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| 3 suspected suicide bombers held |
| 2007-02-17 |
| The Crime Investigation Department (CID) Police raided a house in Gulistan-e-Jauhar on Friday and arrested three suspected suicide bombers identified as Muhammad Shahid, Muhammad Farhan and Ghani Subhan. The police also seized three hand grenades, two pistols, one AK-47 assault rifle and a suicide jacket from the suspectsÂ’ possession. Police said that the three suspects belonged to a group headed by Al Qaeda leader Qari Zafar and they had been especially sent to Karachi from Wana to carry out terrorist activities and suicide attacks. The police claimed that the bombersÂ’ first target was Expo 2006, but they changed their plan because of tight security at the venue. The police added that the men then planned to attack Ashura processions in the city, but law enforcement agencies tightened security and foiled their plan yet again following intelligence reports that a group of suicide attackers was heading towards Karachi from Dera Ismail Khan. CID SP Fayyaz Khan said that the suspected terrorists had now planned to attack chehlum processions. He said that Shahid and Farhan belonged to Hyderabad while Ghani Subhan was from Wana. Police sources said that after initial interrogation, law enforcement agencies had arrested another 10 people from various areas of Karachi. They added that the suspected terrorists had named Maulvi Abbas, Commander Javed and Qari Zafar as operators of their group, while their leaders were in Wana. |
| Posted by:Fred |