Al-Qaida India unit releases video on ‘saffron terror’

NEW DELHI: Al-Qaida is engaging its operatives in India to target religious places and stoke communal tensions, intelligence sources said on Monday, hours after the terror group’s Indian subcontinent unit released a video titled ‘Saffron Terror’.
The contents of the video, said to be the first episode, are communally charged, sources said, including morphed images and video clips pertaining to “Hindu extremism”.
Following the release of the video, intelligence agencies are keeping a tab on the movements of a sleeper cell of the Qaida-affiliate headed by UP resident Sanual Haq.
Once the origin of the video is verified, an FIR will be filed, a source said. Al-Qaida’s south Asia unit has of late been very active as far as developments in India are concerned.