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US Sec. Def. Robert Gates coyly on the Islamic Republic of Pakistan's links with Islamic terrorists:
January 21, 2010

Secretary of Defense Robert Gates Express TV Interview …………………..

Q.: (Laughs.) All right. One, of course, important point that you told a congressional hearing last month that Islamabad retained its links with the militants because it doubted America's will to remain in the country long enough to win the war. Could you elaborate on that? What kind of links do you think Islamabad has with the militants?

SEC. GATES: Well, I think that it's not exactly a secret in part because I was here as a part of that program 25 years ago that, frankly, we all had links with various groups that are now a problem for us today, and some have maintained those links longer than others. I think that -- I think what's important is the partnership that we have with Pakistan. I met with General Kayani. I met with the military leadership of the country today, and I'm very comfortable with the partnership that we have going forward in dealing with this common extremist threat.

Q.: But last month when you said Islamabad had links with militants, whom in Islambad -- were you referring to the government or to private or to the military? I mean, it's --

SEC. GATES: Well, I -- since we're obviously talking about intelligence sources, I'd rather not be specific.

Q.: Okay. But do you still believe that?

SEC. GATES: I think I would just like to leave it that I have confidence that the Pakistani government understands our concerns and understands that we face a common threat.

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http://www.digitaljournal.com/article/286293

Maybe this is what Baakistaan's PM de-facto PM UBL meant in his recent tape after the failure of the Nigerian boy who is now singing:

http://www.cnn.com/2010/US/01/24/bin.la ... tml?hpt=T2
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http://www.usatoday.com/news/washington ... htm?csp=34

What's the next U.S. terror threat?
In this new decade, we must pay attention to (radical Islamic) madrassas, and madrassas exist by the thousands all over Pakistan, all over most Muslim countries. Youngsters are not taught any subject which enables them to earn a living in a legal way, but only the Quran - and in addition to that a perverted version which teaches them how to hate, encourages them toward jihad and gives them their first training as a jihadi, and then refers them to various training camps. These are extremely dangerous.
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Prem wrote:http://www.usatoday.com/news/washington ... htm?csp=34

What's the next U.S. terror threat?
In this new decade, we must pay attention to (radical Islamic) madrassas, and madrassas exist by the thousands all over Pakistan, all over most Muslim countries. Youngsters are not taught any subject which enables them to earn a living in a legal way, but only the Quran - and in addition to that a perverted version which teaches them how to hate, encourages them toward jihad and gives them their first training as a jihadi, and then refers them to various training camps. These are extremely dangerous.
I hope that the above is not what the American policy makers think of the sources of manpower for jihad. In Pakistan, the majority of the jihadi fighters have come from mainstream schools which follow the Government prescribed curricula.
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The Islamic Republic of Pakistan’s “Moral support” for infecting British children with the virus of Jihadi Islamic terrorism :
Page last updated at 13:49 GMT, Sunday, 31 January 2010

Film seized 'shows children being radicalised'

Counter-terrorism police say their discovery of a film of children being encouraged to hold guns is evidence of attempts to radicalise youngsters.

The Counter Terrorist Unit (CTU) in North West England revealed they found the film during a raid in Manchester.

Officers say it shows two children, aged about three and six, playing with a pistol and a Kalashnikov rifle.

Material seized separately included the advice: "No child is ever too young to be started off on Jihad training."

The footage, which police believe was filmed in Pakistan, was uncovered on the hard drive of a computer during a raid carried out under the Terrorism Act 2000. Police have not revealed when the material was seized. ……………….

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X Posted.
Gagan wrote:Great news!

Pak not involved in bombing on Prince: S Arabia
Riyadh—Deputy Minister of Interior Prince Ahmad has contradicted recent reports that the Kingdom has traced militants involved in the attempt to assassinate Prince Mohammed bin Naif to Pakistan. “No detention or repatriation of any Saudi suspect from Pakistan in connection with the murderous attacks on Prince Mohammed bin Naif, assistant minister of interior for security affairs, has been made so far,” Arab News quoted Prince Ahmad as saying.

