Pakistani Role in Global Terrorism

arun · Post by **arun** » 19 Nov 2009 21:40

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Turns out that terrorist Daood Gilani aka David Coleman Headley’s father was a “prominent Pakistani diplomat”.

His Mother was a US citizen and one who ran a bar causing much takleef to Headley aka Daood Gilani.

That takleef however did not stop Headley aka Daood Gilani from smuggling heroin into the US. He was caught and sentenced to 15 months in prison.

This Headley aka Daood Gilani comes across as solidly RAPE what with prominent diplomat father and attendance of prominent cadet school at Hasan Abdal.

I wonder if the father is related to the current Prime Minister of Pakistan?

Boggles the mind that a convicted felon was given a multiple entry visa to visit India:

Posted on Thu, Nov. 19, 2009

From Pakistan to Phila.: A terror suspect's journey

By Joseph Tanfani
Inquirer Staff Writer ………………………

The Philadelphia Inquirer

arun · Post by **arun** » 20 Nov 2009 15:15

X Posted.

SSridhar wrote:ISI Helped Mullah Omar flee from Quetta to Karachi

This may not be connected with Headley/Rana, but facts are tumbling out at a rapid pace ever since their arrest.

"There are huge madrassas in Karachi where Mullah Omar could easily be kept," he said.

The Washington Times article mentioned.

Pretty damning about the ISI’s role in sheltering Mullah Omar:

Friday, November 20, 2009

EXCLUSIVE: Taliban chief hides among Pakistan populace

Eli Lake, Sara A. Carter and Barbara Slavin THE WASHINGTON TIMES

Mullah Mohammed Omar, the one-eyed leader of the Afghan Taliban, has fled a Pakistani city on the border with Afghanistan and found refuge from potential U.S. attacks in the teeming Pakistani port city of Karachi with the assistance of Pakistan's intelligence service, three current and former U.S. intelligence officials said. ...................

Two senior U.S. intelligence officials and one former senior CIA officer told The Washington Times that Mullah Omar traveled to Karachi last month after the end of the Muslim holy month of Ramadan. He inaugurated a new senior leadership council in Karachi, a city that so far has escaped U.S. and Pakistani counterterrorism campaigns, the officials said.

The officials, two of whom spoke on the condition of anonymity because of the sensitive nature of the topic, said Pakistan's Inter-Services Intelligence agency, the ISI, helped the Taliban leaders move from Quetta, where they were exposed to attacks by unmanned U.S. drones.

The development reinforces suspicions that the ISI, which helped create the Taliban in the 1990s to expand Pakistani influence in Afghanistan, is working against U.S. interests in Afghanistan as the Obama administration prepares to send more U.S. troops to fight there.

Bruce Riedel, a CIA veteran and analyst on al Qaeda and the Taliban, confirmed that Mullah Omar had been spotted in Karachi recently.

"Some sources claim the ISI decided to move him further from the battlefield to keep him safe" from U.S. drone attacks, said Mr. Riedel, who headed the Obama administration's review of policy for Afghanistan and Pakistan last spring. "There are huge madrassas in Karachi where Mullah Omar could easily be kept." ……………………

A second senior intelligence officer who specializes in monitoring al Qaeda said U.S. intelligence had confirmed Mullah Omar's move through both electronic and human sources as well as intelligence from an unnamed allied service......................

Washington Times

arun · Post by **arun** » 21 Nov 2009 15:09

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Links of the Islamic Republic of Pakistan to global jihadi Islamic terrorism multiply.

The Italian’s arrest two Pakistani’s for involvement in the 26/11 terrorist attack on Mumbai:

Italian police arrest 2 linked to Mumbai attacks

AP via Google

Neshant · Post by **Neshant** » 21 Nov 2009 15:53

{Another useless "India SHOULD yada yada" post deleted.}

A_Gupta · Post by **A_Gupta** » 21 Nov 2009 19:59

arun wrote:X Posted.

Links of the Islamic Republic of Pakistan to global jihadi Islamic terrorism multiply.

The Italian’s arrest two Pakistani’s for involvement in the 26/11 terrorist attack on Mumbai:

Italian police arrest 2 linked to Mumbai attacks

AP via Google

From the above article :

Italian police began the probe in December after being alerted by the FBI that the money had been sent from Italy, Fonzi told The Associated Press.

Not alerted by Indian agencies; alerted by the FBI. I find that interesting.

PS:
On the other Puki thread we have a link from CNN:

Italian police started their investigation the following month after being alerted by Indian authorities and the FBI that funds had been transferred from Italy, Fonzi said.

So much for AP reporting.

PPS: And see arun below.

arun · Post by **arun** » 21 Nov 2009 20:30

The BBC on the other hand states that the Italians have credited India, besides the US, for providing leads for the arrest of the two Pakistani’s Mohammad Yaqub Janjua and Aamer Yaqub Janjua:

Mumbai attack suspects arrested by Italian police ……………

They were identified after leads from India and the FBI, police said. ………..

