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Why is There No Storm in Your Ocean1?With ISIS stealing its thunder, al Qaeda declares jihad on India

Al Qaeda’s south Asia chief is Maulana Aasim Umar who has a message for Muslims in India. The page belongs to Bhusawal division of Personnnel Department of Central Railways and is part of the large intranet created for administrative needs of the Indian Railways. According to NDTV, the document deposited by the hackers ran to 11 pages in length, with the lowlight being a call to jihad for Indian Muslims.“Will the land of Delhi not give birth to a Shah Muhadith Delhvi who may once again teach the Muslims of India the forgotten lesson of Jihad and inspire them to take to the battlefields of Jihad?” the message from Umar asked. “Is there no successor left of the group that drenched itself in blood at Balakot, who possesses the spirit of rising in rebellion against a system based on disbelief and offering one’s life for Allah?”A microsite of the Railnet page of the Indian government was found hacked by al Qaeda recently in a demonstration of the terrorist group’s ability to intercept the government’s web directory. This is the first time a government page has been hacked by al Qaeda. The page belongs to Bhusawal division of Personnnel Department of Central Railways and is part of the large intranet created for administrative needs of the Indian Railways.A writing on the hacked site read, “Massage to Muslim People in India from AQIS (sic).” An attached document on the site opened to a message to Indian Muslims from Maulana Aasim Umar, the chief of the Al Qaeda in south Asia.

Al Qaeda training base ‘somewhere in Jharkhand’: Delhi PoliceBedanti Saran and Sanjay Sahay, Hindustan Times, Ranchi | Updated: Mar

12, 2016 Delhi police revelations about an al Qaeda training camp “somewhere in Jharkhand” has set alarm bells ringing in a state battling Left-wing extremist outfits in at least 16 out of 24 districts.Though Jharkhand police on Saturday denied presence of any base of the outlawed terror outfit, the state has been a breeding ground of terrorists affiliated to different fundamentalist outfits. In its application before a court in the national capital on Friday, Delhi Police said they were trying to trace one Abu Sufiyan of Jharkhand who had allegedly travelled to Pakistan and returned to India after receiving training at camps of the Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) and al Qaeda Indian Sub-Continent (AQIS).Delhi police made the disclosure in an application seeking extension of the time period for filing charge sheet against al Qaeda member, Mohammad Asif, who was arrested on December 14. HT has a copy of the Delhi police application.1 http://www.satp.org/satporgtp/countries/India/document/papers/Wts.pdf The general mandate of authority..

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The court, it is learnt, has granted the time extension.During a month long drive early this year, Delhi police arrested five AQIS

