Author: Editorial
Publication: The Pioneer
Date: January 3, 2011
URL: http://www.dailypioneer.com/307759/Sinister-face-exposed.html
NIA shows how LeT recruits local cadre
The chargesheet the NIA has filed in the Special
CBI Court in Kochi in the case pertaining to the SIMI camp held at Panayikkulam
near Aluva on Independence Day, 2006, offers further evidence of how jihadis
have turned peaceful Kerala into their terror base. The NIA has made the startling
observation that the main call the speakers had made to the camp's participants
was to wage war against the nation for the "liberation of Kashmir".
The illegal assembly advocated, incited and abetted unlawful activities to
"liberate Kashmir from India" and to encourage "hatred and
contempt" towards the Government of India, the agency has said. Those
who addressed the participants of the camp also protested against legislations
like TADA and POTA, formulated for the nation's security, as "anti-Muslim"
and as instruments for "suppressing the fighters of Kashmir". The
main speakers at the camp were dreaded terrorists PA Shaduli of Irattupetta,
Kottayam, and Ansar of Aluva, both presently lodged at Sabarmati Jail for
their role in the devastating Ahmedabad bombings. Shaduli is the brother of
Shibily, also a terrorist. The NIA has put together enough evidence to conclude
that the various terror-related incidents in Kerala since 2005 were not stray
cases of "misplaced anger of Muslim youth", as certain activists
would want the world to believe, but acts of violence carried out with meticulous
planning with the diabolic intention of turning the State into the South's
terror hub.
Also, the call for jihad to "liberate
Kashmir" at the Panayikkulam SIMI camp was neither accidental nor incidental.
The LeT had long back begun implementing a programme for recruiting Kerala
youth into the terror network and sending them to the Kashmir Valley for hands-on
training in jihad. The killing of four Kerala militants, recruited into LeT
by its south India 'commander' Thadiyantavide Nazeer, by security forces ar
Kupwara in October 2008 bears testimony to this. Despite all this, the Kerala
Police, which had earlier investigated the Panayikkulam case, had released
all the 18 participants of the SIMI camp on bail after picking them up from
the scene. There were allegations that certain top police officials had gone
out of their way to ensure the release of these SIMI operatives. It is now
clear that the Panayikkulam SIMI camp was where the seeds of many terror strikes
in the country were sown; the SIMI training camp at the Vagamon hill resort
of Idukki district in December 2007 transformed them into action plans. However,
the Kerala Police had no clue about what was happening till the Gujarat Police
exposed the network after the Ahmedabad bombings. That shows the 'efficiency'
of the Kerala Police and the 'political will' of the CPI(M)-led LDF Government
in the State to fight back jihadi terror.