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| Possible Terror Evidence Found in Pakistan |
| 2002-12-20 |
| Investigators combing the wreckage of an exploded Islamic militant bomb factory Friday found photographs of a U.S.-owned gas station militants might have been targeting and a possible hit-list of police officials and ethnic leaders. Just the usual stuff... Police also uncovered additional evidence that a militant linked to the murder of Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl and the deadly bombing of a U.S. consulate may have been killed in Thursday's explosion. Police said they were trying to obtain DNA samples from relatives to confirm that a body found at the site belonged to terror suspect Asif Ramzi. Ramzi had a $50,000 price on his head. Made him a big man, back in the old neighborhood. Five people were killed in the blast at the chemical-filled warehouse in Karachi's eastern Korangi neighborhood. Police tentatively identified another victim as Nadim Abbas, a local leader of the outlawed Islamic group Sipah-e-Sahaba. Nothing but the very best company for our boy Ramzi... Karachi police investigation chief Fayyaz Leghari said officers found a photo of a gas station operated by Shell Oil Co. and a list of nine names in the wreckage. The names included eight Karachi police officials and the leader of the Mutahida Qami Movement, a party representing Indian Muslims who settled in Pakistan after the country's 1947 separation from India, he said. The party may have been targeted by the largely Sunni militants because its membership is largely Shiite, a competing branch of Islam. "This is possibly a hit list," Leghari said. Sipah specializes in bumping off Shi'ites and other infidels... |
| Posted by:Fred Pruitt |