With the escalation of violence and insurgency in Afghanistan's southern regions, major general Abdul Raziq Sherzai, the commander of Kandahar Air Brigade Friday rallied for more military aircraft to be delivered to the hard-pressed Afghan security forces who have been battling insurgent groups in their traditional heartlands in Kandahar and Helmand provinces for weeks.
He said that the Kandahar Air Brigade, despite having inadequate facilities on hand, continue to back the ground forces in their campaign against the militants in Helmand and Kandahar provinces, where in recent months violence dramatically increased following the Taliban's new attempt to seize control of the strategic province of Helmand in the south and infiltrate neighboring provinces.
The Kandahar Air Brigade that operates under the command of 205 Atal Army Corps has about 20 different types of aircrafts - a figure security officials claim is nothing near what they need to deal with the current scale of security issues that have undermined large swaths of land in the south.
He called on the central government in Kabul and NATO alliance to make sure there is a delivery of more aircrafts to conventional forces so that they can tighten their grip on the war with the terrorists.
Kandahar Air Brigade has at least 900 employees and technicians.
"777 special unit is also set to assume its job in the southwestern region, our air brigade also conducts missions during the operations," said Sherzai.
"We need cooperation, foreign forces should deliver us more aircraft and equipment so that we get more strength," said an Afghan pilot in Kandahar Air Brigade.
Meanwhile, a number of security sources on condition of anonymity in the southern provinces have said that air support and reinforcements are not being sent to them on time.
"We expect the government to deliver us the latest aircraft which can meet the needs of current times, they should also provide us latest technical training," said Afghan National Army soldier in Kandahar.
"Ground forces give us the plan and suggest us to come to a certain area and conduct operations. Both 205 Atal Army Corps and 2015 Maiwand Army Corps are supplied by us," added Sherzai.
The Afghan Air Force (AAF) has 150 aircrafts which operate from Kabul, Kandahar, Herat, Nangarhar and Balkh provinces and conduct missions to support ground forces.
Baghlan provincial council on Friday warns if the security situation is not tackled seriously the province will collapse to the Taliban.
After the Taliban attacked Dahan-e-Ghori more than ten military checkpoints and villages collapsed to the Taliban.
Baghlan provincial council said that Taliban has taken control of villages in Dahan-e-Ghori one after the other and if the Taliban is not stopped soon all Dahan-e-Ghori villages will fall to the Taliban which will lead to the fall of Puli-khumri - the capital of Baghlan province.
"It has been three months that the Taliban are active, why have the governor and other officials not been able to remove insecurities and why could they not control the conspiracy," said Bismillah Attash provincial council member.
Meanwhile families of those soldiers under siege by Taliban said that if reinforcement forces do not arrive soon in Dahan-e-Ghori they will lose their sons.
"We urgently request extra troops because we are under siege here. Three hundred Taliban attacked," said Ghulam Sakhi a resident.
"If Dahan-e-Ghori district collapses then Puli-khomri will also collapse," said Shamuddin another resident.
Taliban attacked Dahan-e-Ghori district on Wednesday and so far they have captured ten military checkpoints and several villages.
Somalia may be eligible to tap financing from the International Monetary Fund and other multilateral lenders if it maintains a reform program intended to help rebuild the country’s war-shattered economy, the IMF country head said.
Prospects for peace after more than two decades of conflict have been boosted after Somalis agreed to elect a new administration on Oct 30, Samba Thiam said in an e-mailed response to questions Aug 9.
The IMF expects the Horn of Africa nation to open up to foreign capital as the government continues to improve its management of the economy, he said.
This will allow both Somalis and foreigners with the right connections to wet their beaks. The kinds of connections the IMF excels at...
“Progress has been made already in the areas of investment law, procurement, contract concessions, public financial management and anti-money laundering,” Mr Thiam said.
“If the current and subsequent programs are successfully implemented, in the future Somalia may indeed access IMF financing.”
Somalia’s US$6 billion economy has been devastated by civil war that began in 1991 and a subsequent Islamist-militant insurgency that has destroyed much of the country’s political and economic institutions, according to the World Bank. Income per capita is estimated at US$435, making Somalia the fifth-poorest country in the world.
The IMF and World Bank are supporting a raft of reforms that are making Somalia’s business sector “more attractive,” Mr Thiam said. Donors have provided US$10 million to develop local skills, he said.
