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http://us.rediff.com/news/2005/nov/09dblast1.htm?q=tp&file=.htm

Delhi blast: Lashkar militant confesses; brought to capital

November 09, 2005 12:50 IST
Last Updated: November 10, 2005 00:16 IST

Army troops have arrested a Lashkar-e-Tayiba militant from Banihal area in Jammu and Kashmir, who claimed to have a role in the October 29 serial blasts in the captial, Delhi police sources said on Wednesday.

The militant identified as Ghulam Mohiuddin Lone was arrested two days ago and during interrogation he claimed to have had a hand in triggering the blasts after which he went into hiding, the sources said.


Based on specific intelligence inputs, Lone was arrested in Banihal area of Doda district and Rs 25,000 in Indian currency recovered from him.

Lone was later air-lifted to New Delhi for questioning to ascertain the veracity of his statement.

A Joint team of Delhi Police and intelligence agencies is interrogating Lone to find out the truth in his claim that he had played a role in triggering three blasts that killed 62 people and injured 210.

He is likely to be taken to the blast sites to establish whether he was really involved, considering that he had claimed to have visited the sites, the sources said.

However, Joint Commissioner of Police (Special Cell) Karnail Singh said it could not be said with certainty that Lone was involved in the blasts until he was thoroughly interrogated.

"We can say something only after examining the veracity of his claims," Singh said, adding this should not be seen as an arrest in the serial blasts case.

During the preliminary interrogation, Lone, a resident of Chapnari village in Banihal, confessed his involvement in the blasts, he said, adding that the arrested militant had also given several vital clues pertaining to the Diwali-eve explosions in the capital.

Sources said Lone is believed to be involved in the 1998 massacre at Chapnari in which 23 Hindus were killed and was actively working as a financial coordinator of Lashkar-e-Tayiba in the area.

Details of operation

http://www.hindu.com/2005/11/09/stories/2005110914510100.htm


Meanwhile, LeT supremo Professor Hafiz Saeed is blissfully carrying on his activities like recruiting and organizing jihad, unfettered..while LeT is "banned" by Musharraf and USA is supplying F-16s and other weapons (which seriously degrade the superiority of Indian forces) to Pakistan...ostensibly to catch terrorists who are running around in plain sight.:rolleyes:

War on terror:rolleyes:

Caught these pieces off the net.

Should be of interest to Leonstein. I can see him quoting statistics how he is more likely to die of a coconut falling on his head than by a LeT terrorist..:)

http://www.dailytelegraph.news.com.au/print/0,20285,17166625-5001030,00.html
Terror branches out

By BEN ENGLISH

November 08, 2005

ALARM bells will be ringing in Australia's spy community over suggestions the latest terror alert to sweep Sydney is linked to an organisation called Lashkar-e-Toiba.
One of two men plotting an attack on Sydney – under 24-hour police surveillance – is said to have connections with the Pakistan-based terror group.

Which begs the question: Why would a paramilitary outfit formed to wage guerilla war on the Indian border to wrest control of Kashmir in the late 1980s be interested in a genocide of Australians nearly 11,000km away?

The answer is that it probably is not, at least in terms of its most urgent priorities.

But unfortunately that should not necessarily reassure Sydneysiders going about their day.

That is because LET has developed into the most potent incubator of what Western governments – including Australia – most fear: The home-grown bomber.

With the rush of young volunteers to join the global "jihad" or holy war after the September 11 attacks on the US, LET emerged as a major target of anti-terror operations.

But as with much of the war on terror, history's hand got in the way. When LET first formed, it did so with the full financial, logistic and strategic backing of the Pakistani army. [It is still that way. Powerful factions in both the intelligence and the army back LeT]

Then, its name – literally translated as "Army of the Pure" – reflected its singular objective: To terrorise Kashmir into Pakistani hands.

Paramilitary training camps sprouted up throughout the Himalayas teaching recruits the dark arts of terror including guerilla fighting, bomb-making and urban terror tactics.

Working hand-in-glove with Pakistani intelligence and its military, LET's commanders forged close ties with another terror group waging battle nearby, Osama bin Laden's al-Qaeda network.

The two groups began sharing intelligence, weapons and training.

