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'Indian recruits of IS using Iran deportation camps for Afghan war'
Bharti Jain| TNN | Updated: Nov 12, 2018, 03:15 IST
NEW DELHI: The journey to join terror group
Islamic State (IS) in battlefields like in
Afghanistanoften begins with radicalisation by Tablighi teachers and indoctrination by controversial religious outfits like
Zakir Naik's
Islamic Research Foundation(IRF) and leads to deportation camps in Iran for a final cross-over.
The use of deportation camps in Iran by Indian recruits to IS has been disclosed by Nashidul Hamzafar, the first Indian to be sent back from Afghanistan after he was intercepted by the Afghan forces while on way to IS-controlled territory in Nangarhar. Despite months of planning, Hamzafar's foray into jihad proved short-lived as he was picked up not long after he reached Kabul. But the transformation of a somewhat vapid youth into a radicalised individual who refused to heed his family's warnings reveals radical networks operating in the guise of charities that link local mosques to terror launch pads in Iran.
Hamzafar, who was deported to India in September, told NIA that he had travelled on valid documents to Tehran via Oman in October 2017. With the facilitation and contacts arranged by his friends , Shihas and Ashfaq, both of who had gone to Afghanistan earlier, he managed to reach a deportation camp in Isfahan.
There he posed as an Afghan residing in Nooristan province of Afghanistan. Hamzafar, however, failed to convince the camp authorities of his Afghan credentials and was loaded onto a deportation vehicle for Pakistan. He managed to reach a deportation camp meant for Afghans after he persuaded an officer that he was actually from Afghanistan. He soon found himself at Nimruz province of Afghanistan.
Hamzafar reached Kabul from Nimruz. He was detained by Afghan forces and after three months in custody and another three months at a US facility in Bagram, he was sent back to India.
Apart from the role of Tablighis -members of an organisation with missionary aims but whose doctrinaire approach has put it under the lens of security agencies - controversial preacher Zakir Naik's Islamic Research Foundation (IRF) and Kerala-based Peace Educational Foundation pop up in the Hamzafar story. IRF and Peace Foundation seem to be part of a chain that radicalises and dispatches recruits.
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