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Cover story : The Indian Mujahideen

REPORT:
THE I.M.

• KNOW THE
WEAPONS :
Special Reporter:
PISTOLS
"... Here we are back - the Muja-
hideen of India - the terrorists on
the disbelievers - the radicals of
Islam - after our triumphant and
successful assault at Jaipur, once
again calling you all, who disbe-
lieve in Allah and His Messenger
INSIDE THIS Muhammad (peace be upon him)
ISSUE: to accept Islam and bear witness
Philosophy of 2 that there is none to be wor-
the Indian shipped except Allah, and that
Mujahideen Muhammad (peace be upon him)
is the Messenger of Allah. Accept
Islam and save yourselves. “ - this
Changing face 2 is but a part of the 14 pages long
of the terror- pdf file sent as an attachment to
ists an e-mail sent just 4 minutes
before the July 26, 2008 serial
bomb blast in Ahmedabad. 56
LATEST 2 that the terrorists had procured
people were killed and 200 in-
jured. Indians were shocked, the
Have an edge 3 security agencies startled and the
on : shadowy IM suddenly came un-
PISTOLS der the limelight. Soon it was
found that e-mails were sent in
some more cases of bomb blasts
(list below)
Before the serial blasts in three
towns of Uttar Pradesh in No-
vember 2007.
May 13 2008, after the Jaipur
blasts email was sent, traced to a
Ghaziabad cyber cafe.
July 26, 2008, four minues before
Ahmedabad blasts, email traced
Kenneth Haywood's WiFi IP
address in Sanpada, Navi Mum-
bai.
August 2008, after the press
conference held by the Gujarat
Police, IP address traced to WiFi
network of Khalsa college in
Matunga, central Mumbai.
September 13 2008,during the
Delhi serial blast, IP address
traced to WiFi network of Kam-
ran Power Control Pvt Ltd, at
201-202 Eric House, 16th Road,
Chembur.
From the fag end of the 2004
Indian police circle was teeming
with rumour of some shadowy
group working in Ahmedabad
and Bengaluru. But the exact
information was not available
then. Even after the india wide
serial blasts starting from De-
cember 2007 the IM remained
elusive.
The Ahmedabad serial blast
somehow changed the equation
as the breakthrough in the Ah-
medabad blasts case came from
five ‘switched-off’ mobile phone
numbers. Joint Commissioner of
Police (crime) Ashish Bhatia said
five SIM cards of phones that
were switched off on the day of
the blasts — July 26. The analysis
of the phone calls made to those
SIM cards from PCOs provided

Watch 6 The Players and an expert in bomb-making.

Video: Inputs He is also an expert hacker.
Pistols from the Gujarat Police helped Other leaders included Mufti Abu
Uttar Pradesh police to capture 5 Bashir, 28, a preacher from
operatives of this shadowy group Azamgarh in Uttar Pradesh.
including included the leader,
- The Edge Team
Mufti Abu Bashir Ishlahi alias
Abdul Wasir. The name of Ab-
dus Subhan Qureshi Alias Tau-
qeer, 36, also cropped up. A
genius of some sort he was a
software engineer from Mumbai Varanasi blast
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Background of I.M.
The references in Indian Mu-
jahideen's Delhi blasts email,
and by its operatives held in
connection with Friday's Batla
House shootout, to two
"original" 18th century mar-
tyrs opens a revealing win-
dow into the ideological
founts that sustain and inspire
the jihadi outfit.
The name Indian Mujahideen
is apparently drawn from a
book on a "jihad" waged by
two Islamic warriors in north-
west India around 1831 in
Balakot, now Pakistan-
a SIMI faction
occupied Kashmir, and Rahimiya. The school came
which suited the terror up as part of a protest
mission devised by the against the anti-orthodox
banned Students Islamic views and policies of Akbar
Movement of India. and was a centre of Hanafi
In its new garb, a SIMI fac- learning.
tion found IM perfectly
conveyed "home grown"
militancy. The harkening to - The Edge Team
the two shaheeds — Say-
eed Ahmad and Shah Ismail
— marks a connection of a
Delhi-based madrassa that
attracted notice in the late
17th century under Shah
Abdur Rahim as Madrassa

found IM perfectly

conveyed "home

grown" militancy. CHANGING FACE OF TERRORISTS

The harkening to

the two shaheeds It is indeed interesting that the

till now popular cross border
— Sayeed Ahmad terrorism now hit a dead wall
in the rise of Indianised terror-
and Shah Ismail — ism. Agencies like the I.S.I. are
now recruiting educated
marks a
youths most of them of well to
connection do families and often good
positioned in the professional
lives as their operatives.

