Islamic Terrorism and the Media

Abstract: A feature of neo-conservative critiques during the course of this century, concerning public issues such as immigration and multicultural policy and Islamic terrorism, has been the use of a rhetoric based on historical imagery as a means to generate affective reactions to matters of debate. This article examines one example of such rhetoric, the claim by the economic historian Niall Ferguson that the terrorist attacks in Paris in November 2015 represented a close parallel to the " Fall of the Roman empire " in antiquity which highlighted failures of France's immigration policies. Interactions between media debate, ancient world scholarship, and popular history are explored.

This paper is a compilation of the outstanding projects, policies and achievements of the Goodluck Jonathan’s Administration. The paper highlights those critical areas that the Jonathan’s Administration identified as priority in its determination to make Nigeria one of the twenty biggest economics in the world by the year 2020. The researcher uses development media theory to support the study.
Keywords: Achievements, success, transformation, development, public relations.

Since 9/11, the mass media space in Western countries, including Australia, is heavily populated with news on terrorism that is linked to the Middle East, Islam, and Muslims. While research on Western media reporting on Islam and terrorism—providing negative representations of Islam—is not uncommon, studies examined in the process are qualitative in nature, relying on interviews and select newspaper content; and inadvertently their findings support Edward Said’s Orientalism theory. Mindful of Orientalism, this study sets out to establish whether there is quantitative evidence supporting the qualitative studies on reporting on Islam and terrorism.

This thesis undertakes post-positivist quantitative content analysis of newspaper articles published in Australian newspapers from 1990 to 2015, using the largest national daily (The Australian), the largest daily metropolitan/state broadsheet (The Sydney Morning Herald), and the largest daily tabloid (Herald Sun). In this regard, article frequency containing specified keywords were contrasted between the periods 1990–2000 and 2001–2015; and article frequencies were benchmarked against frequencies of actual recorded terrorist activities (via the Global Terrorist Database), as measured through the number of attacks and the number of killed and wounded in the attacks.

The data presented in the thesis indicates that most terrorist groups do not adhere to an Islamist ideology, and most terrorist attacks between 1990 and 2015 were undertaken by non-Islamist terrorist groups. It also indicates that Jihadi-Takfiri Neo-Salafism (often broadly referred to as Salafism/Wahhabism), the minority Islamic ideology that has been espoused by al-Qaeda and ISIS, is linked to the majority of Islamist terrorist organisations and their attacks. The data also suggests significant changes in reporting levels on Islam and terrorism since 2001.

The conclusions drawn from the post-positivist quantitative analysis suggest there is resonance between this nomothetic approach and ideographic approaches represented in prior qualitative studies on representation of Islam and terrorism in the Western press. In this regard, findings support Orientalist theory. Due to the nature of circulation of international news in the West, it is likely that similar results would be obtained in other Western countries, however this needs testing.

Tesi di Laurea Magistrale sulla produzione letteraria esistente all'interno dell'organizzazione terroristica dello Stato Islamico.
La ricerca, nel suo tentativo di analisi, prova a descrivere una delle numerose forme d'arte presenti all'interno della compagine terroristica nota come ISIS. Attraverso le cronache dell'ascesa del gruppo terroristico si è cercato di individuare ed analizzare le tematiche comuni presenti all'interno di ogni forma d'espressione artistica del gruppo terroristico.
L'utilizzo di fonti di prima mano, come la raccolta di poesie della "Poetessa dello Stato Islamico" Ahlam al-Nasr, hanno contribuito ad aprire una finestra all'interno dell'organizzazione terroristica, permettendone un'analisi più profonda e non limitata ai semplici aspetti geopolitici, ma espandendosi soprattutto alla sfera umana.

