Delhi blast islamic terror email threatens to stop Indias heartbeat Islamic Terrorism in India 11/09/16, 2)14 PM

Delhi blast islamic terror email

threatens to stop
Indias heartbeat
Posted by jagoindia on September 14, 2008

Terror mail threatens to stop Indias heartbeat

Praveen Swami

Author believed to be top Students Islamic Movement of India bomb-

maker Abdul Subhan Qureshi

More terror attacks will follow, says the e-mail

Bombings a tribute to our brethren martyrs in Kashmir

WHEN THE CAPITAL CAME TO A HALT: The blast site on

Barakhamba Road in Connaught Place in New Delhi on Saturday.
(Right) People help an injured woman after a blast. A boy considered a
key witness to one of the bomb blasts in New Delhi being led away by
the police. PHOTOS: V.V. KRISHNAN, AP, AFP

NEW DELHI: In the fifth in a series of manifestos issued by the Indian

Mujahideen since it began a series of nationwide urban bombings in
2007, the terrorist group has said Saturdays serial bombings were
intended to stop the heart of India from beating.

We the Indian Mujahideen, ask Allah, the Almighty, to accept from us

these nine explosions which were planned to be executed in the holy
month of Ramadan, states a 13-page manifesto and video slide-show e-
mailed by the Indian Mujahideen to media in the midst of the
bombings.

Charging Indians with harbouring never ending hostile hatred in your

hearts against Islam and its people, the manifesto says that the
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bombings are intended to prove to you the ability and potential of

[the] Indian Mujahideen to assault any city of India at any time. It
promises that more terror attacks fill follow to punish you even before
your earlier wounds have healed.

Much of the manifesto is devoted to holding out threats to the police

and media. It states: Be it the ATS [Anti-Terrorism Squad] of
Maharashtra, the ATS and ACB of Gujarat, the OCTOPUS
[Organisation for Countering Terrorists] of Andhra Pradesh, or be it a
psychological propaganda war by the biased media, none shall be
spared when it comes to vengeance the Qisas.

For the first time, the Indian Mujahideen makes reference to the
conflict in Jammu and Kashmir. The injustice and pain inflicted on
Kashmiri Muslims during the Amarnath crisis has once again landed
you in great trouble, it warns.

Describing the Delhi bombings as a tribute to all our brethren martyrs

in Kashmir, the Indian Mujahideen says, We announce that from now
on, Inshallah, the Muslims wont cry alone, our women wont be
widowed alone, our children wont balone [sic., be alone] and scores
will be settled evenly.

Interestingly, in an evident response to anti-jihadist clerics who have in

recent months attacked the Indian Mujahideen, the e-mail lays claim to
the legacy of famous regional jihadists. We have carried out this attack
in the memory of two most eminent Mujahids of India, Sayyed Ahmed,
Shaheed and Shah Ismail, Shaheed (may Allah bestow His Mercy upon
them), who had raised the glorious banner of Jihad against the
disbelievers in this very city of Delhi.

Sayyid Ahmad of Rai Bareilly and Shah Ismail died at Balakote,

Pakistan-administered Kashmir, in May 1831, in what is present-day
Pakistan-administered Kashmir, while waging an unsuccessful jihad
against Maharaja Ranjit Singhs kingdom. Ahmads followers went on

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to set up the Jamaat Ahl-e-Hadis a neo-fundamentalist order that

has drawn million of mainly-peaceful followers, but has also inspired
south Asias largest terrorist group, the Lashkar-e-Taiba.

Pakistan-based Lashkar units are thought to have trained several

members of the proscribed Students Islamic Movement of India, from
which the Indian Mujahideen has drawn its cadre.

Indian Mujahideen operatives had issued the first of five similar

manifestos in November, 2007, minutes before the bombing of three
trial court buildings in Uttar Pradesh.

Police in Uttar Pradesh and Rajasthan believe that this e-mail was
drafted by Lucknow-based businessman Shahbaz Husain and cleric
Abdul Bashir Qasmi, both of whom were arrested earlier this month.
Both the address used to send the e-mail, guru_alHindi@yahoo.fr, and
the pseudonym used to sign Guru al-Hindi bore interesting similarities
with Husains personal e-mail address, hahbaz_hindi@yahoo.com.

Sources involved in the investigation of the May serial bombings in

Jaipur said they believe Husain, with some advice on theological issues
from Qasmi, also drafted the e-mail issued by the Indian Mujahideen in
the wake of the attacks. Like the court-complex e-mail, this document
was also signed by Guru al-Hindi and sent out from an e-mail address
containing his name, guru_alhindi_jaipur@ yahoo.co.uk.

Later Indian Mujahideen manifestos are believed to have authored by

Abdul Subhan Qureshi a Mumbai-based software engineer-turned
top Students Islamic Movement of India bomb-maker who was profiled
in The Hindu on Saturday.

Qureshi, police sources say, designed the graphics-rich Portable

Document Format manifesto attached to an Indian Mujahideen e-mail
issued by its most ambitious terror operation so far, the attacks on
Surat and Ahmedabad in July. This third e-mail manifesto bore the

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signatures of both al-Hindi and al-Arbi, or the Arab, and was sent
out from alarbi_gujarat@yahoo.com. Forensic specialists have
established that the handwriting used in the signature for Arbi closely
matches that of Qureshi.

Later, al-Arbi sent out a fourth e-mail to decry the arrest of key
suspects alleged to be involved in the Indian Mujahideen, including
Qasmi. In this last e-mail, he promised to execute further attacks.

Saturdays terror manifesto bears the signatures of both al-Arbi and

al-Hindi, but the writing used for the second name is significantly
different from that used in earlier Indian Mujahideen documents a
fact which could bear out police claims that the individual it refers to
has been arrested.

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