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Mujahideen has high-tech IT experts for terrorism! Mujahideen has high-tech IT experts for terrorism!Now, it is found out that not Mujahideen has groups - procuring ingridients for the manufacture of IEDs - timers, chips, hardware like nails, ball-bearings, chemicals, plastic items etc. They have IT experts to hack different websites, create different IDs, enter groups, know the details / correspondence going on etc. Search for Delhi blasts mastermind9/14/2008 1:51:03 PMhttp://www.timesnow.tv/Newsdtls.aspx?NewsID=15927
The investigations in the Delhi serial blasts that killed at least 30 people and injured over 100 on Saturday evening have begun; and the investigators have claimed that they were closing in on the culprits behind the terror act. TIMES NOW have learnt from sources in the Home Ministry that the investigative agencies believe that Abdul Subhan alias Tauqeer is the mastermind of these blasts. The intelligence agencies have not yet been able to lay their hands on Subhan, who they believe is the behind all the recent terror attacks, viz Jaipur, Bangalore and Ahmedabad serial blasts, sources said. The police sources in Rajasthan and Gujarat have also said that so far they have only arrested the foot soldiers, but the key mastermind Abdul Subhan remains elusive. Who is Abdul Subhan? Thirty-two year old Subhan — a resident of Masjid Bandar in Mumbai – is not just a computer wizard but also an explosives expert, who trained terror operatives and helped them make all the improvised explosive devices (IEDs) used in the Jaipur, Ahmedabad and Surat blasts. Subhan, a software wizard, has been trained in Pakistan by the Lashkar-e-Toiba and till 2001 worked simultaneously at three software companies in Mumbai. More surprisingly, Subhan was not known to the Indian investigative agencies till as late as March 2008. No concrete leads in blast case The Delhi police is believed to have been preparing sketches of suspects who placed explosives in Connaught Place and Barakhamba Road. The police are taking assistance from the balloon seller boy-Rahul along with five other eye-witnesses in the preparation of sketches of suspects, sources said. police sources said that the nature of the blasts is similar to that of Jaipur, Ahmedabad and Bangalore. Initial reports indicate the use of Ammonia Nitrate and fuel oil, in what are suspected to be crude bombs, as explosives to trigger the blasts. As seen in the most of the terror strikes, busy markets were targeted for maximum impact and damage. Bomb-timers were also recovered from Connaught Place in New Delhi. Sources It is learnt from reliable sources that that Gujarat blasts mastermind Abdul Bashir may be questioned once again for more leads, as he has confessed to coming to Delhi a few months back.
Mumbai, Sep 14 (PTI) The Wireless Fidelity (WiFI) was hacked by suspected terrorists in Chembur who sent the email to news organisations around the time of the first blast in the national capital, Mumbai police said today.
“It is similar to the case of (US national) Kenneth Heywood and after the preliminary questioning of flat owner K M Kamath it is believed that his internet connection is not secure and is WiFi-enabled, making it easier to be hacked," Additional Commissioner of Police (ATS), Parambir Singh told PTI. The ATS last night traced the terror mail sent under the name of Indian Mujhahideen to the IP address of a firm, Kamran Power Control Pvt Ltd, at 201-202 Eric House, 16th Road, Chembur, an eastern suburb in Mumbai. Service provider Mahanagar Telephone Nigam Limited (MTNL) was used for sending the email. Kamran Power has been in existence for about 25 years, with 50 employees and manufactures low and medium voltage electrical and electronic control panels required in industries such as steel, cement, sugar and pharma, police said. PTI So Mujahideen hacks eveything! Mumbai techie wanted to prove bomb-making credentials Mumbai techie wanted to prove bomb-making credentials http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/India/Mumbai_techie_wanted_to_prove_bomb-making_credentials/articleshow/3480636.cmsNEW DELHI: Preliminary investigations into the Delhi blasts on Saturday point to the hand of an Indian Mujahideen-SIMI cell led by Abdul Subhan, the techie jehadi from Mumbai and Qayamuddin. ( Watch ) The modus operandi — emails from Indian Mujahideen