Pakistani Role in Global Terrorism

arun · Post by **arun** » 06 Nov 2011 14:04

The normal Islamic Terrorist fomenting ways of the Islamic Republic of Pakistan on display.

UN Designated Islamic Terrorist organization Jamaat-ud-Dawah (JuD), a front organisation for Lashkar e Toiba (LeT), not included in a new list of 31 banned extremist and terrorist groups released by The Islamic Republic of Pakistan’s Interior Ministry:

JuD not included in new list of banned terror groups in Pak

arun · Post by **arun** » 06 Nov 2011 14:11

Yet more of the normal Islamic Terrorist fomenting ways of the Islamic Republic of Pakistan on display.

Our Home Secretary, R.K Singh points out that the Islamic Republic of Pakistan continues to harbour Islamic Terrorists targeting India:

Pakistan is continuing to harbour terrorists: Home Secretary R K Singh

Altair · Post by **Altair** » 06 Nov 2011 14:23

Afghanistan suicide bomber 'kills six' near Baghlan mosque
Breaking news

A suicide bomber has killed at least six people near a mosque in Afghanistan's northern Baghlan province, say officials.

The bomb went off as worshippers were leaving the mosque in Old Baghlan City after prayers marking the start of the Muslim festival of Eid al-Adha.

Officials said at least 12 people were injured in the blast and that a police officer was among those killed.

arun · Post by **arun** » 06 Nov 2011 20:10

Altair wrote:Afghanistan suicide bomber 'kills six' near Baghlan mosque

And the link to the Islamic Republic of Pakistan is what?

arun · Post by **arun** » 10 Nov 2011 08:27

The Australians come to the bitter realisation that the Islamic Republic of Pakistan has a penchant for supporting Islamic Terrorism.

Editorial in the Australian by Foreign Editor, Greg Sheridan:

Yet elements of the Pakistani military and intelligence agencies are intimately assisting the people who are killing our soldiers in Afghanistan. The extent and detail of the reporting of this is now irrefutable. Countless Americans up to the most senior commanders have stated bluntly that Pakistan continues to give assistance to the Haqqani network and to elements of the Taliban in Afghanistan.

Read it all:

Stop funding Pakistan while it pays to kill Diggers

ramana · Post by **ramana** » 11 Nov 2011 03:46

I strongly think that there are links to TSP/ISI control of Bollwyood films piracy to fund their terrorist operations. One needs to run a social network analysis of Bollywood participants:financiers, distributors, stars, Mumbai underworld, ISI and map the fund flows. What we might see, is the very movie you see in your local theatre is being used to fund world wide terror.

arun · Post by **arun** » 14 Nov 2011 21:28

The Washington Post reports on the frustration of the US Armed Forces in Afghanistan after coming in contact with the Islamic Republic of Pakistan’s well practised ability in the art of “plausible deniability” with regard to fomenting Islamic Terrorism

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On Afghan-Pakistan border, suspicions reign

arun · Post by **arun** » 16 Nov 2011 07:31

Those with their roots in the Islamic Republic of Pakistan do what comes so naturally to them; namely indulge in Islamic Terrorism:

UK police arrest 4 British Pakistanis in counter-terror probe

More on the same story in the UK’s Daily Mail:

Four arrested over 'trip to Pakistan terrorist training camp'

The Islamic Republic of Pakistan, truly the epicentre of global Jihadi Islamic Terrorism!

arun · Post by **arun** » 03 Dec 2011 20:44

X Posted from the ISI History and Discussions thread.

The Islamic Terrorist supporting ways of the Islamic Republic of Pakistan once again exposed.

NATO document stated evidence from July showed Pakistan’s Inter-Services Intelligence was leading a joint initiative to provide funds and training to Taliban insurgents in northern Afghanistan:

Pakistan, Iran Fund Afghanistan Insurgent Training, Bild Reports

arun · Post by **arun** » 03 Dec 2011 21:10

Pakistan-origin Virginia man pleads guilty of supporting terror outfit LeT

arun · Post by **arun** » 07 Dec 2011 08:58

Yet another Islamic Terrorist incident linked to the Islamic Republic of Pakistan.

