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India-Pakistan
Ayman had JeM try to whack Perv
2004-02-04
The investigators in Pakistan concluded probe into assasination attempts on life of President Musharraf and reached to conclusion that local chapter of al-Qaeda, a network of Osama Bin Laden’s hand in all such attempts including that of December 25th last suicide attacks. "All the assasination attempts against President Musharraf was the job of the militants of Jaish-e-Mohammad on the direction of Ayman Al-Zawahiri, a deputy of Bin Laden," one of the investigators told to this scribe here Tuesday.
I love newspapers that still have scribes, even though they usually turn out unreadable prose...
More than 50 militants of Jaish detained since December last revealed the investigators of several plans made to assassinate President General Pervez Musharraf. "They planed to hit Musharraf with rockets during the parade of March 23rd--that was postponed due to rain and reasons not disclosed officially," the source said. It was also learnt that President Musharraf is at top of the hit list of al-Qaeda due to his policies of siding with the Americans in a said war against terrorism being fought in Afghanistan. Zawari and bin Laden are beleived hiding somewhere in Afghanistan and the US authorities had chalked out an aggressive campaign to search and hunt them. The militans of Jaish revealed to the investigators that each of their militant had some 18 mobile telephones--and they used to switch one on in a week time, the source said. The source was of the view that the network of Jaish is almost bursted "we are searching to arrest Maulana Masood Azhar, chief of Jaish and soon would succeed in detaining him."
He tried to kill Perv, why not repay him in kind?
Posted by:Dan Darling

#4  "After two recent assassination attempts, he is guarded by an American military team"
Geez. It's funny, but there's no upside to this... it's like being an offensive lineman.
Posted by: .com   2004-2-4 10:08:19 AM  

#3  I was reading an LA Times article about Pak's nukes, and was shocked to read this concerning Musharaf:

After two recent assassination attempts, he is guarded by an American military team

He must really be worried to take lessons from Karzai.
Posted by: Paul Moloney   2004-2-4 1:57:02 AM  

#2   If that was the case, it looks as though they missed a few. My understanding is that a member of Musharraf's own security detail was in on the latest attempt, however, suggesting at the very least that it was more than your average jihadi mayhem in Pakland.
Posted by: Dan Darling   2004-2-4 1:12:58 AM  

#1  I find it extremely unlikely that Masood had anything to do with the assasination attempt. It's more likely that some of the lower ranked members of his group took part, and Masood is currently under house arrest until things come down.
Last year Masood expelled a dozen commanders who were considering carrying out attacks in the country. He informed the ISI of their identities and washed his hands of them. As far as I know, they have all been arrested.
Posted by: Paul Moloney   2004-2-4 12:23:44 AM  

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