The IMF has also backed a plan by the Central Bank of Somalia to print its own currency by 2017, Mr Thiam said. The bank is in the final phase of discussions with donors to secure funding for currency reforms, Governor Bashir Issa Ali said in a phone interview from the capital, Mogadishu.
Somalia’s economy will probably grow 3.7 per cent this year and next, according to IMF estimates.
That will make per capita income about $470 a year. But some folks with the right connections will do far better than that, which is the whole point...
Companies including Royal Dutch Shell Plc, Exxon Mobil Corp, and BP Plc are in talks about returning to the country, the presidency said in August 2014.
Cha-Ching...
Institutions and effective legislation, along with the ability to negotiate contracts with oil and gas investors should be in place before any permits are issued, Mr Thiam said.
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The government of Somalia controls about 20 square blocks of Mogadishu. Beyond that it's all warlords and factions. How f'ing stupid do you have to be to pour money into that sewer.
Twelve Somalis who attacked a container ship in the Indian Ocean were sentenced to five years in jail in Mauritius on Thursday, a reminder of the region’s battle against piracy.
The men were accused of firing on the MSC Jasmine, a Panamanian-flagged container ship, in January 2013 before being captured by naval anti-piracy forces and transferred to Mauritius for trial. They were found guilty of sea piracy on 14 July.
The men, aged between 22 and 47, had been acquitted in November 2014 but prosecutors appealed, and in December last year a new trial was ordered. Sentencing them on Thursday a judge said the three years they had already served would be be taken off their jail time.
So back to the high seas hijinks before the end of Hilarity's first term, boys!
Foreign navies that capture suspected pirates have handed over hundreds to regional nations including Mauritius, as well as Kenya, Seychelles and Tanzania, though the criminal industry in the Indian Ocean and Gulf of Aden has largely died out.
Somali piracy reached its peak in 2011 when Somali pirate gangs attacked 237 vessels, seizing 11 vessels and 216 hostages, earning on average more than $2-million for every ship ransomed. Anti-piracy patrols by international warships and armed guards aboard commercial vessels, which now sail faster and further away from the Somali coast, have largely suppressed incidents of piracy.
Although Mauritius was not directly affected, the Indian Ocean island nation feared for its maritime trade as well as the many luxury cruises that feed its economy.
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[The National] The capture of the gigantic Ouagadougou Conference Centre in Sirte has dealt a critical blow against ISIS in Libya, albeit at a high cost to Libyan forces.
For the past year, ISIS’s black flag had been draped over the domed structure, which served as the headquarters of the myrmidon group’s self-declared Libya caliphate that once stretched 200 kilometres along the coast.
The complex, home to a vast central auditorium, was built by former dictator Muammar Qadaffy ...a proud Arab institution for 42 years, now among the dear departed, though not the dearest... to boost his dream of being seen as a leader for all Africans. Its concrete walls proved impervious to artillery for weeks, frustrating government troops, while ISIS snipers on its rooftops kept up a murderous fire.
The convention centre’s capture by forces of the UN-backed Government of National Accord (GNA) has robbed ISIS of its key stronghold in Sirte, a coastal town 450 kilometres east of Tripoli ...a confusing city, one end of which is located in Lebanon and the other end of which is the capital of Libya. Its chief distinction is being mentioned in the Marine Hymn... Photographs from Sirte on Thursday showed the black flag gone and government fighters outside the building holding red, black and green Libyan flags. The sand-coloured structure is now pockmarked with blackened shell holes and most of its windows are shattered.
The Pentagon estimated that 350 ISIS fighters remained in Sirte on Wednesday, with GNA commanders saying the bulk of them were in residential areas close to the coast. It is likely that the remaining ISIS units, having lost their stronghold, will be mopped up in the coming days and weeks. Less clear is how many of Libya’s ISIS fighters, estimated to number 6,000 by Washington earlier this year, remain in guerrilla formations elsewhere in the country. Over the past 18 months ISIS operating in Tripoli have launched an attack on Miteega prison, trying to free tossed in the clink Maw! They're comin' to get me, Maw! comrades, and in January last year killed 9 people in an attack on the city centre Corinthia hotel.
Sixteen government fighters were killed and 11 maimed in Wednesday’s battle, adding to a toll of more than 300 dead and 1,500 maimed in a campaign that began on May 12 against the holy warrior group. The GNA also lost a fighter jet over the town, which ISIS claimed to have shot down. The GNA, however, insisted that the crash was accidental.
