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| Danish investigators arrive in Pakistan as four held over embassy attack |
| 2008-06-05 |
| Denmark’s intelligence services have sent three experts to Islamabad as part of their investigation into Monday’s suicide attack on the Danish embassy, as Pakistani police held four suspects in Jhang on Wednesday. A 10-strong crisis management team had arrived in Pakistan on Tuesday. Danish intelligence officials said the attack had been meticulously planned for a “long time”. Preliminary information gleaned from the car used in this suicide attack, which was equipped with fake Danish diplomatic licence plates, “seems to indicate that it had been planned for a long time with precision,” the PET intelligence service said in a statement. The embassy’s video surveillance showed “a car with a man at the wheel arriving at high speed, passing in front of the embassy’s entrance before the explosion several seconds later,” PET added. Footage handed over: The footage has been handed over to the Pakistani authorities as part of their criminal inquiry. The Danish Foreign minister said there was growing evidence that Al Qaeda was behind that attack. Danish Foreign Minister Per Stig Moeller said: “It seems that it was Al Qaeda. The pieces of the puzzle begin to fall into place.” Neither Moeller nor the intelligence service elaborated. Meanwhile, police raided a house in Satellite Town in Jhang, and arrested Abdul Rehman, his son Zafar Iqbal and two businessmen whose identity had not yet been ascertained, sources told Daily Times. The men owned the car used in the attack, they said, and had filed a complaint in Jhang’s Mochiwala police station on February 15 that their car had been stolen. Sources in the Interior Ministry confirmed the arrest, but said the ministry had no information so far on who was behind the attack. They said the authorities were not ruling out foreign involvement. They said the ministry had asked the authorities concerned on Monday to compile data of all the vehicles stolen or car-jacked from Rawalpindi and Islamabad in the past and their owners, and had asked the Crime Investigation Agency, the anti-car theft cell and the Police Department to provide information necessary in this regard. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #2 Be careful, Excalibur. That kind of talk can get you in front of a Human Rights Commission in a hurry! |
| Posted by: Canuckistan sniper 2008-06-05 13:33 |
| #1 If it was Canada they would have already arrested the cartoonist. |
| Posted by: Excalibur 2008-06-05 09:23 |