Tulisan ini mencoba melihat seperti apa hubungan media dan terorisme di era kontemporer saat ini yang sama-sama saling mempengaruhi dan saling menguatkan. Serangan teror 13/11 yang terjadi di Paris menjadi pilihan yang tepat lantaran kasus ini menjadi salah satu isu global yang didalamnya mampu melihat bagaimana media dan terorisme bekerja. Dengan menggunakan pendekatan media, penulis melihat bahwa terorisme dimanfaatkan untuk tujuan pemberitaan global itu sendiri. Sedangkan dari teroris, media digunakan sebagai salah satu sarana untuk memperluas pengaruh dan ancamanya terhadap masyarakat global. Serangan yang terjadi di tempat publik di Paris menjadi ajang yang tepat untuk membuka babak baru terorisme dengan menjamurnya berbagai pemberitaan global baik di media dan pers internasional ataupun dari media sosial yang kini juga menjadi sumber berita. Tidak hanya media saja yang aktif dalam pemberitaan isu ini, bahkan pelaku terorisme dalam hal ini ISIS juga mampu memanfaatkan media sebagai alat baru dalam menerapkan strategi terornya, hal ini kemudian menjadi tantangan global seluruh negara dalam memerangi ISIS, sehingga pemahaman akan hubungan media dan terorisme menjadi penting kiranya untuk menjawab persoalan mengenai terorisme.

Dābiq is an electronic magazine (e-zine) utilising strategic utopianism and savagery messages supported by exemplary leadership, eschatology, and current events reports. This project analyses narrative themes present within Dābiq and how relevant and prevalent these themes are across issues. The project applies Thematic Network Analysis of the first six issues of Dābiq, laying foundations for understanding ISIL’s culture and counter-narrative development. It argues present terminology and first generation research constrain understanding of ISIL’s cultural specifics. This project establishes that rhetoric within Dābiq contains both political and religious narratives. Finally, this project establishes that ‘Exemplary Leadership’ theme dominates ISIL’s Dābiq rhetoric.

Through a theoretical framework based on the literature review and findings from academic literature, the overall objective of this paper is to answer the question: How does the Islamic State (ISIS) recruit using Social Media? According to Marshall McLuhan1 "it would be impossible for terrorism to exist without the media." Terrorism is one of the most prominent forms of violence and crime in modern times as it threatens the security and stability of many societies. The terrorist acts have continuously developed over the years and now are characterized by high flexibility and ability to deal with social, international and security changes, as well as by the capacity to adapt to new

ISIS propaganda differs from that of other (Islamic or non-Islamic) religions or cults as it is not so much concerned with imagination and exotic fantasies but accentuates the maximal exploitation and demonstration of available technology. The Islamic State does not only excel through the extensive use of high-tech weapons, social media, commercial bot, and automated text systems; by putting forward the presence of speeding cars and tanks, mobile phones, and computers, ISIS presents jihad life as connected to modern urban culture. The article shows that the aesthetics of the Islamic State is “futurist” by comparing it with Italian Futurism. Futurism glorified cars, industrial machines, and modern cities while praising violence as a means of leaving behind imitations of the past in order to project itself most efficiently into the future. A profound sense of crisis produces in both Futurism and jihadism a nihilistic attitude toward the present state of society that will be overcome through an exaltation of technology. The futurist project to integrate life and art is paralleled by ISIS’s desire to integrate life and religion. In both cases the result is achieved through violence.

Since its formation in 2013, ISIS (Islamic State of Iraq and Al-Sham, formerly known as ISIL) has shocked the world not only with its lightning conquest of territories in Iraq and Syria, but also its gruesome executions of kidnapped hostages. The brutal murders of hostages, both Western and non-Western, quickly became ISIS’ iconic ‘act’ as they were recorded on camera and spread to the world through the Internet. Although such acts are not entirely new in the history of terrorism,  new trends are observable.

This essay seeks to examine the motivations behind the strategies of kidnapping and holding Western hostages by Islamic terrorist groups since the mid-2000s. It will show that such acts, when broadcast to the world in the form of images and videos, empower terrorists with great publicity and psychological advantages. This is a crucial weapon of mass ‘deception’ in a highly asymmetric conflict. Taking hostages becomes a means through which terrorist groups elevate their international status by initiating state-to-state dialogue with governments. They also act as an effective political tool for discrediting coalition governments by creating ‘Vietnam-like’ scenarios in which governments can be blamed and demoralized. In other words, the desired effects can be disproportionally magnified by relatively little effort. The essay will then analyze the strengths and weaknesses of such strategies, and finally suggest possible counter-terrorist measures.

