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THE EDGE

EDITED BY RAJESH SEN

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THIS WEEK’S SPECIAL REPORT:

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Philosophy of the Indian

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Mujahideen

Changing face of the terror-

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Cover story : The Indian Mujahideen Special Reporter:

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"... Here we are back - the Mujahideen of India - the terrorists on the disbelievers - the radicals of Islam - after our triumphant and successful assault at Jaipur, once again calling you all, who disbelieve in Allah and His Messenger Muhammad (peace be upon him) to accept Islam and bear witness that there is none to be worshipped except Allah, and that Muhammad (peace be upon him) is the Messenger of Allah. Accept Islam and save yourselves. “ - this is but a part of the 14 pages long pdf file sent as an attachment to an e-mail sent just 4 minutes before the July 26, 2008 serial bomb blast in Ahmedabad. 56 people were killed and 200 injured. Indians were shocked, the security agencies startled and the shadowy IM suddenly came under the limelight. Soon it was

The Players Inputs from the Gujarat Police helped Uttar Pradesh police to capture 5 operatives of this shadowy group including included the leader, Mufti Abu Bashir Ishlahi alias Abdul Wasir. The name of Abdus Subhan Qureshi Alias Tauqeer, 36, also cropped up. A genius of some sort he was a software engineer from Mumbai

found that e-mails were sent in some more cases of bomb blasts (list below) Before the serial blasts in three towns of Uttar Pradesh in November 2007. May 13 2008, after the Jaipur blasts email was sent, traced to a Ghaziabad cyber cafe. July 26, 2008, four minues before Ahmedabad blasts, email traced Kenneth Haywood's WiFi IP address in Sanpada, Navi Mumbai. August 2008, after the press conference held by the Gujarat Police, IP address traced to WiFi network of Khalsa college in Matunga, central Mumbai. September 13 2008,during the Delhi serial blast, IP address traced to WiFi network of Kamran Power Control Pvt Ltd, at

201-202 Eric House, 16th Road, Chembur. From the fag end of the 2004 Indian police circle was teeming with rumour of some shadowy group working in Ahmedabad and Bengaluru. But the exact information was not available then. Even after the india wide serial blasts starting from December 2007 the IM remained elusive. The Ahmedabad serial blast somehow changed the equation as the breakthrough in the Ahmedabad blasts case came from five ‘switched-off’ mobile phone numbers. Joint Commissioner of Police (crime) Ashish Bhatia said that the terrorists had procured five SIM cards of phones that were switched off on the day of the blasts — July 26. The analysis of the phone calls made to those SIM cards from PCOs provided

and an expert in bomb-making. He is also an expert hacker. Other leaders included Mufti Abu Bashir, 28, a preacher from Azamgarh in Uttar Pradesh. - The Edge Team

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a SIMI faction

Background of I.M. The references in Indian Mujahideen's Delhi blasts email, and by its operatives held in connection with Friday's Batla House shootout, to two "original" 18th century martyrs opens a revealing window into the ideological founts that sustain and inspire the jihadi outfit. The name Indian Mujahideen is apparently drawn from a book on a "jihad" waged by two Islamic warriors in northwest India around 1831 in Balakot, now Pakistan-

occupied Kashmir, and which suited the terror mission devised by the banned Students Islamic Movement of India. In its new garb, a SIMI faction found IM perfectly conveyed "home grown" militancy. The harkening to the two shaheeds — Sayeed Ahmad and Shah Ismail — marks a connection of a Delhi-based madrassa that attracted notice in the late 17th century under Shah Abdur Rahim as Madrassa

Rahimiya. The school came up as part of a protest against the anti-orthodox views and policies of Akbar and was a centre of Hanafi learning. - The Edge Team

found IM perfectly conveyed "home grown" militancy.

CHANGING FACE OF TERRORISTS

The harkening to the two shaheeds — Sayeed Ahmad and Shah Ismail — marks a connection

It is indeed interesting that the till now popular cross border terrorism now hit a dead wall in the rise of Indianised terrorism. Agencies like the I.S.I. are now recruiting educated youths most of them of well to do families and often good positioned in the professional lives as their operatives.

Pictures recovered from the laptop found in the Batla house where an encounter took place with the IM operatives responsible for the Sept 13 Delhi blast LATEST STATUS THE

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PISTOLS : HK Heckler & Koch Caption describing picture or graphic.

The HK4 was the first pistol to emerge from the now famous German company Heckler & Koch. HK-4 was the brain child of the Alex Seidel, one of co-founders and master minds of Heckler-Koch, and

a former Mauser employee.

