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An Intelligence Bureau (IB) report filed on November 5 has revealed that Pakistan sponsored terrorist outfit Al-Qaeda is planning a major terrorist attack in West Bengal. According to a report by India Today, the intelligence agency has suggested that the terror outfit is planning to activate sleeper cells to execute the attack.

Sources said with the help of foreign handlers, attempts were made to radicalise muslim locals through Jihad. Officials of the National Investigation Agency (NIA) recently came across these revelations during the questioning of an Al-Qaeda module.

NIA sources have said Al-Qaeda has several top political leaders in Bengal as their target. The terror organisation is also said to have opened recruitment centres in Karachi and Peshawar in Pakistan from where they have been targeting locals in Bengal to radicalise them.

So far, NIA has arrested 11 terror operatives in connection with this radicalisation drive.

The investigation agency in September had arrested nine suspected Al-Qaeda terrorists in multiple raids in Kerala and Bengal. Six terrorists were arrested from Bengal, three terrorists were from the southern state.

On 1st October, the National Investigation Agency (NIA) made another arrest. 32-year-old Abdul Momin Mondal from Murshidabad in West Bengal was nabbed, taking the count of the total arrested Al-Qaeda terrorists from the state of WB to 11.
Mondal, who worked as a madarsa teacher, was arrested for alleged involvement in an Al-Qaeda module that has been operating in West Bengal and Kerala. As per the reports, he was raising funds and trying to recruit new members for the terrorist organization.

“Large quantity of incriminating materials including digital devices, documents, jihadi literature, sharp weapons, country-made firearms, a locally fabricated body armour, articles and literature used for making home-made explosive devices have been seized from their possession,” the NIA said in its official briefing.