The success of the Sirte campaign adds to losses suffered by ISIS in Iraq and Syria and follows the same model, with US air strikes and special forces supporting local ground troops.
TRIPOLI: Libyan forces battling to oust Daesh from Sirte on Wednesday captured a large convention hall complex in the city center, seizing a symbolic base where terrorists once held meetings and flew their black terror flag.
Securing the Ouagadougou Conference Center as well as hospital and university buildings would mark the biggest advance made by Libyan forces in weeks. The United States 10 days ago began airstrikes on Sirte, which fighters say hastened their progress.
“Our forces have complete control of the whole of the Ouagadougou complex, they even advanced some distance beyond the complex,” Rida Issa, a spokesman in the forces’ media office, said.
Photos posted on the media office’s Facebook page showed fighters with armed pickup trucks and a tank milling around next to the convention hall, which was pockmarked by shelling.
The large domed building is a landmark in Sirte, hometown of late dictator Muammar Qaddafi, and was used for meetings and religious instruction by Daesh after they took control of the city last year.
Losing Sirte would be a major setback for the ultras, already under pressure in Syria and Iraq.
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The capture of the gigantic Ouagadougou Conference Centre
Doesn't quiet have the ring of the Red October Tractor Factory.
The US State Department has approved the potential sale of more than 130 Abrams battle tanks, 20 armored recovery vehicles and other equipment, worth about $1.15 billion, to Saudi Arabia, the Pentagon said on Tuesday, Reuters reported.
Badanov, you got the secret kill switches installed on all the vehicles, right?
The approval for land force equipment coincides with Saudi Arabia leading a military coalition in support of Yemeni forces loyal to the exiled government of President Abd-Rabbu Mansour Hadi who are trying to oust Iran-allied Houthi forces from the capital, Sanaa.
Saudis got chewed up pretty bad alright...
The US Defense Security Cooperation Agency, which implements foreign arms sales, said that General Dynamics will be the principal contractor for the sale.
"This sale will increase the Royal Saudi Land Force’s (RSLF) interoperability with US forces and conveys US commitment to Saudi Arabia's security and armed forces modernization," the agency said in a notice to lawmakers posted on its website.
Lawmakers have 30 days to block the sale, although such action is rare.
Saudi Arabia and its mostly Gulf Arab allies intervened in Yemen's civil war in March 2015 after the Houthi movement had pushed the Hadi administration into exile in Saudi Arabia.
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"According to the Defense Security Cooperation Agency (DSCA), Riyadh had requested the possible purchase of up to 133 American M1A1/A2 Abrams tanks that would be configured to Saudi needs, plus another 20 to replace damaged tanks in their fleet."
Belgian police released three people Friday who were detained overnight in a counterterror operation in the Brussels area, Sputnik reported.
Searches were conducted in homes of people under scrutiny on suspicion of links to terrorism and foreign fighters returning from Syria, the RTBF broadcaster reported, saying no weapons or explosives had been found.
Two women and a man, who was tagged electronically for trying to leave for Syria, were released after being questioned by the investigating judge, according to the broadcaster.
Belgium has been investigating several cases related to last year’s terror attacks in Paris and this spring's Brussels bombings, as well as foiled terror plots in the country.
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[IsraelTimes] Ankara accuses Hakan Sukur, who is believed to be in the US, of ’membership of an armed terror group,’ ties with preacher Gulen
The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire.... has issued an arrest warrant for its former international soccer star striker Hakan Sukur in the probe over the failed July 15 coup aimed at unseating President Recep Tayyip Erdogan ... Turkey's version of Mohammed Morsi but they voted him back in so they deserve him... , state media said on Friday.
Sukur is accused by prosecutors in Sakarya province east of Istanbul of being a member of the organization of the US-based preacher Fethullah Gulen ... a Turkish preacher living in Pennsylvania whom the current govt of Turkey considers responsible for all the ills afflicting Turkey and possibly the entire world... who Ankara claims was behind the coup.
His arrest is sought on charges of "membership of an armed terror group," the state-run Anadolu agency said, referring to what Ankara calls the Fethullah Terror Organization (FETO).
Gulen denies such a group exists and accusations he was the criminal mastermind behind the coup.
The agency added that a similar warrant has also been issued for his father Selmet Sukur.
