Bharat Rakshak

Pakistaniyat in Thailand

15 Pakistanis detained in south Thailand as terror suspects

Police have detained 15 Pakistanis in Thailand's insurgency-hit southern border province of Yala on suspicion of being linked to international terrorists. The group, which was reportedly in the Muslim-majority region to raise money for flood victims in Pakistan, was detained after authorities noted overseas money transfers by them to international terror suspects, reported UNI. According to police, a local bank employee reported that the Pakistan nationals had transferred money to a person abroad who is listed in the bank's official database as having links with a foreign terror group.
A police force raided the Yala My House hotel in the province yesterday where the men were staying in four rooms.

http://www.nation.com.pk/pakistan-news- ... r-suspects

Ex-Pak Army major trained terrorists for CWG attack http://www.indianexpress.com/news/expak ... ck/698592/

Posted: Sun Oct 17 2010, 06:19 hrs
New Delhi:
A retired major from the Pakistan military, who was with the ISI, had trained terrorists in a camp on the Afghanistan-Pakistan border to carry out an attack on a Commonwealth Games venue.

This information was part of the western intelligence input on a probable attack on October 12-13, reported in The Indian Express on Saturday.

The warning, which reached New Delhi on October 9 evening, gave clear details of the plot, which included a strong possibility of a frontal attack on a venue with multiple weapons including rocket launchers. The attack would have been similar to some terrorist strikes in Pakistan, sources said.

The antecedents of the retired Pakistan Army major are now under investigation by western agencies. It is learnt that the agencies picked up information on his camp while tracking leads on Al-Qaeda’s planned Mumbai-style plot in Europe. Stepped-up drone attacks along the Af-Pak border in the last couple of weeks are said to have targeted many terror training camps, including the one run by the retired major.

But with no confirmation on whether the Commonwealth Games plot had been foiled, an alert was sent to airports across the Middle-East, and in Bangladesh, Nepal and other countries in the region. Sources said Bangladesh had actually detained some people, who are currently under investigation.

Raghavendra wrote:. . . a strong possibility of a frontal attack on a venue with multiple weapons including rocket launchers. The attack would have been similar to some terrorist strikes in Pakistan, sources said.

The highlighted part is important. RPGs, suicide attacks & bombings are to be expected in the near future. In one way, we have already had a far worse attack in India in 26/11 than anything seen in Pakistan so far. For two years now, there has been a relative lull in India and that is unacceptable to the PA/ISI. Pakistan's objective is to attempt to drag India along with it as it goes down or light a fuse that will then explode later much after Pakistan had disappeared in its present form. It is for this simple reason that India cannot remain smug allowing Pakistan to stew in its own juice because the blowback on India would be severe.

Pakistan intelligence services 'aided Mumbai terror attacks'

Osama bin Laden living in comfort in Pakistan, says Nato official

Yemeni forces arrest five Pakistanis http://www.dawn.com/wps/wcm/connect/daw ... nis--bi-04

Thursday, 21 Oct, 2010

SANAA: Yemeni security forces have arrested 10 people, among them five Pakistanis, for spreading extremist religious ideas in the outskirts of the capital Sanaa, Yemen's interior ministry said on Thursday.

The 10, whose ages ranged from 27 to 65, were spreading “extremist jihadi ideas” among the population of the Dilaa Hamdan area, the ministry said on its website.

The other five people arrested were Yemenis, it said. All 10 have been bound over for legal proceedings.

15 years and no chance of parole, in a federal happy house, for this Pakistani.

Pakistani in Houston sentenced for aiding Taliban
http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/spe ... 59585.html

A Pakistani national who came to the U.S. on a student visa to attend college in the Houston area was sentenced to federal prison today for having firearms and planning to help the Taliban.

Adnan Mirza, 33, was sentenced to 15 years without parole for unlawfully possessing firearms and conspiring to provide material support to the Taliban, federal officials announced today. He also was fined $9,000.

