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| Pakistan Misled FBI At Militant Camps |
| 2003-02-19 |
| Pakistani intelligence officials misled FBI agents who visited a suspected Islamic militant training camp in Pakistan-controlled Kashmir by ordering inhabitants to hide in the jungle to make the camp appear deserted, an Indian police official said Monday. Pakistan denied there are any militant training camps operating in its portion of Kashmir. "Nope, nothing here" India has repeatedly accused Pakistan of training and supplying militant groups that are fighting against Indian rule in its part of the disputed Himalayan region. The police chief of Indian-controlled Kashmir, K. Rajindra, quoted two captured militants as saying the visits by the U.S. FBI agents occurred last year between May 27 and June 8, a time when Washington was trying to ease escalating tensions between India and Pakistan. Before the Americans arrived, "the men who were in these camps were taken to jungles, and asked to return in the evening," he told The Associated Press. The two captured militants claimed the FBI agents were at the camp for three to four hours, Rajindra said. I hadn't heard anything about this before.. Rajindra's comments, which are unusual in India for being on the record, were the first indication that U.S. agents may have inspected the camps to check Pakistan's assertions that militants no longer operate there. Asked about Rajindra's account, the U.S. Embassy spokesman in Islamabad, Pakistan, Terry White, said "I have no information about it." "Nope, don't know nothin" Pakistan Information Minister Sheikh Rashid Ahmed said: "There are no training camps in Kashmir and anybody can go there to see for themselves and confirm it." He refused to comment, however, on whether such an FBI visit had occurred. "Nope, don't know nothin" Foreign Ministry spokesman Aziz Ahmed Khan said he hadn't heard of any FBI visits to Pakistan-held Kashmir. "Nope, don't know nothin" India and Pakistan almost fought their fourth war last year. Tensions eased after Pakistani President Gen. Pervez Musharraf pledged that all infiltration into Indian-controlled Kashmir by Islamic militants would be halted, and that his country didn't provide training or other aid to such groups. Rajindra said the two A bullet is a lot cheaper than a court case. The interrogation report said up to 35 Saudi Arabians were among the trainees at the camp. But the Saudis are against terrorism! "One day, before the course ended on June 8, ISI officials came to the camp to brief the LeT leaders about a visit of FBI officials," Rajindra said, citing the militants' account. The Inter Services Intelligence is Pakistan's intelligence agency. And the controller of every anti-Indian jihadi group in the region "All the boys and trainers of the Lashkar were asked to leave the place and go into jungles with their belongings, weapons and food," the interrogation report said. "They were asked to come back in the evening." |
| Posted by:Paul |
| #1 Paid subscribers of "India Today" know that there is a strong factual basis for concluding that Pakistan's "Tabligh Jamaat" is responsible for the Subamarati Express massacre of a year ago. In that case, pre-meditated Islamic-murderers (kafir Kushis) sealed off several train cars, and then dowsed Hindu men, women and children with fuel and then lit it, killing 60 innocents. Pakistan is a terror state. |
| Posted by: Anon 2003-02-19 19:33:08 |