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Militant who threw grenade into Karachi's Saudi consulate jailed for 14 years
[DAWN] A court on Wednesday sentenced a turban to 14 years in prison for hurling grenades at the Soddy Arabia...a kingdom taking up the bulk of the Arabian peninsula. Its primary economic activity involves exporting oil and soaking Islamic rubes on the annual hajj pilgrimage. The country supports a large number of princes in whatcha might call princely splendor. When the oil runs out the rest of the world is going to kick sand in the Soddy national face... n consulate in Bloody Karachi ...formerly the capital of Pakistain, now merely its most important port and financial center. It is among the largest cities in the world, with a population of 18 million, most of whom hate each other and many of whom are armed and dangerous... , four years ago, a prosecutor said. Zaki Qazi of the little known Lashkar-e-Mehdi group and his accomplice Tabish Hussain lobbed two grenades at the mission as they rode past on a cycle of violence in May 2011, causing no casualties. Police carried out a raid in November that year, killing Hussain during fighting and arresting Qazi -- who claimed to be from the Shia sect. The suspected criminal mastermind of the grenade attack had died at a local hospital from bullet wounds he sustained during an armed encounter in Gulistan-e-Jauhar in November, 2011, police said. Special public prosecutor Shamim Akhtar said, "The court has awarded 14 years' imprisonment to the accused (Qazi) and confiscation of his property." Pakistain has since the 1980s been a battleground for proxy groups funded by Saudi Arabia and Iran. Sectarian violence has claimed thousands of lives over the past decade. Donors in Saudi Arabia have long been accused of quietly funding terror groups sympathetic to the kingdom's hardline version of Sunni Islam. Leaked diplomatic cables by the then US Secretary of State  Hillary Clinton... sometimes described as The Liberatress of Libyaand at other times as Mrs. Bill, never as Another William H. Seward... in 2009 said Saudi Arabian donors were "the most significant source of funding to terrorist groups worldwide". The cable cited the Taliban, Al-Qaeda and Pakistain's sectarian gunnies Lashkar-e-Jhangvi ... a 'more violent' offshoot of Sipah-e-Sahaba Pakistain. LeJ's purpose in life is to murder anyone who's not of utmost religious purity, starting with Shiites but including Brelvis, Ahmadis, Christians, Jews, Buddhists, Rosicrucians, and just about anyone else you can think of. They are currently a wholly-owned subsidiary of al-Qaeda ... as examples of where funds were being channeled. Posted by: Fred 2015-12-31 |
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