion into Afghanistan. Earlier reports revealed that IS was well on its way to consolidating its foothold in the country, with disgruntled Taliban fighters in some provinces rebranding themselves under the IS flag. However, according to NATO officials, IS has been hampered due to the Taliban fighting back under its new leadership, the Afghan government’s resistance, and US drone strikes on its forces. In addition to the pushback against IS, it is also theorised that since Afghanistan, unlike Syria and Iraq, has a majority of Sunni Muslims, the IS cannot feed off pre-existing sectarian tensions (the marginalised and persecuted status of the Hazara Shias notwithstanding). The barbarity of their acts, where they are seen to murder droves without reason has also been a factor that has horrified and repelled the Afghan people. It is indeed shocking to imagine what kind of brutality the IS practices, that the Taliban under Mullah Akhtar Mansour are seeking to appear as the bulwark to hold it back and trying to assert themselves as a ‘legitimate’ Islamist group.

The spectre of IS expanding its reach to other territories and spreading its brand of relentless savagery to other corners of the world is a fearful one. In a strange way, the Taliban’s success in containing them is welcome, especially when it is not just the Taliban who are resisting but also a quasi-coalition of the Afghan government, NATO and ordinary Afghan citizens. The IS has ambitions of world domination, and the appeal they currently have for disaffected people from all over the globe has to be countered. The IS and its hateful ideology are unquestionably the worst threat facing humanity today, and it will be to the betterment of concerned regimes to place the need to fend off IS on the top of their priority list. Already we have evidence of how the IS has a tendency to focus the minds of its enemies against it, with Turkey letting go of its regional plans and ambitions to join the coalition airstrikes against IS in Syria. No alliance can be seen as too inconceivable to consider in the fight against IS and the threat of it encroaching on more territories. In the case of Afghanistan, it is a difficult decision but it is preferable to have only one major network of fighters rather than multiple, since if only the Taliban are being dealt with, they can be nudged to the negotiating table {Clever, very clever indeed}. Needless to say, the IS has never shown any proclivity for peace talks. All possible options and efforts must be utilised to stop it in its tracks. *
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Srinagar, Mumbai among top 5 cities surfing net to track ISIS-related activity - Bharti Jain, ToI
The government may claim a "very limited" influence of Islamic State (ISIS) among Indian Muslims, but that has not kept the curious young from closely following its activities and outreach on social media.

If findings of a national survey by an intelligence agency are any indication, the largest volume of internet traffic related to ISIS is being generated not from urban, IT-savvy centres like Bengaluru and Hyderabad but mofussil towns like Chinchwad and Unnao, besides smaller cities such as Srinagar and Guwahati.

Mumbai is the only metropolis among the top six Indian cities/towns reporting online interest in ISIS, ranking fifth after Srinagar, Guwahati, Chinchwad (a suburb of Pune) and Howrah. Unnao near Kanpur in central UP occupies the sixth position, according to results of the "top-secret" survey accessed exclusively by the TOI.

The study - findings of which were placed before a meeting of chief secretaries and DGPs of 12 states convened by the home ministry earlier this month to discuss the growing appeal of ISIS - concluded that Jammu and Kashmir showed the highest social media activity related to ISIS, followed by Assam, Uttar Pradesh, Maharashtra and West Bengal. UP had more towns/cities than any other state attracting the young to explore ISIS propaganda online.

The discreet study of social media activity and internet searches on ISIS - covering Twitter, Facebook, YouTube and Google - across Indian states and towns found that the global terror outfit was generating most interest among those in the age-group of 16-30 years. Not only do the curious belong to both the genders, but they also come from all walks of life, educational and social backgrounds.

The spread of ISIS social media outreach, the recent study found, is largely attributable to the internet which provides a very wide and no-holds barred access to raw material over a very large footprint comprising net-savvy young population in a developing region like South Asia. In fact, Pakistan took the lead here in providing the largest population of ISIS subscribers, with the spread mostly anchored in its urban centres.

A glance at global social media data indicates that West Asia, Iraq, Syria, Emirates region and North East Africa generate the highest volume of ISIS-related traffic from the young. These are followed by anxious populations in certain West European countries that have reported exit of some youth to Syria and Iraq to join ISIS.

While India lags far behind Pakistan and others in access to social media-based ISIS content, certain parts of the country have shown high interest triggered by the media coverage of four youth from Kalyan, Mumbai, who left the country to join ISIS last year. News reports of one of them having returned home frustrated and another getting killed furthered the interest.