Suicide bombings targeting shrines of the Mohammadden Shia / Shiite sect on the Muslim holiday of Muharram in Kabul and Mazar-i-Sharif in Afghanistan which killed some 59 is claimed by a Sunni Mohammadden Islamic Terrorist organisation based in the Islamic Republic of Pakistan:

Pakistani militants claim responsibility for pilgrim slaughter

suryag · Post by **suryag** » 09 Dec 2011 14:05

Missing American on video

Emails containing the former FBI agent have been traced to ... you know it .. Pakistan

arun · Post by **arun** » 20 Dec 2011 21:09

Citizen of the Islamic Republic of Pakistan arrested in Birmingham on suspicion of attempting to indulge in the Pakistani favoured past-time of Islamic Terrorism:

Pakistani Man Arrested by Counterterrorism Police at British Airport

Lalmohan · Post by **Lalmohan** » 20 Dec 2011 22:49

ramana wrote:I strongly think that there are links to TSP/ISI control of Bollwyood films piracy to fund their terrorist operations. One needs to run a social network analysis of Bollywood participants:financiers, distributors, stars, Mumbai underworld, ISI and map the fund flows. What we might see, is the very movie you see in your local theatre is being used to fund world wide terror.

any bootleg bollywood dvd offered at cut-price rates is almost certainly part of this scam - a second reason not to buy them!!

arun · Post by **arun** » 22 Dec 2011 08:22

The Islamic Republic of Pakistan yet again demonstrates its linkages to global Islamic Terrorism:

Woman Charged With Sending Money to Pakistan Group to Fund Terrorist Attacks

arun · Post by **arun** » 23 Dec 2011 08:43

X Posting:

menon s wrote:Former Pakistan Army Chief Reveals Intelligence Bureau Harbored Bin Laden in Abbottabad

Former Pakistani Army Chief General Ziauddin Butt (a.k.a. General Ziauddin Khawaja) revealed at a conference on Pakistani-U.S. relations in October 2011 that according to his knowledge the then former Director-General of Intelligence Bureau of Pakistan (2004 – 2008), Brigadier Ijaz Shah (Retd.), had kept Osama bin Laden in an Intelligence Bureau safe house in Abbottabad. In the same address, he revealed that the ISI had helped the CIA to track him down and kill on May 1. The revelation remained unreported for some time because some intelligence officers had asked journalists to refrain from publishing General Butt’s remarks. [1] No mention of the charges appeared until right-wing columnist Altaf Hassan Qureshi referred to them in an Urdu-language article that appeared on December 8. [2]

In a subsequent and revealing Urdu-language interview with TV channel Dawn News, General Butt repeated the allegation on December 11, saying he fully believed that “[Brigadier] Ijaz Shah had kept this man [Bin Laden in the Abbottabad compound] with the full knowledge of General Pervez Musharraf… Ijaz Shah was an all-powerful official in the government of General Musharraf.” [3] Asked whether General Kayani knew of this, he first said yes, but later reconsidered: “[Kayani] may have known – I do not know – he might not have known.” [4] The general’s remarks appeared to confirm investigations by this author in May 2011 that showed that the Abbottabad compound where bin Laden was captured and killed was being used by a Pakistani intelligence agency (see Terrorism Monitor, May 5). However, General Butt failed to explain why Bin Laden was not discovered even after Brigadier Shah and General Musharraf had left the government.

General Butt was the first head of the Strategic Plans Division of the Pakistan army and the Director General of Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) under Nawaz Sharif, Prime Minister of Pakistan from 1990 to 1993, and again from 1997 to 1999. Sharif promoted General Ziauddin Butt to COAS after forcibly retiring General Pervez Musharraf on October 12, 1999, but the army’s top brass revolted against the decision and arrested both Prime Minister Sharif and General Butt while installing Musharraf as the nation’s new chief executive, a post he kept as a chief U.S. ally until resigning in 2008 in the face of an impending impeachment procedure.
will there ever be a day, where all the ex isi chiefs face the rogues gallery at the international court of justice for crimes against humanity!
http://www.jamestown.org/programs/gta/s ... b405dae77b

Christopher Sidor · Post by **Christopher Sidor** » 23 Dec 2011 12:23

^^^^
We are supposed to believe the word of a person, who was prevented by Musharraf, from becoming the COAS and basically ending his career? Please note how he is implicating all the Musharraf's men but leaves the current dispensation of Paki Army in the clear. It was after Musharraf left that OBL was found in the cantonment area of a Pakistani city. And in 2004-2007 Kiyani was ISI's DG, working under orders of Musharraf. In the year that Kiyani took over as ISI DG, i.e. 2004, construction of the house which housed OBL in Abbottabad started. In year 2005 it is rumored that OBL moved into that house, along with his wives. All of this happened while Kiyani was ISI DG.

