“Sir, don’t..I am not a terrorist”: Déjà Vu Terrorism

What is happening in the country is nothing short of déjà vu terrorism. The kind of opinion that the police and investigation agencies create by sensationalizing leaks released to the media and how the media people fall over each other to scoop it will make Muslims en mass look as terrorists. As in the case of every other shining brand, Muslim terrorism is also a commodified brand for marketing.

The duo Riyaz @Rehan and Abdul Latif@Guddu were arrested in Mumbai under the ruse that they were about to burn a cloth market, an office of the Oil and Natural Gas Corporation (ONGC), and the Bhabha Atomic Research Centre. Their weapon was a match box to set the target on fire as getting RDX had become so difficult. How could it be so difficult for them in Mumbai and at the same time so easy for Indian Mujahideen in Pune is something only ATS under KP Raghuvanshi knows very well or their higher ups in Intelligence Bureau.

But the theory fell on its face when it came out that the reason behind this façade was that Rehan was in love with a Gujarati Jain girl. Her father reportedly used police influence to forestall the affair from climaxing into marriage. The kind of work that Babu Bajrangi is also doing for a higher premium, of course. The police are also far past in doing the same kind of social engineering is proven in the case of Priyanka Todi and Rizwanur Rehman. The police got him crushed under train. It is ironic that Shah Rukh Khan chose his cricket team to put on the sports-wear of Ashok Todi’s Lux Cosy. The People in Kokata would not have this badge of shame. In their mind Rizwan Khan and Rizwan Rehman are the same. The assertion of the film dialogue also militates against it, My name is Khan and I am not a terrorist.

Rehan too was credit worthy as a merchant Panit Prajapati told the people about steady service and noble character of Rehan. The police (read KP Raghuvanshi) were carried off their feet by the new brand in vogue in the market. How could these two burn so much of property and area by simple match box is the Aristotelian thesis of impossible probability being more effective theme of tragedy.

The supposed “uncle” has to be based in Karachi as the “Karachi project” is currently in fashion. That we are fighting shy of joint investigation with Pakistan is convenient to assert anything and say the other side is not cooperating. What harm is there in calling a mastermind “uncle”. This uncle has been deciphered to be, of course, you are right. He’s Dawood Ibrahim. The tall and study man in Pune who has been described as Mithun Chakraborty and who has handed over bombs to Nanded accused of bombing mosques in Parbhani, Purna, Jalna and also others has been called as “sir”. Within the homeland we have not been able to decipher this “sir” let alone arrest him. He must be the true mastermind based in Pune.

It is no mere coincidence that a rickshaw driver was shown on a popular TV channel on the day when blasts rocked Malegaon on September 8, 2006. He carried two people who had alighted from a bus from Malegaon. They had reached Pune from Malegaon and were wondering how (the blasts) had taken place in the mid day for they were set to go off in the night when the crowd in graveyard in Malegaon would be mammoth. The rickshaw driver told the anchor that he overheard their conversation. This footage was shown in the evening as well as at night. Till today the ATS has not bothered to trace out the rickshaw driver. On the contrary, Raghuvanshi has gone on air, on radio, exhorting rickshaw drivers to help investigate the Pune blast. So it is easier to locate an uncle in Karachi and IM in Pune. aghuvanshi personally conducted the raid and arrest of the duo in Mumbai. Then, went public with the finding. Of course, he did not say anything about la affair de amour. Thus it is facile to conceptualize terror and terrorists as former RAW chief Vikram Sood said: “Concepts are always good but the devil is in the detail”. Our agencies are finding it easier to do it and pocket the bonanza of promotion and be cavalier with providing evidence.

So much depends on a phone call! The erstwhile approve Abrar Ahmed says that SP Rajwardhan gave him the cell phone no. 9823436801. He gave him a paper on which he had written “Mader chod, jitna bolna that tu bol chuka ab sun ham log ko jitna saman gayab karna tha kar chuke mager ham is ko gaon main nahi la sake”(mother fucker, whatever you wanted to say you have said, now listen whatever material we want to remove we have done it, but we could not bring it into the town.) He instructed to Abrar to have the sentence uttered from a public phone booth as the SP wanted it recorded on the phone Abrar had got from him. Abrar claims that the sentence was uttered by Hamid Hussain Javid Iqbal from Pahelwan restaurant on Kidwai road, Malegaon. But the police along with ATS and CBI maintain that the sentence was uttered by Jahid who they say planted one of the bombs on September 8, 2006. As a matter of truth Jahid had led Friday prayer at Phool sngvi in Yawatmal district five hundred miles away from Malegaon. As compared to this the phone call the duo in Mumabai made to the “uncle” is to Karachi much longer distance and hence the need for a more cogent proof.


In the Malegaon case the ATS has failed to obtain the phone transcript of 9823436801 although by the order of the Chief Assistant Secretary (Home) they were duty bound to do so. Till February 12, 2010 they had not done so. Therefore it would be in the fitness of things that in the case of three weeks of phone conversation with the “uncle” of the duo should be made public lest the stipulated period of one year given to the phone company passes and they destroy the evidence.

The shooting of ATS inspector Shabbir ali Sayyad of Gujarat is another déjà vu terrorism. He was playing the role of observer in a mock rehearsal of terrorist attack at an airport in Surat. DCP Subhash Trivedi shot him twice in his stomach from a close range. Trivedi was role acting as a doctor. The popular conceptualizing of Muslims as terrorists seemed to have spawned this culture in the mind set of everyone.