Social media-based material has been a prime mobilizer in J&K, prompting a section of its young to wave ISIS flags during protests.

"Overall, ISIS has been successful in evolving a potent internet-based propaganda strategy with social media and multimedia (like YouTube) as effective vehicles... The spread and effectiveness achieved by ISIS is showing exponential proportions," a senior intelligence official associated with the study told TOI.
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‘Steps required to counter threat from Afghanistan-based Islamic State’ - DT
National Assembly’s Standing Committee on Defence Chairman Rohail Asghar on Thursday said necessary steps are required to counter threat emanating from the Islamic State as the terrorists are joining the militant outfit.

After chairing meeting at the Parliament House, he told reporters that the terrorists have returned to Afghanistan where they were joining the Islamic State. “Necessary steps are required to counter threat emanating from this group,” he said.

The lawmaker said that several Taliban ‘commanders’ have pledged their allegiance to the Islamic State so their eradication was vital too.
“Facilitators of terrorists are being rounded up in the second phase of Zarb-e-Azb,” he added.

To a question, the committee chairman said that there was no exact timeframe regarding conclusion of the Zarb-e-Azb military operation. Defence Secretary Aalam Khattak and top army officials also attended meeting of the committee.
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US takes Pakistan into confidence over anti-IS alliance - DT
The United States has taken Pakistan into confidence over a new US military alliance to fight the growing global presence of the self-styled Islamic State (IS).

The new alliance, called “Sahel to South Asia” is expected to be announced soon by the White House. “Pakistan has been consulted by the US at the highest level,” according to a top government official. Pakistan will take a formal decision after conducting consultations with all domestic stakeholders over joining the alliance, added the official. “IS has presence in Afghanistan, and they maintain close collaboration with militant organisations, and if not tackled they can pose a threat to Pakistan’s security,” the government official further said.

More details are expected to be worked out through a high-level meeting between the military leadership of both countries, once the alliance is officially announced and made public by the US. The development comes after US National Security Adviser (NSA) Susan Rice called on Chief of Army Staff (COAS) General Raheel Sharif at the General Headquarters (GHQ) last week, where she “appreciated and acknowledged Pakistan Army’s sincere efforts and sacrifices in the war against terrorism.” During the meeting, matters of mutual interest – including the security situation in the region – were discussed.

Rice’s visit was preceded by the visit of US Central Command (CENTCOM) Commander General Lloyd J Austin in which he called on General Raheel Sharif at the GHQ in Rawalpindi. General Lloyd Austin acknowledged the role played by the armed forces of Pakistan in fighting the menace of terrorism. In February this year, Foreign Office had broken its silence regarding the IS activities inside Pakistan, admitting that the radical group posed a “serious threat” to the country. Earlier this year, leaflets calling for support for IS were seen in parts of northwest Pakistan, while pro-IS slogans had also appeared on walls in several cities.

Security forces had also arrested a man in January, whom they believed was the commander of IS in the country involved in recruiting and sending fighters to Syria. Intelligence sources, said the man, Yousaf al-Salafi, was arrested in Lahore and confessed during interrogation that he represented IS. Rifts among the Taliban and disputes about the future of the insurgency have contributed to the rise of IS’s popularity but security sources believe there are no operational links yet between IS and South Asia. Disgruntled former Taliban commanders have formed the so-called Khorasan chapter — an umbrella IS group covering Afghanistan, Pakistan, India and other South Asian countries — in recent months but have not been involved in any fighting. Their leader, Hafiz Saeed Khan Orakzai, a former Pakistani Taliban commander, appeared in a video address in February urging people in the region to join the group.
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^^ And that's how it begins. The next chapter after SEATO, CENTO, Afghan anti-soviet alliance, GWOT, and now, this. Our neighbour and the great khan have decided upon the next campaign to ensure this neighbour can continue to be the thorn in the region. And we, like the idiots we are, are hoping the khan will part with EMALS and aircraft carrier tech so we can become a great power. In the meantime, let's go to khan land and work and get that green card and toe the khan's rekha in everything we know about the world. What do they say about "fool me once..."?
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Either things happened in its favour or things were created to favour it. This has been the story since 1907. In either case, Pakistan (or Muslim League) has learnt how to be 'geostrategically' important to the western powers. Anyway, that is not for discussion here.
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Every day is a nightmare for family of lecturer abducted by IS in Libya - The Hindu
With the inordinate delay in getting a breakthrough in the release of abducted assistant professor Gopalakrishna in Libya, his parents, friends, and relatives are up in arms against the Union and State governments for not taking up the issue seriously.