The report said neither man had been found at their Istanbul and Sakarya residences after the warrant was issued, adding Sukur and his family had left Turkey last year.
He is currently believed to be in the United States.
Sukur was one of the stars of Turkey’s third place performance in the 2002 World Cup and a household name in the soccer-mad country.
A striker whose soccer career stretched from 1987 to 2007, Sukur was by far the most prolific goalscorer in the history of the Turkish national side, finding the net 51 times in 112 appearances.
He was a stalwart player for Istanbul side Galatasaray but also had stints abroad for Inter Milan, Parma and Blackburn Rovers.
His goal after just 11 seconds of play against South Korea in 2002 remains the fastest goal in World Cup history.
After soccer, Sukur went into politics and was elected an MP with Erdogan’s ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) in 2011.
But he resigned in 2013 after a vast corruption probe that targeted Erdogan and his inner circle, siding with the movement of Erdogan’s arch-foe Gulen.
Sukur had voiced objections to the government move to shut down schools run by Gulen’s movement Hizmet, which means service in Turkish. He had in June gone on trial in absentia on charges of insulting Erdogan on social media.
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So long, Sukur
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A delegation of the US Department of Justice will visit Turkey Aug. 22 to discuss Fethullah Gulen’s extradition, Sabah newspaper quoted Turkey’s Justice Minister Bekir Bozdag as saying Aug. 12.
I say we get John Kerry to have a consultation with Carla del Ponte about this. That'll delay the whole thing for a decade...
“The US must not support Fethullah Gulen, who is the head of a terrorist organization,” said Bozdag.
The minister noted that the US shouldn’t sacrifice its relations with Turkey for sake of Gulen.
An Istanbul court ordered Aug. 4 to arrest Fethullah Gulen, who is accused of organizing the military coup attempt in Turkey.
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He'll be bundled on a plane before the November elections.
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I thought sending a refugee back to certain imprisonment, torture, and death was immoral and illegal? Oh, but Obama licks Yippy's feet, so it's Hokay
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[ABCNEWS.GO] The majority of terrorism defendants in the United States who have been sentenced for supporting the Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems.... group received the maximum 15 years in prison, according to a summary filed Friday by federal prosecutors in Minnesota.
The summary, created at the request of the judge presiding over Minnesota's terrorism cases, comes as nine men await sentencing for plotting to join the Islamic State group.
Eight of the 13 defendants nationwide who have been sentenced for either providing, attempting to provide or conspiring to provide material support to the Islamic State group have received the maximum sentence, the report said. Three of those eight got even longer penalties because they received consecutive sentences on multiple counts.
The report looked at sentencing data of Islamic State-related cases over the last two years and focused on material support convictions, not sentences for convictions such as lying during a terror investigation.
U.S. District Judge Michael Davis ordered prosecutors Friday to continue to update the list until the nine men, who prosecutors say were part of a group of friends who inspired and recruited each other to join the Islamic State organization, are sentenced. A date for that has not been set.
All nine were convicted of conspiracy to support a foreign terrorist organization, but three also face a possible life sentence after they were convicted of conspiracy to commit murder overseas.
Some of the cases cited in the report are similar to the Minnesota cases: In two separate cases, a Texas man got nearly seven years and a Georgia man got 15 years after they were tossed in the clink You have the right to remain silent... while trying to leave the U.S. A New Jersey man received 15 years after planning to join the Islamic State group himself and helping his brother successfully make the trip abroad.
Davis has been open-minded when it comes to sentencing terror defendants in Minnesota, and has pioneered a program that's designed to assess a defendant's prospects for de-radicalization and risk of re-offense. He has said he plans to use that information in sentencing.
Bob Sicoli, an attorney for one Minnesota man awaiting sentencing, said every case is different and he doesn't believe Friday's summary will have much bearing on the fate of his client, who cooperated with the government and testified at trial.
Of the cases summarized by in the report, a Colorado woman received the lightest sentence with four years. Prosecutors in that case argued for less than five years, citing her cooperation with the government.
The report also included a case that was not related to the Islamic State group in which a man was convicted of conspiracy to commit murder overseas. He and his co-defendant were each sentenced to 25 years in prison. Prosecutors said they included this case because it was the only one they found with that charge.
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[NYDAILYNEWS] A onetime accountant for Al Qaeda who coordinated deadly bombings on U.S. embassies said his lawyers bungled his defense because they "tacitly coerced" him not to talk, according to new documents filed in Manhattan federal court.
