More on terrorists amidst you and me!

Editor's note: I had written in the aftermath of Mumbai blasts that terrorism is not imported to India from Pakistan and Bangladesh but is aided and abetted by Jihadi sympathisers within the nation.
Rajeev P I, a friend and my former colleague, has come up with an on-the-ball story in The Indian Express from where else? Kochi, God's Own Country...
Read it...
In Kerala, SIMI thrives on W Asia funds, LeT links
Rajeev P I
Kochi: In Kerala, much of the original cadre of the proscribed Students Islamic Movement of India (SIMI) have survived the ban using the cover of a slew of Islamic outfits and still continue with their cause, state intelligence sources told The Indian Express today.
Last month, the state government had filed its affidavit before the tribunal headed by Delhi High Court judge B.N. Chaturvedi evaluating the third phase of the two-year ban, as required by the Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act, 1959 invoked to ban it.
It had categorically claimed that SIMI men were still actively propagandising their extremist causes, outlined its foreign funding channels (mainly the West Asia) and how it had ''lately'' developed connections with the Lashkar-e-Toiba.
The Kerala Government was categoric that this outfit must stay banned, unlike Mulayam Singh's Government in UP, which had told the tribunal that it did not find enough reasons to ban it.
SIMI was first banned on 27 September 2001, and the two-year ban terms are beingextended regularly, with the mandatory endorsement from the tribunal each term. Intelligence sources say even while it stayed banned, SIMI had organised a meeting of its top 25 leaders at Kozhikode last year, and a radical cleric from Lakshwadeep took classes for it in Malappuram. It has also been organising regular indoctrination drives, particularly targeting college-level youth, undercover of several front outfits.
Some of the outfits now under police scanner for SIMI presence include the ultra-radical National Development Front (NDF), the People's Democratic Party (PDP) of Coimbatore serial blasts accused Abdul Nasser Mahdani, and several fringe outfits, including the Muslim Youth Cultural Forum, Karuna Foundation, Muslim Aikya Vedi, Sahridaya Vedi, Samskara Vedi, Solidarity Students Movement and the Movement for Protection of Islamic Symbols and Monuments, among others.
Many of these, the police say, are funded abundantly from West Asian countries. ''Yes, they went into other organisations after the ban came. We can't do anything about it,'' the state DGP Raman Shrivastava told The Indian Express. He, however, insisted that there was still nothing to connect the SIMI ranks in Kerala with the Mumbai blasts.
''We have no intelligence on any such linkage yet,'' he said.