TWO HAUSA/FULANI MEN ARRESTED IN India EN-ROUTE TO ISIS TRAINING GROUND IN Iraq. PUNJAB, India Two young Nigerians suspected to be on their way to joining the Islamic State (ISIS) terror gang were yesterday arrested at the volatile India-Pakistan border after scaling a barbed wire fence near the border . Alert Border Security Force (BSF) troopers apprehended Imran Kabeer and Sani Jamiliu both from Kano and later handed them over to Punjab Police . The suspects aged around 24-25 told BSF officials they wanted to go to Pakistan and later to Iraq. They carried no valid travel documents to enter Pakistan. Both youths arrived in the Sikh holy city of Amritsar, 30 km from Punjab , on Thursday from Delhi in a hired taxi. They argued with the taxi driver on Thursday night, hoodwinked him and drove away his Swift Dzire car. They arrived at the integrated checkpoint at Attari yesterday morning. “On finding the border gates closed, the youths moved towards a barbed wire fence along the Attari-W
PUNJAB, India Two young
Nigerians suspected to be on
their way to joining the
Islamic State (ISIS) terror
gang were yesterday arrested
at the volatile India-Pakistan border after scaling a barbed
wire fence near the border .
Alert Border Security Force
(BSF) troopers apprehended
Imran Kabeer and Sani Jamiliu
both from Kano and later
handed them over to Punjab
Police
.
The suspects aged around
24-25 told BSF officials they
wanted to go to Pakistan and
later to Iraq.
They carried no valid travel
documents to enter Pakistan. Both youths arrived in the
Sikh holy city of Amritsar, 30
km from Punjab , on Thursday
from Delhi in a hired taxi.
They argued with the taxi
driver on Thursday night, hoodwinked him and drove
away his Swift Dzire car. They
arrived at the integrated
checkpoint at Attari
yesterday morning. "On finding the border gates
closed, the youths moved
towards a barbed wire fence
along the Attari-Wagah rail
track (on which the
Samjhauta Express peace train between both countries plies)
and jumped over the high
barbed wire fence, thinking
they had entered Pakistan.
BSF personnel immediately
nabbed them," a BSF official said. BSF Amritsar sector deputy
inspector general M.F.
Farooqui confirmed the arrest. The entire 553-km
international border between
India and Pakistan in Punjab is
on high alert following the
July 27 terror attack on
Dinanagar town in Punjab's Gurdaspur district by Pakistani
terrorists. Security is also tight
in view of the coming
Independence Day on August
15. Since the youths claimed their
final destination was Iraq,
security officials said they
could be headed to join the
Islamic State terror outfit. Both youths came to India on
student visas about a year
ago. While Imran is doing BBA
from the Mysuru-based
Karnataka State Open
University, Sani is a BSc third semester student of the
Kerala-based Mahatama
Gandhi University. Both were
residing in Delhi. Nigerian-born Umar Farouk
Abdulmutalab was arrested
on Christmas Day,2009 aboard
North West Airlines Flight 253
from Amsterdam to
Detroit,Michiga n following his attempt to blow up the
plane. He was found to be carrying
plastic explosives in his
underwear. He was subsequently tried and
convicted by a US Federal
Court on an eight count charge
including attempted use of a
weapon of mass destruction. Farouk was sentenced on
February 16,2012 to four life
terms plus 50 years without
parole. Al Qaeda in the Arabian
peninsula claimed,as the trial
got underway, that it trained
the convict and supplied him
with the explosives.
Nigerians suspected to be on
their way to joining the
Islamic State (ISIS) terror
gang were yesterday arrested
at the volatile India-Pakistan border after scaling a barbed
wire fence near the border .
Alert Border Security Force
(BSF) troopers apprehended
Imran Kabeer and Sani Jamiliu
both from Kano and later
handed them over to Punjab
Police
.
The suspects aged around
24-25 told BSF officials they
wanted to go to Pakistan and
later to Iraq.
They carried no valid travel
documents to enter Pakistan. Both youths arrived in the
Sikh holy city of Amritsar, 30
km from Punjab , on Thursday
from Delhi in a hired taxi.
They argued with the taxi
driver on Thursday night, hoodwinked him and drove
away his Swift Dzire car. They
arrived at the integrated
checkpoint at Attari
yesterday morning. "On finding the border gates
closed, the youths moved
towards a barbed wire fence
along the Attari-Wagah rail
track (on which the
Samjhauta Express peace train between both countries plies)
and jumped over the high
barbed wire fence, thinking
they had entered Pakistan.
BSF personnel immediately
nabbed them," a BSF official said. BSF Amritsar sector deputy
inspector general M.F.
Farooqui confirmed the arrest. The entire 553-km
international border between
India and Pakistan in Punjab is
on high alert following the
July 27 terror attack on
Dinanagar town in Punjab's Gurdaspur district by Pakistani
terrorists. Security is also tight
in view of the coming
Independence Day on August
15. Since the youths claimed their
final destination was Iraq,
security officials said they
could be headed to join the
Islamic State terror outfit. Both youths came to India on
student visas about a year
ago. While Imran is doing BBA
from the Mysuru-based
Karnataka State Open
University, Sani is a BSc third semester student of the
Kerala-based Mahatama
Gandhi University. Both were
residing in Delhi. Nigerian-born Umar Farouk
Abdulmutalab was arrested
on Christmas Day,2009 aboard
North West Airlines Flight 253
from Amsterdam to
Detroit,Michiga n following his attempt to blow up the
plane. He was found to be carrying
plastic explosives in his
underwear. He was subsequently tried and
convicted by a US Federal
Court on an eight count charge
including attempted use of a
weapon of mass destruction. Farouk was sentenced on
February 16,2012 to four life
terms plus 50 years without
parole. Al Qaeda in the Arabian
peninsula claimed,as the trial
got underway, that it trained
the convict and supplied him
with the explosives.
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