This shouldn’t come as a surprise to anyone. Yasin Bhatkal thinks that he was performing an act of righteousness in the Mumbai jihad murders. He thinks that what he did was in accord with the commands of his god, and pleasing to his god. Non-Muslim analysts do not like to admit this and ignore and downplay it all they can, but the fact remains that Bhatkal’s religious beliefs were at the core of his motivation and inspiration for the Mumbai jihad murders.
“Feel proud of carrying out 13/7 blast: Bhatkal,” PTI, July 4, 2014 (thanks to Sonny):
Indian Mujahideen co-founder Yasin Bhatkal, arrested in connection with the 2011 Mumbai triple blast case, told the Mumbai police that he feels “proud of himself” for carrying out the blasts.
“Whatever I have done, I feel proud of myself,” Bhatkal said in his confessional statement, recorded by the Mumbai police, a copy of which is with PTI.
The Maharashtra control of Organised Crime Act (MCOCA), under which Bhatkal is charged with, authorises the DCP-level officer to record the confessional statement of the accused.
When deputy commissioner of police Kishore Jadhav, asked Bhatkal, as to why he wants to give confessional statement, he said, “I don’t regret for the blast that I have carried out and therefore, I want to give confessional statement.”
Bhatkal also told the police that he does not consider the blasts carried out by him as a crime.
Bhatkal’s aide Asadullah Akthar, also told the police, in the confessional statement, that he too does not regret the blast carried out by him.
In the confessional statement, both the accused stated the details of the blasts carried out by them in various places in the country, since 2005 to avenge the 2002 Godhra riots.
The Anti Terrorism Squad of the Maharashtra Police on June 16 had filed a 300-page supplementary chargesheet against Indian Mujahideen (IM) co-founder Yasin Bhatkal and his aide Asadullah Akthar in connection with the 2011 triple blast case.
The duo was arrested on February 5 this year by the Maharashtra ATS after a Delhi court allowed its plea seeking their custody.
According to ATS, Bhatkal was the key conspirator of the three powerful blasts which ripped through crowded areas in Mumbai’s – Zaveri Bazar, Opera House and Kabutar Khana, on July 13, 2011, killing at least 21 people and injuring 141.
Bhatkal played an important role in procuring explosives and making Improvised Explosive Device (IED), police said.
Earlier, five accused – Naquee Ahmed, Nadeem Shaikh, Kanwar Pathrija, Haroon Naik and Mohammed Qafeel Ansari were held in the case and are facing trial under the stringent MCOCA, Indian Penal Code and other laws.
Those wanted in the case are Riyaz Bhatkal, who is also a top operative of the alleged home-grown terror outfit, Waqas Ibrahim Sad, Dubai-based Muzaffar Kolah and Tehseen Akhtar Shaikh, the police said.
The National Investigation Agency (NIA) had arrested Yasin Bhatkal (30), who is wanted in over 40 terror cases and carries a reward of Rs. 35 lakh on his head, as well as Akhtar, from the Indo-Nepal border on the night of August 28, 2013.
Bhatkal, who hails from Bhatkal village of Udupi district in North Karnataka, is wanted in a string of terror attacks in Ahmedabad, Surat, Bangalore, Pune, Delhi and Hyderabad, according to NIA.
Charli Main says
The Western political elite, MSM and the legions of Muslim apologists appear to be totally incapable of getting the Koran´s message, which is the foundation of the Muslim mind set.
When Muslims rape, steal, murder, hack off women´s genitals and chop off heads, they are good Muslims practicing their religion.
Every rape and murder is another brownie point on their ticket to Allah´s whore house in the sky.
Mulakush says
Dear Charli Main,
You are right to lament this veil that the Western Elite have about Islam. But please be aware that the West is not alone in this. The goddamn secularists of India have the same blinkered vision! In their eyes, Muslims can do no wrong and indeed have not done any in their 1200 years of invasion-occupation-tyrannical-rule of India. They have killed an estimated 90 million Hindus. Even many of the Hindu priests conveniently forget the history and try to make friends with Muslim leaders only to be spit upon. It seems that the whole world is blind to this Islamo-Nazism. There are as many as twenty Jihadi attacks on Hindus, Christians and other people in India every day. Our secular national press is curiously silent on every one of those issues. The government has put gag order on any news outlet against Muslim atrocities. But, let any segment of the rest of the population hit back and that becomes headline news and the whole army structure is mobilized to kill the avengers. The only leader in India that stood up against these marauding Muslim hoards is the current Prime Minister, Mr. Modi. And he was blacklisted by all the western powers. He is not even allowed to visit USA. Such is the obeisance that the Dhimmi western governments give to Islam.
Undaunted says
We have some Mumbai-type attacks comin’ here, if we don’t wake up…
http://freemendo.typepad.com/undaunted/2014/06/i-kid-you-not-about-the-mom-and-pop-home-schoolers-being-considered-a-more-probable-threat-than-terrorists-in-the-neck-of.html
And Nairobi. And Beslan.
Guy Macher says
The poster boy for line breeding!
Mirren10 says
Only mohammedans and psychopaths feel ‘proud’ of murder. Errch !
Jay Boo says
I fully expect Brandeis University professors to stage a protest and demand his release in order to invite him as a guest speaker.