Prof. Gopalakrsihna was abducted by IS militants on July 29, when he was moving to Tripoli from SIRTE University where was he working.

Mr. Goapalrksihna’s parents, V. Narayana Rao and Saraswati, have been waiting for the last one month to listen at least the voice of their son. His wife, Kalyani who stays in Hyderabad, has already met Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Minister of External Affairs Sushma Swaraj.

On her request, the Centre reportedly sent senior Indian Foreign Service (IFS) officials to Libya to know the exact condition. However, the Ministry of External Affairs could not get any information about his safety. “Every day is a nightmare for the family. The government should expedite its efforts. We will be happy at least if the government confirms his safety,” said G. Leela Vara Prasad, a close friend of Gopalakrishna.
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‘Turkey knows better how many Indians are with IS’ - Stanly Johny, The Hindu
India’s Home Ministry and intelligence agencies are in touch with their counterparts in Syria to track down Indians who have joined terrorist groups such as the Islamic State in the West Asian country, Syrian Ambassador to India Riad Kamel Abbas has said.

“They are already coordinating to tackle this challenge. We are exchanging available information with the Indian side, and the Indian government will take care of it,” Dr. Abbas told The Hindu in an interview.

Asked about the number of Indians who have joined the IS, the Ambassador said his government did not have exact figures, as “some Indians are going there from here and some others are going from the Gulf states”.

“If you want exact number, you can check with the Turkish government. They will know better than us. Turkey has kept its border open for militants to cross into Syria; they have set up infrastructure for the terrorists; and they are sheltering and arming them,” Dr. Abbas said. {A very good sarcastic answer and quite truthful too}


Intelligence sources told The Hindu that 18 Indians were identified to have joined the IS. Of these, four had gone from West Asian countries, said one official, requesting anonymity.

The number excludes an ex-journalist from Kerala who went to Syria to join al-Nusra Front, an al-Qaeda affiliate.
The government has so far stopped at least four persons from joining the IS, the official added.
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Full interview with the Syrian Ambassador to India
Turkey knows better how many Indians have joined IS: Syrian envoy - The Hindu
Four years of civil war has turned Syria into a humanitarian tragedy. Tens of thousands of Syrians have lost their lives and millions have been rendered refugees. The chaos created by the war has helped the rise of terrorist groups such as the Islamic State. In an interview with The Hindu, Riad Kamel Abbas, Syrian President Bashar al-Assad’s envoy to India, speaks of the war, the growing Indian presence in the terror groups in Syria and the war-torn country’s future.

Q: Two years ago, your remarks that Indian jihadists were fighting in Syria had triggered a controversy. But now, government officials say several Indians have joined the Islamic State [IS] in Syria and Iraq. How many Indians, according to your government, are estimated to have gone to Syria to join the war?

Riad Kamel Abbas: I had this information from different sources in my personal capacity. It had nothing to do with the official channel. I said about it then because I wanted India to be more cautious. It saddens me now when reports come out about increasing Indian presence in the Syrian war. Now the Indian intelligence and India’s home ministry are in touch with their counterparts in Syria. They are already coordinating to tackle this challenge. We are exchanging available information with the Indian side, and the Indian government will take care of it. We don’t know exactly how many Indians are there. Because some people are going there from India and some are going from the Gulf states who were brainwashed by certain groups. If you want exact numbers, you can check with the Turkish government. They will know it better than us. Turkey has kept its border open for militants to cross into Syria; they have set up infrastructure for the terrorists; and they are sheltering and arming them. And some Indians held while trying to enter Syria have confessed to Indian authorities that they went to the Turkish border to cross the border into Syria.

Q: Though India has raised concerns about the humanitarian situation in Syria, it hasn't joined the 'regime change' outcry. How do you look at India's Syria policy?

Riad Kamel Abbas:We highly appreciate the Indian position. Frankly speaking, I have already said this that if everybody has done what India has done, we wouldn’t have any problem in Syria. India adheres to the UN Charter. It’s a champion of the principle that there should not be any external interference in the internal affairs of a country. And Mr. (Prime Minister Narendra) Modi has made it very clear that there’s no bad terrorism and good terrorism. There’s only terrorism. We should all join hands together to fight terrorism.