Heckler & Koch started the development of a new Universal Selbstlade Pistole (Universal Selfloading Pistol, or USP in short), in mid-1989. The concept of the new design was to provide a universal weapon for police and military forces, available in a variety of versions and sizes. The target market for this new weapon was apparently the USA, as

the first version of the pistol, which appeared in 1993, was chambered for a new American cartridge, the .40 S&W. A 9mm version appeared a little later, and in 1995 the slightly modified 9mm USP pistol was adopted by the Bundeswehr (German army) as its new service pistol, under the designation P8. The same year the company also brought out another “America-special” version of the USP, this time in.45 ACP caliber. In 1996 the first of the Compact series of USP pistols entered production, and next year it was officially approved for German police use as the 9mm P10.

PISTOLS : THE GLOCK Glock GmbH (trademarked as GLOCK) is a weapons manufacturer headquartered in DeutschWagram, Austria. Glock was named after its founder, Gaston Glock. The company is best known for its line of striker-fired polymer-framed pistols. The currently also produces equipment such as field knives and entrenching tools as well as spon-

sor a competitive shooting team that travels around the world promoting the company.

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PISTOLS : THE BERETTA The Beretta M 1951 pistol, also known as M951, had been developed as a military pistol early in 1950s by Pietro Beretta Armi SpA, Italy, and had been in use by Italian, Egyptian and Israeli forces. The production of the M951 started circa 1953 and continued until 1980, when M951 had been replaced by Beretta M92. The selectfire version of the M951, known as

M951R, had been developed circa 1955 and been in limited production until early 1980s, when it was replaced by Beretta M93R. Technically, M951 is a recoil operated, locked breech pistol. The short recoiling barrel is locked to the slide by vertically tilting locking piece under the barrel (Walther P38 style locking).

Beretta px4 and Beretta 8000

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PISTOLS : THE DESERT EAGLE The Desert Eagle is a large caliber gas-operated semiautomatic pistol manufactured primarily in Israel by IMI (Israel Military Industries) for Magnum Research, Inc. Magnum Research has also marketed various versions of the short recoil Jericho 941 pistol under similar names; these have no functional relationship to the magnum Desert Eagle and bear only a moderate cosmetic resemblance.

DESERT EAGLE COLD BUT ENCHANTING!!!

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Magnum Research, based in the USA, developed and patented the original Desert Eagle design and this design was only about 80% functional, this prototype had an operating bolt, full gas operation, and excellent shooting characteristics. Manufacturing was moved to Saco Defense in the state of Maine from 1995 to 2000, but shifted back to Israel when Saco was acquired by General Dynamics. There the final refinements and a production ready pistol was manufac-

tured by Israel Military Industries (IMI), under contract to Magnum Research. The country of origin is disputed between The USA and Israel. Due to (and in no small measure contributing to) its reputation as a powerful firearm, the Desert Eagle has made frequent appearances as the weapon of choice in the actionadventure genres of books, movies, songs, TV shows, and video games.

PISTOLS : JERICHO JERICHO VARIANTS

The Jericho 941 is a double action, semi-automatic pistol developed by Israeli Weapons Industries in 1990 as a smaller caliber alternative to their famous "Desert Eagle" magnum semiautomatic pistol. As initially marketed in America by O. F. Mossberg & Sons

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it was called the "Uzi Eagle," and was renamed the "Baby Eagle" by its current importer, Magnum Research, Inc., to create more affinity with their Desert Eagle, another design made by IMI and sold by Magnum Research. The Baby Eagle and Desert Eagle

have little in common in design, but both represent very solid commercial efforts by the company responsible for the famous Uzi and Galil designs.

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The introduction of the Jericho 941 also introduced a new caliber to the market, the .41 Action Express (or .41 AE), which was developed in 1986. The .41 AE was a unique rebated rim cartridge designed to use .410 inch (10.25 mm) bullets and duplicate a reduced power police loading of the .41 Magnum. The Jericho originally shipped with two barrels, one for 9x19mm Parabellum and the other for .41 AE. The magazine was designed to feed either round, and since the .41 AE was designed with a rebated rim the same dimensions as that of the 9 mm, the extractor and ejector worked equally well for either cartridge.

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PISTOLS : THE BARAK The SP-21 (or "Barak", meaning lightning in Hebrew) pistol was developed by Israel Military Industries (IMI) in 2002. Originally intended as a military pistol for the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF), the Barak was supposed to replace in Israeli service the older Jericho 941 pistols of domestic origins, as well as the popular Glock pistols. Although the future of the Barak as

an IDF service pistol is currently uncertain, IMI decided to introduce this pistol to the international market. It became available in Europe early in 2003, and in the United States by late 2003. In Europe, it is still known as "Barak", and in the USA it is known as "Magnum Research SP-21" (Magnum Research, Inc. is currently the sole importer of IMI firearms in the United

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Now see some of the world’s most famous handguns in their 3 dimensional glory :: Just click on the pictures given below

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