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Pakistani terror suspect offers to send humanitarian assistance to US
The Pakistani terror suspect blamed for the 2008 Mumbai attacks has offered to send doctors, medicine and humanitarian assistance to help with relief efforts as the US is battered by Superstorm Sandy. Hafiz Saeed is the founder of Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT), and the US has placed a $10 million bounty on his head.
On Tuesday, he said he was ready to send volunteers and other assistance to help. "Regardless of what US government propagates about us including their announcement of bounties, we look forward to act on the traits of our Prophet Muhammad by helping and serving adversity struck American people; considering it our religious and moral obligation," said a statement posted on the group's facebook page. LeT, is blamed by both the US and India for the commando attacks on India's financial capital in 2008 that killed 166 people. However, despite being placed under house arrest after the attacks, today Saeed lives openly in the eastern city of Lahore delivering a sermon each Friday at one of its biggest mosques. In 2005, JuD was one of the first relief organisations to reach areas of Kashmir affected by a massive earthquake in 2005. Its volunteers -- and the group's huge fund-raising ability -- were again on display during devastating floods that swept through Pakistan in 2010. In many areas its grassroots network was able to react faster than the country's government or military. Posted by: tipper 2012-10-31 |
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