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| Terror Networks |
| FBI Tries to Link Al-Qaida To Pak Islamic Movements |
| 2002-07-26 |
| Source: Azzam Publications, Uncensored Despite operations against various religious and Jihadi groups, and the arrests of activists in Pakistan on orders from the FBI, the US and Pakistani governments still have no useful information about the Al-Qaida network in Pakistan. According to highly reliable sources, the FBI, having had no success so far, has started investigations in to international Islamic organisations that carry out their work underground. A majority of the workers in these organisations are from Arab or Asian states. These organisations include 'Al-Ikhwan', 'Uzbek Islamic Movement' and 'Hizb-ut-Tahrir'. I like it when a propaganda piece gives away enough sidebar information to make it a valuable piece of the puzzle... Al-Ikhwan is an Egyptian organisation with many Arabs and Pakistanis working for it, as with many other organisations, in a clandestine manner. Its headquarters is located in Karachi and it must be noted that this organisation has no link at all with the famous Egyptian Islamic movement 'Al-Ikhwan Al-Muslimun'. That's an interesting, if inadvertent, clarification. If it is inadvertent, and not a pious disclaimer... The Uzbek Islamic Movement is a Central Asian organization and the majority of its workers are from the Central Asian countries including Chechnya. Having the support of various tribal leaders, this organisation is engaged in activities along the border regions of Pakistan. Interesting that it ties in with the Chechens, too. I hadn't seen that before. Wonder which is the dog and which is the tail? Another movement under investigation by the US is Hizb-ut-Tahrir. A significant portion of its workers are from Jordan, Libya and other Arab states. This organisation was started to gather support for the establishment of a Khilafa in Pakistan. The center of its activities so far has been Karachi. Only a few of its members are currently openly known. The Hizb is world- or at least Asia-wide, with activity centers in England and Belgium. I think it's another Qazi Hussein Ahmed/Jamaat i Islami front organization... Highly placed and very reliable sources have said that all these organisations have no link whatsoever with Al-Qaida. Probably a correct statement. I think they're emulating al-Qaeda's approach, and probably absorbing the gunnies as they look for new employment... The US, however, using these false investigations by the FBI, is trying to create a link between these movements and Al-Qaida so that all Islamic movements can be quashed, and permanent intelligence and surveillance centres can be set up in all Asian states. The so-called War against Terrorism can also be justified by this and by having these intelligence centres, the American government can exert considerable control over Pakistan, Afghanistan and other Asian countries. That's a pretty neat logical diversion. Because the movements aren't linked to al-Qaeda, therefore the attempt to link the Pak religious loons to them is invalid, which it isn't. The three organizations named probably represent the second generation (or maybe third, since al-Qaeda's an outgrowth of Ikhwan) of international terrorism. Two out of three are centered in Pakistan and the third cooperates with the Pak organizations. Assuming the Soddy money keeps rolling in, Qazi might be the most dangerous man in the world, with the exception of the Iranian ayatollahs, and not excepting Osama bin Laden, Mullah Omar, and the entire Chechen command structure. And Qazi has the advantage of being an obscure holy man that no one who's not a regular Rantburg reader has ever heard of. |
| Posted by:Fred Pruitt |