Pakistani Role in Global Terrorism

Vivek_A · Post by **Vivek_A** » 20 Aug 2008 03:28

35 Pak Olympic spectators held as terror suspects

KARACHI: The Chinese government detained 35 Pakistanis visiting China that they suspect of planning to attack proceedings of the Olympic Games, Daily Times learnt on Tuesday. China has asked the Pakistani government for details of the arrested in a letter that alleged 35 suspected Pakistani militants had arrived in China to attack proceedings at the Games. Colonel Anjum Sheikh Saeed of the Foreign Security Department wrote to the Interior Ministry on August 18, ordering the authorities concerned to collect details of those detained. The Chinese government has not released the names of those being held, but has given the names and passport numbers of 13 which include Anwar Afridi, Dildar Khan, Darwaish, Sultan, Akbar Shah, Muhammad Amin, Qadir, Asad Masood, Afzal, Saadat and Dolat Yousaf. faraz khan

Arun_S · Post by **Arun_S** » 21 Aug 2008 23:57

Pak govt failing to rein in ISI: US

London, August 21: A senior US official has said that Pakistan’s new government has failed to rein in spy agency ISI, whose activities were always “ambiguous” and have now become even more explicit because of “lack of supervision”.

Pakistan’s new government has failed to prevent the country’s intelligence agency from aiding terrorist attacks and supporting the Taliban, a state department official told theFinancial Time, on condition of anonymity.

He added that Pakistan needs to speed up efforts to control the Inter Services Intelligence after the exit of Pervez Musharraf from the country’s political arena.

“The position of the ISI has always been ambiguous [but] they may have been more directly involved in actions in more recent months because of lack of supervision,” the official said, referring to “a lot of allegations” that the agency was involved in the July 7 bombing of the Indian embassy in Kabul.

The Indian embassy attack, along with persistent US intelligence reports that al-Qaeda has established its position in “safe havens” of the restive northwest Pakistan bordering Afghanistan, has deepened Washington’s doubts about prospects for military and intelligence co-operation, he said.

Western diplomats also say that Pakistani officials were confronted with “credible evidence” documenting the ISI’s role in supporting extremist groups, a charge that has been denied by Islamabad, the Financial Times said.

US officials were also dismayed last month by the failure of Pakistan interior ministry’s bid to bring the intelligence agency under its direct control, it said.

“There is a lot of pressure building up on Pakistan to take full charge of the ISI. Rightly or wrongly, people from the outside think the ISI is the source of all their problems, a former Pakistani diplomat Tariq Fatemi told the newspaper.

Senior Pakistani government officials familiar with security issues said Musharraf’s departure had created an opportunity to order high-level personnel changes in the agency.

The US state department official also said that the departure of the ex-military ruler was “an opportunity to focus on serious issues”.

“There are signs of lining ISI more directly up in terms of going after the terrorist problem and not being so schizophrenic in terms of how they deal with terrorism,” he said, citing the recent Pakistani operations in the militant-infested tribal areas as “signs of more resolute action against terrorism”.

Sadler · Post by **Sadler** » 22 Aug 2008 07:24

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arun · Post by **arun** » 03 Sep 2008 13:28

In the end if it is terrorism a Pakistani link will most likely emerge.

No matter this plot was in Germany, no matter that it involved an Uzbek terrorist group, there is a Pakistani link. The terrorists were trained in Pakistan :

Three Men Charged in German Terror Plot

By Bloomberg News | September 3, 2008

Three men were charged by the German Federal Prosecutor over claims they plotted a terrorist attack on American facilities and other locations frequented by American soldiers in Germany. ......

The three men are members of the terrorist group "Islamic Jihad Union" and were trained in the group's camps in Pakistan, according to prosecutors. ..........

arun · Post by **arun** » 03 Sep 2008 13:57

The much touted hypothesis that the root causes of terrorism is poverty and illiteracy is bunkum.

Here we have a highly educated Pakistani woman being indicted for terrorism. Educated at MIT , I understand , which even on a generous scholarship is not within the means of the poverty stricken.

There is another dynamic besides poverty and illiteracy at work in fostering jihadi terrorism :

Pakistani indicted in NY on terror

arun · Post by **arun** » 03 Sep 2008 14:18

Moving on from Germany and the US to the UK .........

Pakistani origin, most likely.

The Hindu previously had identified the earlier three arrested as being of Pakistani origin (Click Here)

I call on all those of Pakistani origin to stand up for Jinnah and the Two Nation Theory and demand that the British stop using the term Asian. The horror of the “Momin” being grouped with Hindu’s must be highlighted to the general British populace

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UK: 4th man charged with terror offense

SSridhar · Post by **SSridhar** » 03 Sep 2008 18:10

Wow guys.

My compilation of bulletted Pakistani terrorist acts & support since 9/11 worldwide (except India) has grown to six-and-a-half pages and it is still pouring in thick and fast. Add to that the India list, it becomes mind-boggling. Truly a Terror central, the like of which history has never seen before.

arun · Post by **arun** » 04 Sep 2008 08:47

Sridhar,

One more for your collection.

X Post from Dawn :

September 04, 2008 Thursday Ramazan 3, 1429

ISI behind abduction of Japanese worker, alleges Afghanistan

KABUL, Sept 3: Afghan intelligence claimed on Wednesday it had arrested a Pakistan national who said he was paid by his country’s spy agency to help abduct a Japanese aid worker who was later shot dead.

Kazuya Ito, 31, was abducted on August 26 in eastern Nangarhar province, about 50km from the Pakistan border. His body was found a day later.

The arrested man was named as Adil Shah and had been studying at a madressah in the NWFP, the National Directorate for Security said in a statement.

He said he was enlisted by ISI and had been working with three Afghans.

