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201-202 Eric House, 16th Road,

Chembur.

From the fag end of the 2004

Indian police circle was teeming

with rumour of some shadowygroup 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

that the terrorists had procured

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

Special Reporter:

"... Here we are back - the Muja-

hideen of India - the terrorists on

the disbelievers - the radicals of

Islam - after our triumphant andsuccessful assault at Jaipur, once

again calling you all, who disbe-

lieve in Allah and His Messenger

Muhammad (peace be upon him)

to accept Islam and bear witness

that there is none to be wor-

shipped except Allah, and that

Muhammad (peace be upon him)

is the Messenger of Allah. Accept

Islam and save yourselves. “ - this

is but a part of the 14 pages long

pdf file sent as an attachment to

an e-mail sent just 4 minutesbefore the July 26, 2008 serial

bomb blast in Ahmedabad. 56

people were killed and 200 in-

jured. Indians were shocked, the

security agencies startled and the

shadowy IM suddenly came un-

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 threetowns 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 GujaratPolice, 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

Inputs

from the Gujarat Police helped

Uttar Pradesh police to capture 5operatives of this shadowy group

including included the leader,

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

and an expert in bomb-making.

He is also an expert hacker.

Other leaders included Mufti Abu

Bashir, 28, a preacher fromAzamgarh in Uttar Pradesh.

- The Edge Team

Cover story : The Indian Mujahideen

I N S I D E T H I S

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Philosophy of

the Indian

Mujahideen

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of the terror-

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a SIMI faction

found IM perfectly

conveyed "home

grown" militancy.

The harkening to

the two shaheeds

— Sayeed Ahmad

and Shah Ismail —

marks a

connection

Background of I.M.The references in Indian Mu-

jahideen's Delhi blasts email,and by its operatives held inconnection with Friday's Batla

House shootout, to two"original" 18th century mar-tyrs opens a revealing win-dow into the ideologicalfounts that sustain and inspirethe jihadi outfit.The name Indian Mujahideenis apparently drawn from abook on a "jihad" waged bytwo Islamic warriors in north-west India around 1831 inBalakot, now Pakistan-

occupied Kashmir, andwhich suited the terrormission devised by thebanned Students Islamic

Movement of India.In its new garb, a SIMI fac-tion found IM perfectlyconveyed "home grown"militancy. The harkening tothe two shaheeds — Say-eed Ahmad and Shah Ismail

— marks a connection of aDelhi-based madrassa thatattracted notice in the late17th century under ShahAbdur Rahim as Madrassa

Rahimiya. The school cameup as part of a protestagainst the anti-orthodoxviews and policies of Akbar

and was a centre of Hanafilearning.

- The Edge Team

It is indeed interesting that the

till now popular cross border

terrorism now hit a dead wall

in the rise of Indianised terror-

ism. Agencies like the I.S.I. are

now recruiting educated

youths most of them of well todo families and often good

positioned in the professional

lives as their operatives.

T H E E D G E

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

CHANGING FACE OF TERRORISTS

LATEST STATUS



PISTOLS : HK Heckler & Koch

P A G E 3V O L U M E 1 , I S S U E 1

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

a former Mauser

employee.

Heckler & Kochstarted the develop-

ment of a new Uni-

versal Selbstlade Pis-

tole (Universal Self-

loading Pistol, or

USP in short), in mid-1989. The

concept of the new design was to

provide a universal weapon for

police and military forces, available

in a variety of versions and sizes.

The target market for this new

weapon was apparently the USA, as

the first version of the pistol, which appeared in

1993, was chambered for a new American car-

tridge, the .40 S&W. A 9mm version appeared alittle later, and in 1995 the slightly modified 9mm

USP pistol was adopted by the Bundeswehr

(German army) as its new service pistol, under the

designation P8. The same year the company also

brought out another “America-special” version of

the USP, this time in.45 ACP caliber. In 1996 the

first of the Compact series of USP pistols entered

production, and next year it was officially approved

for German police use as the 9mm P10.

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

slide by vertically tilting locking

piece under the barrel (Walther

P38 style locking).

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

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-

Caption

describing

picture or

graphic.

PISTOLS : THE GLOCK

PISTOLS : THE BERETTA

Beretta px4 and Beretta 8000

sor a competitive shooting teamthat travels around the world pro-

moting the company.GLOCK 19

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P A G E 4

The Desert

Eagle is a

large caliber

gas-operated

s e m i -

a u t o m a t i c

pistol

DESERT EAGLE -

COLD BUT EN-

CHANTING!!!

PISTOLS : JERICHO

PISTOLS : THE DESERT EAGLEThe Desert Eagle is a large

caliber gas-operated semi-

automatic pistol manufac-

tured primarily in Israel by

IMI (Israel Military Indus-tries) for Magnum Re-

search, Inc. Magnum Re-

search has also marketed

various versions of the short

recoil Jericho 941 pistol

under similar names; these

have no functional relation-

ship to the magnum Desert

Eagle and bear only a mod-

erate cosmetic resemblance.

Magnum Research, based in

the USA, developed andpatented the original Desert

Eagle design and this de-

sign was only about 80%

functional, this prototype

had an operating bolt, full

gas operation, and excellent

shooting characteristics.

Manufacturing was moved

to Saco Defense in the state

of Maine from 1995 to

2000, but shifted back to

Israel when Saco was ac-

quired by General Dynam-ics. There the final refine-

ments and a production

ready pistol was manufac-

tured by Israel Military

Industries (IMI), under

contract to Magnum Re-

search. The country of

origin is disputed be-tween The USA and Is-

rael.

Due to (and in no small

measure contributing to) its

reputation as a powerful

firearm, the Desert Eagle

has made frequent appear-

ances as the weapon of

choice in the action-

adventure genres of books,

movies, songs, TV shows,

and video games.

it was called the "Uzi Ea-

gle," and was renamed the

"Baby Eagle" by its currentimporter, 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

The Jericho 941 is a double

action, semi-automatic pis-

tol developed by IsraeliWeapons Industries in 1990

as a smaller caliber alterna-

tive to their famous "Desert

Eagle" magnum semi-

automatic pistol. As ini-

tially marketed in America

by O. F. Mossberg & Sons

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.

T H E E D G E

JERICHO

VARIANTS




an IDF service pistol is currently

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

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

States).

PISTOLS : THE BARAK

BARAK :: THE LIGHTNING

JERICHO

THE

KILLER

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

in 1986. The .41 AE was a unique rebated rim

cartridge designed to use .410 inch (10.25 mm)

bullets and duplicate a reduced power police

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.




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