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India: Jihad murderer arrested, remorseless; says jihad bomb blasts “happen; there is nothing new about them”

Aug 29, 2013 2:23 pm By Robert Spencer

Why should he be remorseful about something that pleases Allah and guarantees him a place in Paradise?

“‘Blasts happen, nothing new about them,’ remorseless Yasin Bhatkal says,” from the Times of India, August 29 (thanks to all who sent this in):

NEW DELHI/PATNA: Branded as the face of modern day terrorism, Zarar Ahmed Siddibaba alias Yasin Bhatkal of the banned Indian Mujahideen (IM) who was arrested on Wednesday night, gained cult status in the home grown terror network after the 2008 Delhi serial blasts.

After he managed to give the slip to police on two occasions, 30-year-old Yasin, one of India’s most wanted terrorists, is a prize catch for which Intelligence Bureau(IB) sleuths worked day and night after picking up his presence in Nepal.

Yasin was taken to Motihari in Bihar to be produced in a court for transit remand before being flown to Delhi. He will be handed over to the National Investigation Agency (NIA).

NDTV, quoting authorities, reported that during his interrogation, Backtalk confirmed his identity. He was remorseless and said “these things (bomb blasts) happen; there is nothing new about them.”

Yasin, who hails from Bhatkar village in Karnataka, is wanted in a string of terror attacks in Ahmedabad, Surat, Bangalore, Pune, Delhi and Hyderabad.

It is the second major breakthrough for Indian agencies after the arrest of Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) bomb expert Abdul Karim Tunda on August 16.

Scores of people have lost their lives in terror attacks in which Yasin had a hand. Yasin is stated to have planted bombs personally in some attacks.

Caught on close-circuit television at least on three occasions, he managed to give the slip to Mumbai and Kolkata Police twice before the long arm of law caught up with him at the Indo-Nepal border near Gorakhpur last night.

Yasin was one of the several cases where well educated youths became radicalised and took to terror activities.

At the age of 21, Yasin had emerged as one of the close confidante of ganglord-turned terrorist and founder of IM Amir Reza Khan and was the key figure in ensuring that bombs and anti-national material were transported from a beach house in Karnataka’s coastal district of Bhatkal to other parts of the country in 2004.

His first brush with terror is believed to have started from Vitthalamakki and Hakkalamane in north Karnataka from where bombs were supplied to specialized IM training camps spread across the country.

Yasin was detained in Kolkata and Mumbai from where he managed to get released by concealing his identity.

He was caught on CCTV just before the German bakery blast in Pune in 2010 and later at blasts at Cyberabad’s Dilkhush Nagar earlier this year. Earlier, he managed to flee less than an hour before police raided the IM safe house in the Bhadra forests outside Chikmagalur in October, 2008.

Yasin is believed to be jailed in November 2009 and walked out on bail after he had identified himself as Muhammad Ashraf.

His questioning will be helpful to the security agencies in understanding the rise of the modern day terror in India.

After the Delhi serial blasts in 2008, his role started surfacing in a big way during a check on his background and previous involvements. Yasin was alleged to be the mastermind of serial train blasts that rocked Mumbai megapolis in 2006 in which 209 people were killed….

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