“Adil Shah has confessed during the investigation that the abduction and killing of the Japanese engineer was planned and implemented by Pakistan’s ISI and for that a large amount of money was given to the members of the group,” the statement said.

The Taliban had claimed responsibility for kidnapping Ito, who had been working in Afghanistan for five years.

Avinash R · Post by **Avinash R** » 04 Sep 2008 11:22

same news, more links for archiving.
ISI behind abduction of Japanese aid worker
Web posted at: 9/4/2008 3:10:55
Source ::: AFP
http://www.thepeninsulaqatar.com/Displa ... 431055.xml

Pakistan ISI behind killing of Japanese aid worker: Afghan official
Sep 3 05:39 AM US/Eastern
http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id ... _article=1

Avinash R · Post by **Avinash R** » 04 Sep 2008 11:24

guys you missed this important news.

Pakistani indicted in NY for attack on U.S. soldiers
http://www.reuters.com/article/newsOne/ ... 0120080902

Tue Sep 2, 2008 4:50pm EDT

NEW YORK (Reuters) - A Pakistani woman suspected of links to al Qaeda was indicted on Tuesday on federal charges of attempted murder and assault of U.S. soldiers during a confrontation in Afghanistan in July.

Aafia Siddiqui, 36, a U.S.-trained neuroscientist, resurfaced in August after being declared missing for five years by human rights groups. She was flown by the United States to New York from Afghanistan.

The indictment says Siddiqui was detained by Afghan police in July and brought before U.S. officers for questioning in Afghanistan's Ghazni province on July 18.

She was found to possess "handwritten notes" about a "mass casualty attack" and a list of U.S. locations, including the Empire State Building, the Statute of Liberty, Wall Street and the Brooklyn Bridge, the indictment said.

During an interview with U.S. soldiers and others, Siddiqui got control of one of a U.S. officer's rifle and fired it at several members of the interview team. She then attempted to assault other officers, the indictment said.

Siddiqui's lawyers have said they believe she had been secretly detained since March 2003, when she left her parents' home in Karachi to visit her uncle in Islamabad.

In 2004, Siddiqui was identified by the FBI as an "al Qaeda operative and facilitator who posed a clear and present danger to America."

Siddiqui is married to a nephew of Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, who helped plan the September 11 attacks. Her husband was captured in 2003 and is now held at the U.S. military prison camp at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.

Siddiqui, who was shot in the abdomen and wounded during the alleged attack, is charged with attempted murder, armed assault, and other charges.

If convicted, she could face life in prison. She is due to be arraigned on Thursday.

Anindya · Post by **Anindya** » 04 Sep 2008 13:30

SSridhar wrote:Wow guys.

My compilation of bulletted Pakistani terrorist acts & support since 9/11 worldwide (except India) has grown to six-and-a-half pages and it is still pouring in thick and fast. Add to that the India list, it becomes mind-boggling. Truly a Terror central, the like of which history has never seen before.

Sridhar

Please consider structuring this information into a paper or article. If you'd like to get this data converted into a visual form, then I can see if some online media outlets are interested.

It is critical to get this information widely distributed. Do drop me an email, in any case.

arindam

SSridhar · Post by **SSridhar** » 04 Sep 2008 15:07

Arindam, thanks. I have sent you mail to your GMail account.

SSridhar · Post by **SSridhar** » 04 Sep 2008 15:22

arun wrote:One more for your collection.

X Post from Dawn :

September 04, 2008 Thursday Ramazan 3, 1429

ISI behind abduction of Japanese worker, alleges Afghanistan

KABUL, Sept 3: Afghan intelligence claimed on Wednesday it had arrested a Pakistan national who said he was paid by his country’s spy agency to help abduct a Japanese aid worker who was later shot dead.. . . . .The Taliban had claimed responsibility for kidnapping Ito, who had been working in Afghanistan for five years.

arun, thanks. There is some lack of clarity here as to why the ISI should pay the Taliban to abduct and kill a friendly Jap, whose country is the largest donor for Pakistan for a long time. I can understand why the Taliban abduct the Chinese. But, in this case, the Jap was killed within a day of abduction without any ransom being demanded. I am pretty sure that the Taliban could have gained handsomely had they negotiated with the Pakistani/Japanese governments.

The last time I know of when a Japanese was involved in Islamic terror in Pakistan was way back in 1999 when four Jap geologists who were abducted in far away Kyrgystan were negotiated for in Islamabad with the Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan (IMU) and were later released for a ransom.

Verily, all ye Believers, Pakistan is the Global Terror Central.

Lalmohan · Post by **Lalmohan** » 04 Sep 2008 20:55

useful 'relationship map' of UK based al-Q wallahs

arun · Post by **arun** » 05 Sep 2008 08:10

Another Pakistani indulging in the Pakistani national passtime of terrorism :

German-Pakistani charged with al-Qaida membership

The Associated Press Published: September 4, 2008

A German man of Pakistani heritage suspected of raising money and recruiting fighters for al-Qaida has been charged with membership in Osama bin Laden's terrorist organization, federal prosecutors said Thursday.

The suspect, identified only as 46-year-old Aleem N. — whose family has identified him as Aleem Nasir — was arrested in February at his home in the southwestern state of Rheinland-Palatinate and was charged Aug. 19.

According to a statement from German prosecutors, Nasir traveled "regularly" to Pakistan and "by summer 2004 at the latest" he had agreed with al-Qaida leaders in the Pakistani-Afghan border region "to take part in al-Qaida activities."

His attorney, Manfred Gnjidic, was on holiday Thursday and his office said he could not be reached for comment. But at the time of Nasir's arrest, Gnjidic said his client had not confessed to anything.

