This ET news report really exposes Nitish Kumar and where his communal Muslim vote bank politics is leading us to:
From transit point, Bihar turns major hub for jihadis | TNN | 8 Jul, 2013
Of the 14 IM operatives arrested in the past couple of years by various agencies, 13 have come from Bihar’s Darbhanga district alone. There have been similar arrests from other parts of Bihar as well.
IM’s operations chief Ahmed Zara Siddibappa alias Yasin Bhatkal were working on developing a module in Bihar ever since the neutralization of the outfit’s Maharashtra and Azamgarh modules in 2008.
In fact, before executing the 13/7 Mumbai blasts in 2011, Bhatkal along with his associates, including Bihar’s Asadullah Akhtar, had stayed in a Darbhanga village for over a year and even tested their bombs in a mango orchard there. The group later went on to execute the August 1, 2012 Pune blasts and is also suspected to be behind the February 2013 Hyderabad blasts. Both Akhtar and Bhatkal are absconding.
Those arrested include Asadullah Rehman alias Dilkash, Kafeel Ahmed, Talha Abdali alias Israr, Mohammed Tarique Anjuman, Haroon Rashid Naik, Naqi Ahmed Vasi Ahmed Sheikh, Nadeem Akhtar Ashfaque Sheikh, Mohammed Qatil Siddiqui, Gohar Aziz Khumani, Mohammed Adil, Mohammed Irshad, Gayur Ahmed Jamali, Aftab Alam alias Farooq and Danish Ansari.
Barring Mohammed Adil, a Pakistani from Karachi, the rest are from Darbhanga. Several of these suspects are alleged to be behind the German Bakery blast in Pune in February, 2010, the Chinnaswamy Stadium blast in Bangalore (April 2010), the Jama Masjid firing that took place in Delhi in September 2010 and the July 13, 2011 blasts in Mumbai that claimed 26 lives.
Despite these realities, Bihar does not seem to have woken up to the threat. The central government had asked the state about a year back to constitute its own Anti-Terrorist Squad (ATS) on the pattern of Delhi and Mumbai police but the state simply sat over the proposal and no headway has been made in this direction till date.
http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/articleshow/20964348.cms
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