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| India-Pakistan |
| Paks nab Karachi boomers... |
| 2002-12-15 |
| Authorities in Pakistan have arrested three men suspected of planning a suicide bomb attack against US diplomats in the southern city of Karachi. Police chief Kamal Shah said the men were found with 10 kg (22 lb) of explosives in a Volkswagen car with which they planned to attack the diplomats. Even the Paks are tired of this nonsense... "We have arrested three militants who were planning to target American diplomats," he told reporters. "They have confessed." "Uh... Those are... Those are pliers!" "Yes, they are." "They're, uh... very big!" "Yes, they are. Take his pants off, Mahmoud." Inspector Shah said the suspects belonged to a radical Islamic movement, Harkat-e-Jihad, and had been trained in Afghanistan. The group could be HUJI (Harkat ul-Jihad Islami), a Kashmir Killer Korps, or it could be just a local pickup team... He said the men were "highly committed people whose targets are foreigners, particularly Americans in the post-11 September scenario". One of the men had been the intended suicide bomber in an attack on a bus outside a hotel in Karachi in May, 2002, which killed 11 French naval technicians and three Pakistanis, the police chief said. That attack was one of a series brought to you by Harkatul Mujahedin al-Alaami. They drew their cannon fodder from the local religious nuts belonging to Lashkar e-Jhangvi and Sipah e-Sahaba. To their credit, the Paks seemed to have rendered al-Alaami pretty much defunct, at least until the killers are sprung from the calaboose. The announcement came a day before US Assistant Secretary of State for South Asia Christina Rocca was due to arrive in the Pakistani capital, Islamabad. These guys were the welcoming committee. The police chief identified one of the detained men as 28-year-old Asif Zaheer, a suspect in the attack on the bus in May. "This time he wanted to go himself for the suicide bombing and his target was two US diplomats," said Inspector Shah. "Duh. I was a suspeck in the last one, but they'll never expeck me to do it again. Huh huh." |
| Posted by:Fred Pruitt |