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India-Pakistan
Cement-concealed IEDs use increasing in city
2013-01-15
[Dawn] Terrorists who use improvised bombs (IEDs) to carry out bombings across the country have changed their modus operandi in Bloody Karachi
...formerly the capital of Pakistain, now merely its most important port and financial center. It is among the largest cities in the world, with a population of 18 million, most of whom hate each other and many of whom are armed and dangerous...
-- they increasingly use IEDs hidden inside cement blocks and curve stones.

Elsewhere, they usually use explosive-rigged vehicles and suicide jackets.

These IEDs were used in about eight blasts in Bloody Karachi while close to a dozen similar IEDs were detected before they went off and defused by the bomb disposal unit of Bloody Karachi police, according to officials.

"Protruding wires or other material visible from inside the cement block or curve stones have led to most of the detections," said CID SP Raja Umar Khattab.

A 30kg IED concealed in a curve stone was detected in October 2011 by a boy. He was busy washing his car when his eyes caught sight of some wires protruding from a curve stone. The boy got suspicious and informed police, he recalled.

The boy was rewarded by the then IG of Sindh for helping the police.

The same type of IED was found planted near a mosque in the Jinnah Postgraduate Medical Centre in June 2011. It had more or less the same weight as the others found previously and the outer cement covering appearing like a brick.

Brick IEDs were used in two of three attacks on the Naval buses in April 2011 but in the third attack in the DHA an explosive-laden cycle of violence was used, he said.

Likewise in December 2011 blast, a brick-covered IED was planted near the Rangers mobile close to Safoora Chowrangi.

The Bloody Karachi police got their first chance to lay hands on a brick-covered IED during the 11th of Muharram in 2009 when the device fell from some vehicle in Shadman Town while being transported somewhere.

The chance discovery led to the arrest of six suspects behind the Ashura blast in 2009 and the 8th and 9th Muharram low intensity blasts.

But just six months after their arrest they fled the City Courts in June 2010. One of them later died when a hand-grenade he was carrying blew up in his hands.

The suspects were said to be activists of 'Jundullah', a previously little known krazed killer outfit.

They were never retossed in the slammer
Please don't kill me!
and the police conveniently put the blame for the attacks on Rangers and Naval buses on a splinter group of Lashkar-e-Jhangvi
... a 'more violent' offshoot of Sipah-e-Sahaba Pakistain. LeJ's purpose in life is to murder anyone who's not of utmost religious purity, starting with Shiites but including Brelvis, Ahmadis, Christians, Jews, Buddhists, Rosicrucians, and just about anyone else you can think of. They are currently a wholly-owned subsidiary of al-Qaeda ...
led by Naeem Bukhari.

Bukhari is once reported to have been enjugged
Don't shoot, coppers! I'm comin' out!
by a law enforcement agency several years ago. He was booked in a drug case, which never proved and was set free for want of evidence, said a law enforcement official.
Posted by:Fred

#1  Same as in Iraq. Same makers, or same teachers.
Posted by: Glenmore   2013-01-15 19:28  

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