New Delhi: Maharashtra-based civil engineer, Arib Fayyaz Majeed, was the first Indian graduate who joined terror group ISIS' to become a suicide bomber.
But Arib has to return home after his multiple attempts to blow himself failed.
NDTV reported that the 23-year-old, who hails from Panvel, was on a suicide mission in Iraq and against the Kurdish Army positions in Mosul city, but he failed. It was his first attempt at a suicide bombing. Thrice more, he tried to blow himself up and failed each time.
Back home now, Arib detailed his failed attempts to his interrogators. He also explained why he had gone to Syria.
"I tried my best to die as a martyr but was unable to achieve martyrdom," he was quoted as saying in the report.
According to the report, Arib also used his skills to build underground bunkers in and around ISIS-controlled Raqqa city.
Arib had left Mumbai along with four friends on May 24, 2014. He returned to India last November and has been in custody since.
Recently, in an intelligence report which was shared by foreign intelligence agencies along with Indian agencies, it was stated that a total of 23 Indians have so far joined the ISIS of which six reportedly killed in different incidents.
The dead are: Athif Vaseem Mohammad (Adilabad, Telangana), Mohammad Umar Subhan (Bangalore, Karnataka), Maulana Abdul Kadir Sultan Armar (Bhatkal, Karnataka), Saheem Farooque Tanki (Thane, Maharashtra), Faiz Masood (Bangalore, Karnataka) and Mohammad Sajid alias Bada Sajid (Azamgarh, Uttar Pradesh).
There are authentic reports of brain washing of fresh recruits from South Asia, according to intelligence inputs, and certain other countries by invoking the fear of 'Jinn', which are considered supernatural creatures in Islamic mythology.
The fear of 'Jinn' is invoked to ensure that the recruits from these countries do not return to their countries of origin on the premise that the 'Jinn' will continue to haunt them for the rest of their lives if they do so.
