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| London bomber 'was recruited' at Lashkar-e-Taiba madrassa |
| 2005-07-14 |
| An article linked by John below. No suprises here, but lets see what is done about it. Certainly all the revelations that came out of the Willie Brigitte case (an attack in Australia was prevented) did nothing to halt the Lashkar's training infrastructure. It seems they do far to valuable work in Kashmir and elsewhere to be disposed of by the Pakistani establishment. ONE of the suicide bombers who struck in London was probably recruited when he attended a religious school in Pakistan with strong links to al-Qaeda and its south-east Asian offshoot, Jemaah Islamiyyah, The Scotsman can reveal. Security sources in Pakistan are investigating a tip-off that Shehzad Tanweer attended a religious school run by the terrorist group Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) during a recent visit to the country. The group's founder has publicly stated that he believes suicide bombing to be the "best form of jihad [holy war]". In fact, Hafiz Saeed doesn't seem to utter a sentence without the word Jihad in it. Yesterday, British police and security services were concentrating their efforts on tracing the man who masterminded the attacks. They now know the identity of all four bombers but are understood to be looking for a fifth man who appears on the CCTV footage from King's Cross. His picture has been distributed to police in London. There was also a fresh warning from Charles Clarke, the Home Secretary, that a "large number" of people in Britain had been through radical camps abroad. Presumable the Pakistani handler was a Lashkar operative who has returned to Pakland. If there is an Arab involved he probably gave the go-ahead for the attack. The family of Shehzad Tanweer - whose bomb killed six people on a Circle Line train to Aldgate last Thursday - were yesterday said to have been "left shattered" by the news that the 22-year-old was a suicide bomber. His uncle, Bashir Ahmed, 65, said his nephew went to Lahore in Pakistan for two months earlier this year to study religion, but was "proud to be British". Pakistani investigators suspect that Tanweer attended one of the many madrassas, or religious schools, run by LeT, which is based in Lahore. The group, which also operates under the name Jamaat ud-Daawa (the party of preaching), has close ties with al-Qaeda and access to munitions and safe houses. Abu Zubaydah, a senior al-Qaeda lieutenant, was seized in an LeT safe house in Faisalabad in March 2002. The group has also been linked with Hamas LeT was founded by Hafiz Saeed, a former professor at Lahore's University of Engineering Technology. In April 2003, he defended the use of suicide bombing, saying: "Suicide missions are in accordance with Islam. In fact, a suicide attack is the best form of jihad. Jihad is prescribed in the Quran. Muslims are required to take up arms against the oppressor. The powerful western world is terrorising the Muslims. We are being invaded, humiliated, manipulated, and looted. How else can we respond but through jihad?" The group runs a number of madrassas, including the Darasitul Islamia madrassa, where six Malaysian students were arrested in 2003 on suspicion of training for Jemaah Islamiyyah activities in Malaysia and Indonesia. |
| Posted by:Paul Moloney |
| #4 Check this out: http://www.meforum.org/article/686 If it's too much for you to read, start at the sentence preceding reference number "[10]". The 7/7 bombers had lots of ties to Dewsbury. Be sure to read well into the "Wolf in Sheep's Clothing" section. Good targets are listed in the first paragraph of the article. |
| Posted by: Neutron Tom 2005-07-14 19:42 |
| #3 OK, I am awaiting a speech by Blair and Bush giving an ultimatum to Pakistan: close down all LeT madrassas and training camps, and surrender LeT leadership. OR ELSE |
| Posted by: Kalle (kafir forever) 2005-07-14 19:19 |
| #2 LeT trained many of the folks in Afghanistan and so did the ISI. LeT has also trained many of the AQ bad guys out there. The US must force Pakistan to shut down its camps or blow them up themselves in that they are training most of the terrorists out there. Look at the cells broken up in Brroklyn, in Seattle, in Virginia, in Lodi etc. All trained in Pakistan. |
| Posted by: Robi 2005-07-14 19:11 |
| #1 If 9/11 was cause for an ultimatum to the Taliban government for the surrender of Al Qaida leadership, 7/7 should be cause for an ultimatum to the Pakistani government to surrender Lashkar-e-Taiba leadership. OR ELSE. |
| Posted by: Kalle (kafir forever) 2005-07-14 16:16 |