Kottayam: Propaganda maps depicting India as IS territory found, Terror recruitment continues.

NIA discovers ISIS propaganda material that was circulated across Kerala including maps that depict India as Islamic State territory. Phone records and conversations were also recovered. The propagandists are the same as the ones involved in pro-ISIS secret meetings.

ISIS handlers like Rashid Abdulla and Sahran Hashim seemed to be directing recruits from Kerala towards Jihad in Kashmir as recruiting for Jihad abroad has become difficult due to clampdown of intel-agencies. Recruitment still continues after their deaths.

Online booking hotels, home-stays and lodges of migrant workers in Kerala are also under scrutiny.

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BJP workers attacked in Kollam by Jihadi SDPI and CPM combined.

In Chathinamkulam Kollam, 4 BJP workers who were playing in a field were attacked by SDPI and Communist group of up to 10 youth on 3 June 2019. The victims are hospitalised. The same attackers were involved in a previous stabbing of a BJP worker during a Hindu festival and were taken into custody and later released. The new attack is revenge for filing cases against them.

IS recruiter Rashid Abdulla from Kerala reportedly killed in Afghanistan in US bombing.

Rashid Abdulla was the head of IS operations in Kerala. He was reportedly killed in a bombing operation by US Military in Afghanistan in June 2019.

Rashid Abdullah, an engineering graduate, was an employee at MM Akbar's Peace International School in Kerala before he left for Afghanistan in 2016 with 21 others. He had also radicalised few of his colleagues who also left for IS territories abroad.

He was the head of ISIS operations in Kerala and his tasks were mainly radicalisation and recruitment. His audio and text messages were widely circulated via Telegram.

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He was the one who exhorted for the anti-Hindu violent hartal of 16 April 2018 in Kerala following Asifa case of Kashmir. His audio messages were widely circulated on Telegram and Whatsapp.

Read: The anti-Hindu Hartal of 16 April 2018 in Malabar.

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Huge cache of explosives found in Kozhikode.

Police seized a cache of explosives containing 376 Gelatine sticks and same number of detonators on Sunday from the house a man named T Mahmood in Kayakkodi, Kozhikode. First the police suspected it might have been for quarrying but this man had no connection to any quarries, no licence to buy these explosives and also said he bought them to blast stones in wells, which the police find unconvincing.

It was the second such seizure of illegally stocked explosive materials from Kayakkodi, one of the major hubs of rural quarry operators.

There was also a major seizure at Mukkom last year during a vehicle inspection by the local police. About 1,000 kg of gelatin sticks had been recovered by the police in the inspection. A Tamil Nadu native was arrested in connection with the incident.

Reports: The Hindu