Is Jihadi Leader to Sri Lanka in UK?

by Our Special Correspondent reporting from London

(February 15, London, Sri Lanka Guardian) “It has emerged that Jihad Group leader to Sri Lanka currently living in United Kingdom, who is one of the key Al-queda linked terrorists involved in the indiscriminate killings of hundreds of innocent Muslim civilians opposed to radical Islam,” according to sources.

“It is learnt that the leader who is closely linked to the TMVP (English translation: Tamil Peoples Liberation Tigers) persuaded Col. Karuna Amman (who is presently remanded in Prison in the UK) to order his regional Commanders including present leader of the TMVP Pillaiyan to go on a virtual killing spree and target any Muslim who was opposed to the Jihad Group and their preaching,” he said.

The Leader of the Jihad group in Sri Lanka is responsible for using the TMVP in order to terrorise his own community by intimidating and abducting Muslims at gun point. Jihad Group leader is also directly responsible for the killings of Meera Sahib Mohammed Nazurdin (26) father of two children on 11 July 2007 at Oddamavadi.

Abubucker Mohamed Illiyas who was hospitalized in the Polonnaruwa hospital the same year (2007) after he was shot and seriously injured had to be moved to Colombo hospital as his condition become critical. The leader has used his Jihad Group and the TMVP to threaten and intimidate the Kaddai Panchayat , forcing the Muslim people to submit to their (Jihad Group/TMVP) violence. Infuriated Muslims living in the Oddamavadi, Valaichenai, Kaththankudi, Eravur have since learned of the close association of the Al-queda linked Jihad Group and the TMVP.

According to an unconfirmed source, “The Jihad Group is gradually grabbing land from innocent Muslims in the Eastern regions and the Government and the law enforcement authorities have failed to address this issue. It is said that members of the Jihad group and the TMVP militia are on the payroll of the Ministry of Defense.”

Meanwhile, “Al Umma came into public focus, Abu Hamsa alias Abdul Bari, an Indian Muslim in Saudi Arabia with links to Lashkar-e-Tayyeba (LeT) and Abu Omar, a Pak citizen, set up Muslim Defence Force in Coimbatore. The group held its first clandestine meeting in Tirunelveli, Tamil Nadu, in which they planned country-wide activities. As Abu Hamsa became one of the most wanted terrorists after the explosions in Andhra Pradesh, he floated another organization "New Vision" with the help of his connections in Tamil Nadu to propagate Islam amongst the so-called backward classes of the Hindu community and recruit them for training in jihad in Gulf. It was also decided to establish hide-outs for jihadi terrorists visiting Tamil Nadu. Their links with Sri Lanka became evident when Abu Hamsa visited Sri Lanka couple of times,” the ORF, one of well-known think tanks based in India has been reveals couple of weeks ago.