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NEW DELHI: With Syria and Iraq plunging into violent sectarian conflict, India and southeast Asian countries like Singapore are confronting a similar threat of radicalized citizens who are going off to fight in these wars.
The arrest of a self-radicalized Indian-origin Singaporean national, Fakkurudeen Usman Ali, set off alarm bells and convinced authorities in both countries to investigate this growing trend. Both Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his national security adviser, Ajit Doval spoke about it with the visiting Singapore foreign minister K Shanmugam.
Speaking exclusively to TOI, Shanmugam said India and Singapore would be deepening cooperation through the security agencies in both countries. "Terrorism is cross-border, solutions too have to be cross-border. People and money move from country to country, therefore it requires cooperation with many countries."
Sources said India is coordinating intelligence with Singapore, Malaysia, Sri Lanka and Maldives, both to counter potential and returning terrorists, but also to attempt de-radicalization programmes. Singapore has already started such a programme.
In South Asia, Sri Lanka's eastern province and Maldives as well as south India are particularly vulnerable. Indonesia is grappling with similar problems, apprehensive of a revival of jihadi terrorism that they had successfully tamped down. But they too are tracking radicalized men travelling to West Asia for jihad, and recent reports say almost 100 may have joined ISIS militants in Syria and Iraq.
US senator John McCain, in his conversation with Modi expressed the West's concerns -- what happens to jihadis who come back radicalized from wars in Syria and Iraq. France, UK and US are all grappling with the growing problem of returning radicals. France has already arrested some people who, it was alleged, were recruiting jihadists for Syria.
In March, the Singapore ministry of home affairs disclosed it was investigating Singaporean Haj Fakkurudeen Usman Ali, 37, for allegedly going to Syria with the intention of taking part in armed violence there. A supermarket manager, this Indian-origin man became a Singapore citizen in 2008. A second man, Gul Mohamed Maracachi Maraicar, 37, also an Indian national, was found to have helped to radicalise Haja and assisted in his plans in Syria. Gul, who held a Singapore resident permit, was investigated under the Internal Security Act and was eventually deported and banned from entering Singapore.
Sri Lankan, Zahir Hussain, was held in Chennai, and investigations found he was a facilitator for militants from Maldives who had scoped out terror targets in Tamil Nadu.
Growing radicalization sets off alarm bells in southeast Asia - The Times of India
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The arrest of a self-radicalized Indian-origin Singaporean national, Fakkurudeen Usman Ali, set off alarm bells and convinced authorities in both countries to investigate this growing trend. Both Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his national security adviser, Ajit Doval spoke about it with the visiting Singapore foreign minister K Shanmugam.
Speaking exclusively to TOI, Shanmugam said India and Singapore would be deepening cooperation through the security agencies in both countries. "Terrorism is cross-border, solutions too have to be cross-border. People and money move from country to country, therefore it requires cooperation with many countries."
Sources said India is coordinating intelligence with Singapore, Malaysia, Sri Lanka and Maldives, both to counter potential and returning terrorists, but also to attempt de-radicalization programmes. Singapore has already started such a programme.
In South Asia, Sri Lanka's eastern province and Maldives as well as south India are particularly vulnerable. Indonesia is grappling with similar problems, apprehensive of a revival of jihadi terrorism that they had successfully tamped down. But they too are tracking radicalized men travelling to West Asia for jihad, and recent reports say almost 100 may have joined ISIS militants in Syria and Iraq.
US senator John McCain, in his conversation with Modi expressed the West's concerns -- what happens to jihadis who come back radicalized from wars in Syria and Iraq. France, UK and US are all grappling with the growing problem of returning radicals. France has already arrested some people who, it was alleged, were recruiting jihadists for Syria.
In March, the Singapore ministry of home affairs disclosed it was investigating Singaporean Haj Fakkurudeen Usman Ali, 37, for allegedly going to Syria with the intention of taking part in armed violence there. A supermarket manager, this Indian-origin man became a Singapore citizen in 2008. A second man, Gul Mohamed Maracachi Maraicar, 37, also an Indian national, was found to have helped to radicalise Haja and assisted in his plans in Syria. Gul, who held a Singapore resident permit, was investigated under the Internal Security Act and was eventually deported and banned from entering Singapore.
Sri Lankan, Zahir Hussain, was held in Chennai, and investigations found he was a facilitator for militants from Maldives who had scoped out terror targets in Tamil Nadu.
Growing radicalization sets off alarm bells in southeast Asia - The Times of India
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@Aeronaut @Oscar @Fulcrum15 @Icarus @Xeric @nair @Areesh @A.Rafay @Abu Zolfiqar @ajpirzada @Arsalan @AUSTERLITZ @fatman17 @Chak Bamu @Secur @Slav Defence