Nasir was quoted himself in Germany's Stern magazine as saying he had made several trips to Pakistan not to visit terror camps, but to purchase precious stones.

But prosecutors said that between April 2005 to June 2007 he made at least four trips to Pakistan's border region with Afghanistan, in one case handing over $21,730 to al-Qaida and on another at least $5,800 in cash. He also is alleged to have provided the terrorist organization with additional equipment such as binoculars, night-vision goggles, laser range-finders, digital compasses and radios.

"His duty is suspected to have been to acquire money and equipment in Germany for military use and recruit further members as well as fighters for the organization," prosecutors said in their statement.

IHT

Dawns version of the story :

German man charged with Al Qaeda membership

Avinash R · Post by **Avinash R** » 08 Sep 2008 17:09

Skanda wrote: How the Taliban gave a French lesson
http://www.atimes.com/atimes/South_Asia/JI04Df05.html

French press interviews with survivors of the ambush describe a rapid breakdown in command and communications, with Taliban marksmen taking down French soldiers at will. Among the first to be killed were the deputy section leader and the radioman of the advance unit. The warrant officer in command was shot in the shoulder. Soon afterwards, the paratroopers' radio communication with the RMT broke down.

Heavily outnumbered, the French remained pinned down and under fire from small arms, machine guns and rocket launchers for four hours without reinforcements. Ammunition for all weapons other than their assault rifles ran out as the soldiers were unable to reach supplies still in their vehicles, although a VAB with a section from the 35e Regiment d'Artillerie Parachutiste in the rear of the column was able to deploy the vehicle's machine gun and four 120mm mortars in support.

Some of the wounded alleged that their unit was hit by fire from their Afghan allies and NATO aircraft. Fire from A-10 Thunderbolts was directed by the American special forces while a pair of F-15 fighters passed through without using their weapons because the French and Taliban were too closely intertwined.

An initial attempt by American helicopters to evacuate the wounded failed due to heavy fire. French EC725 Caracal helicopters arrived to provide fire support - one helicopter brought in a doctor and 10 French commandos from the rapid reaction force in Kabul. A group leader from the rapid reaction force who arrived after a 90-minute drive through difficult terrain described the situation on his arrival; "We couldn't see the enemy and we didn't know how many of them there were. We started climbing, but after 20 minutes we started coming under fire from the rear. We were surrounded."

Mortars (81mm) also arrived with the reinforcements but helicopters were unable to evacuate the wounded until 8pm. Six hours after the ambush began, Taliban fighters began to break off, though many remained in the area, launching a last attack at 9am the next day.

Despite official assurances that nearly all the casualties occurred in the first minutes of the ambush, other accounts suggested that four soldiers were captured before being killed by Taliban fighters. An investigative report by French weekly Le Canard enchaine claimed that the column's interpreter disappeared only hours before the operation began, suggesting the French troops were betrayed either by the interpreter or by Afghan troops attached to the column. The report repeated the claim four French soldiers were captured and executed by the Taliban shortly after the ambush began.

During the rescue of the wounded, an armored car of the RMT overturned when the road collapsed and the vehicle fell into a ravine, killing a Kanak trooper from New Caledonia and injuring four others. A medic from the 2eme Regiment Etranger Parachutiste (Foreign Legion) was also killed after making several forays to bring in wounded comrades from the 8th RPIMa.

Unlike the first-hand accounts carried by the press, French Defense Minister Herve Morin insisted that reinforcements were sent within 20 minutes and there were no indications of friendly fire. Pentagon and NATO spokesmen also denied having any evidence of such incidents. The Afghan Ministry of Defense stated that 13 Taliban fighters, including one Pakistani, were killed in the battle. Some French officers claimed 40 to 70 militants were killed, but acknowledged finding only one body. Claude Gueant, general secretary of French President Nicolas Sarkozy, maintained "the majority of the assailants were not Afghans".

A Taliban statement entitled "New and Interesting Information on the Killing and Wounding of the French Soldiers in Surubi" claimed that hundreds of Taliban fighters using heavy and light weapons had overwhelmed a French infantry battalion of 100 men and 18 tanks (APCs?) and other military vehicles. The statement describes the infliction of "hundreds" of French casualties and the destruction of five tanks and eight other military vehicles before locals descended to loot abandoned French weapons.

The region in which the attack took place is considered a stronghold of Gulbuddin Hekmatyar's Hezb-i Islami movement, which also issued a claim of responsibility for the attack.

Hekmatyar is the isi man.

Avinash R · Post by **Avinash R** » 08 Sep 2008 17:14

inspite of directing kafirs towards this page to post the nyt report on paki involvement they have not done so. lazy kafirs.

Right at the Edge

Read the full 11 pages.

Lalmohan · Post by **Lalmohan** » 09 Sep 2008 20:32

shame shame poppy shame, all the donkeys know your name...

'Astonishment' at terror verdicts

Eight out of 10 top priority terrorist investigations in the UK have some connection to Pakistan, according to a number of counter-terrorism officials

SSridhar · Post by **SSridhar** » 10 Sep 2008 08:44

No one convicted of terror plot to bomb planes - NY Times

This is in continuation of the post above by Lalmohan.
Excerpts. . .

A lengthy trial centering on what Scotland Yard called a plot to blow up trans-Atlantic airliners ended Monday when the jury convicted three of eight defendants of conspiracy to commit murder.But the jury failed to reach verdicts on the more serious charge of a conspiracy to have suicide bombers detonate soft-drink bottles filled with liquid explosives aboard seven airliners headed for the United States and Canada.

The failure to obtain convictions on the plane-bombing charge was a blow to counterterrorism officials in London and Washington, who had described the scheme as potentially the most devastating act of terrorism since the Sept. 11 attacks seven years ago this week. British and American experts had said that the plot had all the signs of an operation by Al Qaeda, and that it was conceived and organized in Pakistan.