Further this article claims about Nawaz constituting a 90-commando squad to hunt down OBL is crap. Where were these commandos trained and by which branch of US or by which private sector entity of US? There are a lot of unanswered questions.

The more I look at the General Butt's statement, the more they sound like a vindictive man speaking to me.

ramana · Post by **ramana** » 23 Dec 2011 12:34

Its good for the jernails to fallout. Maybe it will lead to night of the jernails?

rajkumar · Post by **rajkumar** » 17 Jan 2012 16:54

Even the ladies are at it!!!

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldne ... stake.html

Security sources believe the new year's eve bomber and the airport bombers may have been members of a suicide squad trained in Pakistan's al-Qaeda strongholds which was sent to the Russian capital in December to target the city's transportation system.

member_20617 · Post by **member_20617** » 17 Jan 2012 19:25

Islam prohibits all drugs that are not medically prescribed.[15] Islam's prohibition of drugs[16] stems from two concerns:
• their intoxication effects
• their harm to the human body

There are numerous verses in the Qur'an and hadith that ban intoxicants (including alcohol). The prophet Muhammad said:[16]
Every intoxicant is like alcohol, and every (type of) alcohol is prohibited. (Muslim)

The second reason for banning drugs is that they are believed to have a harmful effect on the body.

The Qur'an says,

"And make not your own hands contribute to your destruction." Surah, Al-Baqara, 2: 195
The Muslim nations of Turkey and Egypt were instrumental in banning opium, cocaine, and cannabis when the League of Nations (the forerunner of the United Nations) committed to the 1925 International Convention relating to opium and other drugs (later the 1934 Dangerous Drugs Act). The primary goal was to ban opium and cocaine, but cannabis was added to the list, and it remained there largely unnoticed due to the much more heated debate over opium and coca. The 1925 Act has been the foundation upon which every subsequent policy in the United Nations has been founded. Cannabis use and abuse as an intoxicant was largely unknown in the West at that point, but Islamic leaders have been critical of it since the 13th century.

O You who believe! Intoxicants and gambling, (dedication of) stones and (divination by) arrows are an abomination of Satan’s handiwork. Avoid (such abominations) that you may prosper. (5:90)

Satan’s plan is to sow hatred and enmity amongst you with intoxicants and gambling, and to hamper you from the remembrance of Allah and from prayer. Will you not give up? (5:91)

There are no prohibitions in Islam on alcohol for scientific, industrial or automotive use.

The above was quoted from Wikipedia.

If Islam is against the use of drugs then how come Muslim countries like Pakistan and Afghanistan are indulging in this $1bn drug trade? Have they stopped becoming Muslims?LoL!!!

arun · Post by **arun** » 18 Jan 2012 20:26

X Posted.

For an individual originating in the Islamic Republic of Pakistan coming from a privileged background is no bar for indulging in Islamic Terrorism:

jrjrao wrote:You can put a rich American upbringing into a Paki.

You can put a fancy elite Connecticut boarding school education into a Paki (annual cost $45K).

You can put a University of Texas degree into a Paki.

But you absolutely cannot take the Paki out of a Paki.

AP story on MSNBC.

