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| Afghanistan/South Asia |
| LJ training boomer babes |
| 2004-07-09 |
| Police sources say investigators have found evidence that the LJ is planning to use teenage girls for suicide attacks. The targets would be Shia mosques and also senior government officers, especially police officers. Karachi police has told all officers belonging to the provincial and federal government departments to take precautions and avoid coming into contact with burqa-clad women. The female suicide bombers, say sources, are likely to target officers by approaching them for the solution of their fake problems. âThese women are dangerous and can kill anyone for a cause in which they have a blind faith,â a senior investigator told TFT. The two girls the police is looking for belong to the same bunch of suicide bombers that the LJ is supposed to have trained and indoctrinated. âWe donât know the exact number of such human bombs but at least two of them are in our reach now,â one investigator told TFT. A senior police officer expressed the hope that the police will be able to bust the others after capturing these two girls, said to be sisters. The provincial home department has already prepared a contingency plan for the safety of senior government and police officers and has sent it to the respective departments. The main feature of the plan is not to allow any woman, veiled in particular, to meet senior officers without having her frisked by female guards especially deputed for this purpose. On the Jundallah front, the police have arrested Doctor Akmal Waheed and his brother Dr Arshad on the suspicion that they were part of the plot to attack the corps commander Karachiâs convoy and also treated Qasim, one of the attackers, who was injured during the shootout with the soldiers. The investigators also suspects links of the two doctors with Nek Mohammad, who was killed by the army last month during an operation in South Waziristan. The police say Jundallah activists were in Wana until last November where they got the training for mounting terror attacks and returned to Karachi only seven to eight months ago. Their first attack was on the Holy Trinity Church on January 15 in which around 40 people were injured. Later, they attacked a Rangersâ van killing one Rangersâ jawan. Their next target was the Gulistan-e-Jauhar police station where they killed five policemen. Police showed the arrest of Waheed, a renowned heart specialist and his brother Dr Arshad, an orthopaedic surgeon on Friday, after the duo went missing on June 17. The family and various doctorsâ organisations had blamed the intelligence agencies for taking them in custody. An anti-terrorism court remanded them in police custody until July 18. âTheir interrogation may lead to the arrest of Kashif and Mohammadâs brother and some other militants, who might be hiding in Wana,â an investigator says. Investigators are questioning the two doctors about the âdoctorâs networkâ and their organisation Pakistan Islamic Medical Association, PIMA. âWe strongly suspect that there is a team of doctors with links to the militants,â says an investigator. |
| Posted by:Paul Moloney |