warning of or coinciding with blasts, use of ammonium nitrate and ball bearings pellets and other sharpnels in explosives, use of crowded markets so that higher casualties can be achieved even by low-intensity blasts — carries the signature of IM-SIMI. ( Watch ) Besides, the email from Indian Mujahideen, like the two previous ones, was sent from Mumbai, Subhan"s base using an unsecured wi-fi connection of Ms Kamran Power Private Limited in Chembur, owned by one Mr Kamat. Although the mail came from Mumbai, references to newspaper coverage in Delhi editions in the past few weeks, suggests that the draftsman may have been in Delhi. The police has been able to recover the chasis number of the autorickshaw that was used for the blast in Ghaffar Market in Karol Bagh. Accroding to latest reports, eight people have been detained and are being questioned. “We have some good clues," said a police spokesman. Although Gujarat chief minister Narendra Modi stated in Bangalore that he had earlier this month told Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and National Security Advisor that there were plans to strike the Capital, intelligence sources were taken aback by the Indian Mujahideen"s choice of Delhi. They were suspecting Subhan and Qayamuddin, computer-graphic designer from Vadodara to strike in either Maharashtra or MP. The probe is going to focus on the likely contacts of Subhan, Qayamuddin, and other absconding IM-SIMI activists — Abdul Bashar, Razeek, Afridi (all from Gujarat), Ikram, Inam and Musa (all from Madhya Pradesh). Abdul Subhan who has evaded arrest after narrowly escaping a raid by Gujarat Police in Surat on SIMI hideout, has made no secret of his anger over the Ahmedabad crackdown. In the last email that he wrote, intelligence sources suggest, for Indian Mujahideen using the nom de guerre of Al arbi, Abdul Subhan tried to mislead the investigators by calling all the arrested innocent and Kenneth Haywood, the US national whose wi-fi he is suspected to have used to send the email warning of Ahmedabad blasts, an ally. The return of Haywood has exposed the ploy (significantly, the email on Saturday was conspicuously silent on this). But Abdul Subhan who is regarded as an ace bomb maker also came off as someone smarting under the humiliation of the botched attack on Surat — none of the bombs planted in the diamond city went off because of faulty integrated circuits used in the timers. His last mail had shown his anxiety to prove his credentials. |
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Posted on September 14th, 2008
‘Blasts handiwork of tech-savvy terrorists’
Mihir Srivastava
New Delhi, September 14, 2008
http://indiatoday.digitaltoday.in/index.php?option=com_content&task=view& ;id=15312&issueid=71§ionid=4&Itemid=1
Indian Mujahideen-SIMI employing young, tech-savvy Muslims to carry out serial blasts is the usual set of combinations, as is the case with the recent terror attacks, is emerging from whatever clue the Delhi police have been able to gather so far in the Delhi serial blasts that rocked the Capital on Saturday evening.
“They are no more the Roza types militants but are now the Fana type,” explains an investigator with the special cell. “They do sport a beard and wear traditional salwar-kameej. These tech-savvy militants flaunt a modern look so that they can easily mingle in the crowd like commoners,” he added.
The investigations so far have propped up the name Abdul Subhan and hunt for him is already underway. He is believed to have some hundred different mobile sets and some 35 SIM cards procured over three years that makes trailing him very difficult.
Another name has come up during the investigations is that of Taquil, believed to be a former Wipro employee who left this lucrative job some time ago to do his ‘religious duties’. He is the one believed to have used Kenneth Haywood, the US national whose wi-fi connection was used to send the emails at the time of Ahmedabad blasts. Haywood recently came back to India to cooperate with the investigations from the US, after he reportedly fled the country.
Special cell operatives have informed India Today, with the qualification that they are still not in a position to confirm it, that Indian Mujahideen militant are using pornographic pictures procured from the net to codify their message sent to different terror modules carrying out specific, localised task.