Q: Are you suggesting that India has to join the war against the IS?

Riad Kamel Abbas:It’s India’s sovereign decision to take whether they should join the fight against terrorism or not. And India should take a position on those countries supporting and sponsoring terrorism as well.

Q: How, in your view, IS became such a powerful terror group within a few years?

Riad Kamel Abbas:Tell me who created al Qaeda in Afghanistan, and why? It’s very clear that the Americans created al Qaeda with the support of some of the Arab Gulf countries because they wanted to defeat the Soviet Union in Afghanistan {He carefully omits the biggest of them all, Pakistan. ANyway, that is besides the point here}. When the Americans invaded Afghanistan, they had lots of coffins going back home. After years of war, they have realised that there’s no point in using any soldier in the ground. So it’s better to support and sponsor some kind of terrorist organisation who can do the dirty job in other countries. And that’s how IS was created. The Saudis, Qataris and Turks also supported this move. The IS is very strong now. Why they are strong? Because they are getting external support. My personal view in this matter is that the Americans are not serious about fighting IS. They don’t want to defeat them, they just want to contain them. When the IS started attacking Erbil in the Iraqi Kurdistan, the Americans immediately drew a redline and they didn’t let them cross. And then IS expanded towards the Western parts of Syria.

[Editor’s note: Iraqi Kurdistan is an ally of the U.S. America has a fully-functional consulate in Erbil]

Q: In the recent conflicts, the government forces in Syria seem to have suffered some setbacks. Is President Assad losing the war?

Riad Kamel Abbas:This is a war. There are battles you win and you lose. The war is not over yet. You lose some ground in certain battles to win bigger ones. There are people from around 100 countries all across the world fighting in Syria today. There are 1,50,000 mercenaries inside our country. So the Syrian government has made a strategy that that it would retain control over the most populated and strategic areas. The mercenaries control parts of Syria which are less-populated. In every war, there’s winning and losing. But in this war, we can assure you that there’s no geographical area the IS is totally in control. The Syrian government can enter any place they want to and they can finish the war once there’s an international will to support the government and fight against terrorism. The reality is that nobody is fighting the IS but the Syrian Army.

Q: How do you look at Turkey’s recent declaration of war against IS?

Riad Kamel Abbas:It’s a game plan. And it’s for the public consumption. There are more than 10,000 Turkish nationals fighting alongside the IS in Syria. Among them are some officers of the Turkish Army. We know it and some of them are getting killed in Syria. We have evidence for Turkey’s involvement. When the IS took members of the Turkish consulate in Mosul [Iraq], all of them were released immediately. None of them were harmed. That indicates that there’s collaboration between the IS terrorist organisation and the government of [Recep Tayyip] Erdogan [Turkey’s President]. Because of the international pressure, and as Turkey’s role in helping IS is now more open, the Erdogan government is coming up with a pretext of fighting the IS. But they are actually fighting the Kurdish people.

Q: More [then] 2 lakh people are estimated to have been killed since the outbreak of the crisis in 2011. At least 4 million Syrians have been displaced. How do you look at this humanitarian situation?

Riad Kamel Abbas:We have noticed that the Syrian humanitarian crisis is of such a large scale. And it has attracted the attention of the international community. And India has also taken steps to help the Syrian people. We expect most of the international community to come forward and help the Syrian people in this regard. The main objective of Syria’s enemies from day one of the crisis was regime change and destabilisation of the country. That’s why we have this humanitarian situation now. We have lost several people in the war. Many people are losing their lives because they are being subjected to ethnic cleansing by terrorist groups.

Q: What solution do you think can be found for the Syrian crisis? What’s the future of the country?