For as long as there has been film, there have been Muslim bad guys. Whether they are Rudolph Valentino’s swarthy sheikh or the countless Arabs scattered throughout the Indiana Jones movies, Muslims have been treated as boogeymen, and it’s not just films that have done this. Television shows like 24 or The Unit also perpetuate the stereotype of the Muslim villain.

This paper is trying to see what kind of media relations and terrorism in the contemporary era which today both influence each other and strengthen each other. 13/11 terror attacks that occurred in Paris be the right choice because this case into one of the global issues which are able to see how the media and terrorism work together. By using the media approach, the authors see that terrorism is utilized for the purpose of preaching global itself. Whereas from terrorists, the media is used as one means to extend its influence and threats against the global community. The attack happened in a public place in Paris became the right event to open a new chapter of terrorism with the mushrooming of various global news coverage in both the media and the international press or from social media is now also a source of news. Not only the media are active in news coverage of these issues, even the perpetrators of terrorism, ISIS is also able to utilize the media as a new tool in applying the strategy of terror, this was later to become global challenges all countries in combating ISIS, so knowledge of media relations and terrorism may be important to answer the question of terrorism.

Islam, a religion known for its peace and unity, in recent decades has come to be known through the media as a religion of violence and aggression, which frightens individuals throughout the world. Such fear has imputed negative connotation towards Islam by connecting it with the phenomena of radicalism and terrorism. Non-Muslims who fear radicalism and terrorism have not only developed a paranoia towards Islam, but also relate terrorist acts with Islam, even though there is only a small percentage of Muslims who commit these actions and claiming them in the name of Islam. This fear is largely brought by Islamic acts of terrorism and their jihad-supporting preachers who utter words towards to non-Muslims (Altheide, 2009).

(English translation below)
In dit artikel behandel ik de vraag of en zo ja, hoe de film 'Fitna' van Geert Wilders behandeld kan worden in de lessen godsdienst/levensbeschouwing in het voortgezet onderwijs. Ik beschrijf de aanleiding en uitwerking van mijn derdeklaslessen en besteed aandacht aan de omstreden Fitna-verzen uit de Koran. Het onderwerp is zwaar, heftig en verwarrend, maar biedt ook een verrijking en bovenal een nuance in een vaak weinig genuanceerd debat.
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Fitna in the classroom
The present paper was the 2015 prize-winning contribution to the Dutch journal for teacher religious education Narthex. The paper presents a series of lessons devoted to the theme of presumed "terrorist" passages in the Qur'an, as highlighted in the short movie Fitna made by the Dutch populist politician Geert Wilders. By means of a careful analysis of both this movie and the relevant verses in the Qur'an (and parallels in the Bible) pupils of ca. 14 years of age are invited to review critically the various statements, deconstruct current claims and interpretations and formulate a well-considered viewpoint. The theme is challenging and leads to several debates, but, at least in the practice here described, almost always to a deeper and nuanced understanding.

The world today is not safe for all and sundry due to the villainous activities of terrorists' groups like Islāmic State of Iraq (ISIS), Al-Qaida in the Maghreb (AQIM) and Jama'atu Ahl-Sunnati Lid-Da c awati Wal Jihad otherwise known as Boko-Haram. They have committed series of crimes against humanity through pogrom, carnage, armed robbery and suicide bombing under the guise of religion, thereby exacerbating volatile spread of Islāmophobia around the world. Mohammed Manga was the first famous suicide bomber in Nigeria with motive that such abominable crime will make him martyr and thus be rewarded with high rank place in paradise. No matter how sublime, how purify or morally upright mankind might be, or how absolute their constitution is, cannot justify the abandonment of Qur'ānic precepts on all matters. Rather injustice, hatred, nepotism, hypocrisy, transgression, extremism, bigotry, jungle justice, and mischief will become the order of the day. While, violence, terrorism, flagrant abuse of fundamental rights, discrimination, racism, as well as all other criminal acts against humanity is the order of the day, these are (not only) in aberration to the canons established in Qur'ān and expounded in the traditions of Prophet Muhammad but also antithetical to human nature. Islām places high premium on safety of people's life and equally champions the significance of love and harmony in society. It also guarantees protection of the lives, honour and property of both Muslims and non-Muslims alike. This paper through descriptive method, appraises the cause of suicide bombing carried out by Mohammed Manga, assesses the Qur'ānic precepts on genocide, suicide and martyrdom.