Pictures recov-
ered from the
laptop found in
the Batla house
where an en-
counter took
place with the
IM operatives
responsible for
the Sept 13 Delhi
blast

LATEST STATUS

THE EDGE
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PISTOLS : HK Heckler & Koch
The HK-
4 was the first pistol to emerge
from the now famous German
company Heckler & Koch. HK-4
was the brain child of the Alex
Seidel, one of co-founders and
master minds of Heckler-Koch, and
PISTOLS : THE GLOCK
Glock GmbH (trademarked as
GLOCK) is a weapons manufac-
turer headquartered in Deutsch-
Wagram, Austria. Glock was named
after its founder, Gaston Glock.
The company is best known for its
line of striker-fired polymer-framed
pistols. The currently also produces
equipment such as field knives and
entrenching tools as well as spon-
PISTOLS : THE BERETTA
The Beretta M 1951 pistol, also
known as M951, had been devel-
oped as a military pistol early in
1950s by Pietro Beretta Armi SpA,
Italy, and had been in use by Italian,
Egyptian and Israeli forces. The
production of the M951 started
circa 1953 and continued until
1980, when M951 had been re-
placed by Beretta M92. The select-
fire version of the M951, known as
1 The Learning Curve PAGE 3
a former Mauser the first version of the pistol, which appeared in
employee. 1993, was chambered for a new American car-
Caption
Heckler & Koch tridge, the .40 S&W. A 9mm version appeared a
describing
started the develop- little later, and in 1995 the slightly modified 9mm
picture or USP pistol was adopted by the Bundeswehr
ment of a new Uni-
graphic. (German army) as its new service pistol, under the
versal Selbstlade Pis-
tole (Universal Self- designation P8. The same year the company also
loading Pistol, or brought out another “America-special” version of
USP in short), in mid-1989. The the USP, this time in.45 ACP caliber. In 1996 the
concept of the new design was to first of the Compact series of USP pistols entered
provide a universal weapon for production, and next year it was officially approved
police and military forces, available for German police use as the 9mm P10.
in a variety of versions and sizes.
The target market for this new
weapon was apparently the USA, as
sor a competitive shooting team
that travels around the world pro-
GLOCK 19
moting the company.
M951R, had been developed circa
1955 and been in limited produc-
tion until early 1980s, when it was
replaced by Beretta M93R. Techni-
cally, M951 is a recoil operated,
locked breech pistol. The short
recoiling barrel is locked to the Beretta px4 and Beretta 8000
slide by vertically tilting locking
piece under the barrel (Walther
P38 style locking).
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PISTOLS : THE DESERT EAGLE

The Desert Eagle is a large tured by Israel Military
caliber gas-operated semi- Industries (IMI), under
automatic pistol manufac- contract to Magnum Re-
tured primarily in Israel by search. The country of
IMI (Israel Military Indus- origin is disputed be-
tries) for Magnum Re- tween The USA and Is-
search, Inc. Magnum Re- rael.
search has also marketed
various versions of the short Due to (and in no small
recoil Jericho 941 pistol measure contributing to) its
under similar names; these
reputation as a powerful
have no functional relation-
firearm, the Desert Eagle
ship to the magnum Desert
has made frequent appear-
Eagle and bear only a mod-
DESERT EAGLE - ances as the weapon of
erate cosmetic resemblance.
COLD BUT EN- choice in the action-
CHANTING!!! adventure genres of books,
Magnum Research, based in
movies, songs, TV shows,
the USA, developed and
and video games.
patented the original Desert
Eagle design and this de-
sign was only about 80%
The Desert functional, this prototype
had an operating bolt, full
Eagle is a gas operation, and excellent
shooting characteristics.
large caliber
Manufacturing was moved
gas-operated to Saco Defense in the state
of Maine from 1995 to
s e m i - 2000, but shifted back to
Israel when Saco was ac-
automatic quired by General Dynam-
ics. There the final refine-
pistol ments and a production
ready pistol was manufac-

PISTOLS : JERICHO
The Jericho 941 is a double
action, semi-automatic pis-
tol developed by Israeli
Weapons Industries in 1990
as a smaller caliber alterna-
tive to their famous "Desert
JERICHO Eagle" magnum semi-
VARIANTS automatic pistol. As ini-
tially marketed in America
by O. F. Mossberg & Sons
it was called the "Uzi Ea-
gle," and was renamed the
"Baby Eagle" by its current
importer, Magnum Re-
search, Inc., to create more
affinity with their Desert
Eagle, another design made
by IMI and sold by Mag-
num Research. The Baby
Eagle and Desert Eagle
have little in common in
design, but both represent
very solid commercial ef-
forts by the company re-
sponsible for the famous
Uzi and Galil designs.

THE EDGE
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The introduction of the Jericho 941 also intro-

duced a new caliber to the market, the .41 Ac-
tion Express (or .41 AE), which was developed JERICHO
in 1986. The .41 AE was a unique rebated rim
THE
cartridge designed to use .410 inch (10.25 mm)
bullets and duplicate a reduced power police KILLER
loading of the .41 Magnum. The Jericho origi-
nally shipped with two barrels, one for
9x19mm Parabellum and the other for .41 AE.
The magazine was designed to feed either
round, and since the .41 AE was designed with
a rebated rim the same dimensions as that of
the 9 mm, the extractor and ejector worked
equally well for either cartridge.

PISTOLS : THE BARAK

The SP-21 (or "Barak", meaning
lightning in Hebrew) pistol was
developed by Israel Military Indus-
tries (IMI) in 2002. Originally in-
tended as a military pistol for the
Israeli Defense Forces (IDF), the
Barak was supposed to replace in
Israeli service the older Jericho 941
pistols of domestic origins, as well
as the popular Glock pistols. Al-
though the future of the Barak as
an IDF service pistol is currently States).
uncertain, IMI decided to introduce
this pistol to the international mar-
ket. It became available in Europe
early in 2003, and in the United
States by late 2003. In Europe, it is
still known as "Barak", and in the
USA it is known as "Magnum Re-
search SP-21" (Magnum Research,
Inc. is currently the sole importer
of IMI firearms in the United

BARAK :: THE LIGHTNING

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