Saturday 13 February 2016

2 held in Saudi with terror link : Two Indian terror suspects have been detained in Saudi Arabia and will be deported soon

By Udumula Sudhakar Reddy

Two Indian terror suspects have been detained in Saudi Arabia and will be deported soon. The two, identified as Abu Sufiyan of the Lashkar-e-Tayyaba and Zainul Abideen of the Indian Mujahideen, have Hyderabad links, said police sources.

Abu Sufiyan alias Asasullah Khan is from Lancer Road, Masab Tank, in Hyderabad though cops haven’t been able to confirm whether it’s he who has been detained or another terror suspect. Sufiyan was part of a terror conspiracy in Riyadh in 2012 and was handling the Lashkar-e-Tayyaba youth module from Bengaluru.

IM man accused in city blasts case:

Zainul Abideen, the second terror suspect, who was detained in Saudi Arabia, has been confirmed as an Indian Mujahideen operative who had supplied explosives used in the Dilsukhnagar blasts. A TS intelligence official said, “Abu Sufiyan, 45, alias Asadullah Khan, a native of Masab Tank, is in the list of 32 terror suspects wanted by the TS police. His two brothers live in Saudi Arabia. He was involved in crime number 384 of 2012 of the Bengaluru terror module. He is a recruiter but there are no criminal cases against him with us, except for his involvement in Bengaluru. He was in regular touch with missing terror suspects from Hyderabad.”

“However, a few reports say that the suspect detained in Saudi is actually Mufti Sufiyan from Gujarat who was involved in the Haren Pandya murder case. We are yet to get clarity from central agencies. After getting clarity we can confirm whether he is from Hyderabad or Gujarat."

Zainul Abideen is a native of Bhatkal in Karnataka. He supplied explosives to IM operatives involved in serials blasts including the Dilsukhnagar blasts. Abideen had fled to Saudi Arabia after the Dilsukhnagar blasts in 2013.

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