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| Hizbul Mujahideen vows to continue 'jihad' against India |
| 2002-05-21 |
| Hizbul Mujahideen vowed on Monday to continue its jihad against India and claimed responsibility for renewed attacks against Indian troops over the past week. Police say that most of the attacks in the region last week were carried out by Hizbul Mujahideen. "Hizbul Mujahideen has taken a vow to take the ongoing freedom struggle in Kashmir to its logical conclusion come what may," its chief spokesman Salim Hashmi said by telephone from Pakistan occupied Kashmir. The "logical conclusion" is to provoke full-scale conventional (and nuclear, if they can swing it) war between the two powers. That way they can pick up the pieces and have their Islamic Emirate. Hashmi said Hizbul had launched fresh attacks against Indian troops under operation Azme-jihad (Determination for holy war) since May 14, the day three gunmen attacked a passenger bus and an army cantonment near Jammu killing 35 people, mostly women and children. A previously unknown group, Al Mansoorain, claimed responsibility for that raid. We can probably guess this was Hizbul wearing a false moustache and glasses... Hashmi said Hizbul had triggered more than a dozen landmines in Kashmir since May 14, resulting in number of security casualties. "Despite the war hysteria created by India, we will continue to attack their troops in Kashmir," Hizbul's chief commander, Saif-ul-Islam, said in a statement in Srinagar. How's India creating the war hysteria when you're the ones blowing the mines? That doesn't make any sense. He congratulated Hizbul members for their "dare devil" actions. Yep. That's the fun part: Waving your gun and screaming and rolling your eyes and doing dare-devil things. Forming a disciplined force with a sense of tactics applied to achieve an overall strategy is boring. Sometimes you really have to wonder where they get these guys. |
| Posted by:Fred Pruitt |