On the basis of the surname would it be correct to conclude the arrested are Pakistani Punjabi’s ?

Meanwhile purely for archival purposes stories on this matter from various wire services.

Bloomberg:

Italian Police Arrest Two Pakistanis Linked to Mumbai Attacks

Reuters:

Italy arrests Pakistanis suspected of Mumbai links

RTT News:

Italian Police Arrest Two Pakistanis Linked To Mumbai Attacks

pgbhat · Post by **pgbhat** » 22 Nov 2009 00:53

Brescia arrest driven by fears on terror infrastructure ---- Praveen Swami

enqyoob · Post by **enqyoob** » 22 Nov 2009 21:52

Posting without comment (comment at ur peril etc...) because the Comments section under this news item is worth visiting and monitoring.

Saudi envoy walks out after Jethmalani remarks on Wahabis
Updated on Sunday, November 22, 2009, 00:01 IST Tags:Saudi Arabia, Ram Jethmalani, Terrorism
New Delhi: Saudi Arabian Ambassador to India Faisal-al-Trad on Saturday staged a walk at an international conference of jurists here after former former Union Minister Ram Jethmalani accused the Wahabi sect of being responsible for terrorism.

Trad left the conference hall after Jethmalani made some remarks at the inaugural function when he said "unfortunately in the 17th century, they produced an evil man in Saudi Arabia by the name of Wahab, who was concerned about the decline of Muslim world but he hit upon a wrong remedy".

The Ambassador returned to the conference after Union Law Minister Veerappa Moily made it clear that Jethmalani's remarks were personal and not that of the government.

Jethmalani alleged that "Wahabi terrorism" indoctrinated "rubbish" in the minds of young people to carry out terrorist attacks. He lamented that India had friendly relations with a country that supported Wahabi terrorism.

Moily, in his address, said that terrorism cannot be attributed to any particular religion.

Jethmalani said there have been Hindu terrorists and Buddhist terrorists and it was unfortunate that the terrorist that the world was talking about was mainly Muslim.

"But let me make it clear that I am a student of all religions including Islam. I have the highest respect for the prophet of Islam, he was a man of peace."

Terming Non-Aligned Movement and Panchsheel as evil, the former union minister said India should align with forces of good to combat the forces of evil. "India and its foreign ministers must learn to reassess the doctrines of past."

He said India's foreign policy establishment should be courageous to shun country's relationships with its "enemies".

Referring to Jethmalani's comments, Justice Awn S Al-Khasawneh, a judge of the International Court of Justice, asked him not "to make sweeping statements."

- PTI

Especially see the comment challenging: "Please list terrorist attacks made by Wahabis"

negi · Post by **negi** » 22 Nov 2009 23:15

From Hindu " Pakistani duo held in Italy for links to 26/11 "

The order to transfer the money on the eve of the Mumbai attacks was given by two persons who are in Pakistan and the names of these two persons, which cannot be divulged at this moment, have been communicated to the persons investigating the terror attacks in Mumbai. At our end, the investigation has come to an end. It will be taken forward by the judiciary and other agencies,” Dr. Fonzi said.

Asked whether the names of the two persons in Pakistan who had given the order for the VOIP service to be put in place had also been communicated to Pakistani police looking into the attacks, Dr. Fonzi said: “We have activated international police channels and this piece of information has been relayed to all those concerned by these attacks

Need to keep an eye on the IEDs on other side , we might hear about a couple of Jarnails disappearing into the vacuum.

Sanjay M · Post by **Sanjay M** » 23 Nov 2009 04:07

Terrorists arrested in UK:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/8373538.stm

Gee, I wonder which community they're from?

Gagan · Post by **Gagan** » 23 Nov 2009 04:32

I very much doubt that a link to the Jernails will be established. While everyone understands that the Jernails are the ones who instigate and are the real hand within the glove, implicating the Jernails will result in the whole thing coming to a screeching halt.

Unless,

Massa is mighty pissed, and is willing to go after the Jernails. Then and only then, the other Jernails who have not been implicated in this will, with a heavy heart sacrifice the implicated Jernails.
I don't think things will come to this though.

Some LET pigs are going to get pest-e-shaheeded. It would seem that Zakiur-rehman lakhvi and the other seven minnons are goners for sure. He is the highest pig who's going to get salami sliced. Hafiz sayeed is just for the show-sha, the one to preserve pakistan's echendee. I think India is playing along doing all sorts of halla gulla about hafiz-e-pig and sending dossier-pe-dossier while zakiur-e-pig now identified in the HBO documentary which has been telecast to US audiences is H-I-S-T-O-R-Y.

