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India-Pakistan
Ret . Pak Army Major Suicide bomb "mastermind" arrested in Pakistan
2008-01-10
What is the retirement plan there? 401k in madrassas?
Pakistani security forces have arrested a retired army major suspected of being the mastermind behind a suicide attack on an air force bus which killed eight people, an intelligence official said on Wednesday.

The suspect, Ahsan-ul-Haq, was arrested in the outskirts of the eastern city of Lahore on December 17, the official said.
a while ago...wonder if he's squealed?
"We recovered explosives and jackets used for suicide bombings at his house next to a madrassa (Islamic school)," said the intelligence official, who declined to be identified.
next to a madrassa? I'm sure it was a coincidence
Authorities later arrested five of Haq's associates in the city of Sargodha, based on information provided by Haq, the official said.
yep, he squealed
"All of them admitted they were behind the Sargodha attack and were planning to carry out similar attacks, even against politicians," he said.

A suicide attacker on a motorbike rammed a bus carrying air force personnel on their way to a base in Sargodha, 170 km (100 miles) west of Lahore on November 1, killing eight people.

Haq, who was is in his 60s, was said have been close to Afghan Muslim guerrilla commander Younis Khalis, who battled Soviet forces in the 1980s and later had links with the Taliban.

Haq ran a militant training camp in Afghanistan during Taliban rule, the security official said.

The Taliban regime ended when U.S.-led troops ousted the hardline Islamists for refusing to hand over Osama bin Laden, weeks after the September 11, 2001, attacks on the United States.

Pakistan has been hit by a wave of suicide bomb attacks in recent months which have killed about 400 people, many of them members of the security forces and security agencies.

Suicide bombers have also attacked politicians including opposition leader Benazir Bhutto, assassinated in a gun and bomb attack in Rawalpindi on December 27.

The government says an al-Qaeda linked militant based in the lawless South Waziristan region on the Afghan border was behind Bhutto's killing. A spokesman for the wanted commander, Baitullah Mehsud, said he was not involved.
HT to LGF
Posted by:Frank G

#6  i would say all the retired paki military are in terrorism hence being retired. O r running a 7-11 over here
Posted by: sinse   2008-01-10 10:41  

#5  Army retirees, why do they hate us?
Because we're infidels (and proud of it).
Posted by: Spot   2008-01-10 09:15  

#4  Army retirees, why do they hate us?
Posted by: Besoeker   2008-01-10 07:39  

#3  How many retired? Paki arm forces are involved in terrorism????I wonder how many are sanctioned by Perv!!!!

Posted by: Paul   2008-01-10 06:46  

#2  400? I hadn't realized so many have been killed by splodydopes.
Posted by: trailing wife   2008-01-10 05:57  

#1  a while ago...wonder if he's squealed?

Sure as hell he squealed, Once those Paki Security Forces made Ahsan-ul-Haq wear panties on his head he started squealing like a Hawg Piggy!
Posted by: RD   2008-01-10 01:40  

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