Riad Kamel Abbas:This is what our President said from the beginning of the crisis. The real solution can be found by the Syrian people themselves. They can sit down across the table to find a political solution to the crisis, and there’s no need for arms, killings and fighting. Now there’s a clear line has been drawn in Syria. On the one side, there’s the government of Syria and on the other side there are two terrorist organisations—IS and Al Nusra Front. So for the people for Syria, they have the choice of joining either with the government and find a solution or join the terrorist organisations and destroy the country. The solution is very simple. Stop arming the mercenaries, close the borders and there should be an international will to fight terrorism. Unless and until you close the border and remove the terror infrastructure, you can’t defeat them. So you must put pressure on those countries supporting and sponsoring terrorism, specially Turkey, Qatar and Saudi Arabia. These countries should immediately be stopped from funding, arming and training terrorists. Five years ago, Syria was the most stable country in the most turbulent region in the world. It had been so for decades. In Moscow, the Saudi Foreign Minister [Adel al-Jubeir] recently said President Assad is not part the solution. In some sense he’s right. President Assad is not just part of the solution. He’s the solution. There’s no solution to the current Syrian crisis without the current president and the government.
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Threat from IS is serious, Rajnath tells Russia - The Hindu
Two days after he said that terrorist organisation Islamic State (IS) was not big challenge to India, Home Minister Rajnath Singh told a Russian delegation that “the threat of IS was a matter of serious concern.”

A statement issued by the Home Ministry said, “Union Home Minister said that the threat of Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) is a matter of serious concern and there is need for close cooperation and exchange of information between the two countries and monitoring the activity of ISIL particularly in the field of media to counter the extensive media propaganda by the ISIL and the Cyber Space to combat close Jihadi chat and online recruitment.”


This was conveyed during a meeting between a Russian delegation headed by Interior Minister Vladimir Kolokoltsev and an Indian team headed by Mr. Singh.
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Muslim clerics issue fatwa against IS - The Hindu
Over 1,050 Indian Islamic scholars and clerics have issued fatwa (religious decree) against Islamic State and described its actions as against the basic tenets of Islam.

This is the first time that such a large number of religious leaders and imams have issued a joint fatwa against IS
— also known as Daesh — which has unleashed a reign of terror in the Middle East.

“Islam shuns violence while Daesh perpetuates it,” the edict said.

Abdul Rehman Anjari, president of the Mumbai’s Islamic Defence Cyber Cell, collected the edicts from Muslims scholars and leaders over the past few months {So, it is just a private effort by an individual. Any Muslim can go to an alim and ask him the opinion which is given as a fatwa. We don't know who these 1050 clerics are and what is their standing}.

These fatwas are in 15 volumes, and copies were sent to U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki-moon and other leaders to convey Indian Muslims’ views on IS activities.

It urged the international community to take immediate steps to eliminate this terror group that has caused mayhem in the region.
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From the "West Asia" thread
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SSridhar wrote:From the "West Asia" thread
this story seems like a kind of dubious source and sort of tabloid journalism :-?
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Taliban leader joins Islamic State - DT
The Islamic State has claimed that senior Taliban commander Mullah Mansoor Dadullah has pledged allegiance to the terrorist group.

An Islamic State supporter - who claims to be spokesman for the terror group - said Mullah Dadullah was rescued from an offensive by the Taliban militants, involving 2,100 fighters, in Afghanistan’s Zabul province.

He said at least 230 Islamic State fighters were deployed to Zabul from western Farah province to engage the Taliban and rescue Mullah Dadullah.

He also said that Mullah Abdul Manan - the brother of the Taliban founder Mullah Muhammad Omar - preferred to join the Islamic State rather than pledge allegiance to the newly appointed Taliban leader Mullah Akhtar Mansoor.

Fidai Mahaz - which was formed following the killing of Mullah Mansoor Dadullah’s elder brother - published a propaganda video ahead of engaging in bloody clashes with the supporters of Mullah Akhtar Mansoor.

The video published through the website of Fidai Mahaz slammed Mullah Akhtar Mansoor’s appointment as the new Taliban leader, calling him a forger and apostate.

The movement had earlier confirmed Mullah Omar’s death claiming that Mullah Akhtar Mansoor had killed Mullah Omar.
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Al-Qaeda chief Zawahri: Islamic State is illegitimate - Reuters
Al-Qaeda leader Ayman al-Zawahri dismissed the Islamic State movement and its leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi as illegitimate but said his followers would join them in fighting the Western-led coalition in Iraq and Syria if possible.

In an audiotape on the internet, Mr. Zawahri said: "We don't recognise this caliphate."
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X-posting from Afghanistan Thread...the back story behind Mullah Dadullah's backflip

Don't want to get my hopes up just yet...but IS is definitely causing some pain to ISI pasand Talibans in Afghanistan.

Like this full blown war in the Southern provinces between Dadullah and Talib Chief Mansour's men.
In one of the first tests of his leadership, the head of Afghanistan’s Taliban militants is moving aggressively against a breakaway faction in the south of the country, according to Afghan and Taliban officials.