What is likely to happen is that he will get the death sentence a-la Omar sayeed and enjoy sarkari biryani until he dies of old age.

symontk · Post by **symontk** » 23 Nov 2009 06:03

I am begining to think that Hillary's show in Pakistan is linked to Headley case. Once Pak jarnails sign the dotted line, there wont be much progress in the investigation.

US is trying to get more leverage in Pakistan. reports of Mullah Omar in Karachi is also a pressure tactic from US.

JMT

Gagan · Post by **Gagan** » 23 Nov 2009 06:56

The anger that was demonstrated when the Indian embassy was attacked the first time, by the US, with the CIA revealing that calls between ISI officers and the Haqqani group were monitored.
How much did that help the 26/11 investigations?
That was just a pressure tactic that the US used to extract something from the pakistanis.

The US has caught on that involving India sets the pindi jernails' ass on fire. They immediately capitulate out of sheer jealousy, and submit to massa's demands.

That is all that is happening.

Malayappan · Post by **Malayappan** » 23 Nov 2009 10:07

Praveen Swami's compilation. Apart from good archival value, a reminder to the friends in the West - "Distance Offers no Isolation" - ABV's words!

The autonomous jihad in America Praveen Swami, The Hindu, November 22, 2009

All US related, but practically every case leads to Pakistan. The facts he states are there, so excerpting some assessments -

Increasingly, new jihadist cells are independent of organisational structures: “Jihadi-Salafi ideology,” the New York Police department stated in an official report, “is the driver that motivates young men and women, born or living in the West, to carry out autonomous jihad via acts of terrorism against their host countries.”

Even as it moves to address the causes of the rising tide of jihadist violence at home — among them resentment over foreign policy, racism, religious bigotry, and Islamist institutions that exploit them — the U.S. will have to work to dismantle the infrastructure of terrorist groups in Pakistan.
Once distant enemies now pose a real threat to the U.S. at home.

SSridhar · Post by **SSridhar** » 23 Nov 2009 11:13

Another Lashkar terror suspect arrested in Dhaka

Abu Motaleb was nabbed following information given by the three Lashkar members arrested on November 13. Motaleb allegedly picked up militants from Bangladesh and sent them to India and Afghanistan after training them. He also took part in the Afghan war from 1987 to 1990. . . . Bangladesh authorities believe 20 more Lashkar-e-Taiba operatives of Indian and Pakistani nationalities are in the country to build a strong militant network. . . Officials investigating the reported Lashkar plot to attack the Indian and U.S. embassies in Dhaka have found that the Pakistan-based militant group is recruiting cadres from among the Rohingya refugees from Myanmar.

Investigators have also learned that the operatives get financial backing from some contraband medicine traders in the capital. They believe a Pakistani national posing as a ‘Stranded Pakistani’ — Urdu-speaking ‘Bihari’ — may be involved in the Lashkar operations.

arun · Post by **arun** » 25 Nov 2009 12:20

arun wrote:Besides Ilyas Kashmiri, another ex-military officer who is said to have “recently left the Pakistani Army and held the rank of colonel or brigadier general” is reported by the NYT of being involved with the alleged terrorists of Pakistani origin, David Coleman Headley (aka Daood Gilani) and Tahawwur Hussain Rana who were arrested in Chicago.

Keeping in mind the “recently left” description, it will be interesting to see if any of the suspected conspiratorial interactions were undertaken during the individuals uniformed tenure:

Ex-Military Officer in Pakistan Is Linked to 2 Chicago Terrorism Suspects

By DAVID JOHNSTON and ERIC SCHMITT
Published: November 18, 2009

WASHINGTON — The arrests last month of two Chicago men accused of planning an attack on a Danish newspaper have widened into a global terrorism inquiry that has led to arrests in Pakistan and implicated a former Pakistani military officer as a co-conspirator, government officials said Wednesday. ..........................

The case is one of the first criminal cases in which the federal authorities seem to have directly linked terrorism suspects in the United States to a former Pakistani military officer, though they have long suspected connections between extremists and many members of the Pakistani military. ...........................

The officials declined to name the other former military officer in the case, who is suspected as a co-conspirator. He is said to have recently left the Pakistani Army and held the rank of colonel or brigadier general, higher ranks than Mr. Kashmiri held. .......................

New York Times

More on officers of the Army of the Islamic Republic of Pakistan living out the “ Jihad Fi Sabilillah “ or “ Jihad in the way of Allah “ part of their motto.

