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Jammu and Kashmir: Former cop steals weapons, joins jihad group, is killed in gunbattle with Indian troops

Jan 22, 2020 12:00 pm By Robert Spencer

Anyone who would have thought it might be prudent to try to discern his loyalties when he was hired as a police officer would have been denounced as “Islamophobic.”

“Former policeman among three militants killed in gunfight with Indian troops,” by Fayaz Bukhari, Reuters, January 20, 2020:

SRINAGAR, India (Reuters) – A former police officer was among three Islamist militants killed in a gunbattle with Indian troops in the disputed region of Kashmir on Monday, security officials said.

They said Adil Bashir Sheikh, a former special police officer, stole a cache of automatic weapons from the house of a local legislator in September 2018 and joined the militant group Hizbul Mujahideen.

He was killed along with two other men in the Shopian district of Kashmir after being surrounded by security forces.

The three men were responsible for the deaths of a dozen people, including four police officers, according to Dilbagh Singh, director general of Jammu and Kashmir Police.

“It is a major success for security forces,” he said. “It was a successful operation,” Singh told a news conference.

Kashmir, a Muslim-majority Himalayan territory, is claimed by both India and Pakistan and they have fought two wars over the region. Both claim it in full but rule it in part.

Tensions in Kashmir have been especially acute over the last year. India and Pakistan both said they carried out air strikes in enemy territory after a February 2019 suicide bombing by a Pakistan-based militant group killed dozens of Indian troops….

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  1. Mural says

    Jan 22, 2020 at 12:31 pm

    And, We have Indians who, in the interest of Fairness, want to grant citizenship to Muslims from Pakistan too and treat them on par with persecuted minorities from other religions.

    We can clearly see where the Muslim allegiance lies.

    The sheer stupidity of it all boggles my mind.

  2. elee says

    Jan 22, 2020 at 12:36 pm

    Couldnt they have observed and learned from recent western experiences with arming Muslims? Or from their own centuries of experience with armed Muslims? What were you thinking India?

    • Mural says

      Jan 22, 2020 at 12:53 pm

      We are a secular country, Elee. Of course, So secular that we never question where Muslim loyalties lie.

      Like everywhere else in the World, all religions are equal here, but Islam is more equal than others in India

      • mortimer says

        Jan 22, 2020 at 4:19 pm

        Fine explanation by Mural.

    • Lion heart says

      Jan 24, 2020 at 2:27 am

      Elee :many Iraqi Muslims who worked as interpreters with the U.S. army stabbed Americans by snitching on them to their fellow Muslims through texting by notifying them about the destinations of the American military convoys so that the Islamic terrorists would ambush the American troops and kill them while sparing the lives of their fellow Muslims ! and I am a Canadian Christian guy originally from Iraq and I worked with the U.S. army as an interpreter and I head many of those stories and not only by Muslim interpreters but also by Muslims who also worked as security guards for the the Americans therefore I say as our Christian ancestors said it many centuries ago out of their bitter experience with Islam since its rise “ if a Muslim is a piece of gold, don’t put it in your pocket otherwise it will rip through “ meaning the will betray Christians and other non Muslims when they have the chance and enough power to do that .

  3. gravenimage says

    Jan 22, 2020 at 7:53 pm

    Jammu and Kashmir: Former cop steals weapons, joins jihad group, is killed in gunbattle with Indian troops
    …………………..

    No surprise here. How many other Muslim police, both in India and in the West, are the same sort of ticking time bombs? Glad Indian troops were able to take him out.

  4. sidney penny says

    Jan 23, 2020 at 4:25 am

    It is almost like a green on blue attack in Afghanistan ( insider attacks)

    As for Robert Spencer’s comment “it might be prudent to try to discern his loyalties when he was hired”
    It can easily be faked like in Afghanistan.And since this is Kashmir you are going to have some Muslim Police officers.

    “Both claim it in full but rule it in part.”

    Yes India has about 2/3 and Pakistan has i/3 (referred to as POK).Most of the time the world thinks that all of Kashmir is in India.

    • gravenimage says

      Jan 23, 2020 at 8:11 pm

      Muslims want *all* of Kashmir, of course.

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