Prince Ahmed, who was conferred the medal of Commander of the International Order of Civil Defence here on Saturday night, said, “The attack on Prince Mohammed has not deterred our resolve. The doors are still open for deviants to surrender and repent in the name of religion and Allah.” The prince was referring to an attempt on Aug. 27 to assassinate Prince Mohammed, who was only slightly injured. The attack was later claimed by Al-Qaeda, which named the bomber as Abdullah bin Hassan bin Taleh Assiri.

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It looks like the article by Pakistan Observer posted in the now defunct “Terrorist Islamic Republic of Pakistan - September 15, 2009” thread on Oct 7th 2009 was premature.

Saudi Gazette, quoting a Yemeni official, is saying the bomb used in the attempt to assassinate Saudi Arabia’s Prince Muhammad Bin Naif Bin Abdul Aziz, was built by a citizen of the Islamic Republic of Pakistan.

The Namak Haramism of biting the hand that feeds prevalent in the Islamic Republic of Pakistan, on full display:
Tuesday, 02 February 2010 - 17 Safar 1431 H

Pakistani built bomb to kill Prince, says Yemeni official

By Abdullah Al-Oraifij

ABYAN, Yemen – Dramatic new claims have been made that a Pakistani explosives expert was responsible for manufacturing the bomb that was used by a suicide bomber in a failed attempt to assassinate Prince Muhammad Bin Naif Bin Abdul Aziz, Assistant Interior Minister for Security Affairs at his palace in Jeddah last August.

Talking to Okaz, Ahmad Al-Maseeri, Governor of Abyan in Yemen, said that the man who made the explosive capsule, used by Abdullah Hasan Al-Asiri in his attempt to kill the Prince, was a Pakistani.

The Pakistani expert was killed sometime last year, after being blown up by his own explosive device, said Al-Maseeri.

Al-Maseeri claimed that the man had trained many members of Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula on ways to build and detonate explosive devices. “The Pakistani expert was highly skilled in making explosive devices and had been teaching and training some individuals in Al-Qaeda on how to make and use explosives.” ………………………..

Saudi Gazette
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Official: Malaysia holds 10 to stem radical Islam
A Malaysian who was among those initially arrested identified the Syrian preacher as Aiman Al Dakkak, who has lived in Malaysia since 2003.
Aiman gave regular religious classes but did not advocate terrorism, said Muhamad Yunus Zainal Abidin, one of his students.
"In Islam, there is jihad but this kind of jihad — bombings — Aiman condemns it," Muhamad Yunus said. "He is against terrorism ... He always told us that is not the way of Islam."
Aiman studied in Pakistan as a teenager and worked at a Karachi university before moving to Malaysia, he said.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100129/ap_ ... suspects_6
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Maldivian detainees repatriated from Pakistan
They join another five who were returned to the Maldives last week and also released. The government confirmed that one of the men had stood trial in the Maldives after being accused of involvement in the Sultan Park bombing, but noted that the case had been dropped
Pakistani government had returned the men, who were picked up during a military raid on several armed groups, with no information on charges against them or conditions on their imprisonment
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Australian jihad plotters jailed for up to 28 years
The jury was also told that one of the accused had attended a paramilitary training camp in Pakistan run by the terrorist organisation, Lashkar-e-Toiba, but a key FBI witness told the court he could not be sure it was the man.
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Marten wrote:Mullah Baradar, 2nd in line TTP apprehended in joint action by ISI, CIA.

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/02/16/world ... el.html?hp
X Posted.

The Islamic Republic of Pakistan, domicile of choice for the Islamic Jihadi's of the world.

Top ranking Afghan Taliban leader, Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar who reportedly “ranks second in influence only to Mullah Muhammad Omar” captured where else but in the Islamic Republic of Pakistan.
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X Posted. The involvement of “State Actors” of the Islamic Republic of Pakistan has been established in the 26/11 terrorist attack on Mumbai.

The Hindustan Times has reported that the FBI has disclosed that a serving officer of the ISI holding the rank of Major was one of those directing the 26/11 terrorist attack on Mumbai.

