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Terror Networks
Hizbul Mujahideen threatens to target National Conference
2002-04-09
  • Pakistan-based Hizbul Mujahideen has threatened to strike the ruling National Conference for its support to Prevention of Terrorism Act (POTA) in a rare joint session of Parliament last month. The National Conference's five MPs are part of the BJP-led government at the Centre. POTA gives police sweeping powers to arrest, interrogate and detain suspects for up to 90 days without trial and to intercept suspects' communication.

    "Hizb ul Mujahideen is contemplating some effective and decisive actions against the ruling National Conference for its alacrity in enacting POTA," the group's spokesman Junaid ul-Islam said. "For the people who know the art of becoming human bombs and killing themselves inside the camps of their enemies, this law is useless," Islam wrote in the Urdu-language weekly Chattan. "Instead, it will add to our dedication and commitment." Islam did not specify what action the terrorist group planned to take. "Up to date we have been restraining harsh measures against the National Conference, but now we have decided to take action," he wrote. "While many non-Muslim and non-BJP leaders have expressed reservations over the draconian law, Farooq Abdullah and his son were jubilant when the law was passed," Islam wrote. Farooq Abdullah's son Omar Abdullah is state Minister for External Affairs.
    Those "who know the art of becoming human bombs" are going to end up shoving Pakland right into the Afghanistan category. That'll be a messier, more costly war than Afghanistan, but wiping out the Unholy Alliance of the ISI and Qazi & Co. will do much to make the world a more peaceful place. A successful conclusion will also cut off the funding to crazed killers for hundreds of miles in every direction from Lahore.
  • Posted by:Fred Pruitt

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