Traitor Muslim Engineers
Kerala
engineer ‘Abu Bakr’ who was killed fighting for Islamic State in Libya,
appears in IS magazine, security agencies on alert
According to the article in Voice of Khorasan, Abu was drawn to Islam
after reading about 'Prophet Isa and his mother Maryam' in material
supplied by a bookstall.
Opindia
August 22, 2022
Security agencies in India have swung into action after the images of a
Kerala engineer who was supposedly killed while fighting for the
Islamic State (IS) in Libya appeared once again in the IS propaganda
magazine Voice of Khorasan, according to a report by The New Indian
Express.
The recent issue of Voice of Khorasan, the Islamic State’s mouthpiece
in Afghanistan and surrounding regions, had a story about Abu Bakr Al
Hindi, “who was born in Kerala in a Christian family.” The agencies
have now contacted engineers’ associations in Bengaluru and Kerala to
gather more information about this individual. Unfortunately, the
inquiry has been hampered by lack of information concerning Abu’s true
identity as well as data about his family.
The Keralite was mentioned in an IS document titled ‘Know your
martyrs,’ which stated that Abu Bakr Al-Hindi was a Christian who
converted to Islam while working in the Gulf. According to the paper,
he is the first Indian ‘Istishhadi’ (suicide bomber) to be killed in
the African continent.
According to the article in Voice of Khorasan, Abu was drawn to Islam
after reading about ‘Prophet Isa and his mother Maryam’ in material
supplied by a bookstall. He was recruited to the IS after hearing the
lectures of Anwar al-Awlaki, the dreaded preacher executed in a US
drone strike in 2011. According to the magazine, Abu’s repeated
attempts to relocate to IS-controlled territory in Yemen failed owing
to logistical obstacles, but the chance to join the Libyan module
eventually came up with the support of his Gulf connections.
Abu received military training in Sirte after arriving in Libya. The
current issue of the magazine mentions, “Brother Abu Bakr joined
operation istishhadi (suicide attack). When the apostates reached gate
40, he was selected and carried out istishhadi operation on the
murtaddin and attained martyrdom.”
Another Kerala engineer ‘Najeeb’ died in a suicide attack in Afghanistan
OpIndia reported in March of this year that ISKP featured another
engineering student from Kerala in its magazine Voice of Khorasan. The
Indian fighter’s identity was given only by his assumed name, Najeeb Al
Hindi, in a story reporting his death, and he was identified as a
23-year-old “engineering (M.Tech) student from Kerala.” The article
provided no other information on Najeeb, nor did it specify when he
died or the circumstances surrounding his demise.
According to the ISKP mouthpiece, Najeeb was only interested in
fighting for Islamic State and did not want to marry, but at the
persuasion of friends, he married another jihadi female from a
Pakistani household. The ISKP propaganda magazine compared Najeeb to
Hanzala Ibn Abi Mair, one of Prophet Mohammad’s companions who was
killed in a fight on his wedding night.
ISIS connection to Kerala
As early as 2014, the Islamic State established roots in Kerala, with
modules encouraging religious conversions and aiming to attract
professionals to join its troops in Afghanistan and Syria. Plenty of
Kerala men and women are said to have joined the ISKP in recent years.
The United Nations warned in its 2020 terrorism report that there are a
substantial number of ISIS terrorists in the Indian state of Kerala,
stating that the ISIL Indian affiliate (Hind Wilayah), which was
declared on May 10, 2019, has around 200 members.
Furthermore, a National Investigation Agency’s chargesheet filed in
July 2020 in connection with the murder of Special Sub Inspector Wilson
revealed a strong association between ISIS terrorists active and
growing in the state.
Man who sent details on U.S. jets to Iran sentenced to eight years
BY RICHARD WEIZEL
Fri Oct 23, 2015
Reuters
A dual U.S.-Iranian citizen apologized on Friday for exporting
sensitive information about U.S. military jets to his native Iran,
saying he was simply applying for a job, before a judge sentenced him
to eight years and one month in prison.
Mozaffar Khazaee, who had worked as an engineer at U.S. defense
contractor Pratt & Whitney, was arrested in January 2014 as he
tried to leave the country with sensitive material about the engines
for the U.S. Air Force's F-35 Joint Strike Fighter and F-22 Raptor
aircraft in his luggage.
Khazaee had also exchanged e-mails containing information about the
programs with Iranian contacts, according to court papers. He said the
e-mails were part of a job application.
"I never sold anything to anybody," Khazaee, 61, told the court,
standing hunched over and reading from notes. "Had I known that making
a Powerpoint presentation to an Iranian university in my attempt to get
a job was breaking the law, I never would have taken the documents at
all."
U.S. District Judge Vanessa Bryant said she was unimpressed with his
assertions about e-mails relating to his previous employer, a unit of
diversified manufacturer United Technologies Corp.. The company had
laid him off in 2013.
"He not only minimizes his criminal conduct but genuinely fails to
understand the significance of his actions, and that is especially
troubling," Bryant said.
The sentence she imposed, which included three years' supervised release, was less than the 10 years prosecutors had sought.
The U.S. Arms Export Control Act limits the export of information related to weapons systems.
Federal prosecutors contended that Khazaee's description of that
exchange was inaccurate, saying he had e-mailed information on the jets
well before being laid off and that he had told a contact in Iran in an
e-mail the information he sent was "very controlled ... I am taking [a]
big risk."
His 85-year-old mother, who spells her name Molok Khazaye, had asked in a letter to the court for leniency for her son.
"I have no protector other than (my son) and am depend on him
financially and emotionally strongly so," the defendant's mother wrote.
"I kindly request you to grant him a pardon due to his mistake."
Khazaee's brother and sister had also asked for his release.
Before his time at Pratt & Whitney, which makes jet engines,
Khazaee worked at major manufacturers including General Electric Co.,
according to court papers.
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