The above information was reportedly disclosed by the Pakistani origin terrorist Daood Gilani aka David Coleman Headley who is currently in FBI custody:
Serving ISI officer among 26/11 handlers, says Headley

Abhishek Sharan, Hindustan Times
New Delhi, February 15, 2010
First Published: 00:49 IST(15/2/2010)
Last Updated: 01:01 IST(15/2/2010)

A serving major of Pakistan’s Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) was among those directing 26/11 terrorists over phone from across the border, India has been told by the US’s Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI).

The major was referred to by a pseudonym — Major General Sahab — in his phone conversations with the terrorists during the attacks, recordings of which are with the security agencies. …………………….

Headley’s disclosure, a security agency official said requesting anonymity, confirmed India’s stand that “state actor/s” was/were involved in the planning and execution of the Mumbai attacks. Pakistan has consistently maintained no state-player was involved. ………………..

India has been aware of this “Major General Sahab” for a while, Home Minister P. Chidambaram had told NDTV last September. But it was not known then if he was still with the ISI or was a retired officer. ………………..

Hindustan Times
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Suspected Taliban agent arrested in Seoul: media
SEOUL, Feb. 19 (Xinhua) -- A Pakistani man who claimed to be an agent of the armed insurgent group Taliban has been caught by local police, raising concern here over the country's immigration control, local media reported Friday.

The Pakistani, whose name has not been revealed, was arrested for violating the immigration control law by making illegal entry and exit 17 times over five years while carrying another Pakistani national's passport, according to Yonhap News Agency.

He is said to have told the police that he came to South Korea to gather information on U.S. military bases here at the instruction of Taliban leaders, and that he posed as a Muslim cleric.

His claims have yet to be proven, but local media here say the case, if confirmed, raises serious security concerns ahead of the G20 summit among the world's major economies, to which South Korea plays host.

Officials in charge of the case were not immediately reachable.
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english2010/w ... 179836.htm
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X Posted.

The Islamic Republic of Pakistan has been blacklisted for alleged terrorism financing and money laundering:
FATF blacklists 8 countries, calls for Iran sanctions

(AFP) – 16 hours ago

WASHINGTON — A key global anti-corruption body has blacklisted eight countries for alleged money laundering and terrorism financing and called for sanctions against Iran, the US government said Friday.

The Financial Action Task Force has "identified eight countries that have strategic... deficiencies in alleged money laundering and terrorism financing," the Treasury Department said in a statement.

The FATF, an inter-governmental body aimed at countering illicit financial transactions that could be used to promote terrorism, has named Angola, Ecuador, Ethiopia, Iran, North Korea, Pakistan, Sao Tome and Principe, and Turkmenistan for posing "a risk to the international financial system." …………..

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Regarding the Seoul story, straight from Korea (no other version provides the context).
http://www.koreatimes.co.kr/www/news/na ... 61127.html

Note the frequent visits. Like a Headley. False passport, target reconnaissance.
The Pakistani is suspected of having gathered information on key military installations, including U.S. military posts, apparently to prepare a terror attack during the G-20 Summit scheduled for November in Seoul.

This is the first time that a terrorist suspect has been arrested here as the country has only encountered drug trafficking groups linked to the Taliban attempting to raise cash for the insurgents so far.

Investigators speculate that this case was quite different, alleging the suspect appeared to be trying to form a ``Korea-based’’ terrorist network.

During multiple visits to and from Korea, he allegedly took pictures of the U.S. Forces Korea headquarters in Seoul and collected information on military facilities, which he handed over to the Taliban leadership.

The suspect first came to Seoul in 2001 using a false passport, but was deported in June 2003 by the Immigration Service, according to authorities.

However, he returned within two months, using a new name and passport, with his wife, two sons and four daughters.

Since then, he had acted as an Imam at the Muslim mosque here and a community leader.
They added that he is suspected of having trained some 30 students to participate in Jihad (struggle) and Shahadat (martyrdom) at the behest of the Taliban.

He was placed under police surveillance from February last year when he was thought to be involved in smuggling chemicals out of Seoul to Pakistan. At that time, he denied any involvement with Taliban insurgents and was released after police failed to secure sufficient evidence.

