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- From: bond@jupiter.sun.csd.unb.ca (Girish)
- Subject: Explosives seized from ISS activists
- Message-ID: <1993Jan28.000607.28818@jupiter.sun.csd.unb.ca>
- Organization: University of New Brunswick, Fredericton, NB, Canada
- Date: Thu, 28 Jan 1993 00:06:07 GMT
- Expires: Tue, 30 Mar 1993 04:00:00 GMT
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- On terrorist activities of the Islamic Sevak Sangh (ISS):
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- _E_x_p_l_o_s_i_v_e_s _s_e_i_z_e_d _f_r_o_m _I_S_S _a_c_t_i_v_i_s_t_s
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- (Times of India News Service)
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- Thiruvananthapuram, December 14: Even as the disbanded Islamic Sevak
- Sangh's chief, Mr Abdul Nassar Madani, had gone into hiding, the police have
- unearthed an alleged plan by the organisation to blow up a temple near
- Karunagapally in Quilon district.
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- According to the police, the plan was unearthed following the arrest of
- three ISS activists at the Kerala-Tamil Nadu border near Kanyakumari yester-
- day. The three, hailing from Karunagapally, were held following the siezure
- of 1500 gelatine sticks, 300 detonators and a sophisticated safety fuse from
- a house on the Kerala side of the border. Each explosive according to pol-
- ice, had the capacity to kill atleast 10 persons.
-
- The sources said interrogation of the three revealed that the explo-
- sives had been stored there at the instance of Mr Madani and the plan was to
- use them at Poonthura, a coastal area of Trivandrum, which had witnessed
- large-scale communal violence recently, and to blast a temple near Karunaga-
- pally.
-
- The Director-general of police, Mr C. Subramanian, said: "We are going
- beyond the task of dissolution (of the ISS) because it was being used as a
- cover to actually encourage violence." He said the police was after Madani
- and "we will hunt him down".
-
- The police sources said a few months ago the police had recommended to
- the government that Mr Madani should be arrested but it was not approved.
-
- The police suspect that the ISS might have a few more explosives' bases
- in Tamil Nadu. This might have become necessary following the police raid on
- places where explosives had been stocked in Kerala a few months ago. In
- fact, the ISS had always been suspected of using explosives during communal
- violence.
-
- The police have also seized a revolver, six cartridges and 2 kg of
- explosives from the orphanage of Mr Madani at Mynagapally, where the ISS was
- based. A person suspected of providing arms training to ISS activists is
- absconding and the police are in search of him.
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