Mirza was convicted in May following a jury trial.

As a foreign national who had entered the U.S. on a student visa to attend a community college in 2005 and 2006, Mirza is not permitted by federal law to possess firearms while in the U.S., federal officials said.

Authorities said an FBI undercover investigation found that Mirza and others had engaged in weekend camping/training and practice sessions with firearms to prepare for "jihad" on six different occasions beginning in May 2006 at a location on the north side of Houston.

The investigation also uncovered that Mirza and others had intended to send funds to the Taliban, officials said.

Mirza's attorney, David Adler, has said in court that his client did express anger about American actions overseas and war casualties, but also argued that any money his client gathered was for families, hospitals and women and children who were casualties of war, not for any groups that support the Taliban.

Adler told jurors that Mirza was a good student who regularly fed Houston's homeless and worked with Houston police on a local public access channel to explain Muslim ways to police and citizens.

Yet another demonstration of the IEDology of Pakistan with the involvement of a Pakistani origin individual in an Islamic Terrorist plot to bomb the Washington DC Metro system:

U.S. Citizen From Pakistan Charged In Metro Bombing Plot

Financing terrorism: BCCI of Pakistan

Nothing in the history of modern financial scandals rivals the unfolding saga of the Bank of Credit & Commerce International, the $20 billion rogue empire that regulators in 62 countries shut down early this month in a stunning global sweep. Operating primarily out of the bank's offices in Karachi, Pakistan, the 1,500-employee black network has used sophisticated spy equipment and techniques, along with bribery, extortion, kidnapping and even, by some accounts, murder.

B.C.C.I. was started in 1972 with the putative mission of becoming the Muslim world's first banking powerhouse. Though it was incorporated in Luxembourg and headquartered in London, had more than 400 branches and subsidiaries around the world and was nominally owned by Arab shareholders from the gulf countries, B.C.C.I. was always a Pakistani bank, with its heart in Karachi. Agha Hasan Abedi, the bank's founder and leader until his ouster last year, is a Pakistani, as are most of the bank's former middle managers. And it was in Pakistan that the bank's most prodigiously corrupt division was spawned.

The Soviet invasion of Afghanistan in 1979 and the resulting strategic importance of neighboring Pakistan accelerated the growth of B.C.C.I.'s geopolitical power and its unbridled use of the black network. Sources say B.C.C.I. officials, known as protocol officers, were responsible for providing a smorgasbord of services for customers and national officials: paying bribes to politicians, supplying "young beauties from Lahore," moving drugs and expediting insider business deals.

The bank's complex organization and unique method of accounting -- longhand in paper ledgers, written in Pakistan's Urdu language -- make it unlikely that most of the missing money will be traced. Nor is it likely that anyone will ever know just how much Abedi, who has incorporated a new bank, called the Progressive Bank, in Karachi, stole from the rest of the world.

BCCI conference from a facebook profile of the terrorist bank's Pakistani admirers.

The history of BCCI is a bigger scandal than most know of. It was not only the conduit for funds going for the Jehad, it was also a money laundering operation for the drugs coming out of Afghnistan. It is often portrayed as a corrupt entity from the developing world, but it was very much a western construct - made for the purposes of western empire. Western economies are heavily dependant on recycling narcodollars (as well as petrodollars and arms dollars).

Causing the bank to fail was necessary - because it lets people destroy incriminating records LEGALLY.

Does the extreme resistance of the Pakistani army to conduct operations in N waziristan have to do with the presence of OBL himself in that area? Maybe OBL is under the protection of the Haqqani faction.

We understand that these days Haqqani faction == AlQaida more or less. If the old news that the Haqqani faction rescued and welcomed OBL as he crossed over from Tora Bora into parachinar in NWFP is true, then one must assume, that OBL is present in N Waziristan.