members identified as Mohammad Asif, Zafar Masood, Mohammad Abdul Rehman, Syed Anzar Shah and Abdul Sami from different states. Sami, a resident of Jamshedpur, allegedly accompanied Abu Sufiyan to Pakistan.Police said Asif and Masood are residents of Sambhal in Uttar Pradesh, Rehman is from Cuttack in Odisha, while Shah hails from Bengaluru in Karnataka. “Sufiyan’s arrest is crucial in finding out the missing links of the larger conspiracy,” the application said. His travel details to Pakistan were collected from Emirates Airlines, Dubai (UAE), and Pakistan International Airlines.These AQIS members, Delhi police say, had allegedly planned to carry out terror attacks in Delhi and other cities on January 26. The application said Sami allegedly motivated and recruited youths for LeT and AQIS and added there were specific inputs that Rehman in cooperation with others set up a training base which was yet to be located.Jharkhand police spokesperson SN Pradhan said “there are no terror camps in Jharkhand jungles”. Inspector general of police (operation) MS Bhatia too denied the Delhi police claim. “Modules of the Indian Mujahiddin existed in the state but they have been busted. They were responsible for the Patna and the Bodh Gaya blasts. The terrorists develop sleeper cells in the state whose members carry out violent acts in other states,” he added.Jharkhand has around 18 Maoist groups, many of which are rag-tag bands of criminals engaged in abduction and extortion. Several of them are also said to enjoy political patronage.Tryst with terrorPatna blast: Five-six teams with links to the Indian Mujahideen (IM) carried out a series of bomb blasts on October 27, 2013 during Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s rally at the Gandhi Maidan in Patna killing five people. NIA arrested suspected members of the banned Students Islamic Movement of India (SIMI) and IM chief of Jharkhand module Haider Ali from Ranchi. His associates including a juvenile were arrested from different parts of Jharkhand.Burdwan blast: NIA and Jharkhand police arrested several terrorists with links to the Jamat-ul-Mujahidin, an organisation operating from Bangladesh, from Pakur district in Jharkhand. They were wanted in connection with the Burdwan blast in October last year. Prominent among them were Ibrahim Sheikh, Harun Rashid, Jahangir Sheikh and Salauddin.Ranchi boy’s ISI linkRanchi resident Faizal Rahman alias Guddu alias Faizrul Rahman was arrested from a cyber café near Kanpur central railway station by the Uttar Pradesh anti-terrorist squad for alleged links with Pakistan’s spy agency ISI, in September 2011. Married to a Pakistani national, Faizal did his graduation from JN College, Dhurwa in Ranchi. Jharkhand police also raided his home in Ranchi and seized incriminating papers to suggest he was a full-time ISI operative in India.Hyderabad, Mumbai, Ahmedabad and PuneA resident of Ranchi, Manzar Imam, was arrested after his name cropped up in the twin Hyderabad blasts. Imam was wanted in several other cases including the Ahmedabad serial blasts, the 13/7 Mumbai serial blasts and Pune blasts. He is part of the Indian Mujahideen module which planned and carried out several blasts across the county. Investigators believe that Imam played a significant role in building up the IM’s terror network.





The ISIS-Related Attacks In Bangladesh – Organized Locally, Inspired By ISIS

By: Tufail Ahmad*

Four ISIS jihadis were arrested by Bangladeshi officials in December2015On February 12, 2016, Bangladesh's State Minister for Foreign Affairs, Md. Shahriar Alam, dismissed media reports that the Islamic State (ISIS) is gaining ground in Bangladesh, saying: "On the ground, in the investigations that we have carried out, we have as yet found no evidence of ISIS links."[1]Alam, who made the statement during a visit to Washington, was speaking in the context of a series of terror attacks in Bangladesh last year for which ISIS claimed responsibility. He refused to share the Western assessment that this was a serious threat, noting: "I do not think [that] any terrorist or groups would ever gain permanent or semi-permanent ground in Bangladesh."[2]The government of Bangladeshi Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, who is in her second term, has severely cracked down on Bangladeshi jihadi groups, especially the Jama'atul Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB). This has forced some of its members to flee to the neighboring state of West Bengal in India. Shahriar Alam's security assessment should be judged against some of the terror attacks that have taken place in recent months, as detailed below.Attacks In Bangladesh Claimed By ISISOn September 28, 2015, Italian national Cesare Tavella, an employee of the Netherlands-based organization ICCO which works in development sector, was killed by jihadi terrorists in the capital Dhaka. Immediately after his killing, ISIS issued a statement in Arabic claiming responsibility and warning that people from "the Crusaders alliance" would not be safe in Muslim countries.[3] This was the first declaration that the ISIS is present in Bangladesh.On October 3, Japanese national Kunio Hoshi was followed by jihadi terrorists and shot dead in the town of Kaunia in northern Bangladesh. ISIS immediately issued a statement, via the pro-ISIS leading jihadi forum Shumoukh Al-Islam, claiming responsibility for Hoshi's killing, identifying him as the "Japanese infidel," and warning that the attack was a continuation of the group's targeting of members of coalition countries that are fighting in Syria and Iraq.[4] The killings of Cesare Tavella and Kunio Hoshi were timed to coincide with ISIS's Arabic-language announcement.On November 18, a third foreigner – Italian priest Piero Parolari – was followed by terrorists mounted on motorcycles and was dead at Mirzapur in Dinajpur district. According to a U.S.-based threat monitoring group, this attack too was claimed by ISISI; the group's role in attributing the attacks in Bangladesh to ISIS was, however, questioned