Why did boarding school graduate join al-Qaida?
Moeed Abdul Salam played varsity golf, sang in an a cappella group and hung out with 'hippie-ish' friends

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/46037238/ns ... xbTYodWqgQ

K Mehta · Post by **K Mehta** » 02 Feb 2012 00:21

x-post from tsp thread
Interesting info about the bomb plotters of UQ london
Jo Lahore main ***** woh UQ main bhi.....
from Reuters
The defendants, all British nationals with Bangladeshi or Pakistani backgrounds, had been inspired by al Qaeda and the late radical Muslim cleric Anwar al-Awlaki, Edis said.
Brothers Gurukanth Desai, 30, and Abdul Miah, 25, both from Cardiff in Wales also pleaded guilty to the same charge.

from The Beeb
Brothers Gurukanth Desai, 30, of Albert Street, Cardiff, and Abdul Miah, 25, of Ninian Park Road, Cardiff, also admitted the same count, namely preparing for acts of terrorism by planning to plant an improvised explosive device in the toilets of the London Stock Exchange.

from Yahoo! UK
Brothers Gurukanth Desai, 30, and Abdul Miah, 25, both from the Welsh capital Cardiff, admitted the same count at a London court.

arun · Post by **arun** » 02 Feb 2012 07:32

Leaked NATO reports states that the Islamic Republic of Pakistan, in particular the ISI, is supporting Islamic Terrorism:

Pakistani intelligence helping Taliban: NATO report

The cited BBC report:

In quotes: Excerpts from Nato report on Taliban

arun · Post by **arun** » 02 Feb 2012 07:38

Canadian Defence Minister Peter Mackay:

"We’ve always been very clear in our messaging and in our insistence that Pakistan not co-operate at any level with the Taliban. And that has been a frustrated effort," MacKay said.

"If they are a reliable ally, and if they are a country that wants to see the United States, Canada, Great Britain and other NATO allies continue to work in the region and to bring about peace and security throughout the region, then their co-operation is required and in fact is demanded."

From here:

Pakistan must co-operate with NATO, Peter MacKay says

arun · Post by **arun** » 07 Feb 2012 07:56

Yet another individual originating in the Islamic Republic of Pakistan indulging in the national pastime of Islamic Terrorism.

Islamic Republic of Pakistan born taxi driver Raja Lahrasib Khan pleads guilty to the charge of sending cash to Pakistan-based Islamic terrorist leader Ilyas Kashmiri after Kashmiri indicated he needed money to buy explosives:

Chicago cabbie pleads guilty in terror case

arun · Post by **arun** » 08 Feb 2012 07:58

Pakistani origin individuals in the UK plead guilty to charges of indulging in the Pakistani national past time of Islamic Terrorism:

Terrorists exposed in covert operation

Thursday, February 02, 2012 ………………….

Initially the Stoke-on-Trent four, Usman Khan, Mohammed Shahjahan, Nazam Hussain and Mohibur Rahman, acted independently as a self-contained radical Muslim cell, preaching an extreme version of Islam on the streets of the Potteries. ……………………….

But the Stoke-on-Trent four, who were all British-born but of Pakistani origin, were more interested in carrying out attacks closer to home, and so their own discussions would focus on planting bombs in pubs and clubs in the Potteries.

Importantly, these would not be suicide attacks; they talked about leaving timed pipe bombs in pub toilets, leaving them alive to fight another day.

While they never got to the stage of building the bombs or selecting targets, they were already considering what would come after this initial campaign.

These long-term plans involved sending some of their number to terror training camps in Kashmir in Pakistan, where they could receive training in how to use firearms, in preparation for further acts of terrorism. It is understood they intended to raise money for this training by using fake passports to secure bank loans…………………

Clicky

ramana · Post by **ramana** » 11 Feb 2012 02:03

Nightwatch comment on 9 Feb 2012

Somalia: For the record. Al Shabaab announced it formal affiliation with al Qaida, which remains based on Pakistan.

Comment: When al Shabaab was strong and expansive it professed sympathy for al Qaida but never sought al Qaida's approval or a formal association. Now that Ethiopian and Kenyan forces are beating al Shabaab and it's supporting Somali clans, it now seeks outside help.

The anti-Algerian Salafists underwent the same metamorphosis, as they suffered losses. They affiliated with al Qaida as Al Qaida in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM) only after the Algerian security forces all but destroyed them.

The obvious inference is that al Shabaab is in danger of destruction and seeks outside support. Today's announcement almost constitutes a capitulation statement by al Shabaab, as an independent jihadist force.

So they do know where Al Q is located.

Rangudu · Post by **Rangudu** » 12 Feb 2012 01:20

Everyone please read this detailed AP report on the builder of the Bali bomb that killed 200+ foreigners in 2002.