Associated Press reports that one retired Brigadier and two serving Lieutenant Colonels of the Army of the Islamic Republic of Pakistan have been arrested for assisting the Pakistani origin alleged Jihadi Islamic terrorists Tahawwur Hussain Rana and Daood Gilani aka David Coleman Headley :

Pakistani officials: 5 army officers detained

Major-General Athar Abbas’, spokesman of the Army of the Islamic Republic of Pakistan denies and claims only a retired Major has been arrested:

Pakistani army officer arrested for alleged link to U.S. terror plot

Malayappan · Post by **Malayappan** » 27 Nov 2009 07:23

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Pakistan: two questions, multiple realities Nirupma Subramanian, The Hindu, November 27, 2009

But the government’s reluctance to go all the way against the LeT is all too obvious. After six months of house arrest, Hafiz Saeed is a free man, and the government says it cannot act against him unless New Delhi provides “concrete evidence” linking him to the Mumbai attacks. Saeed does keep a lower profile than before, but still leads the Friday prayers at the JuD’s headquarters, Jamia Al Qudsia, at Chaudburji in Lahore.

All the others JuD activists have been released. The organisation has not yet been banned, but now operates under the name of Falah-i-Insaniyat and was noticed in relief operations among the internally displaced from the Swat Valley during the military operations there.

It is now accepted within the military that Al Qaeda, the Taliban and their allies among the Punjabi jihadis operate as a syndicate. But while the military has included the Jaish-e-Mohammed, along with Lashkar-e-Jhangvi and the Sipah-e-Sahaba, in this syndicate, the Laskhar-e-Taiba is still not considered part of it.

In a background briefing for journalists last month, senior military officials warned against India’s “propaganda” of trying to conflate the LeT with Al Qaeda “for its own ends”.

Indeed, an October 16 report in The News, which was not denied or contradicted yet, said the military flew down the leadership of the Jaish-e-Mohammed and the Sipah-e-Sahaba to negotiate with the GHQ attackers during the siege. From the JeM, it was Mufti Abdul Rauf, the younger brother of Maulana Masood Azhar and acting Ameer of the group. But jihad-watchers in Pakistan say there are good reasons for the reluctance to go all out against the Punjab-based jihad groups.

arun · Post by **arun** » 30 Nov 2009 09:08

The Guardian:

Gordon Brown questions Pakistan's record on fighting terrorism

Bloomberg:

Pakistan Rejects Brown’s Call to Do More to ‘Break’ Al-Qaeda

arun · Post by **arun** » 02 Dec 2009 07:47

The Islamic Republic of Pakistan’s terrorist welcoming ways wins recognition.

US President Obama names the Islamic Republic of Pakistan as a safe haven for Al – Qaeda in his West Point speech:

After escaping across the border into Pakistan in 2001 and 2002, al Qaeda's leadership established a safe-haven there.

After consultations with our allies, I then announced a strategy recognizing the fundamental connection between our war effort in Afghanistan, and the extremist safe-havens in Pakistan.

Read it all:

FULL TRANSCRIPT: President Obama's Speech on Afghanistan

Malayappan · Post by **Malayappan** » 02 Dec 2009 08:38

Willie Brigitte was trained by Pakistan militaryThe Daily Telegraph

Actually finding it difficult to post excerpts as there are too many specific references!

WHEN Willie Brigitte was sent to Pakistan for terrorist training, he thought his identity would be safe.
A fair assumption, since it has just been revealed it was rogue elements in Pakistan's own army that trained, armed and deployed him to Australia to carry out a terrorist attack.

Transcripts from in-camera evidence in his 2007 trial reveal Pakistan security forces supplied trainers and arms to Lashkar-e-Toiba extremists as they trained hundreds of foreign operatives in a complex in the mountains

One army/LET officer Brigitte met was called Sajid and it is he who sent the French national to Sydney to link up with an already established terror cell. It is Sajid who British M15 now suspect has plotted - and is still plotting - a terror attack in Britain.
There is an Interpol warrant for his arrest as well as a number of Pakistan military and intelligence officers identified as terrorists.

arun · Post by **arun** » 02 Dec 2009 09:15

Malayappan,

Good find which I have taken the liberty of liberally X posting.

I am not surprised that the Islamic Jihadi terrorist Willie Brigitte was trained by the Army of the Islamic Republic of Pakistan. The Army of the Islamic Republic of Pakistan was merely living out the latter part of the motto of “Iman. Taqwa, Jihad-fi-Sabilillah” or translated “Faith, Piety, Jihad in the path of Allah".

Gagan · Post by **Gagan** » 03 Dec 2009 05:15

X posted

Pakistan IT hotspots:

1. LET HQ in muridke:

2. Al Quadsa Mosque, Lahore. Hafiz Sayeed's lair

3. Kasab's village, south of Khanewal, close to Multan

4. Binori Madarsa, Karachi. Training ground and base of Maulana Masood Azhar.

5. Lal Masjid, Islamabad.

Ananya · Post by **Ananya** » 03 Dec 2009 05:36

Demolition and army experts pls comment , would a 300KG bomb be able to bring the entire mosque down, Does muridke has underground bunkers

Malayappan · Post by **Malayappan** » 09 Dec 2009 08:23

WSJ Piece on Headley but with many other references Terror Suspect Failed a Test , Cam Simpson and Siobhan Gorman, The Wal Street Journal, Dec 9, 2009

Excerpts -

Westerners have largely played supporting roles in terror activities, but Mr. Headley's ability to travel freely on a U.S. passport to Pakistan, India and Denmark gave him high value, a U.S. law enforcement official said.

