Abdul Khadar Sultan Armar, a key member of AuT, has been scouring the internet for fresh recruits. Adept at eluding security agencies, his role as recruiter came to the fore during his vain bid to recruit four engineering students from Hyderabad recently. Armar, who is suspected to be hiding in Afghanistan or Pakistan, became cautious about his covert online activities. According to intelligence sources, Armar had in the past interacted with prospective recruits through Skype, but after learning that his activities were being monitored, reportedly started taking precautions and avoiding online interactions. Intelligence sleuths are now acquiring advanced hacking tools to penetrate the closed chat rooms and crack encrypted conversations of AuT to unravel their impending conspiracies.
"About four to five people, including Armar and a few former Student Islamic Movement of India (SIMI) activists, sitting in Af-Pak or Gulf countries have been actively trying to lure local youth in Hyderabad and other parts of the country. A Bhatkal-based fugitive gang is behind this recruitment drive,'' intelligence sources told TOI.
Till date, state police could stop indoctrinated youths in at least six cases while trying to leave India to join global terror outfits. Besides these, some local SIMI activists had also uploaded blasphemous pictures on a social media website and fanned trouble in distant Bareilly in UP. An analysis by cyber wing officials traced its IP address to Madannapet and Kurmaguda, but elements behind the mischief are untraceable.
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