Wadih el-Hage received a life sentence in October 2001 for his role in the 1998 bombings of U.S. embassies in Kenya and Tanzania that left 224 dead. The sentence was later invalidated because of a ruling by a higher court, but he was resentenced to life in April 2013.
El-Hage, whom the feds have described as a "high-ranking associate" of the late Osama bin Laden ... who is now among the dear departed, though not among the dearest... , handled payroll and some logistics for Al Qaeda.
El-Hage contends "his trial counsel were ineffective because they advised and tacitly coerced him not to testify at trial contrary to his stated desire to do so," recently filed documents state.
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They'da let me go if I coulda 'splained it to 'em.
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He would, no doubt, have explained that as infidels they were not permitted to judge him, and anyway he was just following orders. That would have gone over well.
[DAWN] The Foreign Office has confirmed that the crew of a Punjab 1.) Little Orphan Annie's bodyguard
2.) A province of Pakistain ruled by one of the Sharif brothers
3.) A province of India. It is majority (60 percent) Sikh and Hindoo (37 percent), which means it has relatively few Moslem riots.... government helicopter that crash-landed in Afghanistan last week is safe and efforts for its rescue are continuing.
"As informed by the Afghan side, the crew members are safe," FO front man Nafees Zakaria said at his weekly media briefing on Thursday.
The FO statement about the well-being of the crew follows a similar claim by the Russian foreign ministry which said: "It is reassuring that, according to the majority of sources, the lives of the hostages are not in danger."
The helicopter made an emergency landing in a Taliban-controlled district of Pashtun-infested Logar province on Aug 4 while flying to Russia for maintenance and seven crew members, including a Russian navigator, were taken hostage by a group of myrmidons. Both Russian and Pak governments have been making efforts for the release of the hostages.
The Afghan government initiated an operation for identification of the captors and rescue of the hostages.
"Efforts for the recovery are under way and as soon as there is any tangible development we shall inform," Mr Zakaria said in a statement issued in the evening after media speculation about the release of the captives.
At the media briefing, he said the Afghan government was trying to secure their release with the help of elders of the area.
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Try $400 million in Swiss francs. That seems to get hostages sprung.
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[DAWN] The government on Thursday held out the assurance that security remained its priority and decided to establish a panel to oversee the execution of the troubled National Action Plan (NAP).
"Restoration of complete peace and tranquillity shall remain the top priority of the government and all the state institutions... It was agreed to establish a high-level task force to monitor the progress of implementation of the National Action Plan," said a statement issued by the Prime Minister Office (PMO) at the conclusion of two days of civil-military deliberations on lack of progress in the implementation of NAP.
The new body would include bigwigs from the security agencies of both the federal and provincial governments, but its exact composition is yet to be finalised.
Regarding the military’s view that threat to internal security was morphing due to growing nexus between hostile foreign intelligence agencies and local krazed killer groups, the meeting reviewed the subversive actions of external agencies and decided to "scale up the existing efforts to neutralise hostile elements through a coordinated and focused approach."
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"...the meeting reviewed the subversive actions of external agencies and decided to 'scale up the existing efforts to neutralise hostile elements through a coordinated and focused approach.'"
My, my! The Pakistan military is learning to speak Pentagonese.
[DAWN] Pakistain suspects that a faction of the Taliban, which grabbed credit for the deadly attack in Quetta, was backed by Afghan intelligence agency -- the National Directorate of Security ...the Afghan national intel agency... (NDS)
Aziz further implied that India's intelligence agency RAW ... India's Research and Analysis Wing, Pakistain's equivalent of the Boogie Man... (Research and Analysis Wing) and the NDS are in collusion.
We will notify Afghanistan that NDS and Inter-Services Intelligence ...the Pak military intelligence agency that controls the military -- heads of ISI typically get promoted into the Chief of Army Staff position. It serves as a general command center for favored turban groups such as Lashkar-e-Taiba and Jaish-e-Mohammad, tries to influence the politix of neighboring countries, and carries out a (usually) low-level war against India in Kashmir... (ISI) should reestablish contact, Aziz said, adding that "incidents like the Quetta attack can be avoided when intelligence agencies of both countries are in contact".
