You just don't know who is hankering to join up with ISIS. It could be the guy in the desk next to yours.
Ex-Google employee held for trying to join Islamic State
Srinath Vudali,TNN | Oct 29, 2014, 01.24 AM IST
In this file photo demonstrators chant pro-Islamic State group slogans as they carry the group's flags in front of the provincial government headquarters in Mosul, 225 miles northwest of Baghdad.
Police sources in Hyderabad said that security analyst Munawad Salman, 30, a resident of Musheerabad, was held after officials tracked his conversation for months and was certain that his hidden agenda to visit Saudi Arabia was to cross over to Iraq and join Islamic State .
"He is being grilled for more information. This is perhaps the first time, a software engineer has got attracted to a global terror outfit like Islamic State in the recent past," a senior police official told TOI.
"The arrest is very significant and could open a big door for us to trace more educated youth getting influenced by militants," the officer said, referring to IS, whose main motive is to establish Caliphate (Islamic State) in vast swathes of the world.
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http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/hyderabad/Ex-Google-employee-held-for-tr
Ex-Google employee held for trying to join Islamic State
Srinath Vudali,TNN | Oct 29, 2014, 01.24 AM IST
In this file photo demonstrators chant pro-Islamic State group slogans as they carry the group's flags in front of the provincial government headquarters in Mosul, 225 miles northwest of Baghdad.
Police sources in Hyderabad said that security analyst Munawad Salman, 30, a resident of Musheerabad, was held after officials tracked his conversation for months and was certain that his hidden agenda to visit Saudi Arabia was to cross over to Iraq and join Islamic State .
"He is being grilled for more information. This is perhaps the first time, a software engineer has got attracted to a global terror outfit like Islamic State in the recent past," a senior police official told TOI.
"The arrest is very significant and could open a big door for us to trace more educated youth getting influenced by militants," the officer said, referring to IS, whose main motive is to establish Caliphate (Islamic State) in vast swathes of the world.
Continue reading at:
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/hyderabad/Ex-Google-employee-held-for-tr