Mullah Akhtar Muhammad Mansour, who assumed leadership of the Taliban this summer, has sent hundreds of fighters on motorcycles in the past two weeks to Zabul Province to battle forces loyal to Mullah Mansour Dadullah, who has publicly refused to pledge allegiance to the new leader, the officials said.

The two factions have since been fighting with no clear conclusion in sight. The latest skirmish on Saturday, which lasted for an hour and involved heavy weapons, left at least five people dead on each side, Ghulam Jilani Farahi, the province’s security chief, said on Sunday. Ten of Mullah Mansour’s men were detained by Mullah Dadullah’s forces, a member of the Taliban in Zabul said on condition of anonymity, fearing reprisals for sharing details of the group’s infighting.
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/09/07/world ... south.html

And this is a phenomenon now spreading to "numerous other locations" as well, according to this link.

http://www.usnews.com/news/world/articl ... fghanistan
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Al Qaeda Leader Al-Zawahiri Declares War on ISIS ‘Caliph’ Al-Baghdadi
Just ahead of the fourteenth anniversary of al Qaeda’s 9/11 attacks on the U.S., the leader of the terrorist group took aim in an angry speech at a mortal enemy — but not American “crusaders” this time. Rather, the object of his tirade was the leader of ISIS in a declaration of war that will “irreconcilably” divide the two terror groups in a way the U.S. may be able to exploit, experts say.
In the new audio tape, which was released online Wednesday and accompanied by a still image or al-Zawahiri and text of his speech, the al Qaeda leader appeared to confirm that he had not directly addressed infighting among the jihadis of ISIS and al Qaeda’s Syrian wing, Jabhat al-Nusra or the al Nusra Front, for fear of legitimizing ISIS.
Al-Zawahiri’s sour grapes speech, however, appeared to have been recorded last spring, analysts said, and reiterated past pledges of loyalty to Taliban leader Mullah Omar, who recently was confirmed dead by the Taliban. That appeared to mark a rare misstep for al Qaeda and al-Zawahiri, who once was able to leak his videotaped response to news events as quickly as one week later, but who now is in hiding with a $25 million U.S. bounty on his head.
Just wondering if Zawahiri, has already gone the Mullah Omar way, helped in the process by Deep State Shenanigans :mrgreen:
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Suspected ISIS sympathiser arrested in Hyderabad - The Hindu
Afsha Jabeen alias Nicky Joseph, a friend of Salman Mohiuddin, who was stopped by the Shamshabad police in January earlier this year, from joining the ISIS, was arrested at the Shamshabad airport when she arrived from Dubai on Friday.

She, after influencing Salman to join her in Dubai in order to go to Syria to join the IS, had also opened several facebook accounts with his assistance and tried to lure several youth to join the IS and Jihad using the social media platform.
While a case was registered against Salman and produced in the court, the police kept a watch on Jabeen, who also claimed to be a British national Nicky Joseph.

Originally, she hails from Towlichowki and had migrated to Abu Dhabi during her childhood. After completing her Intermediate in Abu Dhabi, she came to Hyderabad and graduated from Shadan College. She married one, Devender or Mustafa. She was taken into custody at the RGI Airport, when she arrived from Dubai. As she is a co-accused in Salman’s case, she is arrested and produced in the court.

Further enquiry is going on.
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Japan boosts embassy security worldwide after IS threat - AFP
Japan has ordered beefed-up security at its embassies worldwide, a top official said today, after the Islamic State group highlighted its missions in Indonesia, Malaysia and Bosnia-Hercegovina as part of a broader threat.

The move comes about eight months after IS claimed to have beheaded two Japanese hostages in Syria and amid anxiety at home over impending legislation that critics fear could drag the officially pacifist country into wars overseas.

In its Dabiq online magazine's latest issue, the Jihadist group issued a broadly worded threat against 70 "crusader nations" and "apostate armies".

"What, for example, prevents (a jihadi) from targeting... communities in Dearborn, Michigan, Los Angeles, and New York City? Or targeting Panamanian diplomatic missions in Jakarta, Doha, and Dubai? Or targeting Japanese diplomatic missions in Bosnia, Malaysia, and Indonesia? Or targeting Saudi diplomats in Tirana, Albania, Sarajevo, Bosnia, and Pristina, Kosovo?" it said.