Egypt faces a well planned project of decomposition and partly annexation.

In 2014, in two articles, I explained what Egypt needed to do to avert Sinai's secession. The Egyptian government failed to implement any serious measure and the country will soon face worse developments.

First published here:
https://megalommatis.wordpress.com/2014/10/26/what-egypt-needs-now-part-i-sinai/

As Turkey represents the main problem, circles related to an apostate Freemasonic lodge joined forces in an unprecedented support to Islamist extremist premier Erdogan, as they attempt to instrumentalize him against the military, judicial, academic, economic, intellectual and political establishment of Secular Turkey, and help him pull Turkey to the Islamist camp, who would thus – without knowing it – help them trigger the planned disastrous developments.

When Mr. Gul becomes ‘urbane’!
First published in the American Chronicle, AfroArticles, and Buzzle on 28th May 2007
Republished on 31st May 2007 in the blog:
http://armenians-1915.blogspot.com/2007/05/1721-media-scanner-31-may-2007.html

Modern Arabic: French fabrication of a fake language to de-personify, de-valorize, radicalize and barbarize
Through the creation of a fake modern Arabic language , the French prevented a genuine Nation building in the area, ensured that the local peoples would never have access to their identity, and like this gave the Wahhabist sheikhs a most powerful tool of de-personification, de-valorization, radicalization and barbarization. The so idiotically venerated French ‘mission civilisatrice’ is truly speaking a ‘mission barbarisatrice’.
The French created what is the concept of Arabic as Modern Language, and (as an extension to it – at a second stage) the Arab nationalism – supreme stage of the colonialism.
First published in Buzzle and the American Chronicle on 24th November 2006
Republished in Aram Nahrin on the same day

As computer-assisted research of voluminous datasets becomes more pervasive, so does the criticism of its epistemological, methodological and ethical/normative inadequacies. This paper proposes a hybrid approach that combines the scale of computational methods with the depth of qualitative analysis. It uses simple natural language processing algorithms to extract purposive samples from large textual corpora which can then be analyzed using interpretive techniques. This approach helps research become more theoretically grounded and contextually sensitive—two major failings of typical “Big Data” studies. Simultaneously, it allows qualitative scholars to examine datasets that are otherwise too large to study manually and also bring more rigor to the process of sampling. The method is illustrated with two case studies, one looking at the inaugural addresses of U.S. presidents and the other investigating the news coverage of two shootings at an army camp in Texas.

The US failed to grasp that a main pillar of the colonial plan carried out by France and England in the Middle East is the extermination of the Oriental Christians. Only an Aramaean state built upon the ashes of Iraq and Syria can allow them survive in Peace.
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America should create an Aramaean state as break wave against Islamic Terrorism.

First published in Buzzle and Newsbusters
Republished in Aram Nahrin on the same day (17/10/2006)

The reason for the Western biases against the modern, western, and democratic part of the Turkish establishment is to be found in the strengths of Turkey, a vast country with great periphery (from the Balkans to Central Asia and from the Middle East to Africa) and even greater potentialities.
Originally published in AfroArticles, American Chronicle, and Buzzle on 23rd May 2007
http://www.buzzle.com/articles/western-biases-against-non-extremist-muslims-and-the-west-sinister-end.html

Republished in:
http://womensapparelhub.blogspot.com/2007/08/western-biases-against-non-extremist.html

