Educated professionals in terror network
ND Shiva Kumar, TNN Sep 5, 2012 | Bangalore :: A DRDO engineer, doctor, journalist, MBA…The profile of the arrested LeT and HuJI operatives on Thursday has sent shock waves.The trend of educated professionals on the terror network began to surface in the state in 2006. It heralded the changing face of terror and the magnitude of their planning and involvement, which ranged from train bombings to terror attack on a foreign soil.
It began with the arrest of Muzammil Sheikh, a software engineer with a MNC in Bangalore, in connection with the 2006 train bombings in Mumbai.
Next was the turn of Ahmed brothers from Bangalore – Dr Sabeel Ahmed, a MBBS doctor, and Kafeel Ahmed, a PhD scholar in aeronautical engineering – to get arrested in connection with the terror plot and the attack on the Glasgow Airport in the United Kingdom in June-July 2007.
A few months later, in January 2008, the state police stumbled upon a network of SIMI and LeT activists at Honnali in Davangere district and Hubli. Of the more than a dozen persons arrested, there were students of medicine, doctors and engineers, besides a LeT operative.
The terror modules busted in the state include the LeT, SIMI, Al-Badr, Deendar-Anjuman and HuJI. The investigators have also found some links to the al-qaida in the past.
Related reading:: Changing Face of Terror
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