Top government spokesman Yoshihide Suga told reporters in Tokyo today that security would be ramped up at Japan's nearly 200 diplomatic missions around the world.

"We are aware of the (threat) and, in cooperation with host countries, are tightening security," he said.

He did not elaborate on what steps were being taken.

Erika Nakano, a spokeswoman for the Japanese embassy in Jakarta, said the heavily fortified building already has "very tight security" and business was going on as usual.

"We are okay and we have a good relationship with the Jakarta police -- that's all I can tell you," she said in response to questions from AFP.

Japan has long avoided involvement in Middle East conflicts and has rarely been affected by religious extremism.

But in a video released in January, Islamic State militants said they had beheaded war correspondent Kenji Goto, a week after the group also claimed responsibility for the death of his friend Haruna Yukawa, a self-styled contractor.
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An Indian woman allegedly involved in recruiting people for the dreaded Islamic State terror outfit was on Friday deported by UAE and subsequently arrested in Hyderabad.

37-year-old Afsha Jabeen alias Nicky Joseph was arrested by police at the Rajiv Gandhi International Airport in Hyderabad after her arrival from Dubai.

Jabeen hails from Hyderabad but had been portraying herself as a British national while luring youth for IS through social media, officials said. She was deported along with husband and children.

The arrest followed that of one Salman Mohiuddin, who was picked up by the Cyberabad police in January just before he was leaving for Dubai to join her.

During interrogation, Mohiuddin had revealed that was in contact with Dubai-based British national 'Nicky Joseph' and that together both of them influenced several local young men into joining the IS.

Indian security agencies informed their British counterpart about the claims made by Mohiuddin but after investigations it was found that she was an Indian.

Jabeen was then tracked in Abu Dhabi and after initial questioning, she was deported to Hyderabad where police questioned her and registered a case.

"Today, on credible information, Afsha Jabeen is taken into custody at RGI Airport, when she arrived from Dubai. As she is a co-accused in Salman's case, she is arrested and produced in the court. Further inquiry is going on," Hyderabad police said in a press release.

Jabeen had gone to Abu Dhabi as a child and completed her schooling there. She came to India and graduated from Shadan college in Hyderabad and later married Devender Kumar alias Mustafa, according to the officials.

She and Mohiuddin allegedly used social media to attract youth from Telangana, Andhra Pradesh, Maharashtra, Karnataka, Bihar and other states towards the the banned terror outfit.

In 2014, after the establishment of the caliphate in Iraq and Syria, both started taking interest in development activities of the Islamic State. They created various Facebook groups under pseudo names and started attracting people who were interested in IS, it is alleged.
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IS claims destroying FC checkpoint in Bajaur - DT
DERA ISMAIL KHAN: Pakistan militants who have pledged allegiance to Islamic State said on Sunday they had attacked a paramilitary checkpoint along the Afghan border, in the first such assault claimed by a former faction of the Taliban in several months. A militant affiliated with the faction told Reuters the group attacked Damadola District of the Bajaur tribal area, where the military has been battling a militant insurgency since 2007, late on Saturday. “Our men destroyed the post, set it on fire and left it after our operation was complete,” he said by telephone. Two Pakistani intelligence officials confirmed a checkpoint had been attacked, but there were no casualties. The Pakistani government says that Islamic State, a group founded in Syria and Iraq in 2013, does not have a credible presence in the country. Several smaller militant groups and factions of the Pakistani Taliban have, however, pledged allegiance to Islamic State and its leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi since last year. So far, Islamic State has not formally accepted any of those pledges, nor has its central leadership claimed responsibility for any attacks carried out in Pakistan.
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‘Jabeen recruited one more person for Islamic State’ - Vijaita Singh, The Hindu
The interrogation details of Afsha Jabeen (38), who was deported from Dubai last week for allegedly recruiting Indian men to join the terrorist outfit Islamic State reveals that she was mainly into conversion activities and started promoting the IS only since last year, a senior government official said. Investigators have seized a laptop and two mobile phones from her possession.

Sources said that Jabeen, who posed as Nicole Joseph alias Niki on the Internet, has deleted several posts and online chat groups, which she had started.

Apart from Salman Moihuddin, a U.S.-returned techie who was arrested at the Hyderabad airport in January, at least one other person was recruited by Jabeen to join the IS. Investigators are trying to get the details of this person who also belongs to Hyderabad.