The ISI would love to keep him in safe houses in some secure pakistani city, but they probably fear that the US will find out. So after OBL was nurutred to health, he was probably entrusted to the Haqqanis to shelter, with the ISI indirectly involved, but overseeing everything.

What would be OBL's age and medical condition by now?

abhischekcc wrote:The history of BCCI is a bigger scandal than most know of.

The 2009 movie "The International" was based on this terror funding scandal. They had a little bit on West Asia politics, but completely avoided any mention of Pakistan or the global jehad in Afghanistan.

Pakistan: Kashmir students trained to wage jihad on India http://www.adnkronos.com/AKI/English/Se ... 1205060564

Islamabad, 4 Nov.(AKI) - Hundreds of university students are being trained in militant camps in Pakistan-administered Kashmir to wage jihad, or holy war, against India, according a report by the BBC's Urdu-language service.

A 25-year old engineering student from Lahore told the BBC that training is taking place in the Kashmir capitol of Muzaffarabad.

"A large number of young Pakistani and foreign university students are receiving training Pakistan occupied Kashmir, under supervision of a group that conducts jihad against India," the student said, underlining that most of the students in the camps come from Punjab while 20 percent come from Kashmir, with the remaining ten percent foreigners.

The student's statements contradict recent statements by Pakistan's interior minister Rehman Malik who denied reports about the existence of such camps.

Pakistan-administered Kashmir is claimed by India. The countries in 1947 fought a war over the area, which is referred to as Pakistan Occupied Kashmir by India.

Raghavendra wrote:Pakistan: Kashmir students trained to wage jihad on India

Nothing surprising. This is how Al-Badr & Al-Shams committed genocide in East Pakistan. This is how Jama'at-e-Islami sent in its student cadres of IJT into J&K in 1990.

X Posted from the Mumbai Terrorist Attack thread.

Sebastian Rotella on the Pakistani Islamic Terrorist, Sajid Mir:

The Man Behind Mumbai

The same article is also available at the Washington Post website:

On the trail of Pakistani terror group's elusive mastermind behind the Mumbai siege

I have been compiling a list of countries where Purelanders and people of Purelandic origin have been involved in terror acts/ plots. The initial listing I got from BR only and then I have added some more. Please feel free to add any places that have been missed out.

France
Spain
Canada
Norway
Tunisia
US
Britain
Xinjiang Uighur Autonomous Region
CIS countries
Tajikistan
Southern Philippines
Bosnia
Iran
Maldives
Yemen
Saudi Arabia
Burma
Indonesia
South Korea
Thailand
Chile
Uganda
Somalia
Zimbabwe
South Africa
Bangladesh
Denmark
Indonesia.

IMHO it should reach the magical figure of 72 onlee

India

Australia.

I hope you have seen this.

JE Menon wrote:India

That is all Chunky-yen papaganda.

SSridhar wrote:Australia.

I hope you have seen this.

Thanks for providing this

We can now add

Italy
Singapore
Holland
Kenya
Lebanon

Airavat wrote:

abhischekcc wrote:The history of BCCI is a bigger scandal than most know of.

The 2009 movie "The International" was based on this terror funding scandal. They had a little bit on West Asia politics, but completely avoided any mention of Pakistan or the global jehad in Afghanistan.

Yup. Clive Owen looks good as usual

But the movie hardly touched upon anything.

The Maplecroft Terrorism Risk Index (TRI) shows that the Islamic Terrorism that the Islamic Republic of Pakistan sowed to target India, has come back to haunt Pakistan.

Somalia beats out the Islamic Republic of Pakistan as the terror capital of the world. Meanwhile the Islamic Republic of Pakistan can take comfort from the fact that it beat off the challenge from Iraq (in 3rd place) and Afghanistan (in 4th place) :

Somalia overtakes Iraq, Afghanistan, Pakistan and Colombia to become world’s terror capital – Global study

Slightly dated report from London.