"It's exactly the way you'd think al Qaeda would want to use operatives," said Evan Kohlmann, who has testified on Lashkar as an expert witness in U.S. and British courts.

Pakistan-based Lashkar has traditionally been focused on the Kashmir region, which Pakistan and India have fought over for decades. But U.S. counterterrorism officials now believe the group's ambitions are global.

There are pockets of Lashkar supporters in the U.S., including San Diego and Northern Virginia, as well as cities in Florida and in the Northeast, say current and former counterterrorism officials

Christopher Paul, a bomb-making expert who pleaded guilty last year to conspiring to bomb U.S. and other targets, discussed attending camps in Pakistan with a senior Lashkar recruiter, and later wrote to a fellow American about the ease of training with the group.

Rishi · Post by **Rishi** » 09 Dec 2009 18:40

Sorry, slightly late latif:

Following is on Dhiren Bhalot, the Indian origin UK-stani who was trained by LeT in mid-90s and fought the IA in J&K. He was then captured by the brits in 2005 for the airline bombing plot.

He wrote a book in 1999, about his Kashmir exploits. It is propogandu, so tifwiw.

http://www.makingsenseofjihad.com/army_ ... index.html an analysis of the book

http://www.marisaurgo.com/MSJ/Al%20Qaed ... ashmir.pdf is the book in PDF (but cant seem to open it)

arun · Post by **arun** » 11 Dec 2009 20:50

The dam of denials of the Islamic Republic of Pakistan crumbles.

After years of denial the Defence Minister of the Islamic Republic of Pakistan finally admits that there is such a thing as a Quetta Shura:

Quetta shura no longer poses threat: Ahmad Mukhtar

Friday, 11 Dec, 2009

QUETTA: The government has admitted the existence of the Afghan Taliban's Quetta shura for the first time, and says it has taken them on. …………………

However, until this admission by the Defence Minister — the government has so far denied the existence of any Taliban leadership or the Quetta shura — in Balochistan's capital.

Dawn

arun · Post by **arun** » 11 Dec 2009 21:11

X Posted.

Now that the Islamic Republic of Pakistan has finally admitted the existence of the Quetta Shura" I thought it appropriate to post a past instance of lies dished up by the Islamic Republic on the subject.

Interior Minister of the Islamic Republic of Pakistan quoted on the matter of the Quetta Shura in a article datelined September 29th, 2009 in the Daily Times:

Tuesday, September 29, 2009

Quetta shura does not exist: Rehman Malik ………………

LONDON: Rejecting US complaints that the Afghan Taliban led by Mullah Omar were operating from Quetta, Interior Minister Rehman Malik has said there is no “Quetta shura” in Pakistan.

“Over and again this topic has been coming up. But according to us the Quetta shura does not exist in Quetta,” he said. “What we are requesting the US and the UK and all other stakeholders is to please give us real-time information. If you know that they are present you must be knowing their names, details ... if there is any sign of Quetta shura, we will smash it,” he added.

Daily Times

Ananya · Post by **Ananya** » 12 Dec 2009 01:54

what is he doing in Londonistan !!!!! applying for asylum

Malayappan · Post by **Malayappan** » 12 Dec 2009 12:04

Daniel Byman, Director of the Center for Peace and Security Studies at Georgetown University and a Senior Fellow at the Saban Center at Brookings, while reviewing the case of the arrests in Pakistan, observes -

This grim catalogue of plots and attacks suggests that the American homeland's holiday from terrorism is ending.

Mr. bin Laden now has close ties to several groups that have tens of thousands of supporters in Pakistan, and his reach is growing to non-tribal parts of the country. In his sanctuary, he and his lieutenants can plan, recruit, issue propaganda, and train the next round. While in 2002 would-be terrorists in the United States had no obvious place to go for training, now even the most casual news-reader, to say nothing of those who trawl jihadist sites that appeal for volunteers, knows to go to Pakistan

His first recommendation -

First, fighting the al Qaeda core in Pakistan should remain at the center of U.S. counterterrorism policy. Having a secure haven is often a make or break issue for terrorist groups, and al Qaeda's growing strength there is a deadly danger. U.S. drone strikes, a program that accelerated near the end of the Bush administration and took off in the first months of Mr. Obama's term, keep al Qaeda off-balance, but they are not a substitute for forcing Pakistan to clean out this haven. We mustn't forget that Mr. Zazi managed to receive training after the drone strikes began in earnest.

