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| India-Pakistan |
| Taliban suicide bombing trainer killed? |
| 2008-05-20 |
| The military has started looking for evidence to confirm the death of Qari Hussain, the Taliban’s chief ideologist and principal suicide bombing trainer, after intercepting militant communications saying Hussain was ‘killed in Operation Zalzala’. “We have picked up intercepts of militants saying Qari Hussain has been killed in the operation,” senior army commanders who led Operation Zalzala (Earthquake) in South Waziristan told Daily Times. If the Taliban intercepts are confirmed, it would be a major success for the army, as it would have eliminated a person who is directly responsible for indoctrinating young men to train for suicide missions. Qari Hussain, a Mehsud tribesman affiliated with a banned militant/sectarian organisation, is known for running Baitullah Mehsud-led Taliban suicide bombing training centres. One of such training centre, which deployed young suicide bombers deep within Pakistan and perhaps Afghanistan, was discovered at a government-run school in the Kotkai area by the army. “It was a normal school meant for imparting modern education to tribal people. But we found material used in suicide bombing there,” GOC-14 Division Major General Tariq Khan told reporters in Dera Ismail Khan on Sunday. Recruitment: Brig Ali Abbas, who commands troops in Speenkay Raghzai and Kotkai, told Daily Times that the Taliban also had recruitment offices in Tank city before the army were deployed in the area last year. He was unsure of whether the Taliban could be running other suicide bombing training centres in the area. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #1 So I don't get it; how hard is it to 'pull the pin?' If they are that stoopid that they can't figure that out, then they probably think trainnig bras have those pesky little wheels on the sides.... |
| Posted by: USN, Ret. 2008-05-20 14:04 |