The bomb-maker Umar Patek was arrested in Abbotabad a few months before Bin Laden was taken out. The above report says this about how Patek was able to escape to TSP.

A police investigator said that a 37-year-old Pakistani in Indonesia, Nadeem Akhtar, helped Patek get a Pakistani visa from his embassy in Jakarta.

After Patek arrived in Lahore, a courier with links to al-Qaida then brought him to Abbottabad, possibly to meet with bin Laden.

If I recall correctly, the Bin Laden courier's contact to send messages to Iraq, was a LeT operative. Now we see another Lahore connection, indicating possible LeT links.

If this guy Patek met Bin Laden, he would have said so by now. Unkil is trying hard to keep hidden whatever links they found with Bin Laden's posessions.

I'm hoping that the Indonesian authorities are more talkative and give out details on who Patek's helpers in TSP were.

arun · Post by **arun** » 28 Feb 2012 11:02

X Posted.

Stratfor document on the links between the Islamic Republic of Pakistan’s intelligence agency the Inter Services Directorate aka ISI and Islamic Terrorist Osama Bin Laden leaked by Wikileaks:

anmol wrote:Wikileaks / Startfor: Osama bin Laden 'was in routine contact with Pakistan's spy agency

By Damien McElroy, Foreign Affairs Correspondent

7:35PM GMT 27 Feb 2012

The disclosure was contained in e-mails from the private US security firm, Stratfor, which were published by WikiLeaks website on Monday after being obtained by the Anonymous hacking group.

Stratfor provides analysis of world affairs to major corporations, military officials and government agencies and was once likened by an American business magazine to a "shadow CIA".

According to one of the e-mails, the firm was shown the information papers collected from bin Laden's Abbotabad compound after the US special forces attack last May that resulted in his death.

The e-mail, from a Stratfor analyst, suggested that up to 12 officials in Pakistan's Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) agency knew of the al-Qaeda leader's safe house.

The internal email did not name the Pakistani officials involved but said the US could use the information as a bargaining chip in post raid negotiations with Islamabad.

American officials have always believed it was impossible for the ISI not to have known that Bin Laden was sheltering in a garrison town so close to Islamabad. Pakistan has repeatedly dismissed the charge.

"Mid to senior level ISI and Pak Mil with one retired Pak Mil General that had knowledge of the OBL arrangements and safehouse," the email said of the officers involved. "I get a very clear sense we (US intel) know names and ranks."

WikiLeaks claimed to have 5 million Stratfor emails that it would published in collaboration with media outlets. However only 200 were released in the first lot. {Snipped}.................

Lilo · Post by **Lilo** » 11 Mar 2012 21:12

Paki terrorist helping Samantha Lewthwaite in Kenya moved about with a Latino name

The home was rented by man calling himself Marco Costa, 29. He might be Habib Ghani, who is originally from Hounslow, West London. He has a Kenyan mother and Pakistani father.

Ghani, grew up in Hounslow, west London and worshipped at the same mosque as the first British suicide bomber Asif Hanif, who blew himself up in a bar in Israel in 2003.

Nothing new .. just another paki terroist.
Though the taqqiya of the white widow now exposed here should setoff an interesting chain of events. The day is not far off when the aam britturd is throughly familiar with the concept of taqqiya.

Back in 2005, Samantha Lewthwaite told the BBC:

“I totally condemn and am horrified by the atrocities which occurred in London on Thursday 7 July. I am the wife of Germaine Lindsay, and never predicted or imagined that he was involved in such horrific activities. He was a loving husband and father. I am trying to come to terms with the recent events. My whole world has fallen apart, and my thoughts are with the families of the victims of this incomprehensible devastation.”

In a separate statement, Ms Lewthwaite’s father Andrew, 49, sister Sabrina, 28, brother Allan, 25, and Allan’s wife Carly, 21, also said the family had no inkling of Lindsay’s plans.

The statement offered condolences to the families of the victims, and said the family did not condone what had happened.

“Germaine had a kind, caring and calming presence about him. He was a good and loving husband and a brilliant father, who showed absolutely no sign of doing this atrocious crime. We as a family had no idea of his plans and are as horrified as the rest of the world. We are still in shock about the news we have been given and are trying to understand why anyone, never mind Germaine, would do such a thing. We plead to anyone who has information to help police with their investigations to stamp out these terrorists.”