Preventing the Next Mumbai

...
It is also significant that once again the source of this latest plan appears to have been Pakistan. In 2008, then-Prime Minister Gordon Brown said three-quarters of the serious terror plots being aimed at Britain originated in Pakistan. The head of MI5 said last month that this figure now stands at 50%, but this reflects the troubling rise in activity in Somalia and Yemen, not a decreased threat from Pakistan...

arun wrote:Somalia overtakes Iraq, Afghanistan, Pakistan and Colombia to become world’s terror capital – Global study

That Terrorism Risk Index only measures risk due to terrorist attacks within that particular country. That is a linear measure and hence incomplete for discussing Pakistan.

Pakistan's use of terrorism is multi-dimensional. There are internal attacks, there are external attacks emanating from Pakistani soil, the Pakistani Army and its intelligence wings collaborate with the terrorists, the terrorists and their outfits even when proscribed by the UN are not punished and dismantled, the terrorist organizations collect funds openly and conduct public meetings where fiery jihadi speeches are given, these Pakistani terrorist organizations provide funding, manpower, training, logistics and theoretical religious foundations to brainwash ordinary people and make them jihadists, the elected Pakistani governments, bureaucracy and the judiciary are unwilling to take action against the jihadis because they sympathize with their aims, Pakistan provides asylum for international terrorists and feigns ignorance about their presence, it deliberately misleads international bodies in matters relating to terrorism, its leaders justify terrorism etc. All the while, it sends one of the largest contingents to the UN for International Peacekeeping.

Above all, Pakistan is a nuclear-weapon state which is completely supported by powerful members of the international community. It is very unique in its class and is therefore insulting to be compared with Somalia.

Pakistan can never be dislodged from its high position by anybody else, even as it scales newer heights every passing day. Pakistan paindabad.

X Posted.

Court House News:

Families of Mumbai Attack Victims Sue Pakistan's ISI and its Officers

New York Daily News:

Families of Mumbai terror attack victims accuse Pakistani intelligence in wrongful death suit

US teenager held in Oregon over Christmas 'bomb plot'

A teenager has been arrested in the US state of Oregon after allegedly plotting to carry out a car bomb attack at a Christmas tree lighting ceremony.

Somali-born Mohamed Osman Mohamud, 19, was arrested after making a telephone call he thought would set off the bomb in the centre of Portland.

However, the bomb was a fake supplied by agents in a sting operation.

Mr Mohamud is a naturalised US citizen who had allegedly been in contact with an associate in north-west Pakistan.

Link - http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-11852953

Citizens of the Islamic Republic of Pakistan arrested in distant Cyprus for involvement with IT not of the Information Technology variety but rather of the of the Islamic Terrorist variety:

Cyprus holds two Pakistanis suspected of extremist links

And the same story from the Associated Press:

Cyprus police detain 2 Pakistanis suspected of links to Islamic extremist groups

US sanctions three Pak terrorists http://www.hindustantimes.com/News-Feed ... 34137.aspx

The UK’s Telegraph on French President Nicolas Sarkozy taking the Islamic Republic of Pakistan to task for fomenting IT, not the IT of the Information Technology but rather of the Islamic Terrorism variety, around the world.

That this was said in India is going to be particularly irksome to the Islamic Republic of Pakistan :

Nicolas Sarkozy launches attack on Pakistan over terrorist safe havens

Nicolas Sarkozy, the French president, launched a fierce attack on Pakistan during his visit to India, accusing Islamabad of allowing terrorist groups to form safe havens in its territory.

Dean Nelson in New Delhi 2:21PM GMT 07 Dec 2010

Mr Sarkozy said terrorist groups were free to launch attacks on India and Nato troops in Afghanistan from Pakistan. …………………..

He said: "It is unacceptable that India's security can be threatened by groups of terrorists acting from neighbouring countries.

"It is unacceptable for Afghanistan and for our troops that the Taliban and al-Qaeda find safe haven in the border regions of Pakistan. We know the price that the Pakistani people are paying for terrorism. But it is unacceptable for the world that terrorist acts should be masterminded and carried out by terrorist groups in Pakistan," he said.

