New Delhi: Al Qaeda terrorists, who were nabbed early Saturday by NIA teams from Kerala and West Bengal, had plans to travel to Jammu and Kashmir for weapons delivery along with home-made explosives for their other associates even as they continued to take orders from their Pakistan-based handlers, reports quoting NIA officials said on Saturday.
The revelations came as the NIA busted the inter-state terror module after it carried out searches at multiple locations in Murshidabad and Ernakulum. The National Investigation Agency arrested nine Al Qaeda terrorists -- three from Kerala and six from West Bengal.
An NIA official related to the probe told IANS, "These terrorists were planning to go to Kashmir for weapons delivery to their handlers." They had amassed potassium nitrate from firecrackers bought in large amount.
"During the raids the agency got huge cache of firecrackers. They bought the firecrackers to hide procurement of huge amount of potassium required to make the IEDs," a senior NIA official related to the probe told IANS.
The official said that the arrested were touch in with their Pakistan based handler Hamza. They planned attack on several vital installation in Delhi-NCR and other parts of the country with an aim to kill innocent people and strike terror in their minds.