KOLKATA: : The arrest of Moshiruddin alias Musha, 28, a resident of Labhpur in West Bengal’s Birbhum district has opened a Pandora’s box for the intelligence agencies.
Musha’s interrogation revealed how the ISIS with patronisation from Pakistan’s ISI spread its tentacles in Bengal. Musha admitted his links with Mohammad Suleiman of ISIS and Sheikh Yousuf of the JuMB, both Bangladeshi terrorists also wanted in India.
He said he carried out assignments of transporting explosives to other parts of India. His penchant for computers was also noticed and Yousuf introduced him to a Major of Pakistan’s ISI. He was asked to move to Tirupur in TN and open a grocery shop. He moved there with his wife Saira Banu and tried to blend into the society. He spent 10 to 12 hours every day on the Internet while his wife managed the shop. He had more than 20 e-mail IDs, 12 Facebook accounts, eight Twitter handles in different names.
He is fluent in eight languages including his mother tongue Bengali, Hindi, Urdu, English, Arabic and three other South Indian languages.
Musha also admitted to having sheltered several JuMB terrorists wanted by the NIA. He accepted that during his visits to West Bengal he went to Malda to meet Suleiman who had already introduced him to Safwi Armar, the ISIS in charge for India and currently based in Syria.
Through a complicated application in his mobile he frequently chatted with Armar and took orders. He was asked by Armar through Suleiman to carry out some murders with the help of his associates whom he had recruited.
The ISIS sympathisers wanted to show that they were very much present in Bengal other than Bangladesh, which remained in a denial mode and kept on stressing about “home grown terrorists and not the ISIS”.
The CID upon Musha’s revelations arrested Saddam Hussain alias Kalo and Abbassuddin alias Amin his aide who were waiting for him at Ahmedpur railway station.
Officials believe that by now at least 50 youths from various districts of Bengal had joined the ISIS though all of them could not be identified as their families did not lodge any “missing complaint”.