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More Pakistani jihadi organizations to be banned
Anybody care to place bets on how long till they show up again under a new name?
The government is likely to ban more jihadi groups including the Harkatul Jihad-e-Islami (HJI) and Jamiatul Mujahideen (JM) after it found evidence they were involved in the suicide attacks on President General Pervez Musharraf, sources in the Interior Ministry and intelligence agencies told Daily Times on Sunday.
The operation against the suspected terrorists began on December 26, a day after two suicide bombers drove into President Musharrafâs convoy in vehicles packed with explosives. According to the Interior Ministry sources, 60 suspects have been picked up in the Punjab for involvement in the attacks or links with the attackers. Fifteen were released after preliminary beatings thumpings investigations. According to a law enforcement agency report, the suspects are from defunct groups Lashkar-e-Jhangvi (LJ), Tehrik-e-Khuddamul Islam (TKI), Jamiatul Ansar (JA), Jamiatul Furqan (JF), Lashkar-e-Taiba (LT), Harkatul Mujahideen Alalmi (HMA), the HJI and JM. âLaw enforcement agencies were initially confused about how so many groups could be involved in the suicide attacks, but some of the suspects revealed that several jihadi organisations, including some Kashmiri militant groups, have formed a joint working group to target American and Western interests,â sources said.
| Just like Ayman told them to. It's not their fault. They're mindless little jihadbots, who lack free will or even minds above the rudimentary level required for weapons cleaning... |
An LT jihadi was arrested in Gujranwala districtâs Maneecher Chattha village after a telephone conversation was recorded in which he got instructions about a new plan to kill the president. They talked in codes which the law enforcement agencies have now cracked. An Arab national, identified as Ghazanfar Ghazal, is also suspected of involvement in the suicide attack. According to intelligence reports, he was seen in the Jamaatud Dawaâs Mureedke complex.
| Either the scales have fallen from Perv's eyes, he's worked a deal with the MMA allowing him to clean house, or Noorani's death and Qazi's declining health has allowed him the elbow-room to clean house. How thorough the house-cleaning might be remains an open questions. There's still the possibility this is all for foreign consumption. I haven't heard of any ISI guys being arrested, but then we probably wouldn't... |
Sources said 25 men had been arrested in Lahore since December 26. âSome arrested suspects have confessed to their relations with Al Qaeda,â sources said.
| "Ooch! Ouch! Put my fingernails back! I confess!" |
One of the important arrests was of a former head of the HJI office in Chauburji. He reportedly had links with Arab militants and was under constant surveillance by the intelligence agencies after he was first arrested in June. According to the intelligence sources, he was released after he made a deal to help catch the Arab militants.
| Good idea... Go ahead and turn him... |
However, once released he went to JA chief Maulana Fazlur Rehman Khalil and told him of the deal.
| The triple cross is a Pakistani art form... |
Mr Khalil reportedly assured him he would not be arrested again, and helped him set up a seminary, Madrassa Baqyiat Shuhada, in Sabzazar. The intelligence sources said he had not kept his deal and remained in touch with the foreign militants. He was arrested on Saturday night because one of the main suspects in the suicide attacks on the president, Ehsan, visited him at his seminary regularly, the intelligence sources said.
| Wotta maroon. But I haven't heard anything about Fazl Khalil being jugged, either. I wonder if he's underground again? |
Posted by: Dan Darling 2004-01-12 |
