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| Briton killed in Pakistan linked to Faisal Shahzad | |
| 2010-10-07 | |
| [Dawn] A British man killed by an air strike in Pakistain had ties with the would-be Times Square bomber, a Pak intelligence official said on Wednesday. The official, who declined to be identified, told Rooters the Briton, Abdul Jabbar, had also been in the process of setting up a branch for the Taliban in Britain. "He had some links to Faisal Shahzad but the nature of the ties are not clear," the official said, referring to the Pak-born US citizen who tried to set off a car bomb in New York's busy Times Square in May. Shahzad was sentenced on Tuesday in a New York court to life in prison. The official said Jabbar came to Pakistain in 2009 and received hard boy training in North Wazoo. Jabbar had earlier survived a drone strike on a hard boy training camp run by Hafiz Gul Bahadur, a commander allied to the Haqqani network, an Afghan Taliban faction seen as one of the most effective forces battling Western troops in Afghanistan. "He was eventually killed in a drone strike near Miramshah on September 8," the official said, referring to the main town of North Wazoo. The United States has stepped up attacks by its death droid aircraft over northwest Pakistain since late 2008. Most of the attacks have been in North Wazoo. News of Jabbar's death came after an alleged al-Qaeda plot to attack European targets put Pakistain's performance against bully boyz under scrutiny again. European and US counter-terrorism officials have said that concerns about a group of about 100 German bully boyz who had travelled between Germany and northwest Pakistain contributed to the latest security alert in Europe. A new White House assessment concludes that Pakistain has been unwilling to aggressively pursue al-Qaeda and Afghan Taliban bully boyz in the Pak tribal lands. The White House assessment, first reported by the Wall Street Journal on Tuesday and confirmed by Rooters, faults the Pak government and military for lacking the will to take action against the bully boyz in North Wazoo. Analysts say Pakistain sees the Afghan Taliban as tools for influencing events in Afghanistan where the growing role of old rival India has alarmed Pakistain. Pakistain is likely to be even more reluctant to attack the Afghan Taliban as speculation grows that the United States and its allies, including the Afghan government, will eventually have to negotiate with the bully boyz to end the war, analysts say.
The decision was apparently made during a meeting in the North Waziristan region of Pakistan three months ago, attended by 300 militants and monitored by intelligence agencies. The source said the new group was set up to organise synchronised terrorist attacks in the UK, France and Germany. It was this intelligence that led to the missile strike by a US unmanned aerial drone on September 8 which killed Jabbar and three others. The suspects, who are also said to have included a number of German nationals, had been hiding in the tribal areas of North Waziristan at the time. An intelligence official told the Associated Press news agency that Jabbar's brother was conspiring with him to commit the Europe terrorist atrocity. The reports about Jabbar follow disclosure that intelligence agencies in Europe, Pakistan and the US intercepted a credible Islamic plot to launch raids on European cities, in a similar style to the attacks in Mumbai, India, two years ago. | |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #2 Punjab is a common denominator in alot of the Pakistani Jihadis.ISI trained no doubt! |
| Posted by: Paul2 2010-10-07 12:39 |
| #1 How many of these "fake" citizens do we have around also? |
| Posted by: JohnQC 2010-10-07 10:37 |