Delhi police arrest Al Qaeda terrorist from Haryana

Mangalore Today News Network

New Delhi, Jan 18, 2016:  A man, alleged to be a terrorist of Al Qaeda, has been caught from Haryana’s Mewat, Delhi Police as per sources..

Sources said Abdul Sami is a member of Al Qaeda in Indian Subcontinent or AQIS. He has been remanded in police custody till February 1.

Sami is from Jamshedpur, sources said. He came in touch with Abdul Rashid, a cleric arrested earlier from Odisha. Sources said he had earlier visited Pakistan’s Karachi via Dubai. He was trained in Mansera, Pakistan.

 

Last year in September, Al Qaeda, the dreaded terror group that was once headed by Osama bin Laden, had announced that it was launching a wing in the Indian subcontinent.

In a video message, Qaeda leader Ayman al-Zawahiri had said, "We want Islam to return to the Indian subcontinent, which was part of the Muslim world before it was invaded. It will serve Muslims in Burma, Kashmir, Gujarat, Bangladesh, Ahmedabad and Assam."

The AQIS was seen as a fallout of the rise of ISIS (Islamic State of Syria And Egypt) in the middle-east.

Al Qaeda, which had been under pressure since the death of Bin Laden in May 2011 in Pakistan in a US operation, faced threat from this breakaway faction which grew swiftly to control vast areas in Iraq and Syria. Al Qaeda affiliates are in direct military confrontation with IS in Syria.