| Submit your comments on this article |
| India-Pakistan |
| Three suspects in Karachi blasts held |
| 2002-07-09 |
| Three activists of Harkatul Mujahideen Al Aalmi, implicated in bomb blasts outside the US Consulate and Sheraton Hotel and in an attempt to blow up President Pervez Musharraf's motorcade, were remanded to the police custody by the administrative judge of the Anti-Terrorism Courts on Monday. When you clean house, you've got to look in all the corners to make sure you get all the rubbish... Mohammad Imran and Mohammad Hanif, were arrested in Nazimabad on Sunday. The third accused is Shaikh Mohammad Ahmed alias Danial. Their arrest and confessional statements have established the involvement of a third vehicle which was used in the suicide attack on the US consulate. While police were of the view that the vehicle of a motor training school was the carrier, the FBI agents had suggested the involvement of a third vehicle. Imran and Hanif were chief and deputy chief of the outfit, respectively. They confessed their involvement in the suicide bombings. They also confessed that five of their accomplices, one of whom identified as Mohammad Jameel, had conspired to attack the consulate and kill the Americans. They confessed to having used the same Suzuki high-roof which they had stuffed with explosive in a bid to blow up Gen Musharraf's car near the airport on April 26. Bet they feel better after getting all that off their chests... The two told the investigators that they had parked the Suzuki near the Falak Naz Centre on April 26 when the president was scheduled to go to the Army house from the airport. However, the remote control which they were to use to detonate the device did not work. Damn those cheap batteries! Inspector Wasim of the Rangers had abetted the accused in their attempt and he had also been arrested and was being interrogated. He was the inside guy. They used to call him Wasim the Weasel. Nobody could figure why they didn't like him... The DG denied taking any assistance from the Federal Bureau of Investigation in the arrests. He said that the accused's links with the Al Qaeda had not been established, but added that they did have links with some Arab nationals individually. About the blast near Sheraton Hotel, Imran told the press that he had opposed the suicide bombing and someone else had done this. "After the incident, my colleagues planned a suicide attack and they arranged a man for the task." "Hey! We need a guy for a suicide mission. You available?" "Sure. What's it pay?" |
| Posted by:Fred Pruitt |