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| J&K terrorists have chemical weapons, says Army |
| 2003-04-30 |
| In a disturbing development on terrorism front, foreign mercenaries operating in Jammu and Kashmir are reported to be in possession of lethal chemical weapons raising security concerns in the border state, according to an Army official. "Terrorists operating in Jammu and Kashmir have chemical weapons, as per the recent intelligence reports analysed by Army", Lt Col SPK Singh of Northern Command Headquarters said on Wednesday. Over the past two to three months, the Army has been consistently receiving information that foreign terrorists in the state have been moving with suspicious looking containers, he said. "But recent intelligence inputs have suggested that terrorists have been talking about use of poisonous gas", Singh revealed. These reports are of great significance in light of American concern about chemical weapons and other weapons of mass destruction falling in the hands of terrorist groups here, he said. |
| Posted by:rg117 |
| #3 If the Jihadis actually do use this poison, I seriously hope that Vajpayee does more than just write a poem about it. |
| Posted by: rg117 2003-04-30 12:00:49 |
| #2 Apprently one of the Khalid nephews is among the 6 suspects taken in by the Paks referred to above. |
| Posted by: liberalhawk 2003-04-30 11:19:40 |
| #1 If memory serves, al-Qaeda ran a chemical weapons lab out of Darunta camp under the auspices of Midhat Mursi (who was last seen in Chechnya/Georgia) which was the source for those infamous CNN tapes of the dogs being gassed. If they did have any chemical weapons, they might have been moved south into Pakistan or west into Iran, the two main flight routes for al-Qaeda fleeing Afghanistan. Also of note is that Washington Post article from March 22 noting that al-Qaeda was all set to begin the active production of their own chemical weapons when Khalid Sheikh Mohammed was busted. Assuming that his nephews were able to successfully reform the groups' lines of communication after their uncle was busted, they could well have passed these weapons on to their Kashmiri affiliates for use against India. Another potential source for the weapons, of course, is the Pakistani military, but I like to hope that Musharraf and the rest of his junta isn't that stupid, as any chemical weapons used by the Kashmiri groups is likely to provoke India into a full-scale war against Pakistan and rightfully so. Did they ever catch that Dr. Mohammed Khan character who was said to be part of al-Qaeda's WMD division? |
| Posted by: Dan Darling 2003-04-30 09:10:35 |