Seven Indian Firms components being utilized in ISIS bomb making chain

26 Feb, 2016

NEW DELHI: ISIS utilized the components manufactured by seven Indian firms to make explosives which are being used against civilians and armed forces in Iraq and Syria.

 

The report said “All components documented by CAR were legally exported under government-issued licenses from India to entities in Lebanon and Turkey.”

 

Indian companies such as IDEAL Industrial Explosives, Rajasthan Explosives and Chemical, Nokia Solutions and Networks India are involved in the chain.

 

Most of the Indian companies manufacture detonators, detonating chord, safety fuses and chemicals.

 

Conflict Armament Research (CAR) claimed that 51 companies from 20 countries are involved in the chain of 700 components used by ISIS to build improvised explosive devices (IEDs).

 

Equipment such as micro-controllers and transistors, mobile phones were used to make explosive devices.

 

Most of the components were manufactured in the company’s headquarters.

 

Companies from India, Turkey, US, Japan, Switzerland, Brazil, Romania, Russia, China, Netherlands, Austria and Czech Republic are involved.

 

CAR Executive Director James Bevan said “These findings support growing international awareness that ISIS forces in Iraq and Syria are very much self-sustaining-acquiring weapons and strategic goods, such as IED components, locally and with ease.”