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Shafi Armar, a key Islamic State (ISIS) recruiter, is reportedly alive and looking for new recruits,as per Hindustan Times reports.
Sources in the National Investigation Agency (NIA) and the Intelligence Bureau (IB) disclosed that the ISIS recruiter is currently operational in the ISIS-occupied regions of Syria to Hindustan Times.
He was reported to have been killed in a US air strike on Syria last month.
Armar, also known as Yusu al-Hindi, a native of Bhatkal in Karnataka, recruited more than two dozen sympathizers of ISIS for planning nationwide terror strikes. NIA arrested fourteen of them in January this year, Indian Express reported.
The NIA considers Armar to be the brains behind the IS’s online recruitment in the country, who is reportedly in touch with at least 800 Indians via Facebook and WhatsApp, as per IANS reports.
Armar wants to create an Indian unit of the IS called Junud al Khalifa-e-Hind (Soldiers of the Indian Caliphate) in every state and major city, reports Indian Express.
Bhatkal who was part of the Indian Mujahideen and his brother Mohammad Sultan Armar left for Pakistan after the 2008 serial blasts.