The Pakistani authorities must "step up their efforts and show that they are resolute in combating these criminals," he added, and pledged unlimited counter-terrorist co-operation with India. ………………….

Telegraph

A bit old, but for the record... from UK's telegraph where-
Pakistan's president has admitted his country created terrorist groups to help achieve its foreign policy goals.
Pakistani president Asif Zardari admits creating terrorist groups

Asif Zardari told a meeting of former senior civil servants in Islamabad, it was time to be honest about their deployment.
"Let us be truthful to ourselves and make a candid admission of the realities," he said. "The terrorists of today were the heroes of yesteryears until 9/11 occurred and they began to haunt us as well."
These groups were not thrown up because of government weakness, but as a matter of policy. He said they were deliberately "created and nurtured" as a policy to achieve some short-term tactical objectives.
...His comments amount to an admission that Pakistan trained Islamic terrorists to launch attacks on India as part of its long war over its claim on Kashmir.
...Mr Zardari first confirmed that many of the Islamic militants now waging war against his government were once "strategic assets" in an interview with the Daily Telegraph earlier this week.
"I don't think anybody in the establishment supports them any more. I think everybody has become more wise than this,...

Islamic militant groups like Lashkar-e-Taiba and Jaish-e-Mohammed, have long been regarded as Pakistan proxy forces by diplomats and intelligence services but Islamabad has, until now, always denied any links.

It is believed to have been responsible for the commando attack on Delhi's Red Fort in December in which two soldiers and a civilian were killed. It was involved with another Pakistan-backed terrorist group Jaish-e-Mohammed in the 2001 attack on the Indian parliament before it was banned by Islamabad in 2002.
Pakistan terrorists were also behind the 1999 hijacking of an Indian Airlines jet which forced the Indian government to release three jailed militants, including Masood Azhar, the founder of Jaish-e-Mohammed, and Omar Saeed Sheikh, who was later arrested for the murder of Daniel Pearl.
The Indian government believes links between Islamabad and these terrorist groups remain intact and prime minister Manmohan Singh has accused elements within Pakistan's security apparatus of aiding the Lashkar-e-Taiba's commando attack on Mumbai last November.

Nice reference...
Few other links related to the previous post by Arun
WikiLeaks: Pakistan continues to support Mumbai terror attack group

Pakistan continues to support the militant group which carried out the 2008 terrorist attacks on Mumbai despite its claims to have launched a crackdown on the organisation, the United States Ambassador to Islamabad wrote in a cable.

WikiLeaks: Mumbai terrorists plotted minister's assassination
US publicly criticises Pakistani efforts against terror

The White House has made an unprecedented public criticism of Pakistani efforts against terror, accusing Islamabad of avoiding "direct conflict" with the Afghan Taliban and al-Qaeda militants.

Britain, the United States and Australia have sent intelligence teams to India to help stop Pakistan-based groups launching a terrorist attack during the Commonwealth Games, The Daily Telegraph has learnt.

X Posted from the ISI History & Discussions thread.

Amrullah Saleh, the former head of Afghanistan's National Directorate of Security (NSD), clearly recognises the malign role of the Islamic Republic of Pakistan via its intelligence agencies in supporting the Islamic Terrorism being perpetrated by the Afghan Taliban in Afghanistan.

His comments before an audience at the Jamestown Foundation:

He questioned those skeptical of the Taliban's strength. "Will they be able to threaten our key and national interest by possessing AK-47s? Remember, when they helped Al Qaeda do 9/11, they had the same weapons." His solution? "DDR" the Taliban. "Demobilize them, disarm them, take their headquarters out of the Pakistani Intelligence basements... Push the Taliban to play according to the script of democracy—and if they win...allow them a chance to govern." He's confident, though, that "they will die in democracy, they will die in a country where law is ruling, not guns, not IEDs, not the spread of fear and intimidation."