But the case was hampered from the beginning, prosecutors said, by an investigation that was cut short, by the conflicting demands of intelligence agencies, and by problems with introducing evidence in the courtroom. To protect sources and methods, the prosecution was unable to introduce material from British or foreign intelligence agencies. In addition, Britain does not allow information in court that has been gathered from domestic wiretaps. The haste in making sweeping arrests made it hard for prosecutors to persuade the jury that the bomb plot had reached the stage at which an attack on airliners was imminent.{What a shame}

Partly as a result, prosecutors never convinced the jury that the suspects were prepared to strike immediately, or even that they had chosen planes as their targets. Nor did they convict a man whom they had accused of having links to Al Qaeda in Pakistan.

Britain’s Crown Prosecution Service said it might decide to call for a retrial of the case if it decides it might win convictions on the most serious charges. A decision on that is expected within weeks. In addition, a number of other suspects will face trial related to the plot.

After three months of evidence, the case against the eight men — all British Muslims aged 24 to 30, and six with family roots in Pakistan — went to the jury in late July. A two-week holiday break ordered by the judge was followed by what appeared to have been an impasse of more than three weeks among jurors on the most serious charges, even after the judge, David Calvert-Smith, allowed the jury to reach verdicts with at least 10 of the 12 jurors in agreement.

By exactly that margin, the jurors on Monday returned guilty verdicts on the murder conspiracy charges against three men who prosecutors said had been at the heart of the plot: Abdulla Ahmed Ali, 27, a husband and father who studied computer systems engineering; Assad Sarwar, 28, a college dropout who learned how to make the liquid hydrogen peroxide bomb in Pakistan; and Tanvir Hussain, 27, who helped in the purchase of materials and in making the suicide videos.

The defendants planned to drain 17-ounce plastic sports drink bottles by puncturing a tiny hole in the bottom, prosecutors said, then refilling the bottles with an explosive mix of concentrated hydrogen peroxide and food coloring to give the appearance of the original beverage.

The prosecution said the bottles were to have been resealed with instant glue, and then, once the bombers were aboard the flights, connected with detonators made of AA batteries filled with the explosive HMTD and disposable cameras acting as triggers.

But the jury failed to reach verdicts against seven of the eight men on the most serious charge, that of conspiring “to murder persons unknown by the detonation of improvised explosive devices on board trans-Atlantic passenger aircraft.”

Similarly, it failed to reach any decision on murder conspiracy charges against four other men described by prosecutors as foot soldiers in the plot: Ibrahim Savant, 27, a convert to Islam with Anglo-Indian roots, {Islam has the power to make neo-converts the most radical terrorists} who worked in his British mother’s bookkeeping business; Umar Islam, 30, a convert and former Rastafarian of Caribbean origin; Arafat Waheed Khan, 27, a newly engaged former cellphone shop employee; and Waheed Zaman, 24, a former biomedical college student who once led his university’s Islamic organization.

Seven of the eight defendants pleaded guilty to conspiracy to create a public nuisance with their plan to produce and distribute the videos, and face long prison sentences.

Some of the six who were accused of being suicide bombers had not obtained the “clean” passports, free of suspicious foreign stamps from Pakistan and elsewhere, that the prosecution said had been part of the planning for the attacks.

British officials said a crucial role in the suspected plot was played by Mohammed Gulzar, 26, who declared his innocence throughout, and was the only defendant to be acquitted of all charges on Monday.

British intelligence and law enforcement officials say they believe that Mr. Gulzar was the facilitator between the plotters in London and Qaeda operatives in Pakistan, and pushed his co-conspirators to move forward more quickly with the attack.

The law enforcement officials said Mr. Gulzar was a close friend of Mr. Rauf, a Briton of Pakistani origin who was the main figure at the Pakistan end of the plot, according to British, American and Pakistani officials.

The officials said Mr. Rauf and Mr. Gulzar fled Britain for Pakistan after the murder of Mr. Rauf’s uncle in Birmingham in April 2002. But Mr. Rauf was arrested in Pakistan in August 2006, forcing the police in Britain to move against other figures in the plot sooner than they had wanted, and, in the end, weakening the prosecutors’ case. A further blow came when Mr. Fauf, facing extradition to Britain in the murder case, escaped from the Pakistani police last December after entering a mosque for prayers.

Senior British and American officials have described Mr. Rauf as a protégé of Abu Faraj al-Libi, Qaeda’s director of operations until he was detained in Pakistan in 2005. After that, the officials said, operational control of the plot was taken over by Abu Ubaida al Masri, who was chief of operations for Al Qaeda until his death, the officials said.

British officials identified one of the people Mr. Gulzar met in South Africa and Britain as Mohammed Al Ghabra, suspected of being a Qaeda operative. The officials say he has been instrumental in arranging travel for prospective suicide bombers in Pakistan and Iraq.

One interesting point that was missed out in the report is that this Rauf guy is a close relative of Masood Azhar, the Amir of JeM. He was arrested in Bahawalpur, the fortress of JeM.

Avinash R · Post by **Avinash R** » 12 Sep 2008 15:32

specific info about the paki origin of the explosives used in the indian embassy blasts in kabul.

LEADER ARTICLE: Keep Up The Good Work
12 Sep 2008, 0105 hrs IST, G PARTHASARATHY

On June 24, the Afghan authorities informed the Indian embassy in Kabul that a suicide bombing of the embassy premises was imminent. Within hours, work to barricade the embassy began. Given the location of the embassy in the middle of a crowded shopping area and directly opposite the Afghan passport office, completely blocking the thoroughfare was impossible. Then as we all know a suicide bomber struck on July 7.

