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2003-09-23 India-Pakistan

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Posted by Frank G 2003-09-23 10:23:26 AM|| || Front Page|| [4 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Update from Rooters:
Pakistan arrests four more Indonesian students
KARACHI, Sept 23 (Reuters) - Four more Indonesian students suspected of having links to a regional terror network have been arrested by Pakistani security agencies in the port city of Karachi, senior officials said on Tuesday.

"We have arrested four more Indonesian students in raids at religious schools," Tasneem Noorani, secretary of the interior ministry, told Reuters by telephone from Islamabad.

The arrests were made overnight and early on Tuesday, officials said, but refused to give any other details.

Over the weekend, authorities detained 15 Southeast Asian students -- two Indonesians and 13 Malaysians -- in raids on Islamic seminaries, for suspected links with Islamic extremists.

They included Gun Gun Gunawan -- a brother of Riduan Isamuddin alias Hambali, an Islamic militant accused of masterminding bombings in Southeast Asia and of being al Qaeda's key regional contact, Noorani said.

"It is confirmed that he is Hambali's brother."

Hambali, who is in the custody of the United States, is accused of masterminding attacks in the region including bombings in Bali last October that killed more than 200 people and a car bombing at a luxury Jakarta Hotel in August that killed 12.

He was arrested on August 11 in Thailand by Thai police and U.S. agents before being flown to an undisclosed location.

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Brigadier Javed Iqbal Cheema, chief of the Interior Ministry's Crisis Management Cell, said Hambali's brother was an important link in the suspected terror network.

"They are being interrogated by our security officials," he said. "They will be deported to their countries in a week to 10 days."
~~that will be a loooonnnngg week I bet~~

Intelligence officials said the fresh arrests were made on the basis of information obtained from the 15 suspects during ~~beatings~~ interrogations

Posted by Frank G 2003-9-23 10:32:08 AM|| 2003-9-23 10:32:08 AM|| Front Page Top

#2 "It is worth noting that such Salafi schools have no connections with the Taliban, who are followers of the Hanafi school of thought, which is at odds with the Salafis "

i thought salafism accepts the hanafi school.

Posted by liberalhawk 2003-9-23 10:35:30 AM|| 2003-9-23 10:35:30 AM|| Front Page Top

#3 pardon me, salafism accepts the hanabali school. I think its the taliban theyve got pegged wrong.

Posted by liberalhawk 2003-9-23 10:39:57 AM|| 2003-9-23 10:39:57 AM|| Front Page Top

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