Saleh also has a pretty good idea of where to change the narrative of the war: Pakistan. Since 9/11, he says, Pakistan has provided only "retail" and not "wholesale" cooperation. Time after time, the United States has been duped into trusting the country and its intelligence services. Saleh even claimed that Pakistani officials have privately admitted to him that their country has yet to change its ways despite their frequent promises to do so. "Now the United States believes that by giving more money and resources to Pakistan, you can convert their behavior from bad to good…but it is rewarding bad behavior which [continues] that bad behavior."

Read it all in an article by Siddhartha Mahanta in Mother Jones:

Afghanistan's Ex-Spymaster Rips Karzai's Signature Policy

The US National Intelligence Estimates, prepared by their Director of National Intelligence says :

……………… the war cannot be won unless Pakistan is willing to obliterate terrorist safe havens in its lawless tribal areas bordering Afghanistan.

The new report on Pakistan concludes that the Pakistani government and military "are not willing to do that," says one U.S. official briefed on the analysis.

The document says Pakistan's government pays lip service to cooperating with U.S. efforts against the militants, and still secretly backs the Taliban as a way of hedging its bets in order to influence Afghanistan after a U.S. departure from the region. …………………

Read it all:

Bleak Afghan and Pakistan intelligence reviews

Explosions in Stockholm believed to be failed terrorist attack
http://www.cnn.com/2010/WORLD/europe/12 ... tml?hpt=T2

Count till 10 and someone from TSP turns up in this.

^^Airavat,

I was watching the movie The International yesternight. I think that it is based more on the collapse of the clearing house Clearstream in the mid 80s.

IMO, worth reading, The Bangkok Post
http://www.bangkokpost.com/news/investi ... tion-alpha
"Operation Alpha
The inside story of how DSI investigators helped shut down an international forgery ring that supplied fake documents to terrorists and other criminal elements for a decade."

The Pakistani national accused of running a passport forgery gang linked to international terrorist groups operated for 10 years in Thailand under the protection of powerful individuals, according to the officer who headed the investigation.

Shows how terrorism builds upon and feeds upon a criminal substratum. To weaken terrorism, we need to fight crime as well.

A_Gupta wrote:IMO, worth reading, The Bangkok Post
http://www.bangkokpost.com/news/investi ... tion-alpha
"Operation Alpha
The inside story of how DSI investigators helped shut down an international forgery ring that supplied fake documents to terrorists and other criminal elements for a decade."

The Pakistani national accused of running a passport forgery gang linked to international terrorist groups operated for 10 years in Thailand under the protection of powerful individuals, according to the officer who headed the investigation.

Shows how terrorism builds upon and feeds upon a criminal substratum. To weaken terrorism, we need to fight crime as well.

Arun I had created an image to illustrate this - esp wrt India a long time ago. The same hit man/criminal element is used by anyone who wants dirty work done. All communicate with him and all may protect him. He holds all their secrets and can play one off against the other.

there was two bomb blasts in Stockholm today, with one killed. one group has claimed responsibility due to cartoon about Muhammad.

matter of time I guess before its traced back to Malmo and case closed due to PC/fear-of-more-unrest.

http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld ... 9748.story

The Stockholm bomber was an Iraqi born guy who studied at a University in Luton, Londonistan , yes the same Luton which has ghettos of mujahid type Purelanders.

A Paqui link is never far from a terror act.

Looking forward to the news that how he was radicalised into Pakistaniyat at Luton.

http://www.thetimes.co.uk/tto/news/worl ... 841550.ece

shiv wrote: Arun I had created an image to illustrate this - esp wrt India a long time ago. The same hit man/criminal element is used by anyone who wants dirty work done. All communicate with him and all may protect him. He holds all their secrets and can play one off against the other.

Hit the criminal elements and then things fall apart for the bad guys