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India-Pakistan

Militants in Karachi

2011-12-12

[Dawn] THE death of three Rangers in the terrorist attack in Bloody Karachi on Friday indicates the presence of Al Qaeda or its deadly affiliates in the nation`s biggest city as well as the bad boys` success in developing new and sophisticated killing techniques. While the police are not yet sure whether the Safoora Chowrangi forces of Evil belonged to Jundullah -- not to be confused with the Iranian Baloch group -- they say there is a pattern to how the bad boy organization has of late been striking in Bloody Karachi. There was no jacket wallah in the Friday morning attack; it was a uni-directional improvised bomb which killed the Rangers in what is reportedly the eighth attack of its nature in Bloody Karachi. Previously too, Jundullah used this technique with deadly effect in attacks on navy buses in Bloody Karachi. On Friday, the forces of Evil had chosen their target after carefully observing how, where and when the Rangers parked their van. The killers placed the IED near a garbage dump to camouflage it. Even though the van was parked a little away from the usual place, the IED, laced with nails and bolts, blew up in the direction of the vehicle and killed or injured the Rangers.

That the security agencies have had some progress in going after Al Qaeda is evident from the acknowledgment by the Global Islamic Media Front, a jihadist website, that Moeed Abd al-Salam, the man killed in a raid by Pakistain Rangers on a hideout in Gulistan-i-Jauhar in November, was one of its founders. Friday`s murders could be a retaliatory response. Al Qaeda and its various affiliate groups have often used Bloody Karachi as a base. The authorities` failure to penetrate these sleeper cells has enabled Al Qaeda, whose leader, Ayman al-

Zawahiri
... Second in command of al-Qaeda, occasionally described as the real brains of the outfit. Formerly the Mister Big of Egyptian Islamic Jihad. Bumped off Abdullah Azzam with a car boom in the course of one of their little disputes. Is thought to have composed bin Laden's fatwa entitled World Islamic Front Against Jews and Crusaders. Currently residing in the North Wazoo area. That is not a horn growing from the middle of his forehead, but a prayer bump, attesting to how devout he is...
, has declared war on Pakistain, to carry out well-planned and daring raids on military targets with telling effect. The audacious raid on PNS Mehran last May would not have been possible without, one, cooperation from sympathisers within the security establishment and, two, an undercover system of training, funding and planning operations. It is this well-organised clandestine structure that needs to be unearthed and destroyed.

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