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Decoding the e-mails of tech-savvy terrorists
Published on Mon, Sep 15, 2008 at 09:06, Updated on Mon, Sep 15, 2008 at 13:35 in India section
Tags: Delhi Blasts, Indian Mujahideen , Mumbai
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Mumbai: On Monday, Mumbai Police's Anti-Terrorist Squad (ATS) officers were holed in a Chembur apartment, carrying the laptop used to send the latest e-mail claiming credit for Saturday's serial bombings in Delhi.
The latest in the series of such attacks on major Indian cities are accompanied each time by a chilling simultaneous sequence of e-mails from the the terror outfit that has styled itself, Indian Mujahideen.
All the e-mails are hateful, venomous and remarkably similar. Sample these:
November 2007, Faizabad, Varanasi and Lucknow: The first of the e-mails from Indian Mujahideen followed the blasts in Uttar Pradesh.
May 2008, Jaipur: The Indian Mujahideen retuned yet again.
July 26 2008, Ahmedabad: Minutes before the Ahmedabad blasts, the indian mujahideen dared Gujarat to 'Do whatever you can, within five minutes from now, feel the terror of death' in an e-mail.
September 13 2008, Delhi: Delhi was bombed and the 'message of death' was e-mailed again.
Just like the attacks, the Indian Mujahideen seems to follow a suspicious pattern in their e-mails.
Five terror e-mails have been sent till now, of which three have well-documented PDF files attached to them. The file names are suggestive like the Revenge of Gujarat. The writers of the e-mail also use terms like 'haha' aimed at mocking the security agencies.
The Indian Mujahideen identifies itself as 'the home grown Jehadi militia of Islam', it slams the governments of Gujarat, Rajasthan and Maharashtra - and has even attacked Gujarat Director General of Police, PC Pandey in particular for his claims on solving the Gujarat blasts case.
It even mocks security agencies for not being able to crack the origin of e-mails as yet and warns Mumbai's ATS for not heeding their alerts. The e-mails name Vilasrao Deshmukh and R R Patil as part of their hit-list.
The mails are mailed to IDs of virtually every single media agency in the country, all updated and extremely accurate.
They invariably warn of more attacks, but most amazingly, each mail begins with the powerful Gujarat riots images, followed by the Indian Mujahideen logo.
Flawless english, customising each document in green, red and black colours and signing off as al-Arbi in exactly the same handwriting leaves one in no doubt that the e-mail has been formated by the same person.
What's more, all these e-mails were sent by hacking unsecure wi-fi networks across Mumbai from accounts owned by professionals whom the agencies would not even suspect.
Surprisingly, while the module seems to closely track news development, it has so far never mentioned the volatile issue of Kashmir.
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usually the range of an wi-fi will be very small.. so the cops should also look around for the peoples
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i think we are giving undue importance to the hate mails.it is obvious the mailer will never leave any trail
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One major help the terrorists get is from the Media and foolish police officers.
This is because the
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Technically highly qualified terrorists are on the increase!.Too much of intelligence itself is posing a problem!.They are so intelligent that
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