Mohiuddin was arrested when he was about to board a flight to Dubai, where he was to meet Jabeen and they planned to go to Syria via Turkey to join the IS fighters. It was during Mohiuddin’s interrogation that Jabeen’s name cropped up as she posed as the wife of a British cardiologist, who converted to Islam.

On Monday, the Hyderabad police pressed for her custody in the local court, but it was not granted. {I am unable to understand why.} On Tuesday, another attempt will be made to seek her police custody for further interrogation.
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Two in Custory for ISIS Links at Thiruvananthapuram - New Indian Express
Two Keralites, reportedly deported from the UAE for being ISIS sympathisers, were taken into custody at Thiruvananthapuram International Airport for suspected ISIS links. The two youngsters, natives of central Kerala, arrived at the airport on Tuesday early morning by an Etihad Airlines flight. The two are now being interrogated by central and state intelligence agencies.

Sleuths from the National Investigation Agency (NIA), Research and Analysis Wing (RAW), the Intelligence wing of the State Police along with the Immigration officials are part of the interrogation at the airport. According to unconfirmed reports the detained are Anas of Kilimanur in Thiruvananthapuram district and Karthik :shock: of Adoor in Pathanamthitta.

Reportedly, two others with suspected ISIS links were taken into custody at Karipur airport. The two are natives of Kozhikode.
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'IS' Member Attempts to Brainwash and Recruit Kerala Man Via Whatsapp
A Kasargod native has approached the Cyber Cell of city police with a complaint that a suspected member of Islamic State (IS) had attempted to brainwash him into joining the radical group by sending messages through WhatsApp.

Following this, the police have launched a probe to establish the source of the messages. The police have also taken steps to trace the number +1(509)871-0700, which they suspect to be a US-based satellite number. From this number, text messages, images and audio clips in Arabic were received by the youth, working in Kakkanad. The person who sent the messages introduced himself as Shami. Shami added the complainant to a group named Dawlathul Islam Dwah and started sending messages later on.
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Thousands of Sex Slaves From India, Nepal and Bangladesh Sold to Middle East and IS Terrorists Sumit Kumar Singh - New Indian Express
Sex sells, or so the bizarre saying goes. Literally, thousands of women from India, Nepal and Bangladesh are sold every year to customers in the Middle East, and the slave markets and sex prisons of IS terrorists in Syria.

New Delhi, Mumbai and Kolkata are the transit points for these sex traffickers. In this web of horror, the predators and facilitators include even airlines and immigration officials. Months before the First Secretary of the Saudi Arabian Embassy in New Delhi, Majid Ashoor {So, we now have the name of the Saudi diplomat who hired and raped the two Nepalese women}, and his Saudi friends were exposed for allegedly gang-raping and assaulting two Nepalese girls in his Gurgaon residence, 24-year-old Nepalese woman Reema (name changed) was sold to a middleman by her parents in Nepal. Her dismal fate would have dumped her in the international network of traffickers to be sold in the booming sex slave market of the Middle East. She, along with six other unfortunate persons, were detained at Delhi’s Indira Gandhi International Airport on July 27, when they were about to board a flight to Dubai.

As the immigration desks at airports have been alerted about human trafficking and documents as well as travellers are verified and scrutinised, sex agents have started sending women and girls first to Sri Lanka, Thailand, Morocco and Bangkok, and from there, obtained visas for the Middle Eastern countries such as the UAE, Kuwait and Saudi Arabia, as well as Egypt and Syria. Africa has become the new thriving slave market for these girls with buyers coming from Tanzania and Kenya.

Investigations into l’affaire Majid revealed a bigger network, involving two Air India employees — Manish Gupta and Kapil Kumar — who issued boarding passes. In February 2014, Delhi Police and CISF rescued 76 Nepalese girls travelling to Dubai from the clutches of traffickers.

Sources said it is most likely that they would be sold again to the highest bidder because they are promised lucrative jobs abroad, which would help them escape poverty and misery. On September 2, R&AW issued an alert to Delhi Police about Bangladeshi girls being trafficked from New Delhi to Dubai, Kuwait and Saudi Arabia. “An India-based contact reached out on August 31 to his Bangladesh-based female associate and informed that he has ‘managed’ the necessary liaisons in Delhi through which he would be able to obtain visas for Bangladeshis for Kuwait, Saudi Arabia and Dubai,” the alert said.

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