Security forces killed a dozen rebels, including three top members of Hizbul Mujahedin and seized more than three million rupees ($64,000). The three Hizbul members were shot dead by army and counter-insurgency police near Srinagar, Kashmir's summer capital. The dead included a divisional commander named Nazir Ahmed Yatoo, who "has been a kingpin and chief coordinator of all militant activities in north Kashmir" and headed a list of most-wanted militants. "Yatoo was raising finances for the group," a spokesman said. "His death is a major setback to the Kashmir militancy." Security forces also recovered a large cache of arms and ammunition and 40 kilograms of plastic explosive. Meanwhile, security forces shot dead two militants near the international border in the southern Jammu region. Two militants of the Jaish-e-Mohammed were also shot dead by security forces in the Zainpora area. During the exchange of fire nearly a dozen residences and other structures caught fire and were destroyed. Five more militants, two of them belonging to the Lashkar-e-Taiba militant group, were killed elsewhere in Kashmir.
Nice shootin', Mukkerjee! We might also point out that Jaish-e-Muhammad has "declared war on all Americans." |