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The National Investigation Agency (<keyword id="6360058" type="COMPANY" weightage="100" keywordseo="NIA">NIA</keyword>) busted a suspected ISIS terror unit in Hyderabad and took 11 people in detention for questioning. 
 
After a series of raids in Hyderabad, NIA recovered arms, explosives and Rs 15 lakh in cash, which was to be used for these terror attacks planned for different parts of India. 
 
The men that have been detained are said to have been in touch with their handlers in Syria, and were contemplating terror attacks in India, said the NIA officials. 
 
The Agency got help from Hyderabad police and Telangana Counter Intelligence sleuths, after which it raided Mirchowk, Mogulpura, Bhavani Nagar, Barkas and at a few other places in the Old City of Hyderabad, from where the men were detained and explosives were recovered. 
 
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NIA busts Islamic State’s plans to bomb India

In a crackdown ahead of <keyword id="6416557" type="PERSON" weightage="20" keywordseo="Republic-day">Republic Day</keyword>, the <keyword id="6360058" type="COMPANY" weightage="20" keywordseo="NIA">NIA</keyword> has arrested 13 suspected <keyword id="174501" type="COMPANY" weightage="20" keywordseo="ISIS">ISIS</keyword> sympathisers for plotting attacks in different parts of the country. 

	Of the 14 suspects detained yesterday, 13 have been arrested, according to a Home Ministry spokesman. 
 

	The arrests were made following simultaneous searches and raids conducted at 12 locations in six cities--Bangalore, Tumkur, Mangalore, Hyderabad, Mumbai and Lucknow yesterday with the support of local police forces. 
 Circuits for detonating <keyword id="44470" type="COMPANY" weightage="20" keywordseo="explosives">explosives</keyword> were recovered during the searches. 

	The NIA said that certain incriminating articles, including but not limited to mobile phones, laptops, unaccounted cash, jihadi literature and videos and certain material for preparation of bombs were recovered from these places. 
 

	"These individuals were planning and making efforts to establish a channel of procurement of explosives/weapons, identify locations to organize training camps including training of firearms, motivate new recruits to target police officers, foreigners in India and to carry out terrorist activities in various parts of India," it said. 
 

	The NIA said it received information that certain individuals from different cities in the country were in the process of organizing themselves to commit terrorist acts in different parts of the country. 
 

	According to sources, the arrested people were part of a group named 'Janood-ul-Khalifa-e-Hind' (Army of Caliph of India), a terror group which has almost similar ideologies that of ISIS. 
 

	They said the suspects had been under surveillance for quite sometime and the decision to arrest them was taken as the group received 'instructions' for carrying out 'some sensational' attacks in the country. 
 

	The group had started receiving money through 'hawala' route and according to Home Ministry spokesman "Sheikh also received funds to the tune of Rs 6 lakh." 
 

	All the arrested suspects were being brought to the national capital for detailed interrogation as preliminary enquiry indicated that they were working on evolving a terror outfit with ideologies similar to ISIS.

Ahead of Republic Day, NIA arrests 13 suspected ISIS sympathisers

A five-minute-long chat between Indian Mujahideen boss <keyword id="6460189" type="PERSON" weightage="100" keywordseo="Yasin-Bhatkal">Yasin Bhatkal</keyword> and his wife has sent authorities into a tizzy, leading them to scale up security arrangements at Hyderabad prison where Bhatkal, mastermind of many jihadi attacks, is lodged, and discuss alternative plans where he could be secured better. 
 During the chat, Yasin told his wife he would be out soon with help from <keyword id="86304" type="CITY" weightage="100" keywordseo="Damascus">Damascus</keyword>. 
 
 The authorities are particularly worried about the Damascus angle, the capital of <keyword id="6354913" type="COUNTRY" weightage="60" keywordseo="Syria">Syria</keyword>, a big part of which is now in <keyword id="304620" type="ORGANIZATION" weightage="100" keywordseo="Islamic-State">Islamic State</keyword>'s control and has been used as a launch pad for jihadi offensives not just in its neigbourhood but far from its shores. Though confined to Syria and neigbouring Iraq, IS has supplanted Al Qaida as the leading jihadi group in notoriety. 
 