The foreign affairs advisers said new guidelines have been set up regarding Pak-Afghan ties and recommendations in this regard will be presented to Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif ... served two non-consecutive terms as prime minister, heads the Pakistain Moslem League (Nawaz). Noted for his spectacular corruption, the 1998 Pak nuclear test, border war with India, and for being tossed by General Musharraf... . "Following the premier's approval, Pak and Afghan authorities will be in touch".
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Paranoia strikes deep - into your tiny little corrupt heart it will creep
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[DAWN] Adviser to Prime Minister on Foreign Affairs Sartaj PrunefaceAziz ...Adviser to Pak Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif on National Security and Foreign Affairs, who believes in good jihadis and bad jihadis as a matter of national policy... announced that Islamabad will invite New Delhi to discuss the ongoing violence in India-held Kashmire, and that Foreign Secretary Aizaz Chaudhry will write a letter to his Indian counterpart in this regard.
"The foreign secretary will give emphasis on talks with India on occupied Kashmire," Aziz said.
Regarding the issue of Indian atrocities in Kashmire, Aziz said the matter cannot be taken to the International Court of Justice without the consent of both sides.
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"We're not done killing your imported tools, yet"
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[ECONOMICTIMES.INDIATIMES] NEW DELHI: Lashkar-e-Taiba terrorist Bahadur Ali's interrogation has revealed how Pakistan-based terrorists, after in filtrating into India through the line of control, manage to dodge security forces for days, sometimes months without any problem.
Based on Ali's interrogation, Indian agencies NIA and intelligence bureauhave identified several `infiltration routes' used by LeT, Jaishe-e-Mohammad, and Hizbul Mujahideen cadres in north Kashmir. Besides, Ali's interrogation has thrown light on the modus operandi used by terrorists.
21-year-old Ali, who was directed by Hafiz Saeed's son-in-law Khalid Waleed to attack crowds in Kashmir with grenades, started for India on June 1112 this year along with two others, Saad and Darda, after receiving full-fledged military training in LeT camps, identified as K2 in Manshera, Aksa (Muzaffarabad) and Tabbok in Muzaffarabad.
The interrogation report of Ali, accessed by TOI, states that they left LeT detachment in Mandaukli village near Muzaffarabad on June 8, accompanied by Amir (head) of the camp, Abu Haider. Haider made Saad head of the group of three who were to `wage jihad' on India.
"Each of us were given a backpack consisting of 20 rotis, dates, almonds, compass, night vision device, GPS, map, matrix sheets (with coded targets), unicode sheets, wireless sets, two sets of salwar kameez, medicines, AK47 with 5 magazines having 30 rounds of live ammunition each and extra ammunition. Haider gave Rs 30,000 each to Saad and Darda and Rs 23,000 to me for meeting our expenses," Ali claimed.
They cut the barbed wire near the border at Handwara and entered the Indian territory. "We typically travelled from the wee hours till 9-10 am in the morning, rested during the day and resumed our journey between 5-6 pm and travelled till midnight. We reached a village Vadar around June 2021," Ali said.
On June 22, Ali got separated from Saad and Darda when they went to the village to collect food. Ali remained in the jungle for almost one month and was continuously being assisted by suspected overground workers of LeT and other outfits. "I spent three days near GR point 8 given by control room in Muzaffarabad.I got food from one Bakarwal (tribe on mountains) and then shifted to jungle near village Mokam.
There one person provided me food," he said.
On directions from the PoK based LeT control room, Ali met four other trained terrorists at a nearby location communicated to him. A shepherd from Zairat village in the valley continued giving Ali food and also informed him that the two other terrorists had come and left for the jungle before him. After a few days, another local met Ali and made him talk to Khalid Waleed using his mobile phone. Ali was arrested on July 25.
The government on Thursday informed Parliament that 611 incidents of infiltration have taken place during the first six months of 2016.
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should be enuf intel to roll up the logistical supporters... make it publicly known their Pak Jihadi Martyrs rolled over on them.
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Baghlan provincial council on Friday warns if the security situation is not tackled seriously the province will collapse to the Taliban.
Twelve Somalis who attacked a container ship in the Indian Ocean were sentenced to five years in jail in Mauritius on Thursday, a reminder of the region’s battle against piracy.
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[ECONOMICTIMES.INDIATIMES] NEW DELHI: Lashkar-e-Taiba terrorist Bahadur Ali's interrogation has revealed how Pakistan-based terrorists, after in filtrating into India through the line of control, manage to dodge security forces for days, sometimes months without any problem.