Anujan · Post by **Anujan** » 21 Mar 2012 11:46

Suspect in the French Shootings which claimed the life of 3 French Paratroopers and 3 Jewish Children trained in Pakistan.

http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/envoy/frenc ... 23403.html

Killed in the attacks on Ozar Hatorah school in Toulouse Monday were Jonathan Sandler, a rabbi and teacher at the school, his two sons, ages 3 and 6, and an 8-year-old girl, daughter of the head teacher. A fifth person, a 17 year old boy, was also wounded in the attacks, in which the gunman shot his targets in the head.

The suspect is thought to be a 24-year-old man who had previously travelled to the lawless border area between Pakistan and Afghanistan which is known to house al Qaeda safehouses.

Lalmohan · Post by **Lalmohan** » 21 Mar 2012 12:48

anujan - thanks for the update on this, have posted a summary on the India-EU thread

Lalmohan · Post by **Lalmohan** » 21 Mar 2012 17:26

gunman - called mohammad merah is french citizen of algerian descent, and is holed up in his apartment. he is protesting french participation in afghan war and killing of palestinian children. he was being held in kandahar prison in 2008 and was freed during the mass taliban assault on the jail that year - you have to wonder who else was being held there and where they are now.

and you have to wonder about the ISI angle with respect to that prison break

[name corrected]

shyamd · Post by **shyamd** » 21 Mar 2012 17:38

Just to add to above - he trained in a Pakiban camp. He says he'll give himself up in the afternoon.

ramana · Post by **ramana** » 22 Mar 2012 01:59

Wonder if there is LeT inspiration.

rajsunder · Post by **rajsunder** » 22 Mar 2012 02:29

Shankaraa wrote:
If Islam is against the use of drugs then how come Muslim countries like Pakistan and Afghanistan are indulging in this $1bn drug trade? Have they stopped becoming Muslims?LoL!!!

its banned for them not for kafirs, and as long as they are helping kafirs become wasted, they would have their 72 virgins in heaven.

ramana · Post by **ramana** » 22 Mar 2012 02:52

Its only alcohol/wine which is banned.

Hence the excess use of hafim etc.

arun · Post by **arun** » 25 Mar 2012 09:59

Citizen of the Islamic Republic of Pakistan detained in Afghanistan for attempting to indulge in the Pakistani national past time of IT aka Islamic Terrorism:

Pakistani suicide bomber detained in Kandahar province

ManuT · Post by **ManuT** » 14 Apr 2012 00:03

ALEXANDRIA, Va. – Jubair Ahmad, 24, a native of Pakistan and resident of Woodbridge, Va., was sentenced today to 144 months in prison, followed by five years of supervised release, for providing material support to Lashkar-e-Tayyiba (LeT), a designated foreign terrorist organization.

Neil H. MacBride, U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia; Lisa Monaco, Assistant Attorney General for National Security; and James W. McJunkin, Assistant Director in Charge of the FBI’s Washington Field Office, made the announcement after sentencing by United States District Judge T. S. Ellis III.

“We’ve seen a sharp increase in terrorists’ use of social networking services like YouTube to reach a worldwide audience,” said U.S. Attorney MacBride. “Jubair Ahmad was deeply committed to LeT’s violent aims, which he promoted through online propaganda, recruiting others, and fundraising for the terrorist organization responsible for the deadly 2008 attack in Mumbai, India, which killed 160 people, including two Virginians.”

“The activities of Jubair Ahmad and his LeT associates provide insights into how terrorist organizations produce their propaganda,” said Assistant Attorney General Monaco. “Today, Ahmad is being held accountable for providing this form of material support to LeT.”

“Mr. Ahmad directly supported the mission of a designated terrorist organization through his creation of online propaganda, fundraising, and recruitment efforts. He is now being held accountable for those actions,” said Assistant Director in Charge McJunkin. “The FBI will continue to pursue those who provide material support to terrorist groups, whether online or in person, and ensure that they are brought to justice.”

