Al Qaeda-franchise Ansar Al Islam operates from West Bengal beneath new identify

Al Qaeda-franchise Ansar Al Islam, beforehand often called Jamaatul Mujahedin Bangladesh (JMB) has established a brand new entrance named – ‘As Shahadah’, which is managed by a number of jihadist kingpins together with Salauddin Salehin and Habibullah from have been dwelling in West Bengal since 2014. Not too long ago it was uncovered when Bangladesh’s anti-militancy elite pressure Fast Motion Battalion (RAB) launched an operation primarily based on secret tip-off and arrested three lively members of ‘As Shahadah’ from Chowfondi space beneath Cox’s Bazar district in Bangladesh. Giant quantity of explosives and jihadist supplies have been seized from their possession.

It could be talked about right here that, Salauddin Salehin, a prime chief of the outlawed militant group Jama’atul Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB), which is now often called Ansar Al Islam, was snatched by his cohorts from a jail van in Mymensingh district’s Trishal space in 2014. Since then, Salehin has been dwelling in West Bengal and spreading jihadist networks in India.

In 2020, the Nationwide Investigation Company (NIA) advised media, Salauddin Salehin, who was concerned in blasts in Bodh Gaya and Khagragarh in Burdwan, managed to present it a slip on three events.

NIA official additional stated, “Salauddin additionally visited Tamil Nadu, Karnataka and Kerala to unfold JMB’s community amongst Bangla talking laborers there. We arrested Jahidul Islam, a key suspect within the Khagragarh blast case, in Bengaluru in August, 2018 and after interrogating him, we got here to know Salauddin’s actions in south Indian states”.

The NIA sleuths got here to know Salauddin has been hiding in Cooch Behar, North Dinajpur, Malda, Murshidabad and Nadia villages situated alongside India-Bangladesh border area. “He was at Gitaldaha village in Cooch Behar pretending to be a spiritual instructor. We raided the village however he left a day earlier than we arrived there. He was staying at a home at Mukimnagar village in Murshidabad district however managed to present us a slip after we raided the place”, NIA added.

Following this profitable operation, Commander Arafat Islam, director of Authorized and Media wing of RAB advised reporters, ‘As Shahadah’ is principally recruiting juveniles by luring them into jihad by way of social media platforms. The arrested militants have been attracted by Al Qaeda.

He stated, as a consequence of common operations of RAB, Ansar Al Islam needed to virtually wrap-up its actions. At this stage, kingpins of this outfit determined to re-start jihadist recruitment actions beneath the garb of a brand new group named ‘As Shahadah’. At the moment there are 85-100 members of this group – each inside Bangladesh and West Bengal.

Commander Arafat Islam stated, ‘As Shahadah’ claims its Bangladesh chapter as a department. In-charge of the Bangladesh chapter of ‘As Shahadah’ is Ismail Hossain, who was earlier arrested by the elite pressure.

In keeping with sources, the important thing goal of ‘As Shahadah’ is to ascertain a Caliphate in Bangladesh. With this objective, focused youths are drawn to jihadist actions by brainwashing them with faux tales of “repression on Muslims” in India, Israel and the Western nations. In addition they brainwash youths by stating, as democracy is forbidden in Islam, every of the state equipment working beneath democracy are haram (forbidden).

Youths are advised, until they increase voice and wage jihad in opposition to pro-democracy forces in addition to “enemies of Islam” together with Hindus, Christians and Jews, in the future Islam will probably be wiped-off from the map of the world. Such propaganda continues by way of varied communication apps – together with Telegram and WhatsApp. Along with operating propaganda by way of these platforms, recruited jihadists are invited to affix secret conferences and orientation programs at varied spiritual institutions, equivalent to mosques and madrassas, in addition to residences of jihadist leaders.

RAB supply additional stated, members of ‘As Shahadah’ are given coaching on hacking strategies of cellphones and social media accounts, whereas they recurrently goal varied social media accounts, pages and teams that oppose jihad and Caliphate.

One other supply, searching for anonymity stated, within the latest years, jihadist outfits equivalent to Ansar Al Islam are giving instigations to youths by focusing “Muslim’s warfare in opposition to infidels” in Afghanistan in addition to “warfare in opposition to Jews, Zionists and Israel” in Palestine.

It stated, for the previous a number of months, jihadist teams are virtually overtly operating campaigns on social media and video-sharing websites by branding merchandise manufactured primarily in India as “merchandise from enemies of Islam”. They’ve been benefiting from ongoing “India Out”, “Boycott Indian Merchandise”, “Boycott Coca Cola” and “Boycott Zionist Merchandise” in producing anti-Hindu and anti-Semite sentiment inside Muslims in Bangladesh.

The supply additional stated, members of ‘As Shahadah’ are operating campaigns in opposition to Indian merchandise in addition to merchandise from non-Muslim nations whereas it’s selling merchandise made in Afghanistan, Palestine, Turkey, Syria and different Muslim nations. Not too long ago, when Islamists started large marketing campaign in opposition to ‘Coca Cola’ in Bangladesh, a gaggle of radical Muslims started importing a soft-drink particularly ‘Pami Cola’ from Afghanistan and been attempting to create a dominant marketplace for this imported merchandise by knocking-out domestically bottled soft-drinks equivalent to ‘Coca Cola’. An unverified supply claims, firm that manufactures Pamir Cola within the Herat space in Afghanistan is partially owned by Al Qaeda and Haqqani Community.

Earlier it was reported within the media that on June 22, 2024, Particular Process Power in West Bengal arrested a jihadist named Habibullah by cracking encrypted messages. He’s suspected as the top of Ansar Al Islam module in India. It’s additional learnt; Al Qaeda franchise Ansar Al Islam has been working in West Bengal for a very long time.

In keeping with the Particular Process Power, members of Ansar Al Islam have been working with the goal of terrorist assaults in India and Bangladesh.

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