Al Qaeda Warns Of Suicide Attacks: Security Agencies Not Ignoring Al Qaeda Threats

Security agencies are not giving much importance to Al Qaeda's threat of terror attack in India after the remarks of former BJP spokespersons. Despite all the efforts, Al Qaeda has failed miserably to establish a foothold in India. A senior official associated with the security agency said that the statement of al-Qaeda is more appealing to Indian Muslims than threats.

In 2014, al-Qaeda chief al-Zawahiri announced the establishment of a separate al-Qaeda branch for the Indian subcontinent and made Asim Umar its emir. But after Asim Umar was killed in a drone attack on the Afghanistan-Pakistan border in 2019, no new emir has been made to replace him. According to him, Al Qaeda has in a way accepted, there is no place for it to establish a foothold in India.

In 2014, days after Asim Umar was declared the new emir, Delhi Police arrested Maulana Abdul Rehman, who was plotting to build a training center for Al Qaeda in the jungles of Jharkhand. Similarly, terrorists associated with Al Qaeda have been arrested from time to time from Uttar Pradesh, West Bengal, Assam, Kerala and Jammu and Kashmir. But all of them were arrested before carrying out the terrorist attack.

The senior official said that before 2014, Al Qaeda was trying to carry out terrorist activities in India with the help of Indian Mujahideen. For this, some terrorists associated with Indian Mujahideen were also given training in Afghanistan-Pakistan. But after the arrest of Yasin Bhatkal in 2013, the existence of Indian Mujahideen itself came into trouble.