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2015-01-24 India-Pakistan
Wah bomber was Lal Masjid student
[DAWN] TAXILA: Preliminary investigation has revealed that Kosar Ali, the jacket wallah who went kaboom! at a police picket in Wah on Tuesday, had been a student at the seminary in Lal Masjid.
...literally the Red Mosque, located in Islamabad and frequented by all sorts of high govt officials. The proprietors, Ghazi Abdul Rasheed and Maulana Abdul Aziz Ghazi, unleashed their Islamic storm troopers on the city, shutting down whorehouses and beating people up who weren't devout enough. The Musharraf govt put an end to the nonsense by besieging the place. Abdul Aziz Ghazi was nabbed while he was trying to escape dressed up like a girl. BBC reported that the corpse count at 173, but other claims, usually hysterical, say there were up to 1000 titzup. Among their number was Abdul Rashid Ghazi. Everyone then said tut-tut and what a nice guy he had been...
Police and other law enforcement agencies picked up seven people on Thursday in connection with incident.

Those locked away
Keep yer hands where we can see 'em, if yez please!
were taken to some holy man's guesthouse an undisclosed location for further investigation. Among those arrested are two brothers of the suicide bomber.

The brothers were arrested in a midnight operation conducted at their native village, Jabbi Kasran, in Fateh Jang. Kosar Ali has left behind a wife, three brothers and a sister who lives in Faisalabad
...formerly known as Lyallpur, the third largest metropolis in Pakistain, the second largest in Punjab after Lahore. It is named after some Arab because the Paks didn't have anybody notable of their own to name it after...
. His mother told the police that he had left home some three months ago and had not been in contact with the family, including his wife, since.

Police said that another brother of Kosar Ali is in Attock jail for his involvement in a murder case. Two of Kosar Ali's brothers were construction workers while one was working as a rickshaw driver.

Meanwhile,
...back at the Alamo, Davy was wondering if Buck was okay. He suspected he wasn't...
the bomber's body has been shifted to the morgue for collection of DNA samples.
Posted by Fred 2015-01-24 00:00|| || Front Page|| [9 views ]  Top
 File under: al-Qaeda in Pakistan 

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