In an earlier article, we analyzed that the so-called 'Islamic' headscarf is not 'Islamic' but Islamist; we criticized the deliberate Western misinformation on which the disastrous misconception is based that there can eventually be a Muslim democratic country where women will be wearing the bogus-Islamic headscarf which is a top symbol of the Islamic Terrorism. Here we will insist on giving an idea about what means a society with headscarf, whereby every theoretical and ideological attempt to attack the illiterate sheikhs' fallacies is viciously and tyrannically stigmatized as anti-Islamic.
Bogus-Islamic headscarf means that you accept that women are weak and 'lower' than men, so they need a different home and school education that actively makes them believe that they are 'inferior'.
Headscarf is the Epitome of Gender Racism
Bogus-Islamic headscarf means that you accept that women are filthy because of their menstruation, and you therefore do not want unknown women to touch you even coincidentally when walking in the street or standing next to you in the bus; you do not go to sit in a place where a woman was sitting before. It is very common in Arabic barbaric totalitarian societies of the Middle East to see men unwilling to sit next to a female passenger in a minibus or bus, and to wait for the next bus to come. This consists in a sheer repetition of racist acts perpetrated in the United States against the Black people before 40 or 50 years.
First published in AfroArticles, American Chronicle, and Buzzle on 4th May 2007
Republished by Aram Nahrin on the same day:
http://www.aramnaharaim.org/English/FutureOfTurkey5_4_5_2007.htm

Meanwhile, one must manage to avoid traps that only help the terrorists continue their evildoing, because precisely these traps mislead the Western statesmen, military headquarters, academia, mass media, and public opinion in their evaluation of the present situation. The trap is that of accusing Islam itself as a religion of terror. Extensive historical research would easily and plainly prove the opposite, namely that the peak of the Islamic Civilization (and all the thousands of historically known Muslim polymaths, philosophers, erudite scholars, scientists, poets, artists, historians, authors, etc.) was totally devoid of any inclination toward violence, let alone terrorism.

Where does this trap hinge on?

The answer is simple; there is a subtle and yet enormous difference between two words that play here a determinant role: 'Religion' and 'Theology'. All the religions – when systematized as dogma, doctrine and cult – are, usually, essentially transformed into theological systems that can be at times identified as very distant from the original religion.
https://megalommatiscomments.wordpress.com/2016/03/24/brussels-terror-attack-due-to-western-ignorance-of-evil-theological-systems-part-ii/
Presented as video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YdFiOjnOWQY

Jama c tu Ahl-is-Sunnah lid-Da c wati wal Jihad popularly known as Boko-Haram and its splinter's faction The Islamic State of West African Province (ISWAP) were once famous around the world as the most famous deadliest terrorist group in the world operating in Northeast Nigeria, Niger, Chad and Cameroon. These groups however, according to the Global Terrorism Index 2018, are now 4 th deadliest terror group in the world. This was allegedly connected to massive military engagement of Nigerian Army, the Civilian Joint Task Force and the Joint MultiNational Forces of the affected countries with the group. Irrespective of the global rating of the group, it is instructive to note that, these terrorist groups who orchestrated about 1,254 deaths only in 2017, 1 were responsible for countless kidnappings, hostages killing of aid workers, non-combatant and combatant citizens, use of children and women as suicide bombers, overrunning of strategic military facilities, torturing victims, armed robbery and theft, collection of ransom from government and many other violence under the guise of religion (Islam). There is no justification for all the terror activities of these groups in Islam. Islam is not only a religion of peace and advocated for peaceful coexistence among all and sundry irrespective of gender, religion, tribe, social and economic status. This paper, therefore, epistemologically x-rays the origin of this terrorist group in Nigeria, highlight rationale for emergence of splinter groups, their teachings and terrorist activities. Descriptively, it assesses the Islamic maxims on Boko-Haram's teachings and activities in Nigeria and exculpates why such teachings and activities are in antithetical to Islam.