by the Bangladeshi media.[5]On October 5, Bangladeshi Christian priest Luke Sarker was attacked at his

home, but in that case six individuals arrested by police were suspected to be members of Jama'atul Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB).[6] Also, on November 26, 10 Christian priests received death threats, in a letter sent to one of them – but not by ISIS.[7]On the night of October 23-24, in Dhaka, a series of bomb attacks killed one person and wounded over 60 were wounded as Shi'ite mourners gathered for the Ashura procession to mark the annual day of mourning for Imam Hussein, the grandson of the Prophet Muhammad.[8] This was believed to be the first attack on Shi'ite Muslims in Bangladesh. ISIS claimed responsibility, saying: "The soldiers of the Caliphate in Bangladesh" had detonated explosives during "polytheistic rituals."[9]On November 26, an attack took place at a Shi'ite mosque at Bogra, 200 km northwest of Dhaka, killing the muezzin and wounding three others;[10] ISIS claimed responsibility for the attack.[11] Since Shi'ite and Sunni Muslims have coexisted peacefully in that area for decades, it could be concluded that the attack was a deliberate attempt at sparking sectarian war in the area. This was second attack on Shi'ite Muslims in Bangladesh within a month.On November 4, a police checkpoint was attacked in the Baroipara area, near Dhaka. A media report stated that ISIS had claimed responsibility for the attack, and that the group had stated: "In a security operation, Allah enabled the soldiers of the state in Bangladesh to attack a police checkpoint."[12] A few days later, on November 10, a soldier was attacked near a military camp in Dhaka.[13]The preceding week also witnessed similar small-scale attacks: On October 22, a policeman was stabbed to death at Gabtoli checkpost in Dhaka.[14] On October 31, Faisal Arefin Dipan, of the book publishing house Jagriti Prokashony, was hacked to death in his office; several hours previously, another publisher, Ahmedur Rashid Tutul, owner of the publishing house 'Shuddhaswar,' was wounded in an attack along with others in his office.[15] These attacks were not claimed by ISIS.On December 25, a suicide bomber blew himself up at a mosque of Ahmadi Muslims at Bagmara, 250 km from Dhaka, wounding three. Ahmadis are not considered Muslim by the mainstream Sunni Deobandi and Barelvi organizations as well as by the jihadi groups. ISIS issued a statement claiming responsibility for the attack and calling Ahmadis "polytheistic."[16] Although the attack was claimed by ISIS, it appears the attack may have been carried out by the JMB because Bagmara is the stronghold of JMB militant leader Siddiqul Islam Bangla Bhai, who was executed in 2007.[17]Should Bangladesh Worry About The ISIS Threat?Bangladesh has witnessed two types of jihadi attacks in recent years: a) a series of targeted killings of liberal Bangladeshi bloggers, responsibility for which is generally claimed by the Ansarullah Bangla Team (ABT), which affiliated itself with Al-Qaeda in the Indian Subcontinent (AQIS); and b) the series of terror attacks discussed above, many of which were claimed by ISIS. Currently, there are attempts to recruit young Bangladeshis to work for ISIS, both from within Bangladesh and from abroad; additionally, regular arrests have been made by Bangladeshi officials.[18]Jihadism in Bangladesh has roots in the 1980s Afghan jihad. Jamaat-e-Islami, an Islamist organization founded by Abul A'ala Maududi in 1941, has been the main feeder organization for jihadi groups across South Asia. Following the creation of Pakistan in 1947 and of Bangladesh in 1971, Jamaat-e-Islami split, for all practical purposes, into four branches that are ideologically similar but organizationally not connected: a) in India; b) in India's Jammu & Kashmir; c) in Pakistan; and d) in Bangladesh. In the last three, jihadi





groups have been sheltered by mosques, madrassas and organizations affiliated with Jamaat-e-Islami.[19]