            LeT, or “Army of the Pure,” serves as the military arm of the political movement Markaz al-Dawa wal-Irshad in Pakistan. The mission of LeT is to conduct and promote violent jihad against those considered to be the enemies of Islam. On Dec. 24, 2001, the U.S. Department of State designated LeT as a foreign terrorist organization. The focus of LeT operations has been attacks on the neighboring country of India, in particular the disputed region of Kashmir between Pakistan and India.

            According to court records, Ahmad was born and raised in Pakistan, where he attended LeT training camps as a teen. In 2007, after receiving a visa from the U.S. Department of State, Ahmad moved from Pakistan to the United States with his family.

            Ahmad pled guilty on Dec. 2, 2011, and admitted that in September 2010, while at his residence in Woodbridge, he engaged in a series of communications with an individual named Talha Saeed, who was in Pakistan. Talha Saeed is the son of Hafiz Muhammad Saeed, the leader of LeT. Talha Saeed requested Ahmad to prepare a video that would contain a prayer by Hafiz Saeed calling for the support of jihad and the mujahideen. In addition, Talha Saeed instructed Ahmad to present a variety of violent images on the video while Hafiz Saeed’s prayer is heard in the background.

            Talha Saeed directed Ahmad to begin the LeT video with a number of pictures of Hafiz Saeed, then show scenes where atrocities have been inflicted on Muslims, followed by the activities of the mujahideen conducting attacks in Kashmir. At one point, Ahmad asked Talha Saeed if he wanted to include an image of the Mumbai attack to show the power of LeT. This is a reference to LeT’s operation against the city of Mumbai, India, on Nov. 26, 2008, which resulted in the death of over 160 people, including six Americans. Talha replied that he should not use anything referring to Mumbai.

            Ahmad admitted that Talha Saeed told him to search for “Lashkar-e-Taiba” on YouTube to find additional images of mujahideen operations to include in the video. Talha Saeed further stated that the video will be popular in Pakistan and will run continuously on significant media programs and presentations.

            On Sept. 25, 2010, Ahmad completed the LeT video and uploaded it to a YouTube account on the Internet. The next day, Ahmad sent a communication to another person overseas in which he explained that “Hafiz Saeed’s son Talha Saeed” had requested him to prepare the video. Forensic examination by the FBI subsequently confirmed that Ahmad had constructed the LeT video on his computer.

            At sentencing, the government also presented evidence that Ahmad, while in the United States, also conspired to recruit others to attend LeT training camps, conspired to raise funds for LeT, and expressed his intention to return to Pakistan to complete the LeT commando training course and be launched on a martyrdom mission.

This case is being investigated by the FBI’s Washington Field Office. Assistant United States Attorneys Stephen M. Campbell and Neil Hammerstrom from the National Security and International Crimes Unit of the Eastern District of Virginia and Trial Attorney John T. Gibbs from the Counterterrorism Section of the National Security Division in the U.S. Department of Justice are prosecuting the case on behalf of the United States.

A copy of this press release may be found on the website of the United States Attorney's Office for the Eastern District of Virginia at http://www.justice.gov/usao/vae. Related court documents and information may be found on the website of the District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia at http://www.vaed.uscourts.gov or on https://pcl.uscourts.gov.

Lilo · Post by **Lilo** » 18 Apr 2012 02:22

Tarana Akbari, 12, screams in fear moments after a suicide bomber detonated a bomb in a crowd at the Abul Fazel Shrine in Kabul on December 06, 2011. 'When I could stand up, I saw that everybody was around me on the ground, really bloody. I was really, really scared,' said the Tarana, whose name means 'melody' in English. Out of 17 women and children from her family who went to a riverside shrine in Kabul that day to mark the Shiite holy day of Ashura, seven died including her seven-year-old brother Shoaib. More than 70 people lost their lives in all, and at least nine other members of Tarana's family were wounded. The blasts has prompted fears that Afghanistan could see the sort of sectarian violence that has pitched Shiite against Sunni Muslims in Iraq and Pakistan. The attack was the deadliest strike on the capital in three years. President Hamid Karzai said this was the first time insurgents had struck on such an important religious day. The Taliban condemned the attack, which some official viewed as sectarian. On the same day, a second bomber attacked in the northern city of Mazar-i-Sharif. Karzai said on December 11 that a total of 80 people were killed in both attacks. Published December 7, 2011

A uniquely Paki contribution wins the Pulitzer Prize. link