To deal with possible security threats to the G-20 Summit, the National Police Agency has set up a 109-member special task force. The international event will see leaders from the world’s 20 major economies gathered here to discuss issues vital to the global economic recovery.
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arun wrote:Saudi Gazette, quoting a Yemeni official, is saying the bomb used in the attempt to assassinate Saudi Arabia’s Prince Muhammad Bin Naif Bin Abdul Aziz, was built by a citizen of the Islamic Republic of Pakistan.

The Namak Haramism of biting the hand that feeds prevalent in the Islamic Republic of Pakistan, on full display:
Tuesday, 02 February 2010 - 17 Safar 1431 H

Pakistani built bomb to kill Prince, says Yemeni official

By Abdullah Al-Oraifij

ABYAN, Yemen – Dramatic new claims have been made that a Pakistani explosives expert was responsible for manufacturing the bomb that was used by a suicide bomber in a failed attempt to assassinate Prince Muhammad Bin Naif Bin Abdul Aziz, Assistant Interior Minister for Security Affairs at his palace in Jeddah last August.

Talking to Okaz, Ahmad Al-Maseeri, Governor of Abyan in Yemen, said that the man who made the explosive capsule, used by Abdullah Hasan Al-Asiri in his attempt to kill the Prince, was a Pakistani.

The Pakistani expert was killed sometime last year, after being blown up by his own explosive device, said Al-Maseeri.

Al-Maseeri claimed that the man had trained many members of Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula on ways to build and detonate explosive devices. “The Pakistani expert was highly skilled in making explosive devices and had been teaching and training some individuals in Al-Qaeda on how to make and use explosives.” ………………………..

Saudi Gazette
A rather delayed denial from the Pakistan Embassy to the claim made by Yemen’s Ahmad Al-Maseeri that the bomb used in the attack on Prince Muhammad Bin Naif Bin Abdul Aziz , Saudi Arabia’s Assistant Interior Minister for Security Affairs was built by a citizen of the Islamic Republic of Pakistan.

Saudi Gazette once again:

Pak embassy rebuts Yemen official’s claim
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Dawn
DHAKA: Bangladesh has arrested a suspected Pakistani militant and four of its own nationals who planned to carry out attacks in the country, a spokesman for the elite force that made the arrests said on Sunday.

Commander Mohammad Sohel of the Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) said the five, aged between 26 and 30, were members of Jaish-e-Mohammad, a Pakistan-based militant group blamed for terrorist attacks in India.

“They were picked up from a market in the capital Dhaka. The Pakistani citizen and four Bangladeshis have admitted of being the members of Jaish-e-Mohammad and they were planning attacks in the country,” he said.

One of the four Bangladeshis has served ten years in prison in India, he added.

In November three Pakistani men were arrested in Dhaka on suspicion of plotting to attack US and Indian targets in the Bangladeshi capital.
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X Posted. From CNN.

Stephen Tanner, author of “Afghanistan: A Military History from Alexander the Great to the War against the Taliban." says that the Islamic Republic of Pakistan’s intelligence agency the Inter-Services Intelligence or ISI not only knows where Osama Bin Laden is located but is also protecting him:
March 3rd, 2010

Whatever happened to bin Laden? ……………………….

Tanner says the ISI, Pakistan's Inter-Services Intelligence Agency, knows where bin Laden is hiding, but is not ready to say.

“We got to make a deal with Pakistan because I’m convinced that he’s [bin Laden] protected by the ISI,” Tanner says.

Tanner says that rogue elements within the ISI - if not the Pakistani government – may be using bin Laden as a “trump card” to exert leverage over the United States. Tanner says that Pakistani leaders are concerned that the U.S. will draw closer to India, Pakistan’s chief rival.

Flashing the bin Laden trump card will insure that the U.S. will continue to send aid to Pakistan because it considers it a bulwark against radical Islam, Tanner says. Without the bin Laden trump card, though, Pakistan would be in danger of being abandoned by the U.S., Tanner says.