In Bangladesh, young men emerging from Jamaat-e-Islami formed the Jama'atul Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB). It is from the JMB – many of whose members fled to India following the crackdown by the Sheikh Hasina government – that the Ansarullah Bangla Team (ABT) emerged. Two Bangladeshi nationals were found among a group of five ISIS terror suspects arrested by Indian officials in Delhi in mid-January.[20] There is a continuing overlap between the JMB and ABT. In the cases of the terror attacks claimed by ISIS, it does not appear that the ISIS's top leadership is planning and executing the operations in Bangladesh.This is similar to the AQIS's claims of terror attacks, especially those on the secular bloggers, in Bangladesh. In those cases too, it did not appear that the AQIS's top leadership was planning and executing the attacks in Bangladesh. However, in both the cases, AQIS and ISIS claimed the attacks. In both the cases, it does not appear that there is top-down linking with the local jihadi groups. It is more like bottom-up links being created by the local militants with the ISIS, especially as they have seen the successful use of social media by ISIS. The current series of ISIS-claimed attacks appear to have been planned by the locals who, inspired by the spectacular success of ISIS in Iraq and Syria, sought to find support from the ISIS leadership.The fact that the local militants have linked up with the ISIS was ascertained when Issue No. 12 of Dabiq, ISIS's English-language online magazine, published a lengthy article titled "The Revival of Jihad in Bengal – With the Spread of the Light of Khilafah."[21] While the article itself was short on information on ISIS operations in Bangladesh, it traced the history of jihad in Bengal (which includes Bangladesh and India's West Bengal state).Bangladesh's Sheikh Hasina government is capable of fighting the ISIS threat. However, the greater, long-term threat for Bangladesh could come from the mass fundamentalist organizations like Hefajat-e-Islam which the Sheikh Hasina government sought to coddle in order to win elections.[22]* Tufail Ahmad is Director of MEMRI's South Asia Studies Project Endnotes[1] Business-Standard.com (India), February 13, 2016.[2] Business-Standard.com (India), February 13, 2016.[3] ISIS In Bangladesh Claims Responsibility For Assassinating Italian National Cesare Tavella, MEMRI JTTM Report, September 28, 2015.[4] ISIS Claims Responsibility For Assassinating A Japanese National In Bangladesh, MEMRI JTTM Report, October 3, 2015.[5] DhakaTribune.com (Bangladesh), November 19, 2015 & TheDailyStar.net (Bangladesh), October 27, 2015.[6] DhakaTribune.com (Bangladesh), November 19, 2015.[7] DhakaTribune.com (Bangladesh), November 27, 2015.[8] DhakaTribune.com (Bangladesh), November 24, 2015.[9] ANInews.in (India), October 25, 2015 & BDnews24.com (Bangladesh), October 24, 2015.[10] BDNews.com (Bangladesh), November 27, 2015.[11] BDNews.com (Bangladesh), November 27, 2015.[12] NYTimes.com (U.S.), November 5, 2015.[13] BDNews.com (Bangladesh), November 10, 2015.





[14] BDNews.com (Bangladesh), October 22, 2015.[15] BDNews.com (Bangladesh), October 31, 2015.

