Al Qaedas attempts to recruit Indians have failed: Narayanan

National Security Adviser M K Narayanan has said that Al Qaeda is making consistent effort to recruit Indian Muslims in its fold but has failed to punch a hole.

New Delhi, July 29 : National Security Adviser M K Narayanan has said that Al Qaeda is making consistent effort to recruit Indian Muslims in its fold but has failed to "punch a hole."

In an interview to private news channel CNN-IBN, Narayanan said: "They (Al Qaeda) see this (recruiting people to train them as terrorist) as a setback or failure as far as the Indian Muslim community is concerned."

"We know that on a couple of occasions they have come and done a recce and gone back. They have not yet done something," he added. Ruling out presence of any Indians in Al Qaeda camps, Narayanan said that possibility of a collapse in communal harmony was his worst nightmares.

On the issue of two Indians- Kafeel Ahmed and Sabeel Ahmed- being arrested in connection to the failed Glasgow and London terror attacks, Narayanan said: " I think this is being overblown tremendously."

"Kafeel Ahmed is a young man who was inveigled... Somebody has been instigated on a short term (basis)," he said, cautioning against using the term `Indian Muslims`.

"Indian Muslim is far better integrated than the immigrant Muslim in the UK or elsewhere," he added.

ANI