BHOPAL: Banned Student Islamic Movement of India (SIMI) wants to be the real face of home-grown terror, swearing allegiance to Taliban and al-Qaida, looking beyond ISI patronage enjoyed by Indian Mujahideen, terror's latest avatar in India. These incriminating details are part of the video-taped interrogation report of arrested SIMI activists of the Madhya Pradesh module accessed by TOI. Questioning of SIMI operatives by the state's anti-terrorist squad revealed SIMI and IM had common terror targets, despite difference in ideology. And most importantly both don't work in tandem as perceived. SIMI didn't just have a blueprint to eliminate Narendra Modi or an explosive plan to bomb the Sabarmati Jail and tunnel out their chief Safdar Nagori, they also developed links with al-Qaida to free 9/11 accused and US-trained neuroscientist Aafia Siddiqui from FBI custody in the US, where she's known as 'prisoner number 650'. Questioned on probable targets, SIMI state chief Abu Faisal told the anti-terrorist squad they had plans to take American tourists hostage and use them as a bargaining chip to free Aafia Siddiqui. A similar plan was revealed by Indian Mujahideen (IM) co-founder Yasin Bhatkal during interrogation by National Investigation Agency (NIA) officers in Delhi last year. Bhatkal, who was arrested from Nepal in 2012, had confessed to interrogators that IM wanted to kidnap Jews in India and use the hostage crisis to force US to free Aafia. State SIMI boss Abu Faisal, however, told ATS sleuths that his outfit will never plot bombings or abductions with Pakistan-backed Indian Mujahideen. "The Pakistan embassy was on my hit list. Other targets were Narendra Modi and those responsible for Muzaffarnagar riots," Faisal told an ATS officer. He came to know about Aafia Siddiqui through an Al-Qaeda magazine 'Inspire'. "We seized several files of the banned magazine from pen drives used by Faisal. He is tech savvy and must have downloaded it from net or copied it from somewhere," an ATS officer told TOI. Aafia, 42, was married to the nephew of al Qaeda leader and 9/11 conspirator Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, Ammar al Baluchi. She was convicted as an al-Qaida financier following Sheikh's statement in July 2008 in Ghazni, Afghanistan. She was tried and convicted in 2010. State ATS is taking SIMI operative Abu Faisal's confessions seriously because his gang had successfully executed the Khandwa jailbreak plan in October 2. Also, Faisal's recruit Irfan Nagori had drawn an explosive jailbreak blueprint to free Safdar Nagori, caged in a high-security barrack at Sabarmati Central Jail, Ahmedabad. They had stockpiled enough ammunition to blow up prison walls, engage guards in a gunfight and storm out of the jail with Nagori. The plan failed after prison staff accidently tumbled upon the 18-foot tunnel. These details are part of the 17,000-page charge-sheet filed by the anti-terrorist squad against 12 SIMI operatives, including the banned outfit's state chief, Abu Faisal. Five SIMI operatives who escaped from the Khandwa prison in October are still on run. The anti-terrorist squad has shared inputs with all intelligence and counter-terrorism agencies.