In this essay I argue that Muslims across the board have internalized the Western discourse of the need to reform as a type of self-surveillance and as a means of living and being in the world. I examine the transnational Islamic political group Hizb ut-Tahrir's criticisms of British governmental and media-political pressures on Muslims to reform, and the Marrakech Declaration where “hundreds of Muslim scholars and intellectuals from over 120 countries … gathered in Marrakesh … to reaffirm the principles of the Charter of Medina.” According to the declaration, non-Muslims in Muslim-majority countries are to be accorded freedom to live and practice their religions, in keeping with the Prophetic example. I also examine a discussion between the director of the “anti-extremism think tank” The Quilliam Foundation, Maajid Nawaz, and Sam Harris—one of the “Four Horsemen of New Atheism”—published as Islam and the Future of Tolerance: A Dialogue, in which the question of the need for Islamic reform is central.

Drawing on Deleuzian models of film thinking, this paper turns its attention to chilling post-9/11 televisual news reports and journalistic documentaries covering terrorist events, to explore the extent to which the depiction of terrorism in the Western world has increasingly become infected by the logic and tropes of dramatic and spectacular entertainment. With specific regard to the screening of real images of death bound up in such events, it becomes important to interrogate the apparent slippage and blurring between reality and fiction, and probe into the universal and relative moral perspectives surrounding such events. To highlight the extent of these problems, I turn to the complex web of ethical and moral issues surrounding and interpenetrating the depiction of terrorist acts in Dan Reed’s 2014 documentary 'Terror at the Mall' (US/UK), which covers Al Shabaab’s (an extremist Somali insurgency group affiliated with Al Qaeda) 2013 “siege” of the Westgate mall in Nairobi, Kenya. To best get at these issues I compare this HBO and BBC produced film with two other televisual reports covering the same events: NBC News Dateline’s Nowhere to Run (US, 2013) and KTN’s The Inside Story: Wolves at Westgate [The news behind the news of the 2013 terror attack in Westgate] (John-Allan Namu, 2013, Kenya). Consideration of how these three different films edit together raw footage, emotionally prime their viewers, evaluate the events, and seek out the truth helps uncover some of the salient ethical and moral issues bound up with the screening of unsimulated images of terrorism, suicide and murder in today’s highly mediated world. After adumbrating a pragmatic distinction between moral and ethical forms of film and filmmaking, I explore the extent to which the two Western films think the events in a different manner from the