[16] DhakaTribune.com (Bangladesh), December 26, 2015.[17] NDTV.com (India), December 27, 2015.[18] Bangladesh Arrests Four ISIS Militants, Their Leader Trained In Pakistan, MEMRI JTTM Report, December 29, 2015. For a detailed discussion of the ISIS threat by Bangladeshi experts, see, After Foreign Nationals Killed By ISIS, Bangladeshi Intellectuals Debate Extremism And ISIS Threat To Bangladesh, MEMRI JTTM Report, October 15, 2015.[19] For a discussion of Jamaat-e-Islami's role in South Asia, see the author's article, Separate Politics From Religion, The New Indian Express (India), December 12, 2013.[20] ClickIttefaq.com (India), January 16, 2016.[21] Article In Issue 12 Of ISIS's English-Language Magazine 'Dabiq' Confirms ISIS Carried Out Recent Killings In Bangladesh, Says: 'The Soldiers Of The Khilafah In Bengal Are Busy Preparing For Further Attacks On The Kuffar', MEMRI JTTM Report, December 9, 2015.[22] For a discussion of Hefajat-e-Islam, see the author's article, Liberty in Peril in Bangladesh, The New Indian Express (India), July 30, 2013.

Regards Cees***How hard is it to understand that radical Islamist jihadis have declared war on the West?

In simple English this means: they will find you and kill you wherever and whenever they can.

Time and again, many of us concerned Muslims have highlighted the dangers of political Islam/Islamism, which stems from one of three sources: the Muslim Brotherhood, Wahhabi/Salafism or Khomeinism.





The West has been asleep at the wheel, waffling about how to address the issue with "sensitivity." Calling out the truth should never be subject

to political correctness.The world needs to take the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) to task and challenge it about what it is doing to stem the tide of violence emanating from the Muslim world. The world needs to understand that ISIS is not trying to set up a Caliphate. OIC is the Caliphate.Why? Because the Islamists have pinpointed the West to be "Dar al Harb" (land of war), a concept that allows them to justify killing anyone on this land. You, me and everyone in between -- from the USA across to Canada, the UK and Europe.

In a March 2016, message distributed to media, Mullah Akhtar Mansoor claimed the Taliban were winning the war and were "in a better state than at any other time."Cees`: A far look back; If Taliban Take Over Afghanistan and Pakistan--India is NextWalid Phares April 27th 2009Cutting Edge Terrorism AnalystAs the U.S. administration and its allies are devising a new strategy for the next steps in Afghanistan, the Jihadists have already begun their next move. But this time, it's inside Pakistan. Afghanistan, Pakistan and India are as one regional battlefield where the other side is coordinating strategically, acting methodically, and beating the international coalition in pure agility and speed. If Washington and its allies fail to see the big picture in the fight against the Taliban and Al Qaeda, which unfortunately may be the case now, the rapidly deteriorating situation will soon spread from the northwestern provinces of Pakistan to spill over to both Afghanistan and India, if not beyond. That is how I suggest "reading" the recent worrisome leaps achieved by the Taliban from the SWAT valley into the neighboring district of Buner. So, what's the story and why should we consider it as a crossing of the red lines? For over two years both the past government of General Musharraf and the current democratically elected government of President Asif Ali Zardari have been advised to engage the Taliban, or rather what they perceived as reconcilable leaders of the Jihadi militia in control of large areas in ?xml:namespace prefix = st1 ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" /Waziristan and the adjacent districts. Despite the fact that the Taliban openly protect Al Qaeda, obstruct the army from bringing legal order to the borders with Afghanistan, control training camps for international terrorists, wage attacks against security forces, and have been involved in car bombs, suicide attacks and assassinations for years now, advice was given to high authorities in Islamabad (both from inside and outside the country) that accommodating some of the Taliban's basic requirements would bring stability, at least for a while. Musharraf, whose intelligence services had kept good relations and friendships with the Jihadists of AfPak (Afghanistan and Pakistan combined), attempted to calm down some of the radical war lords even though he accused the Taliban at large of attempting to kill him and "Talibanize" the country. This dual and contradictive approach between shouting at them and engaging them at the same time allowed the Jihadi militias to survive across Waziristan and other locations between 2001 and 2008.?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" /