Unfortunately, the gates of the embassy had just opened for a car carrying two officials. Both these officers, two security personnel and 54 others died in the bomb attack. But thanks to the barricading work undertaken earlier, the entire embassy was saved from destruction.

Preliminary investigations reportedly revealed that the bomber was from Manshera in Pakistan and that the explosives used were manufactured in the Pakistan Ordnance Factory in Wah. Though investigators are tight-lipped, there appears to be evidence of involvement of the Pakistan consulate in Kandahar and ISI outfits within Pakistan in the bomb blast. Outraged that despite their presence, such a bombing had taken place in Afghanistan's capital, the Americans reportedly provided transcripts of communications between the ISI and the perpetrators to the Pakistan government.

The New York Times reported on September 7 that American officials had confirmed that the ISI had helped Taliban commander Jalaluddin Haqqani's fighters to bomb the Indian embassy in Kabul. The attack on the embassy followed attacks on Indian consulates in Kandahar and Jalalabad and on road construction crews building the strategic Delaram-Zaranj road, which will link landlocked Afghanistan to the Iranian port of Chah Bahar, depriving Pakistan of being Afghanistan's sole outlet to the sea. The Americans and NATO could become more effective if Iran and Russia augment their efforts to stabilise Afghanistan.

Undeterred by the bombing, India's ambassador in Kabul, Jayant Prasad, and his colleagues set about their work. Within six days the embassy began issuing visas to the public.

Vivek_A · Post by **Vivek_A** » 14 Sep 2008 11:43

New London terror warning
Christina Lamb and Michael Smith

AMERICAN raids on Taliban and Al-Qaeda targets in Pakistan could provoke terror attacks in London,Pakistan’s high commissioner to the UK warned yesterday.

Wajid Shamsul Hasan said the US bombings had killed hundreds of civilians but had failed to eliminate any Al-Qaeda leader.

“This will infuriate Muslims in this country and make the streets of London less safe,” he said. “There are 1m Pakistanis in the diaspora here and resentment is mounting. I’m being flooded by text messages from community leaders saying we must organise our anger.

“The Americans’ trigger-happy actions will radicalise young Muslims. They’re playing into the hands of the very militants we’re supposed to be fighting.”

His remarks followed outrage in Pakistan over five attacks in the past 10 days, including a ground assault in the village of Angoor Adda in which 20 people were killed. US officials say all were Al-Qaeda supporters but Pakistan insists they were civilians, including women and children.

Pakistan’s newly elected president, Asif Ali Zardari, arrives in Britain today on what was to have been a private visit to see his daughter off to university in Edinburgh. Instead he will hold crisis talks with Gordon Brown and David Miliband, the foreign secretary. He will appeal to them to exert their influence to halt the unauthorised bombings.

“We hope they will help convince the Americans to stop it, to give space to our fledgling democracy and revive our economy,” Hasan said. “Otherwise the army will take over. Is that what they want?”

SSridhar · Post by **SSridhar** » 14 Sep 2008 12:23

“This will infuriate Muslims in this country and make the streets of London less safe,” he said.

The above is simply not a 'terror warning'. It is a blackmail. For the first time, it is the Pakis ambassador who is issuing a warning of terror attacks on the streets of London. He is putting a gun at the UK's head literally.

Singha · Post by **Singha** » 14 Sep 2008 13:52

thats good.

enqyoob · Post by **enqyoob** » 17 Sep 2008 15:41

Revenge for Crusades, revenge for loss to Israel 1948, loss to India 1948, loss to India 1965, loss to Israel 1967, loss to India 1971, loss to Israel 1973, loss to Israel 1982, loss to India 1984, loss to India 1999, loss of underwear in Khyber Pass 2001, surrender in Girls School, Mazar-e-Sharif 2001....
Update:

six guards belonging to Yemen's Interior Ministry and four civilians have been killed by a car bombing targeting the U.S. Embassy in the Yemeni capital.

U.S. Embassy spokesman Ryan Gliha tells The Associated Press by telephone that a car bomb hit the embassy's gate Wednesday morning followed by a second explosion. He did not know what caused the second one.

The Yemeni security official says the four civilians were three Yemenis and one Indian national. (these are the victims, not the perpetrators who were probably Paki). The official spoke on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to speak to the media. (But did so anyway because he is a traitor and anyway he was lying - over 1,700,000,000,000,000 kufr were killed, no doubt)

Official: US Embassy in Yemen Hit by Car Bomb
US spokesman: car bomb hits front gate of US Embassy in Yemen, causing unspecified casualties
By AHMED AL-HAJ Associated Press Writer
The Associated Press

SAN'A, Yemen

A car bomb targeting the U.S. Embassy hit the front gate of the compound in Yemen's capital on Wednesday, causing unspecified casualties, a U.S. spokesman said.

Ryan Gliha, the embassy spokesman, told The Associated Press by telephone that there was a second explosion that followed the initial one, but did not know what caused it.

A Yemeni security official said the embassy was hit by two car bombs and that heavy gunfire lasting around 10 minutes followed the blasts.

Several nearby homes were badly damaged by the blasts, he said, but had no information on whether the heavily guarded embassy sustained damage too. He said three of the embassy's guards were wounded, but he did not know their nationalities.

A medical official, meanwhile, said at least seven Yemeni nationals were wounded and taken to the city's Republican hospital. They are residents of a housing compound near the embassy and included children, he said.

Both the security and medical officials spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to release the information to the media.

Explosions and heavy gunfire were heard near the embassy in the eastern section of San'a and police swiftly cordoned off the area, according to a government security official and an AP reporter at the scene.

The AP reporter said ambulance cars rushed to the area after the blasts and that hundreds of heavily armed security forces were deployed around the compound. Police kept reporters well away from the immediate area of the embassy, he said.

