Author: Express News Service
Publication: The Indian Express
Date: January 4, 2006
URL: http://www.indianexpress.com/archive_full_story.php?content_id=85260
The arrest of Mohammed Raiz-ur Rehman, a native
of Miryalguda in Andhra Pradesh's Nalgonda district, has brought the focus
on the backward Telengana districts as the breeding ground for Islamic fundamentalists.
Of the 15 suspected terrorist modules that
the police have come across, six are from Nalgonda. Nizamabad, Karimnagar,
Medak and Hyderabad are on the list.
Three Nalgonda youths were also involved in
the sensational killing of former Gujarat Home Minister Haren Pandya. Two
of them-Mohd Asgar Ali and Mohd Bari-were also part of Indian Muslim Mohammadi
Mujahideen (IMMM), which was recruiting and training youths for spreading
terror.
Gulam Yezdani and Mohd Asgar Ali, members
of the Azam Ghori module, are also from Nalgonda. Yezdani's two brothers are
in jail while he is operating from Bangladesh. He was allegedly involved in
two major operations in Hyderabad in 2004.
Mohd Fasiuddin alias Fasi, who was responsible
for the murder of two BJP leaders in the city in 1993, was Nalgonda's brush
with terror. Fasi was killed in an encounter the same year.
The Deendar Anjuman module, which blew up
places of worship in Karnataka and Andhra Pradesh, too had a Nalgonda link.
Of the 40-odd accused, seven were from Nalgonda.