For example, if two black lesbian pictures are sent together via mail, it means ‘get ready.’ If the pictures are of interracial or white women, it has some other meaning. The sequence of such pornographic pictures is being used as a codified language to good effect.
Further, Subhan is believed to have sent the mail ‘the message of death’ from a wi-fi connection of a company by the name of Kamran Power Private Limited based in Chembur in Mumbai.
This is not for the first time his name has propped in the terror investigations. Subhan is believed to have sent 250 hoax bomb threats emails in Baroda after the Ahmebabad blasts.
Subhan had narrowly evaded arrest in Surat and is believed to have vowed to even the score against the Gujarat police after they targeted the SIMI infrastructure in the state following Ahmedabad blasts.
Apart from being tech-savvy, Subhan is an expert in making bombs. According to the inputs the Delhi police have received from intelligence agencies, Subhan was responsible for the failed serial bomb attack in Surat. The successful terror attacks carried out in Delhi has brought him back in the business.
“The most important task is to nab Subhan, with others, and will call for a massive manhunt drive, primarily in the states of Maharastra, Gujarat and Madhya Pradesh. We have some vital clues that should make this task easier,” assures a senior Delhi cop on the condition of anonymity.
Posted on September 14th, 2008
WiFi system comes under cloud, agencies favour early measures
14 Sep, 2008, 1833 hrs IST, PTI
http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/News/PoliticsNation/WiFi_system_comes_under_ cloud_agencies_favour_early_measures/articleshow/3482581.cms
NEW DELHI: The wireless fidelity (WiFi) Internet service of telecom companies has come under scanner and security agencies are likely to harden their stance on having a fool-proof mechanism in place at the earliest.
The move comes close on the heels of militants of the Indian Mujahideen using the WiFi service to send an email around the same time of the serial blasts in Ahmedabad and Delhi.
“We are seized of the matter and it would be taken up with appropriate authorities soon,” a senior Home Ministry official said. The official said the security agencies had pointed out that password protection should be made mandatory in every customer using the WiFi technology.
However, the recent hacking in its proxy server while sending the email ahead of the weekend blasts was a glaring example of how terrorists took advantage of unsecured networks, sources in the union Home Ministry said, adding that the Department of Telecom may not have placed in stringent measures.
While before the Ahmedabad blast, militants had used the unsecured WiFi system of an American national, Kenneth Haywood, in case of Delhi blasts, they used the unsecured network of a family in Chembur.
Posted on September 15th, 2008
Arresting Tauqeer is the key, says ATS
Nikhil S Dixit
Monday, September 15, 2008 04:17 IST
http://www.dnaindia.com/report.asp?newsid=1190186
The Anti-Terrorism Squad (ATS) has prepared a dossier on Simi activist Abdul Subhan Usman Qureshi, alias Tauqeer — suspected to be one of the masterminds of the Ahmedabad and Delhi blasts — based on the details obtained from the interrogation of various Simi operatives held by investigating agencies across the country.
The ATS believes that Tauqeer, a computer expert, has trained more than 100 people in bomb-making. The training, investigators said, must have taken place during the various meetings Simi held in 2007 and earlier this year at various places in the country.
“Tauqeer’s profile is very intriguing,” a senior ATS officer said.
He studied in a convent school, passed SSC with good marks and went to a college in Navi Mumbai. “In the mid-1990s, he obtained a diploma in industrial electronics. Then he did a specialisation in software maintenance from an institute in Andheri,” the officer said. He then worked as a software engineer in at least three companies in Mumbai.
In 2001, however, he suddenly quit his job. “Even his family does not know what prompted him to take such a step. His family members claim they have not seen him after Simi was banned in the later part of 2001,” the officer said.
The Mumbai police said it is still a mystery why Tauqeer joined Simi. All that the police know is that by 1998 he was completely committed to Simi’s cause. Arresting Tauqeer could be the key to prevent more terror attacks, the ATS officer said.
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