पुलवामा में शहीद पुलिस बल के जवानों का लहू,
राष्ट्रीय स्वयंसेवक संघ/भाजपा शासकों से मांग रहा जवाब! 
अर्द्घसैन्य बलों के 40 जवानों का जनसंहार और अनेकों जवानों के घायल और अपंग होने के इस वीभत्स कांड से सभी भारतीय स्तब्ध हैं। इस जघन्य कांड के पीछे जैश-ए-मोहम्म्द के कुख्यात आतंकवादी अजहर मसूद का हाथ है जो उसने ख़ुद क़बूला है । उसका नाम सुरक्षा परिषद की मोस्ट वांटेड आतंकवादियों की सूची में सबसे ऊपर है। सबसे तकलीफदेह यह है कि ये जवान युद्ध-मोर्चे पर नहीं थे। उन पर यह हमला उस समय किया गया, जब वे बसों पर सवार होकर जम्मू से श्रीनगर जा रहे थे। आशा के अनुरूप, प्रधान मंत्री नरेन्द्र मोदी ने इस नरसंहार की कड़ी निंदा की और घोषणा की है कि न केवल अपराधियों को दंडित किया जाएगा, बल्कि उनका समर्थन और मदद करने वालों को भी इसकी भारी कीमत अदा करनी होगी। उन्होंने यह भी बताया कि सुरक्षा बलों से कह दिया गया है कि इस अपराध का बदला लेने के लिए वे खुद निर्णय लेने के लिए स्वतंत्र हैं। शहीदों के परिवारों के समर्थन में आम लोग सामने आए हैं।
गौरतलब है कि पुलवामा जनसंहार का गुनहगार, रक्तपिपासु अपराधी अजहर मसूद द्वारा भारत के खिलाफ यह पहला आतंकी हमला नहीं है। दूसरों के दर्द से आनंदित होने वाला यह अपराधी, अनेक जन संहारों का जिम्मदार है। वह अनगिनत सामूहिक नरसंहारों, प्रगतिशील-धर्मनिरपेक्ष व्यक्तियों/संगठनों पर बम विस्फोटों लिए जिम्मेदार है और पाकिस्तान में महिला-तस्करी भी करता रहा है। दिसंबर1999 में इंडियन एयरलाइंस के हवार्इ उड़ान 814 (नेपाल के काठमांडू से दिल्ली) का अपहरण करके और उसे कंधार ले जाने के मामले का मास्टर माइंड यही था। 2008 में मुंबई आतंकी हमला, 2001 में भारतीय संसद पर हमला और 2016 में पठानकोट वायुसेना अड्डे पर हमला और अब पुलवामा नरसंहार सब में वह संलिप्त रहा है।
लेकिन पुलवामा में सीआरपीएफ के जवानों का बहता लहू आरएसएस/भाजपा के हुकमरानों से कुछ सवालों के जवाब मांग रहा है।
(1) मोस्ट वांटेड आतंकी अजहर मसूद को किसने जीवन दान दिया था?
भारत में दिसंबर1999 में आरएसएस के वरिष्ठ विचारक और नेता, अटल बिहारी वाजपेयी के नेतृत्व में केद्र में राजग की सरकार थी। भारतीय कश्मीर में अजहर मसूद 1990 के दशक की शुरुआत में आया था। घाटी में नफरत का जहर फैलाना और आतंकवादी गतिविधियों को तेज करना उसका मकसद था। वह फरवरी 1994 में पकड़ा गया और उसे जम्मू की कोट भलवाल जेल में बंद कर दिया। इसके खिलाफ भारत के खिलाफ युद्ध करने का आरोप था। जेल से उसकी रिहाई कंधार वायुयान अपहरण कांड के बदले हुई।  उसे भारतीय वायुसेवा के विमान में यात्रा कर रहे बंधक यात्रियों के बदले रिहा किया गया था। वह 24 दिसंबर,1999 को क्रिसमस की पूर्व संध्या थी जब इस विमान का अपहरण किया गया था। अजहर मसूद के साथ दो और खूंखाार आतंकवादी अहमद उमर सईद शेख और मुश्ताक अहमद ज़ारगर भी छोड़े गए थे। जैश-ए-मोहम्मद को तालिबान का संरक्षण प्राप्त था। उसकी मांग के अनुसार इन्हे बिना शर्त रिहा किया गया था। इन आतंकियों को कोट भलवाल जेल से लिया गया और तालिबान नियंत्रित अफगानिस्तान के कंधार क्षेत्र ले जाने के लिए एक विशेष विमान में उन्हें बैठाया गया। आरएसएस के प्रिय भाजपा नेता,भारतीय विदेश मंत्री जसवंत सिंह इन तीनों आतंकवादियों को अपने साथ वहां ले गए थे। 31 दिसंबर को इन्हें अपहर्ताओं को सौंप दिया। तालिबान ने उन्हें वहां से पाकिस्तान में जाने दिया।
संयोग वश, वर्तमान राष्ट्रीय सुरक्षा सलाहकार अजीत डोभाल उस समय आईबी प्रमुख थे। उन्हीं के नेतृत्व में चार सदस्यीय भारतीय टीम ने अपहर्ताओं के साथ वार्ता हुर्इ थी और इन खूंखार आतंकवादियों को रिहा किया गया था!
http://www.hastakshep.com/hindinews/spilling-of-blood-of-crpf-martyrs-at-pulwama-demands-answers-from-rss-bjp-21291
Please read the whole story. It is available in English also.
https://countercurrents.org/2019/02/19/the-spilling-of-blood-of-crpf-martyrs-at-pulwama-demands-answers-from-the-rss-bjp-rulers/

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