“I just think it’s impossible after all this time to not know where he is. The ISI knows what’s going on in its own country,” Tanner says. “We’re talking about a 6-foot-4-inch Arab with a coterie of bodyguards.” ………………..
From here:

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Unsurprisingly there is a connection to the Islamic Republic of Pakistan. These German Jihadi Islamic terrorists were trained for terrorism in the Islamic Republic of Pakistan:
German Islamist fanatics jailed for planning 'second September 11'

Four Muslim fanatics who planned "bloodbaths" at US targets in Germany in an attempt to create a "second September 11" have been jailed.

Allan Hall, in Berlin
Published: 11:45AM GMT 04 Mar 2010

Fritz Gelowicz, the ring leader, got 12 years, his German sidekick Daniel Schneider - both converts to Islam - 11 years while two accomplices were sentenced to five years each for their roles in a plot to detonate explosives 100 times more powerful than those used in the London Underground bombings of July 2005.

The four men, known as the "Sauerland Cell" after the tourist region where they stockpiled massive amounts of chemicals for the bombs, were jailed at the end of a nine-month trial.

In a rare move, prosecutors allowed them to plea-bargain their guilt in return for what the defendants hoped would be far shorter sentences. ………………..

All have given detailed accounts of their terrorist training at a camp in Pakistan's "bandit country" of Waziristan together with details of the US bases that they planned to blitz with their home-made devices for the Islamic Jihadist Union. ………………..

"The confessions of the accused were the most comprehensive talks concerning terrorism ever heard in a German court of law," said Rolf Tophoven, director of the institute of terrorism research and security policy in Essen.

"They gave an exact description of what was going on in the terror training camps in Pakistan." ………………..

Telegraph, UK
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X Posted. The US Subcommittee on the Middle East and South Asia held on March 11, 2010 a hearing titled “Bad Company: Lashkar-e-Tayyiba and the Growing Ambition of Islamist Militancy in Pakistan”

In his testimony, Dr. Marvin G. Weinbaum highlighted the current and ongoing close links between the ISI and UN designated terrorist organization Lashkar-e-Tayyiba (LeT):
Despite the government official ban of LeT, Pakistan’s ISI continued to consider the organization as an asset. The ISI is believed to continue to share intelligence and provide protection to LeT.
Testimony of Dr. Marvin G. Weinbaum
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The US Subcommittee on the Middle East and South Asia held on March 11, 2010 a hearing titled “Bad Company: Lashkar-e-Tayyiba and the Growing Ambition of Islamist Militancy in Pakistan”

In his comment Gary Ackerman, Chairman of the Subcommittee raised the matter of the connections of the Military of the Islamic Republic of Pakistan to the UN designated terrorist organization Lashkar-e-Tayyiba (LeT):
The LeT is a deadly serious group of fanatics. They are well financed, ambitious, and most disturbingly, both tolerated by, and connected to, the Pakistani military.

The same Pakistani military to which we are selling advanced arms. The same Pakistani
military that objected so bitterly to legislation this Congress passed to provide a massive $7.5 billion plus-up in American assistance to their country, Pakistan, because our accompanying language suggests that Pakistan’s military should be answerable to a democratically elected government.
There is, in fact, no reason to doubt that Pakistan’s military is likely paying compensation to the families of the terrorists killed in the Mumbai attacks. These are our allies in the war on terror.
Chairman House Subcommittee on the Middle East and South Asia
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^^^ Chidanand Rajghatta picks up the story of US Legislator Gary Ackerman disclosing that the Military of the Islamic Republic of Pakistan has likely paid compensation to the next of kin of the terrorists killed in the 26/11 Mumbai attack:

Pak Army may be paying compensation to slain 26/11 terrorists' kin: US lawmaker
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Hats off to Mr. Gary Ackerman for a clear understanding and enunciation of Pakistani terrorism and perfidy. I urge everyone to read completely Mr. Ackerman's statement.
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Ackerman wrote:Now. Today and everyday going forward. We’re not doing it, and we’re not effectively leading a global effort to do it. And we’re going to regret this mistake. We’re going to regret it bitterly.
That's what they are going to do.
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Yes, they are. And we can be as coldblooded about it as they are now in their considered choice to leave LeT out of their pressure tactics on the psychopaths of the Pakistani military. There are institutional elements in the US which still see Islamic militant groups as instruments of policy, applied via what they still regard as the pliable Pakistani military. This is fine. We will lose some heads. We anticipate that they will lose more proportionally in due course. :) Isn't that how you play the game boys?