Homeland Insecurity The Wall Street Journal, Dec 12, 2009

Malayappan · Post by **Malayappan** » 14 Dec 2009 18:04

Cross Posting the link -
Hard-line Pakistani schools lure foreigners MSNBC Report
Some more excerpts -

The students could export extremism back to their own countries, or stay and fight in Pakistan and neighboring Afghanistan, where the United States is battling a resurgent Taliban eight years after the invasion.

But with Pakistan now a main global hub for al-Qaida and other militant groups, their presence in poorly regulated schools — many with links to extremist groups — inevitably raises concerns.

In 2003, for example, a group of 12 Southeast Asians were arrested from schools in Karachi, one of whom was later convicted of transferring money to fund attacks in Indonesia. Another member of the group was arrested in July and is awaiting trial in Jakarta in connection with twin suicide bombings in Western hotels.

Most of the students are affiliated with Tablighi Jemaat, which translates as "preaching community," an international Islamic missionary movement that has strong roots in Pakistan.

Christine Fair, an American academic who has studied Pakistani madrassas and militant recruitment, said foreigners associated with Tablighi represented more of a worry than those enrolled at schools."If you want to become a militant, Raiwind represents an opportunity to meet potential recruiters, and get yourself to a camp," she said. "Anyone can get a visa to go."

SSridhar · Post by **SSridhar** » 14 Dec 2009 21:10

Malayappan wrote:
In 2003, for example, a group of 12 Southeast Asians were arrested from schools in Karachi, one of whom was later convicted of transferring money to fund attacks in Indonesia.

That one person was no ordinary guy. That was Rusman Gunawan (Gun Gun Rusman), the brother of the Indonesian terror chief, Hambali.

arun · Post by **arun** » 15 Dec 2009 07:42

Affirming the central role of the Islamic Republic of Pakistan in global Islamic Terrorism, “ Nine were of Pakistani nationality or origin “ :

Spain: 11 guilty of belonging to terror group

By HAROLD HECKLE (AP) – 6 hours ago

MADRID — A Spanish court has found 11 men guilty of belonging to a terrorist organization that was plotting to stage what would have been the country's first suicide attacks, judges said in a statement Monday.

The National Court, headed by judge Javier Gomez Bermudez, sentenced the men to up to 14 years in prison. Nine were of Pakistani nationality or origin .............................

AP via Google

SSridhar · Post by **SSridhar** » 15 Dec 2009 09:44

arun wrote:Affirming the central role of the Islamic Republic of Pakistan in global Islamic Terrorism, “ Nine were of Pakistani nationality or origin “ :

Spain: 11 guilty of belonging to terror group

Not surprising, after TTP spokesman Omar said in a video interview soon after the arrest in circa 2008 that the attacks had been planned in protest at the presence of Spanish military in Afghanistan.

arun · Post by **arun** » 15 Dec 2009 15:30

Moving on from Spain across the Atlantic to the US .................

Indulging in the national pastime of the Islamic Republic of Pakistan, namely Islamic Terrorism, gets two Pakistani origin US citizens jail time:

US-Pakistanis jailed for video terror plot

(AFP) – 7 hours ago

ATLANTA, Georgia — A US judge sentenced two Pakistani-Americans to 17 and 13 years in prison for conspiring to support terror groups by videoing US landmarks and sending the tapes abroad.

In the latest of a spate of cases that have raised fears that Islamic radicalization is gaining momentum in the United States, Judge William Duffey was scathing in his final remarks in the courtroom in Atlanta, Georgia.

"I'll say this, our Gods are very different," Duffey told the first to be sentenced, Ehsanul Islam Sadequee. "This is a day of reckoning for you, Mr. Sadequee. This is to deter you and to deter others from this conduct."

Sadequee, 23, refused to stand when Duffey, a former US attorney, asked him several times to do so.

The judge had allowed him almost 45 minutes to explain why a harsh sentence should not be imposed, but the convicted terror plotter instead used the time to explain his religious beliefs.

"I have not and I will not request any sentence," said Sadequee. "It does not matter to me. I submit to no one's authority but to the authority of God."

Sadequee's friend Syed Haris Ahmed, a former student at Georgia Tech University, was sentenced to 13 years for conspiring to provide material support for terrorism in the US. ………………………

AFP via Google

SSridhar · Post by **SSridhar** » 15 Dec 2009 16:55

arun wrote:. . . Islamic Terrorism, gets two Pakistani origin US citizens jail time:

Ehsanul might be of Bangladeshi descent. Syed Haris Ahmed is definitely of Pakistani origin. But, what the heck. Every terrorist is a Pakistani.

arun · Post by **arun** » 16 Dec 2009 09:43

X Posted.

