Different strokes in terror mails

Handwriting experts say that al Arbi who signed one of the emails may not be a proper follower of Islam

NEW DELHI; Guru al Hindi and al Arbi, the two persons who signed the terror emails sent just before some of the recent serial blasts across the country, are very contrasting personalities, according to a leading graphologist.

DNA had got the handwriting expert to analyse the signatures on the PDF formatted emails sent after the blasts. Four of the five emails have been signed — two of them as Guru al Hindi and al Arbi, the third only as al Arbi. The fourth carries a signature faked by someone else for Guru al Hindi.

The expert says Guru al Hindi is a “person full of bubbling energy and enthusiastic to achieve something ASAP [as soon as possible]. He is riding high on confidence. And this confidence isn’t over-confidence.

He knows exactly what he is doing. He is sharp. Kind of an upcoming genius and it would be very tough to trap him. With his kind of sharpness and energy, our agencies stand nowhere as of now.”

On the other hand, al Arbi is a complete introvert, who is shy of the world and can’t speak out much in the open. He is “definitely” a young male, says the graphologist, who has in the past assisted agencies in investigating sensitive cases. al Arbi’s is the only signature in the email sent out rubbishing the Gujarat police claims on the Ahmedabad bombers.

Along with Guru al Hindi he has signed the mails just before the Ahmedabad and Delhi blasts. The email sent before the Uttar Pradesh serial blasts does not contain any signatures.al Arbi puts a lot of “effort to hide his real self to anyone around him”, but at the same time he is fairly literate and likes to read a lot.

This youngster is short-tempered but covers up his anger in front of others. “A completely emotionally unstable person and, if he continues to be so, the chances are he might just vanish or come out in the open if ignored,” says the analyst. “Therefore, the best way to catch him is to show that no one is trailing him,” the graphologist, who has an enviable record in assisting crime investigation, suggests.

Chances are that al Arbi, a loner by nature, is “the only child in his family or the youngest with some elders putting a lot of peer pressure on him. He comes under mental stress easily and yet loves that stage all the time as well.”

In an interesting twist to the investigations, the graphologist suggests that this young member of the terror group is “working and writes a lot and takes down notes regularly.” The person could also be into painting, graphic designing or website designing.

From the emails it is clear that the writers have extensive knowledge of the Indian media scene, and they invariably carry detailed analysis of some newspapers and events in their mails. The sentence construction, the selection of email IDs of news organisations and other factors too point towards the possible media background of some of those involved in writing these mails and bombings. The graphologist does not deny this possibility in his analysis.

The graphologist suggests that al Arbi is “dangerously getting into the habit of breaking rules. Probably he is not even a proper follower of Islam, or not even a Muslim in the first place itself.”

On the emails, the graphologist said, “There is a definite involvement of at least three different people in these documents signed. And there still could be more because the emotions and the tactics to scare and threaten drastically change, which don’t match with the characters of the persons signing them.”

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