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| Nishtar Park, Sheraton hotel blast suspect made bombs on madrassa roof |
| 2007-07-09 |
| A man accused of involvement in the Nishtar Park and Sheraton hotel attack cases has reportedly confessed to the police during interrogations that he made the mixture used for the bombs on the roof of a Karachi madrassa in 2001. Alleged bomb maker Imamuddin was sent to jail custody on Friday. “He was unafraid of death,” said Soldier Bazaar Police Station Investigation Officer Sarfraz Aliana, who was the complainant in two FIRs lodged against Imamuddin. “These chaps often take cyanide and I was afraid that I’d be done for if he killed himself under my watch.” The two cases - FIR No. 81/07 under Section 4/5 (Explosives Act) and FIR No. 82/07 under Section 13/D - were registered against Imamuddin and six of his accomplices after the arrest on July 4. Imamuddin’s six accomplices include Raheemullah (alias Ali Hassan), Ismail, Wali Hasan, Qari Zafar, Afzal (alias Commander Noor) and Commander Shair Khan. SIO Aliana was right to fear a suicide attempt in the lockup by Imamuddin whose statement to the police revealed details of his training in poison making as well. “It doesn’t matter how big the bomb is,” Imamuddin said in his statement SIO Aliana told Daily Times. “All I need is enough material to make it.” The unmarried thirty-seven-year-old Imamuddin, the youngest of four brothers, also goes by aliases Omer, Usman and Muawiya. He completed primary school, is a follower of the Deobandi school of thought and hails from Bangladesh where his entire family lives. In 1995, he came to Karachi via India and took up various jobs in garment factories. In Karachi, Imamuddin lived in a slum near the Society Office in Sultanabad with another man of Bengali origin. “I had worked for the Harkat-ul-Jihad al Islami (HJI) from 1997 to 2000,” Imamuddin said in his statement. “In 1997, I went to Kandahar, Afghanistan then to Herat and then to Khost where I was trained for jihad.” Over there, he learned how to use Kalashnikovs, TT pistols, China rifles, 3-nut-3 rifles, LMGs and Russian armed PKs. In 1997, through the HJI, he said he met the Taliban and went to Quetta with them along with four other people. From Quetta, he went to Kandahar where he went through 40 days of arms training. After he returned to Karachi, he was commissioned by the HJI to go to Kabul for more training. In 2000, he again went to Kandahar where he met Abdul Aziz of the HJT. Then through Abdul Aziz, he went to Kabul where he learnt how to make poisons which he tried for the first time on rabbits. This was followed by bomb making training by a man he identified as Hamza, a Baloch from Iran. He also met Shuja (alias Asif Zahir) who was also from Karachi during this training. When Imamuddin came back to Karachi in 2000, he again met Asif Zahir in a madrassa in Nazimabad that was run by a Mufti Rasheed, who has since passed away. After this he kept in touch with Asif. At that time, he was living in Ayesha Manzil, Block H but then he moved to Surjani. At the time, when the Taliban were being attacked in Afghanistan, Asif asked him to make a bomb to which he replied that he didn’t have the time or place to make one. Asif told him to use the Islamia madrassa of Mufti Zakir in Mujahid Colony and take out time in the night to make a mixture so that it would dry by morning. “On that night, I went to the madrassa. I sat with Mufti Zakir and two of the madrassa students – Shahid and Abdullah - on the roof of the madrassa and taught them how to make the bomb mixtures,” he said in his statement. “The bomb I made that night was taken away by Asif.” “After a few days, Asif came to meet me and told me that some of the mixture I had made for him was used at the Sheraton hotel,” he said. “After that, I never met Asif again.” He later found out that Asif had been arrested in connection with the Sheraton bomb blast after which he kept a low profile, worked at various factories, and went outside the house much less. The rest of the bomb mixture was given back to Imamuddin to make use of later. Some of the bomb mixture was given to Mufti Zakir and to one Rehmatullah, who were both involved in the Nishtar Park bombing, according to Imamuddin’s statement. These two were arrested by the Soldier Bazaar Police on June 15 and FIR No. 175/07 under Section 4/5 (Explosives Act) was lodged against them and Imamuddin. Police recovered the following from his possession: 250 grams of sodium A-Z (a highly deadly poison), 672 grams of what they referred to as land nitrate, 60 grams of potassium ferose, 996 grams of ammonium nitrate (NH4-NO3), 1.118 kg of mercury HG and 72 grams of sulfur. They also recovered two copies of the formula used to mix the ingredients to make a bomb and a single TT pistol with four bullets. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #1 > The unmarried thirty-seven-year-old Imamuddin, the youngest of four brothers, Each older brother increases the chance of homosexuality. Maybe sexual guilt is what is driving these terrorists? Everyone has noticed 1/ they Hate women 2/ they are a bit too "brotherly". |
| Posted by: Bright Pebbles 2007-07-09 07:25 |