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| Afghanistan/South Asia |
| New terrorist training camp? |
| 2005-06-09 |
| I'm uncertain as to why all of the talking heads are so surprised about this - we've documented the Lashkar-e-Taiba training al-Qaeda recruits for at least several years now. An FBI investigation into a suspected Islamic jihad group in California has produced sensitive new evidence that Al Qaeda may have reconstituted a major terrorist training camp inside Pakistan after the 9/11 attacks—a subject that the U.S. government has been reluctant to publicly talk about. The assertion that Al Qaeda—which President Bush recently claimed is "on the run"—was still capable of operating a significant training facility inside Pakistan is contained in an FBI affidavit released Tuesday night in connection with the arrests of Hamid Hayat, 24, a U.S. citizen, and his father, Umer Hayat, 47, an ice-cream truck driver, in Lodi, Calif., south of Sacramento. The two men are accused of lying to the FBI about a two-year sojourn that Hamid Hayat made to Pakistan between April 2003 and this year. |
| Posted by:Dan Darling |
| #2 Problem is location of the camp. It is in Rawalpindi, headquarters of the Pakistan military. Bombing it is a political no no. This would cause problems with Pakistan, an ally in the war on terror TM. These camps are financed and run by the ISI. When, during the Clinton years, the US fired cruise missiles at an Al Qaeda camp in a bid to kill UBL, they instead killed lots of Pak Army officers, deputed to ISI and engaged in terrorist training. This sort of Pak duplicity was excused in the past because the main target was India. Post 9/11 things have changed. Most people don't remember the 1999 Indian Airlines hijacking. A group of five hijackers took over a plane using knives to threaten the crew, slitting a passenger's throat. The hijackers were schooled in avionics. At least one had trained in a simulator. At one point they attempted to take off from Kandhahar, seeking to crash the plane onto an Indian city. The hijackers are loose in Pakistan. Their method, having been proved sucessful was reused, on 9/11. |
| Posted by: john 2005-06-09 18:33 |
| #1 get the general coordinates and drop a big one on em. |
| Posted by: PlanetDan 2005-06-09 13:42 |