Meanwhile, lets do business across the effing board. :twisted:

BTW, just got an SMS from a close friend, whom I invited for a coffee and a cigarette or two as I thought he was at homebase. Here it is verbatim: Sorry boss, am in Samarkhand, maybe next week. (I replied in a text loaded with expletives, cursing that I wasn't there myself). Here is his reply: Am actually crossing Shahkrisabz, birth place of Amir Timur, and the ba$tard Babur roamed the plains here... Maybe I have to wreak some revenge and take it out on the chicks here, not a bad idea". He's there on business. Both of us are dual citizens, one of us Hindu, one Christian. The guy roaming in East Turkestan is Christian. That little bit of info is for "perspective" :mrgreen:

My point to lurkers? The world is changing oiseaules. Your calculations mean crap.
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This incident speaks volumes about the prevailing ambivalence in the Islamic Republic of Pakistan towards Islam inspired terrorism and terrorists.

The Prime Minister of the Islamic Republic of Pakistan thinks nothing about extending condolences for the death of a cleric belonging to the banned Islamic organization, the Sipah-e-Sahaba Pakistan (SSP) which specialised in killing fellow Muslims of the Shia / Shiite sect:

Gilani condoles demise of Maulana Ghafoor

This is not the only demonstration of ambivalence regards Islam inspired terrorism and terrorists by those holding leadership positions in the Islamic Republic of Pakistan nor is this ambivalence restricted to the PPP political party.

Over the last fortnight there have been reports that Punjab province Law Minister Rana Sanaullah who belongs to the PML(N) political party has also been consorting with the banned Sipah e Sahaba Pakistan ( Sanaullahs links with banned outfit leader surfaced).

Seems to me that anything or any body that carries a stamp of Islam is entitled to the highest degree of consideration in the Islamic Republic of Pakistan with the Islam stamp sufficient to wash away the taint of even the most egregious of crimes.
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The Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) may be a UN designated terrorist organization and consequently on paper a banned organization in the Islamic Republic of Pakistan. Yet the Jihadi Islamic terrorist supporting policies of the Islamic Republic of Pakistan means that the LeT has no need to operate clandestinely. Rather these Jihadi Islamic terrorist supporting policies of the Islamic Republic of Pakistan means that the LeT has the ability to hold public rallies and call for Jihad without fear of molestation by the authorities of the Islamic Republic of Pakistan.

LeT holds a rally in Kotli:

Outlawed Pakistan group LeT calls for holy war
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Terrorists could use 'exploding breast implants' to blow up jets

OK, why should this be here, you may ask. Fair question.
British intelligence services reportedly picked up “chatter” from Pakistan and Yemen that alerted them to the bizarre new method.
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A boomb job? :mrgreen:
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Its YYY plot for invasive inspections of motorhams.
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Residents stone, slash would-be suicide bomber to death
KABUL, Afghanistan - A suicide bomber wearing a vest laden with explosives was killed by locals Thursday in eastern Afghanistan before he was able to detonate, police said. The incident occurred in the Muqur district of Afghanistan's Ghazni province, according to Kheyal Mohammad Sherzai, a police chief in the province.

The suicide attacker was from Pakistan's Warizistan area, authorities said.

The people who intervened in the incident pelted the man with stones and slashed him with knives and were able to kill the man and give the suicide vest to police.
http://afghanistan.blogs.cnn.com/2010/0 ... -to-death/

Got done in before he could spread his Pakistaniyat.
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hulaku wrote:Got done in before he could spread his Pakistaniyat.
Before spreading his 'inner Pakistani'.
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SSridhar, When did the UN declare the L-e-T as a terrorist organization? Was that before or after Headley's contacts with L-e-T?
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ramana wrote: When did the UN declare the L-e-T as a terrorist organization? Was that before or after Headley's contacts with L-e-T?
That was on May 2, 2005, UN Security Council resolution 1267. The Plea Bargain says that between 2002 & 2005, Headley received various training in LeT camps, though it only gives the exact details only up to Feb 2004. Then it goes on to say that in late 2005, he was instructed by Lashkar members A, B, & D to visit India.
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So the chargesheet is strategically silent about the time frame after UN declaration. Do they charge Headley with L-e-T association after the UN declaration?
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Pakistani origin taxi driver Raja Khan charged with aiding Pakistani terrorist Ilyas Kashmiri.

