Chennai: Probe digs into ISIS texts radicalising sympathisers
The Anti-Terror Squad (ATS), Jaipur which has Iqbal's custody is likely to seize other gadgets he might have used to contact his network.
Chennai: The multi-agency probe into the ISIS sympathiser, who is thought to head the Chennai module of the West Asian terror outfit, is digging deep into the digital texts which he was believed to have used to radicalise his network of followers besides convincing them to extend monetary support to the terrorist movement.
The suspect, Mohamed Iqbal (32), was in touch with Abu Saad Al-Sudani, a Sudanese commander of ISIS. Iqbal's mobile phone of HTC make had already been seized by sleuths form the Directorate of Revenue Intelligence (DRI) when he was arrested in connection with the gold smuggling case.
The Anti-Terror Squad (ATS), Jaipur which has Iqbal's custody is likely to seize other gadgets he might have used to contact his network. Iqbal had exchanged several texts with Abu Saad Al-Sudani over KiK messenger - a messaging application with inbuilt-web-browser.
"They might have also exchanged digital content prepared and beamed by the ISIS commander, which could have been later circulated among Iqbal's close-knit group.
He had stated that he had received instructions as well from the ISIS commander who is known for his silver-tongued talk with which he used to indoctrinate radical individuals into supporting IS ideology," a senior police official who is privy to the investigation told Deccan Chronicle.
"On April 22, Sudanese national Abu Saad al-Sudani, also known as Abu Isa Al Amriki, an ISIL external attack planner and his wife, Shadi Jabar Khalil Mohammad, also known as Umm Isa Amriki, an Australian national, were both killed in an airstrike.
Al-Sudani was involved in planning attacks against the US, Canada and the UK. Both al-Sudani and his wife were active in recruiting foreign fighters in efforts to inspire attacks against Western interests", Pentagon Press Secretary Peter Cook, revealed in a press conference held at the Pentagon on May 5, 2016.
Abu Saad Al-Sudani's role in establishing modules in India has come up in the investigations carried out by the National Investigation Agency (NIA) about the suspected Hyderabad module in end 2016.