The group has adroitly blended its extremist interpretation of Islam and modern communication tools to find recruits across the globe, as well as to inspire 'lone wolf' attacks, like the recent ones in France. 
 
 
Agencies suspect IS could help Bhatkal by enlisting the support of Ansar-ul-Tawhid Fi Bilad Al Hind (AuT), the jihadi group that had tweeted pictures of the two terrorists killed in the Batla House encounter in 2008 and called them martyrs. This was first reported by TOI last September. 
 
 Intriguingly, AuT has been at loggerheads with the Indian Mujahideen to which Bhatkal belongs, and consists of <keyword id="42632" type="COMPANY" weightage="60" keywordseo="IM">IM</keyword> operatives who rebelled against the leadership of Riyaz and Iqbal Bhatkal in order to join the jihad in Afghanistan. Yasin Bhatkal's conversations, a source said, point to an effort by IS to repair the rift between the rival factions of IM. AuT last year uploaded three different videos with subtitles in Hindi, Tamil and Urdu with messages from various IS operatives, including the Friday sermon of its chief <keyword id="2406035" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="100" keywordseo="Abu-Bakr-al-Baghdadi">Abu Bakr Al Baghdadi</keyword> in which he called for jihad against India among other countries. 
 
It had also uploaded videos condoling the death of an Indian jihadist who died fighting in Afghanistan even as it carried a video message by a former IM operative calling Indians for global jihad. 
 
 
Bhatkal is learnt to have made at least 10 calls to his wife who lives in Jamia Nagar, southeast Delhi, and his hope of getting out soon has been a common thread through most of the conversations. The agencies have also established that the IM commander spoke to some anti-social elements he had met in judicial custody. 
 
Worried by what they have gathered, agencies have written to Hyderabad jail and security has been beefed up there. They are particularly intrigued by the Damascus bit. 
All those people including his family members who met Bhatkal after his arrest are being scanned for clues. 
 
The conversations also bring out the softer side of Bhatkal's personality. The hardcore jihadi, who has shown no remorse for killing innocents, is a loving husband. It was his fondness for Zahida which helped Indian agencies track him down to his hideout in Nepal. Bhatkal had sent Rs 1 lakh home as 'eidi' (gift) to Zahida before Eid in 2013 through hawala. The cash along with a mobile phone was delivered to Zahida at her Delhi house by Bhatkal's deputy Tehsin Akhtar alias Monu. 
 
Bhatkal soon started chatting with Zahida on that mobile, helping intelligence agencies, already tracking the route of hawala transfer, map his location in Nepal near Pokhara. He also promised to be with her for the rest of his life and make sure that she faced no difficulties. 

	 
	 
	(image credits: delhidailynews.com)

Yasin  Bhatkal  planning jail break with ISIS  help

The fourteen men arrested by <a href="http://www.businessinsider.in/searchresult.cms?query=NIA">NIA</a> on suspicion of being part of an 'online radicalization module' that owes allegiance to ISIS have revealed they were supposed to focus on ‘political targets, foreigners, vital installations and government machinery’ and not crowded public places. 
 
Counter-terror experts believe that this is a new trend among home-grown jihadis. The <a href="http://www.businessinsider.in/searchresult.cms?query=Indian+Mujahideen">Indian Mujahideen</a> (IM) that successfully carried out multiple blasts across India from 2004 to 2014 targeted market places and religious establishments. 
 
Two of the 14 arrested suspects were brought to New Delhi and produced before a local court on Sunday. The Court remanded the duo for 13 days <a href="http://www.businessinsider.in/searchresult.cms?query=NIA">NIA</a> custody. The two have been identified as Abu Ansa and Nafees Khan, both residents of Hyderabad. According to <keyword id="6360058" type="COMPANY" weightage="80" keywordseo="NIA">NIA</keyword>, 12 others will be produced before the court on Monday. 
 
The new strategy of these radicals is to target a political person because targeting public does not yield results. "The arrested suspects who owe their allegiance to AuT/IS believed that to shake the government, politicians should be targeted," a top NIA official told ET. 
 
"IM commanders considered that it was difficult to target a political person and would have also led to lot of backlash against their community," the official said. 
 
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