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Senior Hizb ul-Mujahideen leader killed
 Indian soldiers shot dead a senior Kashmiri militant on Sunday who the army said was a bomb-making expert responsible for a series of explosions across the strife-torn Himalayan region. Mushtaq Bhat, a district commander of Hizbul Mujahideen, Kashmir's frontline militant group, was killed in an ambush by troops in Tral town, an army spokesman said. Tral is to the south of Srinagar."Bhat was the mastermind of all the car bomb blasts in the (Kashmir) valley since 2004 which led to a large number of casualties among security forces and innocent civilians," spokesman V.K. Batra said. "He was a dreaded and most-wanted terrorist in south Kashmir. He was active since 1993 and had undergone extensive training on arms and making of improvised explosive devices in Pakistan-occupied Kashmir," Batra added, referring to the part of Kashmir under Pakistan's control. There was no comment from Hizbul Mujahideen about Bhat. Posted by: Dan Darling 2006-05-08 |
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