The Islamic Republic of Iran provides the Islamic Republic of Pakistan with evidence linking the ISI to terrorists targeting Iran:

Iran presents evidence of Pakistan's links with Jundallah

Wed, 16 Dec 2009 03:18:43 GMT

A senior Iranian official says Iran has presented evidence to Islamabad that shows links between Pakistani intelligence services and the Jundallah terrorist group.

Ebrahim Hamidi, the director of the Sistan-Baluchistan provincial justice department, said the documents were based on confessions obtained from Abdolmalek Rigi's brother Abdolhamid, who is currently in prison in Iran. …………………

Press TV, Iran

arun · Post by **arun** » 17 Dec 2009 08:35

Press release of the US State Department from a fortnight ago ie: December 3, 2009.

The Islamic Republic of Pakistan seems to have reverted true to type and continued its terrorist friendly policies by releasing 4 of the hijackers of Pan Am 73 in January 2008 without any fanfare so as to make their recapture and sentencing to fresh jail terms more in keeping with the heinousness of their crime difficult.

It will be recalled that the hijack of Pan Am 73 at Karachi resulted in 20 deaths many of them Indian and included Neerja Bhanot who for outstanding heroism that day was awarded the Ashok Chakra, our highest award for gallantry in peace time.

The hijack leader Zaid Hassan Abd Latif Safarini served a derisory 14 year sentence in Pakistan and on completion of the sentence was “captured” by the FBI and brought to the US where he was given a fresh 160 year prison term.

This time around it seems the Islamic Republic of Pakistan reverted true to type and released the terrorists without fanfare so as to give the hijackers time to make good their escape.

See here:

Rewards for Justice - Reward Offer for Pan Am Flight 73 Hijackers

shyamd · Post by **shyamd** » 21 Dec 2009 01:00

Deutsche Welle
Saudis fail to halt terrorism funding despite minor gains

Taliban and Pakistani groups benefit

............US President Obama's special envoy to Pakistan and Afghanistan has in recent months repeatedly complained that Saudi funding may be as important to the Taliban as drug revenues as a source of income. "In the past there was a kind of feeling that the money all came from drugs in Afghanistan. That is simply not true… [the Taliban] get a lot more money out of the Gulf, according to our intelligence sources," Holbrooke recently told a news conference in the Pakistani capital Islamabad.

A recent Pakistani police report accused Saudi Arabia's Al Haramain Foundation of donating $15 million (10 million euros) to militants responsible for suicide bombings in Pakistan and the assassination of former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto. The US and Saudi Arabia jointly as well as the United Nations have designated in recent years several foreign branches of Al Haramain as terrorist organizations. However, Al Haramain continues to operate legally in Saudi Arabia although the US Treasury last year put the foundation as a whole, including its Saudi headquarters, on its list of designated terrorist organizations.

Similarly, Indian officials say Lashkar e Tayiba, the Pakistani group responsible for last year's attacks in Mumbai, continues to operate in Saudi Arabia. Indian police recently arrested Lashkar leader Muhammad Omar Madni shortly after he had visited the kingdom on a fundraising trip. Indian police said they had also recently found a large amount of Saudi riyals during a raid on a Lashkar safe house in Mumbai.

Flaws in the Saudi ability to halt the flow of funds to militant groups is part of an emerging perception that the kingdom's ability to leverage its status as the world's major oil producer and the administrator of Islam's most holy sites to influence Middle Eastern events has diminished as countries like Iran and Syria and groups like Hizbollah in Lebanon and Hamas in Gaza chart their own course.

"Beyond Riyadh's preoccupation with Iran, the broader currents of change sweeping over the Middle East are challenging Saudi foreign policies as well…The growing role of non-state actors, militias and ethnic breakaway movements, has exposed the limitations of Riyadh's reliance on petro-dollars to simply buy off whole governments," Webster Brooks, a foreign policy fellow at the University of Denver's Center for New Policy and Politics, told Deutsche Welle.

arun · Post by **arun** » 21 Dec 2009 09:09

X Posted.

Perhaps the Islamic Republic of Pakistan’s campaign to promote a “Soft Image” of Pakistan has resulted in a new form of Islamic Terrorism, “Cool Jihad” :

Did 'Jihadi cool' lure 5 Americans to Pakistan?

Philip · Post by **Philip** » 21 Dec 2009 12:11

Pak's latest terrorist expansion,from Afghanistan to Somalia?!

West warns that Somalia is becoming a haven for international terrorists

A Somali soldier in Bakara market, Mogadishu. Tensions are growing between al-Shabaab fighters and the foreign jihadists but President Ahmed's Government is too weak to take advantage of the differences
Tristan McConnell

Pass beyond what is described as government territory in the Somali capital — a few blocks between the airport, the harbour and the presidential palace — and you are at the mercy of al-Shabaab, the extremist Islamic group that holds sway across southern and central Somalia. Where it rules, it has implemented laws and punishments reminiscent of Afghanistan under Taleban rule.

