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Pakistan: Net closes in on alleged Mumbai conspirators

2008-12-06

(AKI) - By Syed Saleem Shahzad - Faced with evidence of alleged Pakistani involvement in last week's terror assault on the Indian city of Mumbai, Islamabad has assured the United States it will take action at the right moment against those involved, according to well placed Pakistani intelligence sources.

"When's the right moment?"
"About fifty years from now, give or take. More likely give."

"There is no pressure on us so far, nor is there is any reason for the arrest of the top leadership," said Yahya Mujahid, spokesman for Jamaatut Dawa, formerly Lashkar-i-Toiba, the outlawed Kashmiri militant group suspected of being behind the Mumbai bombings.

The surviving gunman from the Mumbai assault reportedly told his Indian interrogators he was from Pakistan and was recruited and trained by Lashkar-i-Toiba. The attacks killed 172 people and injured nearly 300. "We have nothing to do with Laskhar-i-Toiba. Jamaatut Dawa chief Hafiz Muhammad Saeed condemned the Mumbai attack. We never condone attacks against civilians," Mujahid told Adnkronos International (AKI).

Of course, no infidel can be a civilian ...

Pakistan's Government banned Laskhkar-e-Toiba after Al-Qaeda's 11 September 2001 atacks against the United States and renamed itself Jamaatut Dawa. The group still operates with the same name in Indian-administered Kashmir as a militant organisation while Jamaatut Dawa claims to be a welfare and political party in Pakistan.

Laskhkar-e-Toiba sources said that training camps in Muzzafarabad, in Pakistani-administered Kashmir were immediately evacuated soon after Indian armed were placed on high alert after the Mumbai attacks last week. The group feared an Indian Air Force attack could target Laskhkar-e-Toiba training camps in Muzzafarabad.

Pooled Indian and US intelligence points to the Pakistani Inter-Services Intelligence spy agency (ISI) having had a role in training the gunmen who carried out the attack, Indian media have reported this week, quoting intelligence sources.

Precisely what action has been taken against ISI is unclear but the noose has tightened around the organisation. The US recently sent a list of four former ISI officials to the United Nations Security Council whom it wants the body to label as terrorists.

Good luck with that ...

The officials include retired former ISI chief, Lt. Gen. Hamid Gul and retired Squadron Leader Khalid Khawaja. The list was compiled before the Mumbai attacks but is part of an Amrerican policy to curtail the role of ISI in the region.

Gul has confirmed that his name is mentioned in the list and if the government of Pakistan does not contact him, he will contact the UN to defend himself. "I am vocal against the American imperialist designs in the region. I can read their mind and expose their strategies and warn my nation in advance. That's why they want me declared a terrorist," Gul told AKI.

Posted by:Fred

#2 Laskhkar-e-Toiba sources said that training camps in Muzzafarabad, in Pakistani-administered Kashmir were immediately evacuated soon after Indian armed were placed on high alert after the Mumbai attacks last week.

Gosh, it's as if they expected someone would act like LeT were responsible. By the way, what kind of training camps does a charitable organization need: Water Boiling For Cholera Prevention and Inoculation Methodology In Theory & Practice? Surely that wouldn't require more than a small building -- even the Red Cross national headquarters doesn't need that kind of space.

Posted by: trailing wife 2008-12-06 20:01

#1 Always, with the American Imperialist b.s.
Gul baby, I hope you are a light sleeper. If you hear a buzzing sound in the sky above your house, just ignore it.

Posted by: bigjim-ky 2008-12-06 08:15

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