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| Militants carrying out major attacks belong to Lahore | ||
| 2010-07-06 | ||
| [Dawn] Police say a group of militants taken into custody in connection with all major attacks in Lahore and other parts of the country belongs to the provincial metropolis. They are involved in recruiting terrorists, planning, gathering information and storing explosives and sophisticated weapons at different places in the city and its outskirts and providing logistic support to other groups. Their future plan was to create anarchy in society and unrest among different sects besides carrying out more attacks on important political personalities, sensitive agencies, offices working on law and order and sensitive installations. Addressing a press conference at Qilla Gujjar Singh Police Lines on Monday, Capital City Police Officer (CCPO) Muhammad Aslam Tareen said that terror suspects identified as Rizwan, Abbas, Haroon Saeed, Umair, Umer and Haji Javed Alam were detained from different localities of the city by teams of Crimes Investigation Agency (CIA). He said all of them got training in Afghanistan
The suspects disclosed that they were involved in terror attacks on Rawalpindi's Parade Lane Mosque, Karachi's Ashura procession, worship places of Ahmadis in Lahore's Garhi Shahu and Model Town and Lahore's Moon Market, Jinnah Hospital, Gulshan-i-Iqbal and Samanabad.
Police teams began investigation with two suicide bombers, Moawia, alias Asmattullah, alias Moaaz, of Lahore, and Abdullah, alias Muhammad, of Karachi, who were caught from Ahmadis' worship place in Model Town on May 28, 2010. The police also seized two motorcycles from the spot but their engine and chassis numbers had been removed. The investigators with the help of the Forensic Science Laboratory found the chassis numbers of the motorbikes. Both motorcycles were purchased from Bahawalpur United Company by using the identity card of Gulzar Hussain, alias Muneeb. Abdullah informed the police that he had come to Lahore from Karachi by a local company's bus under ticket name Jafaar on May 22. He carried a cell phone which was taken away by his accomplice Hafeez, alias Shah, before the attack. The police contacted the bus company's Karachi office about seat No 10 and got a cell phone number which was being used by Hafeez and Rana, who masterminded the attacks. They would use the number for conversation with girls in an attempt to deceive law-enforcement agencies. The police also received a new number from one of the girls which was being used in new terror network. After getting all information, police with the help of intelligence agencies busted the network and arrested several of its members. To a question, the CCPO said that all federal intelligence agencies were sharing secret information with the Lahore police on time. The arrested suspects had concealed 18,000 kilogrammes explosives at different places and Javed Alam, of Bund Road, Islampura, had given the suspects his rented house to stay. Umair, of Jiya Moosa, and Umer would use their identity cards to facilitate others. Meanwhile, CCPO Traeen told Dawn that 18,000kg explosives recovered from two weapon-manufacturing units in outskirts of Lahore would be destroyed with the help of Pakistan Army. He said at least three or four members of the terror network were still at large. He said two suspects identified as Haroon Saeed, of Shafeeqabad, and Rizwan, of Mohni Road, Lower Mall, would recruit militants and suicide bombers and mastermind terror attacks. SUSPENDED: The inspector-general of police has suspended from service the Lower Mall circle DSP while the CCPO has suspended the Lower Mall SHO, Data Ganj Bakhsh shrine police check-post in-charge and two constables in connection with terror attacks on the shrine. The five have been suspended for poor security arrangements which led to the entry of two suicide bombers into the shrine. | ||
| Posted by:Fred |
| #2 WMF > TIMES.UK BRITISH MEDIA: US-NATO HAVE APPROXIMATELY 12,000 ROBOTS, 7000 UAVS OF ALL TYPES TO FIGHT ISLAMIC MILITANTS IN AFGHANISTAN + PAKISTAN, THE BULK OF WHICH ARE AMERICAN. |
| Posted by: JosephMendiola 2010-07-06 01:23 |
| #1 TOPIX/NEWS KERALA > AL QAEDA PLANS TO ENGAGE US IN AFGHANISTAN BEYOND 2011 THRU "GUERILLA WAR" + AL QAEDA PLANS TO FIGHT US IN AFGHANISTAN BEYOND 2011. Osama repor in contact wid TTP, other Militant Groups to dev a unified/common pan-Militant approach + warfighting strategy agz the US-NATO, espec as per combined group attacks agz regional US = NATO milbases. * SAME > AL QAEDA REMAINS THE BIGGEST/GREATEST THREAT TO BRITAIN [Brit Citizens-Residents of PAK origin]. |
| Posted by: JosephMendiola 2010-07-06 01:21 |