The missing link has always been the failure in winning the war of ideas against the radical networks. As long as the Jihadi madrassas are operational,

droves of "graduates" enlarge the ranks of the Taliban and their other associates such as Laskar Taibah (accused of masterminding the Mumbai attacks), Jaish e Muhammed and other armed Islamist factions. In short, the strength of the Jihadi machine in Pakistan today is a direct result of the non-action by the Musharraf government against the network, particularly along the western borders, for eight years. The reasons for this restraint are numerous and they aren't all the product of presidential inaction. Rather, they are embedded in an international consensus not to touch the ideology of the radicals. That is a problem that overarches many other crisis areas, including Iraq, the Horn of Africa, Sudan, and even within Western countries. This is another discussion. With the election of a new president of Pakistan, the widower of the late Benazir Bhutto assassinated by the Taliban, and the formation of a new cabinet dominated by the secular Party of the People, conventional wisdom would project that Islamabad would mobilize wider and stronger against the creeping militias. Although during the election campaign and for the first few months of its tenure government figures blasted the "extremists" and pledged for shutting down the ideological madrassas across the country, the "engagement policy" persisted and ironically went farther than under Musharraf. Over the past few months, Pakistan's government authorized governors in the Northwest part of the country to sign agreements with the leaders of the "Sharia Movement" in the Swat valley, a Jihadi front, to apply their interpretation of religious laws. The founder of the movement, Sufi Mohammad accepted the terms of the settlement with Islamabad. But his son-in-law Maulana Qazi Fazlullah, chief of the Tehreek-e-Nafaz-e-Shariat-e-Mohammadi organization (TNSM), who since 2007 has deployed his 5,000 militiamen in 60 villages forming a "parallel emirate," is now on the march to expand Taliban influence beyond the "authorized" district. In short, the cohort of Jihadists is not stopping, not reconciling, not de-radicalizing, but seeking to eventually reach the capital. First in Waziristan, then as of last year in Swat, and now seizing the district of Buner, the Taliban are conquering Pakistani land. Their technique is simple: "Give us Sharia implementation or endure terror." Authorities have been choosing the morphine option: let them apply Sharia if they cease their fire. But as soon as an area is "granted" to the Jihadists, a new "Jihad" begins towards the adjacent district. The "forced Sharia" gives the Taliban more than just catechism: full control, broadcast, courts, training facilities, and money. It just cedes territory and people to a highly ideological force. Their Sharia-based "Talibanization" grants them harsh rules of intimidation: girls and women punished, opponents eliminated, civil society repressed: a copy of pre-2001 Afghanistan. But the strategic consequences of the last "offensives" inside Pakistan are boundless. By reaching a distance of 70 miles or so of the capital, the Taliban are putting the government under their direct menace. Pushes elsewhere are expected, towards the south and the northeast. The army is deploying around public buildings. That is a bad sign. A Jihadi





push along the Kashmir borders with India is undoubtedly next. The hydra is expanding gradually, preparing for a massive squeeze.

We should be concerned about two titanic effects on international security: Obviously, the nukes of Pakistan are on the minds of the Al Qaeda leadership, hidden comfortably in the belly of the Taliban, but so is the coming U.S.-led campaign in Afghanistan. The Taliban are attempting to change the landscape inside Pakistan and along its northwestern borders so that when the new push begins in Afghanistan, the Taliban would already have a deep hinterland east of the borders. The Pakistani Army will be busy protecting the government, not in encircling the Jihadists. The war room of the terror forces has begun fighting America's new terrorism strategy before the latter starts. The push into Pakistan can only be charascterized as a jihadi pre-emptive war. If a realm from Afghanistan to Waziristan to Pakistan come under complete Taliban control, India is next. Cutting Edge Terrorism Analyst Walid Phares is the Director of the Future Terrorism Project at the Foundation for the Defense of Democracies and the author of The Confrontation: Winning the War against Future Jihad




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