It has banned bras, football, dancing and musical ringtones. This weekend al-Shabaab decreed that men must grow beards and shave their moustaches. Its fighters have destroyed Sufi tombs and disinterred colonial-era Italian corpses. Its Sharia courts have ordered public floggings, the chopping off of hands and feet of thieves, the stoning to death of adulterers and beheadings of apostates and spies.

Suicide attacks and roadside bombs have grown in number, leading Western intelligence agencies to conclude that there are growing links between al-Shabaab and al-Qaeda. The agencies warn that the country is becoming a haven for international terrorists.

At the start of this year, Somalia was hoping for a new beginning. Sheikh Sharif Ahmed, a moderate Islamist, was installed as President with the backing of the United Nations as well as Western and regional governments. Ethiopian troops who had invaded in 2006 to oust an Islamist regime — in which Sheikh Ahmed had been a leading figure — withdrew and an African Union peacekeeping mission (Amisom) promised to protect the new Government.

Somalia is victim of Bush’s War on Terror
Bakara market becomes a slaughterhouse

Today the Transitional Federal Government cowers behind 5,000 AU protectors in the piece of Mogadishu that it controls — although recently a suicide bomber struck within the supposed safe zone. In other attacks this month dozens of medical students were killed with three government ministers in a suicide attack. At the weekend 14 people died as Government and insurgent forces traded mortar fire. Every week fresh reports of death and horror cement Mogadishu’s reputation as the worst place on earth.

Harakat al-Shabaab — meaning “Youth Movement” — emerged in 2005 as a cross-clan Islamist militia designed to support the Islamic Courts Union, which aimed to defeat the clan warlords that had devastated the country since the collapse of the last functioning administration in 1991. In their brief reign in Mogadishu in 2006 the Courts brought peace to the city for the first time in years. When they were forced out by US-backed Ethiopian forces, al-Shabaab attracted popular support by fighting a guerrilla war against the invaders.

Many of al-Shabaab’s leaders are radical Somali veterans of the Afghanistan wars. Last year Ahmed Abdi Godane, known as Abu Zubeyr, became its top commander. He is believed to have fought in Afghanistan in the 1980s and is described by one observer as “a hardcore jihadi”. Three months before he assumed his command, the US had designated al-Shabaab as a terrorist organisation. His predecessor, Aden Hashi Ayro, was killed by a US airstrike in May 2008.

Other senior commanders, all of whom enjoy a large degree of autonomy, include Mukhtar Ali Robow, also known as Abu Mansoor, an experienced fighter who ran the training camp from which al-Shabaab emerged, and Ibrahim Haji Jaama who won his nom de guerre “al-Afghani” thanks to years of fighting in Afghanistan and Kashmir.

Because of the growing military pressure in Pakistan, Afghanistan and Iraq, hundreds of foreign fighters have flocked to Somalia to fight Sheikh Ahmed’s UN and US-backed administration. They have brought with them a radical ideology of global jihad and some — including a white US citizen known as “al-Amriki” — have taken leading field commander roles.

Their influence is changing al-Shabaab from a local insurgent group into a player in the wider battle between Islamic extremism and the West. “There is increasing control exercised by the foreign leadership of al-Shabaab,” said Peter Pham, associate professor at James Madison University. “It is not just control of resources, foreign fighters and trainers, but of the actual decision-making.”

This foreign influx has strengthened al-Shabaab as a fighting force, but the creeping international agenda has also caused rifts within the group. “There is a serious struggle within al-Shabaab between nationalists and the foreign jihadis who want to take the fight to another level,” said Abdi Rashid, a Somalia analyst at the International Crisis Group.

In recent months this has led to conflict and even some defections. At the same time, al-Shabaab has fallen out with its former ally, Hizb ul-Islam, with whom it launched a joint offensive to oust Sheikh Ahmed in May. This staunchly nationalist group of Islamists is led by Sheikh Hassan Dahir Aweys, who helped to train the first al-Shabaab fighters and is wanted as a terrorist by the US.

This year fighting erupted between al-Shabaab and Hizb ul-Islam over control of revenues from the southern port of Kismayo. This has since turned into a deeper split. “Hizb ul-Islam’s orientation is domestic but al-Shabaab’s focus is on a broader ideological Islam,” said Dr Pham.

Sheikh Ahmed’s enfeebled administration is in no position to take advantage of such divisions. In Mogadishu, a tense and deadly stalemate exists, with al-Shabaab unwilling to take on the peacekeepers’ tanks and artillery and government forces incapable of winning. Sheikh Ahmed’s besieged government barely exists: it does not control the country’s territory, cannot provide security and lacks a popular mandate. “It will continue as long as the Amisom troops are there to guard it. If they were withdrawn it would collapse within hours,” said Dr Pham.