Regional TV news networks Al-Jazeera and Al-Arabiya reported that a fire broke out in one of the embassy's buildings. The AP reporter said a fire truck was seen headed to the scene, but Gliha, the embassy spokesman, denied the report.

The U.S. Embassy in Yemen, which is the ancestral homeland of al-Qaida leader Osama bin Laden, has been the focus of violence in the past. The terror network is active in the impoverished nation in the south and southwestern corner of the Arabian Peninsula.

In March, three mortar rounds targeting the U.S. Embassy crashed into a high school for girls next door, killing a Yemeni security guard and wounding more than a dozen girls.

In March 2002, a Yemeni man lobbed a sound grenade into the U.S. embassy grounds a day after Vice President Dick Cheney made a stop for talks with officials at San'a airport.

The attacker, who allegedly sought to retaliate against what he called American bias toward Israel, was sentenced to 10 years in prison but the sentence was later reduced to seven years.

In March 2003, two people were fatally shot and dozens more were injured when police clashed with demonstrators trying to storm the embassy when tens of thousands rallied against the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq.

In 2006, a gunman opened fire outside the embassy but was shot and arrested by Yemeni guards. The gunman, armed with a Kalashnikov rifle, claimed he wanted to kill Americans.

Al-Qaida has an active presence in Yemen despite government efforts to destroy it.

The group was blamed for the 2000 bombing of the USS Cole destroyer in the Yemeni port of Aden that killed 17 American sailors and an attack on a French oil tanker that killed one person two years later.

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Associated Press reporter Maggie Micahel in Cairo, Egypt, contributed to this report.

Manu · Post by **Manu** » 26 Sep 2008 06:44

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A BKA handout released by the Federal Criminal Police Office (BKA) on 25 September 2008 shows the Wanted Poster for terror suspect Eric Breininger. The two Islamist terror suspects Houssain Al Malla and Eric Breininger assumed to hide in the Pakistani-Afghan border region have possibly returned to Germany. BKA has instituted on 25 September 2008 tracing for German Breininger and Lebanese-born Al Malla. Breining has announced a suicide attack and called a Holy War in an internet video. BKA considers Breininger and Al Malla as forming part of the so-called Sauerland cell and the Islamic Jihad Union (IJU) terror group operating from Pakistan.

SSridhar · Post by **SSridhar** » 26 Sep 2008 15:00

Manu wrote:
A BKA handout released by the Federal Criminal Police Office (BKA) on 25 September 2008 shows the Wanted Poster for terror suspect Eric Breininger. The two Islamist terror suspects Houssain Al Malla and Eric Breininger assumed to hide in the Pakistani-Afghan border region have possibly returned to Germany. BKA has instituted on 25 September 2008 tracing for German Breininger and Lebanese-born Al Malla. Breining has announced a suicide attack and called a Holy War in an internet video. BKA considers Breininger and Al Malla as forming part of the so-called Sauerland cell and the Islamic Jihad Union (IJU) terror group operating from Pakistan.

Manu, source please . . .

Manu · Post by **Manu** » 26 Sep 2008 15:28

Link

The Federal Prosecutor said yesterday that authorities are searching for two suspected terrorists, 21-year-old Eric Breininger and 23-year-old Houssain Al Malla. The BKA said today that the two wanted men were not connected with the Cologne airport incident.
Breininger, a German from the western state of Saarland, is suspected of having trained at a camp in Pakistan with a terrorist group, Islamist Jihad Union, broadcaster ZDF said yesterday, citing unidentified security officials. The officials told ZDF that the suspect, accompanied by Al Malla, has possibly returned to Germany where he may aide in carrying out an attack.

The pics are from Militaryphotos.net

SSridhar · Post by **SSridhar** » 26 Sep 2008 15:53

Manu, thanks. There is an update at the same link which talks of two more suspects on their way to Pakistan for business-as-usual purposes being off-loaded from the flight. They are in addition to the two in your post,

German police boarded a KLM Royal Dutch Airlines aircraft at Cologne airport today and removed two men suspected of plotting terrorist attacks.

The men, whose luggage was also taken off the plane, are being interrogated by the authorities, airport spokesman Alexander Weise said in a telephone interview. A 23-year-old Somali and a 24-year-old Mogadishu-born German citizen were arrested, North Rhine-Westphalia state police spokesman Frank Scheulen said on N24 television.

``They are suspected of wanting to take part in jihad, and of seeking to carry out possible attacks,'' Scheulen said.

N24 reported that the two suspects left farewell letters in which they made reference to ``Holy War'' and possible terrorist attacks. The Tagesspiegel newspaper cited unnamed security officials as saying that the suspects were en route to Pakistan via Amsterdam and Uganda.

SSridhar · Post by **SSridhar** » 27 Sep 2008 17:16

Britain arrests three on terror suspicion

Any confirmation they are Pakistanis ? TIA

SSridhar · Post by **SSridhar** » 28 Sep 2008 10:24

Three arrested for setting ablaze a publisher for blasphemy

Is it related to the above ? Could they be Pakistanis ? Any confirmation ? TIA.

Singha · Post by **Singha** » 28 Sep 2008 19:48

afghanistan's most senior policewoman killed by the taliban

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/7640263.stm

Avinash R · Post by **Avinash R** » 01 Oct 2008 20:41

Nitesh wrote:Confidential Spanish report accuses ISI for supporting Taliban
http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2008/10/ ... aliban.php
MADRID, Spain: A report marked confidential and bearing the official seal of Spain's Defense Ministry charges that Pakistan's spy service was helping arm Taliban insurgents in 2005 for assassination plots against the Afghan government.