By 1998, LET had joined bin Laden's global jihad on the West. [Actually it goes before that. The founders and minders of LeT - Paki intelligence community - were instrumental in this meeting of minds. Recall the bringing of Osama from Sudan. Recall the fighting of Pakistani regulars and irregulars along with the taliban in the fall of Kabul and the end of the Najiullah govt...which facilitated taliban rule over AFG. Recall the islamist meeting (referred to in one of the links on Hizbut Tahrir given in the islamist study thread...in which Naveed Butt, HT spokesman, says that Pakistan was chosen as the launch pad for the caliphate to be. This project must have been formed in the early 90s]

But after 9/11, it became even more important to the terror king's plans because, untramelled by government interference, it could safely accommodate the thousands of volunteers pouring into Pakistan for terror training.

Among them was one Willie Virgile Brigitte – a name that would become ingrained in Australians' minds two years later.

The French national awaits trial in a Paris prison on charges he was plotting a bomb attack "of great size" on Sydney when he was arrested in a western Sydney apartment in October 2003.

The French prosecution dossier, obtained by The Daily Telegraph, revealed Brigitte told interrogators LET had established a terror sleeper cell in western Sydney.

He named preacher of hate Abdul Salam Mohammed Zoud, the imam who presided over Brigitte's wedding to Australian-born Muslim convert Melanie Brown in 2003, as the cell's chief recruiter.

Zoud has denied the claims but the French dossier insisted he was at the heart of Sydney's Islamic terror network, with links to terror chiefs stretching from Virginia in the US to London and Madrid.

And Brigitte said he met other Australians during his six-week spell at the high-altitude terror campus.

At dawn each day there he would join about 3000 fellow mujahadeen on a vast plateau 4000m above sea level and begin singing. It was a salute to their God: "Allah Akbah."

The daily ritual would end with a giant Muslim service as 3000 "brothers" prayed for Allah's will before beginning their work: Training to kill Westerners and non-believers on a mass scale.

Intelligence chiefs believe dozens of Australians may have trained in such camps since 9/11.

Indian security chiefs blamed LET for last month's atrocities that killed 59 people and wounded 210 – a claim that gained weight when a militant group linked to it – Islamic Inquilab Mahaz – claimed responsibility.

Now authorities believe LET has firm connections with would-be terrorists in Sydney.

But, as chilling as that sounds, it would be wrong to focus entirely on this one organisation. As the July 7 London bombings showed, today's urban assassins can join together from any or no terror organisation.

While al-Qaeda has fragmented, copycat splinter groups have mushroomed with their own plans to spread terror.

As terror analyst Aldo Borgu explains, police could overlook a looming threat by concentrating on one group.

"By doing that you risk missing out on groups and like-minded individuals who might get together for one operation," he says.

So while it is almost certain there are locals who have trained with LET and have links to al-Qaeda's upper echelons, it would be wrong to assume LET has a mortgage on any plots against Australia.

The Daily Telegraph

The writer BEN ENGLISH is clued on better than other dorks (aka reporters). He correctly identifies the orgs and their aims. Danger close at home tends to bring out sanity for some.

Next piece

http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,5744,17186582%255E601,00.html
Accused 'trained in Pakistani camp'
Martin Chulov
November 09, 2005

SYDNEY father Khaled Cheikho is believed to have trained in a paramilitary camp run by outlawed Kashmiri group Lashkar-e-Taiba in early 2001.

An ASIO target for the past two years, the 32-year-old was identified at the Pakistani camp by a rollover witness testifying in a Sydney committal hearing earlier this year.

According to the witness, Mr Cheikho's nephew Moustafa, 28, arrived for training at the camp about a year after his uncle had returned to Australia. Moustafa was allegedly known in the camp by the alias Abu Asad.

Moustafa Cheikho was also among those arrested in Sydney yesterday.

IIRC, this is the third LeT cell busted in Ozland. But don't worry Leonstein, you have coconuts to worry about.:)

Caught these pieces off the net.

IIRC, this is the third LeT cell busted in Ozland. But don't worry Leonstein, you have coconuts to worry about.:)

Well, all of the cells have been busted just fine with present police powers. And there's no agencies looking into the deadliness of coconuts, a situation that must be rectified immediatly.

Should be of interest to Leonstein. I can see him quoting statistics how he is more likely to die of a coconut falling on his head than by a LeT terrorist..:)
I've been waiting for you...your sloth disappoints me! :D

I'll wait with my comments until anything at all is proven and the guys are convicted of the thought-crime that seems to be the main thing they're trying to get them with.

You should though stay away from the Aussie media right now...they're having a field-day, and one judge has already suspended another trial with a guy said to have had connections with AQ because he feels the current climate is just too much.

That being said, I am wearing a helmet now against those nasty coconuts - I have yet to feel any irrational fear of terrorists though (sometimes it's nice to keep an independent mind...just for old times' sake)