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India: Muslim software engineer who admired Islamic State arrested for plotting jihad attacks against U.S. establishments in Mumbai

Oct 20, 2014 5:50 pm By Robert Spencer

MumbaiA software engineer who lived in the suburbs? What? Doesn’t Anees Ansari, who worked at a multi-national software company, know that terrorism is a result of poverty and ignorance? “Mumbai Engineer Arrested for Allegedly Planning Terror Attacks,” Press Trust of India, October 21, 2014 (thanks to Sonny):

Mumbai: The Maharashtra Anti-Terrorism Squad has arrested a Mumbai-based software engineer, who reportedly admired the Middle-East terror group Islamic State of Iraq and Syria, for allegedly conspiring to blow up American establishments in Mumbai, including a school.

Anees Ansari, 24, who worked at a multi-national software company, was apprehended from his office in suburban Andheri and produced before a court yesterday, which remanded him in police custody till October 26, an ATS official said today.

The online chats of Ansari, whose office job involved designing navigation maps, allegedly hinted at a plot to target US establishments including a school in suburban Bandra, the official said….

He allegedly sympathised with ISIS fighters and described, in his online conversations, the Americans as ‘tormentors’. The ATS also seized his computers, a mobile phone, and has obtained ‘mirror images’ to extract the data.

“Our team that keeps a close watch on online posts some time ago got the wind of his shady activities which suggested that he had been chatting with two persons based in United Kingdom and Australia, who have been indoctrinated to believe in the extremist ideologies,” the ATS official said.

The online discussions, allegedly about a plan to target an American school in the city, alerted the ATS, which led to his arrest.

The ATS officer claimed that the agency had gathered enough evidence to suggest that Mr Ansari had been chatting — through a Facebook account under a fake name — about punishing Americans and defending the ISIS, which, according to him was the victim in the current turbulence in Syria and Iraq….

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  1. Terry says

    Oct 20, 2014 at 5:54 pm

    “Indoctrinated to believe in extreme ideologies…” All of Islam is one big extreme ideology of fascism.

  2. Jovial Joe says

    Oct 20, 2014 at 6:04 pm

    Can I just say Robert that your mock-ironic commentaries which introduce these stories are true gems of today’s literary landscape. They are the perfect antidote also for the stories that follow and provide the required tonic for the spirit needed to off-set any feelings of horror which usually accompany such stories. In addition to everything else owed you, I’m hugely appreciative of these miniature literary masterpieces too.

  3. Berq says

    Oct 20, 2014 at 7:10 pm

    Muslims are walking time bombs.One cannot trust the true muslim ,that is why it is a huge mistake to import them in large number in the west,since they don,t have aligance to the host countries.The more Islam we have in our street the less freedom we have in our streets.Islamists justified terrorism selfishly to muslims poverty and illiteracy.it is possible their can be so many different reasons of terrorism but poverty and illiteracy not one of them.West is wasting tax payers money when give aid to muslim countries.You can not stop terrorism to appease the muslims.True muslims enjoying to killing the Kafirs, as you see in the middle east (AROB) countries.

  4. Jaladhi says

    Oct 20, 2014 at 9:28 pm

    Our media – educated Muslims are moderate Muslims and they don’t do such things – my foot!! Every Muslim will do when allah calls for any kind of terror act to kill infidels, that is us!!

    No Muslim can ever be trusted. When they commit terror acts it is not because they are radicalized, it is because they are normal Muslims and they want to please Mo/allah and go to his brothel in the sky!!

  5. Salah says

    Oct 20, 2014 at 11:28 pm

    Never forget Mumbai.
    http://crossmuslims.blogspot.com/2010/06/never-forget-mumbai.html

  6. Jerry says

    Oct 21, 2014 at 12:09 am

    What JW and the rest of the world, possibly inadvertently, underplays is that in the 2008 Mumbai terror attack one of the main targets was the Jewish religious Chabad House and a young Rabbi and His wife were amongst those tortured, had their genitals mutilated and later murdered.

  7. gp says

    Oct 21, 2014 at 10:39 am

    Muslims plan jihad attacks, that is just what they do. They are called to do this in their Satanic verses. Now the question becomes what do you do about muslims planning jihad attacks? When do civilized people say, “Enough”?

  8. Dennis says

    Oct 21, 2014 at 1:20 pm

    The fifth column is embedded everywhere, and like a cancer cell, will metastacize and eventually overwhelm the body and kill it. This is islam. Wake up, world!

  9. dlbrand says

    Oct 21, 2014 at 3:39 pm

    Weaponized higher education.

  10. James Hickok says

    Oct 21, 2014 at 7:24 pm

    Think of all the software engineers with jihad in their heart and a keyboard in their hands, around the world. Think of the electric power grid vulnerabilities to hacking.

    Winter is coming. Think of candles,matches,flashlights,warm coats…

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