This case is not linked to that of the other Pakistani origin terrorist in Chicago, Daood Gilani aka David Coleman Headley who is also linked to Pakistani terrorist Ilyas Kashmiri:
jrjrao wrote:Another Paki from Chicago caught doing what Pakis do best.

Chicago taxi driver charged with aiding terrorist

Fri Mar 26, 2010 5:39pm EDT

(Reuters) - A Chicago taxi driver was arrested on Friday and accused of sending money to a Pakistani militant with al Qaeda ties and of planning to bomb a U.S. sports stadium, authorities said.
http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE62P53220100326
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New York Daily News on a report put out by the US Military Academy’s CTC Sentinel on schools in the Islamic Republic of Pakistan that teaches young children how to commit the IED Mubarak variant of the IEDology of Pakistan in Afghanistan. For those not steeped in the lingo of this forum, training in the Islamic Republic of Pakistan on how to become a suicide bomber in Afghanistan:

New West Point report details meticulous training Taliban kids go through at Pakistani terror school
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The Islamic Republic of Pakistan is certainly the favourite training destination for the Jihadi Islamic terrorists of the world. It should thus come as no surprise that members of the Jihadi Islamic terrorist outfit Al-Takfir wa al-Hijra operating in the Tatarstan region of Russia opted to get their terrorist training in the Islamic Republic of Pakistan:
29 March 2010, 10:35

Four men likely belonging to radical Islamic organization identified in Tatarstan

Kazan, March 29, Interfax ………………….

The investigation determined that one of the four Tatarstan residents belonging to the group traveled to Pakistan in May 2006 to undergo combat training at Bulgar Jamaat in the province of Northern Waziristan. The man returned to Russia in 2008.

Another member of the group traveled to Pakistan in July-December 2008 to undergo similar training.

The third man left for Pakistan in the fall of 2006 but was detained in the city of Quetta and put into prison by local law enforcement agencies, where he fell under the influence of a Al-Takfir wa al-Hijra preacher. …………

Interfax
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Cross posting

Suicide bombers kill at least 38 in Moscow subway

Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said militants on the Afghan-Pakistan border may have helped organize the attacks.


Some Russian officials have said North Caucasus insurgents have ties to al Qaeda whose leaders are thought to be in hiding along the Pakistan border, but many analysts dispute any link.

Asked if there could have been any foreign involvement in Monday's attacks, Lavrov did not mention any group by name, but Interfax quoted him as replying: "I do not exclude that."
http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE62S0FM20100329
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hulaku wrote:Suspected Taliban agent arrested in Seoul: media
SEOUL, Feb. 19 (Xinhua) -- A Pakistani man who claimed to be an agent of the armed insurgent group Taliban has been caught by local police, raising concern here over the country's immigration control, local media reported Friday.

The Pakistani, whose name has not been revealed, was arrested for violating the immigration control law by making illegal entry and exit 17 times over five years while carrying another Pakistani national's passport, according to Yonhap News Agency.

He is said to have told the police that he came to South Korea to gather information on U.S. military bases here at the instruction of Taliban leaders, and that he posed as a Muslim cleric.

His claims have yet to be proven, but local media here say the case, if confirmed, raises serious security concerns ahead of the G20 summit among the world's major economies, to which South Korea plays host.

Officials in charge of the case were not immediately reachable.
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english2010/w ... 179836.htm
In South Korea yet more citizens of the Islamic Republic of Pakistan under investigation for links to the Pakistani national pastime of jihadi Islamic terrorism:

Two Pakistanis with possible links to Taliban detained

Added later as above link is not working, a different version of the same story from Korea’s Yonhap News Agency:

Police arrest two suspected terrorists from Pakistan
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arun, I am unable to reach that website in your above post. Can you fix it please ?
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