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India-Pakistan
India Jails Man Planning Israeli, US Consulate Attacks
2014-12-13
[IsraelTimes] A court in India sentenced a Sri Lankan citizen to five years in prison last week after he pled guilty to planning a terrorist attack on the Israeli consulate in the southwestern city of Bangalore.

Mohammad Sakir Hussein, who was locked away
Drop the heater, Studs, or you're hist'try!
several months ago, was also convicted in planning to attack the US consulate in the south Indian city of Chennai and distributing counterfeit money.
Lots of plots in one small package...
Hussein?s indictment concluded last week after he confessed to planning the attack. The trial of two other defendants, Shiva Beelan and Muhammad Salim, was still ongoing, according to a report published Friday by Ynet.
The Ynet website has been having problems for me recently. Hopefully they'll fix whatever it is soon.
The National Investigation Agency, an Indian counter-terrorist agency, charged that Hussein was in cahoots with the Pak Inter-Services Intelligence
...the Pak military intelligence agency that controls the military -- heads of ISI typically get promoted into the Chief of Army Staff position. It serves as a general command center for favored turban groups such as Lashkar-e-Taiba and Jaish-e-Mohammad, tries to influence the politix of neighboring countries, and carries out a (usually) low-level war against India in Kashmir...
agency (ISI)
...one of our least favourite nefarious organizations...
and was handled by sources working out of Islamabad?s Sri Lankan embassy.

The Indian government previously accused the Pak ISI of criminal masterminding terrorist plots in the subcontinent, most notably the 2008 Mumbai terror attack. The assault, which targeted commercial and tourist centers, including a Chabad-run Jewish community center, was launched by 10 Pak members of Lashkar-e-Taiba
...the Army of the Pure, an Ahl-e-Hadith terror organization founded by Hafiz Saeed. LeT masquerades behind the Jamaat-ud-Dawa facade within Pakistain and periodically blows things up and kills people in India. Despite the fact that it is banned, always an interesting concept in Pakistain, the organization remains an blatant tool and perhaps an arm of the ISI...
, one of South Asia?s most notorious jihadist groups. Over 150 people were killed and approximately 300 more were maimed in the four-day rampage comprised of bombings and mass shootings.
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