The report, which was obtained by Cadena Ser radio and posted on the station's Web site on Wednesday, also says Pakistan's Inter-Services Intelligence spy agency, or ISI, helped the Taliban procure improvised explosive devices, or IEDs, to use in attacks against vehicles.

It alleges that Pakistan may have provided training and intelligence to the Taliban in camps set up on Pakistani soil.

"The plan is that the TBs (Taliban) use these RCIEDs (remote control IEDs) to assassinate high-ranking officials," the report warns. The August 2005 document, which is marked "confidential" and topped with the Defense Ministry seal and the title of Spain's military intelligence agency, does not describe the source of the information.

Cadena Ser did not say how it obtained the report

The Defense Ministry and the Spanish prime minister's office said it had no comment on the document. Fernando Reinares, a terrorism analyst at the Elcano Royal Institute in Madrid and former chief counterterrorism adviser at Spain's Interior Ministry, said the document appeared to be an internal government report meant for the eyes of high-ranking officials.

Spain has about 800 soldiers deployed in northwest Afghanistan.

The report also warns that "it appears possible" that advanced training camps exist in Pakistan "where the Taliban receive training, help and intelligence from the ISI and where they are also developing new kinds of IEDs." The report says the Taliban had also been receiving help from al-Qaida.

Reinares said the report on the alleged ISI-Taliban link is in keeping with information from other Western spy agencies.

"The intelligence services have done nothing more then confirm a reality which has also been reported by other Western agencies," he told The Associated Press. Reinares said Spain has developed a strong military and police intelligence operation in Pakistan, particularly since the terror attacks of March 11, 2004.

the report is from 2005 so does not mention new developments like specialised sniper and suicide bomb training camps operated by isi in pakistan.

arun · Post by **arun** » 05 Oct 2008 11:16

SSridhar wrote:Three arrested for setting ablaze a publisher for blasphemy

Is it related to the above ? Could they be Pakistanis ? Any confirmation ? TIA.

Going by the names Abrar Mirza and Abbas Taj, very likely to be of Pakistani origin.

The third name, Ali Beheshti, seems to me to indicate an Iranian origin individual :

Three charged over novel attack

SSridhar · Post by **SSridhar** » 05 Oct 2008 12:42

arun wrote: Going by the names Abrar Mirza and Abbas Taj, very likely to be of Pakistani origin.

Three charged over novel attack

arun, thanks. Getting closer, but we should pin these two down to 'Pakistani descent' status. Waiting for such a report.

arun · Post by **arun** » 10 Oct 2008 13:53

Pakistani’s, the Islamic world’s preferred Jihadi terrorists.

Con Couglin in the UK’s Telegraph :

If Pakistan goes bust, the Taliban will rule the roost there as well

By Con Coughlin
Last Updated: 12:01am BST 10/10/2008

…… So far as Britain is concerned, all roads in the war on terror inevitably lead to Pakistan, whether these are the trails left by terror groups planning to carry out attacks against British airports or the endless supply of radicalised young Muslims making their way across Pakistan's lawless borders to attack British and other Nato forces based in Afghanistan. …..

Avinash R · Post by **Avinash R** » 12 Oct 2008 19:28

Taliban leader killed by SAS was Pakistan officer
Christina Lamb in Kabul

British officials covered up evidence that a Taliban commander killed by special forces in Helmand last year was in fact a Pakistani military officer, according to highly placed Afghan officials.

The commander, targeted in a compound in the Sangin valley, was one of six killed in the past year by SAS and SBS forces. When the British soldiers entered the compound they discovered a Pakistani military ID on the body.

It was the first physical evidence of covert Pakistani military operations against British forces in Afghanistan even though Islamabad insists it is a close ally in the war against terror.

Britain’s refusal to make the incident public led to a row with the Afghan president Hamid Karzai, who has long accused London of viewing Afghanistan through the eyes of Pakistani military intelligence, which is widely believed to have been helping the Taliban.

“He feels he has been telling everyone about Pakistan for the past six years and here was the evidence, yet London refused to release it, because they care more about their relations with Islamabad than Kabul,” said a source close to the president. “He knows Britain is worried about inflaming its large Pakistani population, but that is no excuse.”

So furious was Karzai that he threatened to expel British diplomats. When some months later he was informed by the governor of Helmand that British officials were secretly negotiating with the Taliban, he expelled two men and accused Britain of wanting to set up a training camp for former Taliban fighters.

Karzai will visit London next month for talks with Gordon Brown in an attempt to repair the strained relations between the two countries.

“He is very sad about the breakdown of relations with Britain,” said the source. “He loves British culture and poetry, had a British education [at a school in India], likes tea in the afternoon and thinks Gordon Brown is a very decent man, not a cheat.”

British officials in Kabul refused to comment on the allegation that they had covered up the discovery of a Pakistani soldier. They insisted Karzai’s government had been informed of the negotiations with the Taliban, adding that “the camp was just a place for them to be reintegrated, learn about hygiene and things”.

During the war against the Soviet Union in the 1980s, officers from Pakistani military intelligence regularly accompanied Afghan mujaheddin inside Afghanistan and directed operations.

The Afghan claims of Pakistani involvement in Helmand were backed by a senior United Nations official who said he had been told by his superiors to keep quiet after Pakistan’s ambassador to the UN apparently threatened to stop contributing forces to peacekeeping missions. Pakistan is the UN’s biggest supplier of peacekeeping troops.

The coalition’s refusal to confront Pakistan changed after the bombing of the Indian embassy in Kabul last July, when 41 people were killed. According to both British and US intelligence, phone intercepts led directly back to an Afghan cell of Pakistan’s military intelligence.

