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Islamic Deoband seminary under scanner for terror links

2006-04-06 Lucknow: The Islamic seminary, Deoband's Darul Uloom, has come under the terror scanner after four of its alumni were held for last month's serial bomb attacks in Varanasi.

Officials of the Special Task Force, who cracked the case after painstakingly tracking calls principal accused Waliullah made from his cellphone, said the seminary's campus was the venue for his meeting with the co-conspirators, the three Bangladeshi bombers, all Deobandi students, who are yet to be nabbed.

The three Bangladeshis, involved in the bombing belong to Harkat-ul Jehad-e-Islami, a Deobandi outfit and an Al-Qauda affiliate, have been identified as Bashiruddin, Mustafis and Zakari.

Waliullah, deputy Imam at a mosque at Phoolpur near Allahabad who passed out from Deoband in 1997, is learnt to have told his interrogators that jehadis were using the campus as a recruitment pad for terror activities.

He said that footage of the Babri demolition and communal riots, and cassettes of Jaish-e-Mohammad's chief Maulana Masood Azhar and others spewing similar holy war rhetoric were used to exhort the students to join the so-called jehad in India.

Though he is learnt to have told STF officials that the Deoband authorities were not aware of the recruitment efforts on the campus, the revelation has forced the authorities to take a second look at warnings sounded by intelligence agencies from time to time about the activities of the Deobandi hardliners at Darul Uloom.

Deoband has styled itself as a moderate institution by highlighting its opposition to the movement for Pakistan. The strong pitch has survived despite legions of preachers and maulvis trained in the seminary having led fundamentalist campaigns in Pakistan and elsewhere.

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