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Born 1972 (age 51–52)
Bangladesh
Nationality Bangladesh
Occupation Charity worker, alleged to be a terrorist leader
Known for allegedly attempted to bomb US diplomats, US airliners

Abu Nasir is a citizen of Bangladesh who security officials have described as a bomb-maker and terrorist leader.[1][2][3]

Alleged mission to target US diplomats in India with hidden bombs in 1999

He was captured by Indian security officials, in early January, 1999, with 2 kilograms (4.4 lb) of the explosive RDX.[1][2][3] Indian officials said his mission was to bomb India's US Embassy in New Delhi, and at least one US Consulate. American officials praised their Indian counterparts for their cooperation, in making Nasir available for interrogation.

Accounts of the 1999 mission to bomb US diplomats differ on the details.

In the January 21, 1999 account offered by The New York Times Nasir crossed the border between Bangladesh and the Indian province of West Bengal in October 1998, with nine confederates.[2] Nasir and his subordinate spent weeks surveiling American consulates in Calcutta and Madras. Nasir left his confederates in Madras, while he traveled to the New Delhi Railway Station where he had arranged to pick up the 2 kilos of RDX, and five detonators. He was arrested on January 7, 1999, at the railway station, after receiving the bomb-making equipment.

The New York Times reported three subordinates who remained in Madras, named Mohammed Gulab, Mohammed Nawab and Aga Khan, were later arrested in Siliguri, West Bengal.[2] They report seven other confederates, a Burmese, two Sudanese and four Egyptians, remained at large.

According to The New York Times American security officials Osama bin Laden paid a visit to a training camp Nasir attended in Afghanistan's Kunar Province in 1995.[2] They report that unnamed American officials are skeptical of Indian security officials suggestion that Nasir was going to target the embassy in New Delhi. The unnamed American officials described his 1995 meeting with bin Laden as coincidental, and they did not suspect bin Laden played a role in the bomb mission.

Indian officials said that, during his interrogation, Nasir had described how he had been recruited to be an agent for Pakistani intelligence, at the Afghan training camp in 1995.[2]

According to an assessment from the think-tank Stratfor, Nasir only had seven associates.[4] Their assessment took the claims from Indian intelligence that the bombing mission was ordered by Osama bin Laden at face-value.

Alleged to have provided a sanctuary for fighters fleeing Afghanistan in 2001

According to Mansi Mehrota, writing in the CLAWS Journal, described how Pakistan's Interservice Intelligence Directorate (ISI) and Bangladesh's Directorate General of Forces Intelligence (DGFI) collaborated to covertly rescue al Qaeda and Taliban fighters, fleeing the American occupation of Afghanistan.[5] Mehrota claimed a ship carrying hundreds of fighters covertly docked in Chittagong, and that Nasir was responsible for making sure the fighters were able to make their way to covert bases in Bangladesh.

Senior bomb-maker

In September 2009 The Telegraph published a profile of a bomb-maker from the United Kingdom, named Rashid Rauf, suspected of links to a "trans-Atlantic airline bomb plot".[6] They reported he was "a key lieutenant" of Abu Nasir. According to an unnamed Pakistani intelligence official Abu Nasir "is an explosive expert who has effectively devised methods of explosives using easy-to-get ingredients that are virtually undetectable or can raise no alarms for authorities."

References

  1. 1.0 1.1 Vernon Loeb (1999-02-17). "Has the U.S. blunted Bin Laden? Yes and no, terrorist fighters say, describing an invisible war". Washington Post. Archived from the original on 2019-02-18. https://web.archive.org/web/20190218170136/https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/politics/1999/02/17/has-the-us-blunted-bin-laden-yes-and-no-terrorist-fighters-say-describing-an-invisible-war/2dcb32cb-5ed5-4790-99d5-a94803af169d/?noredirect=on&utm_term=.a21bf290736d. Retrieved 2019-02-18. "Last month, Indian officials immediately granted FBI agents access to Sayed Abu Nasir, a Bangladeshi whom they arrested with two kilograms of RDX, a high explosive. He was allegedly plotting to blow up the U.S. Embassy in New Delhi and two American consulates elsewhere in India. Indian authorities believe that Nasir was part of a seven-member cell funded by bin Laden." 
  2. 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 2.5 Celia W. Dugger (1999-01-21). "India Accuses 4 of Plotting To Bomb U.S. Consulates". The New York Times: p. A8. Archived from the original on 2019-02-18. https://web.archive.org/web/20190218174540/https://www.nytimes.com/1999/01/21/world/india-accuses-4-of-plotting-to-bomb-us-consulates.html?pagewanted=2&src=pm. Retrieved 2019-02-18. "American counterterrorism experts arrived here on Tuesday to investigate the case, a spokeswoman for the American Embassy said today. Officials from the embassy have interviewed the suspect, Sayed Abu Nasir, 27, who has been in Indian custody for more than a week." 
  3. 3.0 3.1 Mansi Mehrotra (October 2009). "Terrorism in Bangladesh: A Security Threat for India". Himalayan and Central Asian Studies: p. 95-112. http://www.himalayanresearch.org/pdf/2009/vol13%20N4%20final.pdf#page=116. Retrieved 2019-02-18. "Sayed Abu Nasir, a Bangladeshi national who had worked for the international Islamist charity outfit established by Osama bin Laden, was picked by the ISI and posted to Dhaka and he worked with DGFI." 
  4. "Moves and Countermoves in the U.S. Struggle with Osama Bin Laden". Stratfor. 1999-01-21. https://worldview.stratfor.com/article/moves-and-countermoves-us-struggle-osama-bin-laden. Retrieved 2019-02-18. 
  5. Mansi Mehrota (Winter 2009). "Bangladesh: A Sanctuary for Terrorists Operating Against India". CLAWS Journal: p. 231-232. http://www.claws.in/images/publication_pdf/1399529456Mansi%20Mehrotra%20CJ%20Winter%202009.pdf. Retrieved 2019-02-18. "In fact, Sayed Abu Nasir, a Bangladeshi national who had worked in an international Islamist charity outfit established by Osama bin Laden, was selected by the ISI and posted to Dhaka and worked with the DGFI. According to the Indian intelligence sources, he was also involved in providing assistance to India’s northeastern secessionists and sending them to training camps in Pakistan." 
  6. Saeed Shah, Massoud Ansari (2009-09-14). "Rashid Rauf 'training dozens of British terrorist recruits in Pakistan'". The Telegraph (UK). Archived from the original on 2017-10-04. https://web.archive.org/web/20171004062613/http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/pakistan/6184087/Rashid-Rauf-training-dozens-of-British-terrorist-recruits-in-Pakistan.html. Retrieved 2019-02-18. "Rauf is said to be a key lieutenant of the group's leader, explosives expert, Abu Nasir. "He is an explosive expert who has effectively devised methods of explosives using easy-to-get ingredients that are virtually undetectable or can raise no alarms for authorities," said the intelligence source." 

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