The past month has seen US forces carry out bombings and a ground raid on Pakistani territory. Claims of Pakistan’s involvement were rejected by Asif Durrani, the country’s chargé d’affaires in Kabul. “Afghanistan wants to blame someone else for its problems and Pakistan is just the whipping boy,” he said.

However, repeated accusations from Karzai about Pakistan’s active support for the Taliban have been backed by a senior US marine officer.

Lieutenant-Colonel Chris Nash, who commanded an embedded training team in eastern Afghanistan from June 2007 to March this year, told the Army Times that Pakistani forces flew repeated helicopter missions into Afghanistan to resupply a Taliban base camp during a fierce battle in June last year. Nash said: “We were on the receiving end of Pakistani military D-30 [a howitzer]. On numerous occasions Afghan border police checkpoints and observation posts were attacked by Pakistani military forces.”

Comments by Brigadier Mark Carleton-Smith in The Sunday Times last week that a decisive military victory against the Taliban was not possible and negotiations should be opened have received widespread backing.

General Jean-Louis Georgelin, France’s military chief, said: “There is no military solution to the Afghan crisis and I totally share this feeling.”

Robert Gates, the US defence secretary, who initially dismissed the brigadier’s comments as “defeatist”, said on Friday that the US was now prepared to back talks with the Taliban.

SSridhar · Post by **SSridhar** » 15 Oct 2008 14:43

Great Terror Plot building up in the UK

And, obviously Pakistan and Pakistanis will have a central role to play in that. . .

Counter-terrorism officials are particularly worried by a growing threat from within the Algerian, Somali and Yemeni communities in Britain along with the established threat from youths returning from the al-Qaeda heartlands on the Pakistan-Afghan border, the report said.

Singha · Post by **Singha** » 15 Oct 2008 16:41

BBC

Page last updated at 10:58 GMT, Wednesday, 15 October 2008 11:58 UK

Man admits restaurant bomb attack

A Muslim convert has admitted launching a failed suicide nail-bomb attack on a Devon restaurant.

Nicky Reilly, 22, pleaded guilty at the Old Bailey to attempted murder at Exeter's Giraffe restaurant on 22 May.

Reilly, from Plymouth, had been preparing the attack when a bomb went off in his hands in a toilet cubicle.

Police believe Reilly, said to have learning difficulties, was "preyed upon and radicalised by others". He will be sentenced on 21 November.

The court heard counter-terrorism police were still hunting for two unidentified people who encouraged Reilly after contacting him via an extremist website.

'Martyrdom ambition'

The judge, Mr Justice Calvert-Smith, said: "There is evidence from materials seized that he became increasingly drawn to violent action in support of fellow Muslims in revenge for perceived persecution, and to the idea of himself personally becoming a martyr.

"He told the police that he had long nursed an ambition to become a martyr."

The judge said Reilly, who appeared under the name Mohammad Rashid Saeed-Alim, had also considered targeting a Plymouth police station and Devonport dockyard.

Reilly's mother Kim was devastated when she found out about the bombing

His mother Kim Reilly said he was an "easy target, easy prey" for radicalisation.

She said he would have had instructions or guidance from someone, as he was thought to have a mental age of ten and suffered from mental illness.(the right recruit for the hounds of allah)

Detectives believe Reilly was groomed by extremists he met near his home in King Street, Plymouth.

At the time, Deputy Chief Constable Tony Melville said: "He was preyed upon, radicalised, and taken advantage of."

Mr Justice Calvert-Smith said Reilly began to research the attack in early 2008, and had bought a suicide vest.

'Encouragement'

During this time he was in frequent touch with two unidentified people, with whom he had discussed his plans and received a "certain amount" of encouragement, the judge said.

"There was some debate, which is revealed by comments on the computer, about what sort of person should be targeted in due course, whether public servants such as police officers or other public servants or ordinary citizens," he said.

"In the end the decision was made to target ordinary citizens in a restaurant."

The court heard he made the bombs in glass bottles, one using caustic soda and the other kerosene, which he then filled with about 500 nails.

He travelled to Exeter by bus on the morning of 22 May with six bottles, three of which contained caustic soda, and three kerosene and another chemical contained in drain cleaner, the judge said.

"As he prepared the caustic soda devices in the toilet of the restaurant they began to explode. He was subsequently, as the world knows, arrested and injured himself."

Reilly had planned to run into the restaurant holding three bombs to his stomach, but the first one reacted prematurely and he could not get out, the court heard.

Prosecutor Stuart Baker said: "His recollection now is that he was unable to open the lock of the cubicle door and come out, by which time the first device had already exploded."

Appearing in court via a video link Reilly pleaded guilty to attempted murder and preparing a terrorist attack.

Kerim Fuad, defending, told the judge he wished to present a statement and a psychiatric report to the court.

He said: "There is much I wish to advance on behalf of this defendant's unusual and complex personal background which led to this ugly and dangerous incident."

Reilly's mother wept in the public gallery above the court as she watched her son on a plasma screen.

He was remanded in custody until sentencing at the Old Bailey.

SSridhar · Post by **SSridhar** » 15 Oct 2008 19:59

Foreign Fighters in Afghanistan are Pakistanis and Arabs: US Commander

American commanders have said that most of the foreign fighters operating in Afghanistan are Pakistanis, Arabs, or from Muslim countries and communities in Central Asia and the Caucasus, including Chechens.

Lalmohan · Post by **Lalmohan** » 16 Oct 2008 13:27

shame shame, poppy shame, all the cops know your name...

Deadly loners who don’t show on the radar

In the terror plots here between 2004 and 2006 the operatives were largely British Pakistanis and had been trained at camps in Pakistan run by al-Qaeda or its allies. After their discovery, the monitoring of young men travelling to Pakistan was stepped up and a much more hostile antiterrorist environment was created in Britain.