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| Al Qaeda active in Kashmir: Security agencies | | | NEW DELHI, Aug. 12 :
Security agencies in Kashmir valley have asserted that they (intelligence agencies) have found the existence of Al Qaeda militants, suspected to be mainly from Afghanistan or other countries, in the forests of Bandipore in the region.
"We are convinced that the global network of Al- Qaeda has firmly established itself in Kashmir," wire agency on Saturday quoted an Indian intelligence agency official on condition of anonymity as saying.
"That Bandipore in North Kashmir has become home to some Al Qaeda militants that was first known in an intercepted militant's conversation. The inputs have been verified and found to be correct," the official said.
Two days after the July 11 Mumbai blasts, a caller identifying himself as Abu Hadeed and a spokesperson of Al Qaeda in Kashmir, had told a Srinagar-based local news agency, that the chief of the group in the region was Abu Abdul Rehman Ansari.
Though the caller, who had made the call from a local phone booth in Malaratha in downtown Srinagar, has not been traced so far, the probe agencies have concluded that it was the handiwork of Al Qaeda.
"We are still trying to trace the caller to know more (about the group)," the official said.
The security agencies are engaged in tracing out more about the network and its intrusion into Kashmir, he said.
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