Posted on 04/20/2005 9:53:47 AM PDT by Straight Vermonter
Link found between Pearl’s killers, Muslim charity
KARACHI: Pakistani investigators have found a definite and irrevocable link between a Muslim charity and one of the four suspects believed to be involved in the murder of Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl in February 2002.
A ‘Trust Deed’, retrieved from at least two banks where Al-Akhtar Trust International outlawed by the American Treasury Department in 2003 for having links with Taliban and Osama bin Laden’s Al Qaeda network has it accounts, shows that Saud Memon is one of the eleven trustees of the trust, highly placed sources told Daily Times on Monday.
The sources said the name of Saud Memon, who owns the shed where Pearl’s remains were found, appeared at number nine (9) on the list of the 11-member Board of Trustees. Saud Memon, an industrialist, had been named by several arrested members of the Harkat-ul-Mujahideen Al-Almi as their chief financial backer.
The sources said Saud Memon’s particulars in the ‘Trust Deed’ and the Red Book of the Crime Investigation Department (CID), Sindh, matched 100 percent. Carrying a head money of Rs3 million, Saud Memon has been dealing in yarn and fabric. The sources noted that Saud Memon’s date of birth, his father’s name and his citizenship (National Identity Card number) were identical on the CID Red Book and the Trust Deed.
They said that, besides Saud Memon (son of Mohammad Siddiq Ismail), the names of Moulana Mohammad Mazhar, Moulana Mohammad Ibrahim, Kamran Chapra, Mufti Abdul Rehman Rehmani, Hafiz Mohammad Ismail, Moulana Abdul Rehman, Moulana Abdul Rehman Memon, Afaq-ur-Rehman Khan, Khalil-ur-Rehman and Froz Abdullah appeared in the ‘Trust Deed’ registered with the Registrar T-Division Karachi on April 16, 2000. Several police officers, who have been involved in the investigations into the murder of Daniel Pearl, believed that Saud Memon was the man who had driven three Arabs to his estate in North Karachi, where Pearl had been held till the day of his slaying.
Shortly after Pearl’s murder, the police sealed Saud Memon’s home in Karachi, where he also ran his garment business. Saud Memon remains one of the key figures still at large in the Pearl slaying case. His photo along with those of other alleged conspirators have been published throughout Pakistan and a reward has been offered for information leading to their arrest. According to the CID Red Book updated in December 2004, Saud Memon was responsible for receiving funds from Osama bin Laden’s Al Qaeda network and distributing them among almost all jihadi outfits operating in Pakistan.
The investigators still working on the Pearl murder case believed that Saud had fled the country. Four men – British-born Ahmed Omer Saeed Sheikh and three Pakistanis, namely, Fahad Naseem, Salman Saqib and Shaikh Mohammad Adil, were convicted for Pearl’s murder in July 2003.
Afghans Turning in Weapons to Military, Civil Authorities
Afghan citizens, police and soldiers turned in three caches of munitions at separate locations near Bagram April 17. Together, the caches contained more than 400 mortars, 75 artillery rounds, 31 rockets, 10 rocket-propelled grenades, nine hand grenades, and hundreds of small-arms rounds.
One cache was destroyed where it was discovered. The two others were transported to local coalition bases for later destruction.
Two improvised explosive devises were also discovered the same day in Helmand province -- one by the Afghan National Army outside of Lashkar Gah, the other by the Garmser district police along a dirt road leading to a small village in that district. Both Afghan citizens and coalition forces travel the road frequently.
"Today, more then half of the IEDs are discovered before they detonate, and 90 percent of all discoveries are the result of an Afghan coming forward with the information," said Army Lt. Col. Jack Knox, commander of the coalition's IED task force. "Afghans are reporting the discovery of an IED to either the Afghan National Army, the Afghan National Police or directly to coalition forces."
Knox also noted that only four percent of the IEDs turned in are linked to any kind of monetary reward. “The remaining 96 percent are the direct result of a desire to cooperate with the Afghan government and with Combined Joint Task Force 76,” he said. “Overall, there’s been an upswing in the turn-in of caches. People realize that winning the IED fight is a means of the return of stability and law and order to this country."
In Dawlet Shah, a district in eastern Laghman province, the local police chief turned over another weapons cache to the Afghan National Police April 16. The ANP, in turn, handed the cache over to the 3rd Battalion, 3rd Marine Regiment, at its forward operating base in the province.
This cache consisted of various munitions and weapon parts, including three 82 mm mortar rounds, three Russian machine guns ( circa 1940s ), three RPG launchers, six rocket launchers, one DShK machine gun, and 38 boxes of 12.7 mm ammunition. All items were in serviceable condition, and are awaiting disposal by explosive –ordnance disposal personnel.
US forces detain 24 suspected Taliban near Pak-Afghan border:-
US forces during a night detained 24 suspected Taliban militants in Afghanistan's south-eastern province of Khost, bordering Pakistan, reports the Dawn.
Khost's governor however denied knowledge as to whether the arrested include any prominent Taliban member. He further said that local officials had urged the US forces to coordinate such raids with the provincial authorities, as villagers had in the past complained of heavy-handed US tactics.
Russian troops kill 7 gunmen in Chechnya
MOSCOW, April 19 (Xinhuanet) -- Russian federal troops killed 7 gunmen during an operation after they discovered a major rebel base in the Vedeno region of the Chechen republic, a spokesman forthe federal forces in the North Caucasus said Tuesday.
The base, which housed one of the guerrilla groups led by Chechen rebel leader Shamil Basayev, was discovered four km west of the Dyshne-Vedeno village in the Vedeno region, Major General Ilya Shabalkin, spokesman of the federal forces in the North Caucasus, was quoted by Interfax as saying.
Federal forces exchanged fire with the rebels, shelling the base and killing seven rebels. Some rebels, including a few injured, managed to escape, according to Shabalkin.
Several Kalashnikov assault rifles, an anti-tank grenade launcher, ammunition, explosive devices and medicine were found atthe base, which consisted of several dug-outs, trenches and tents,he said.
"The base was built in a significant distance from the nearest community and was difficult to access," the spokesman said.
The medical and security equipment found at the base and the mines discovered on all the roads leading to it indicate the base could have served as a hideout for major guerrilla leaders, Shabalkin said.
Basayev himself could have visited the hideout from time to time, he added. Enditem
OMAN BEGINS TRIAL OF ISLAMIC INSURGENTS
ABU DHABI [MENL] -- Oman has launched the trial of prominent Islamic activists said to have formed an anti-regime network.
The trial of 10 Omanis arrested in January 2005 began in Muscat. A witness said the defendants were charged with belonging to an illegal organization that sought to overthrow the regime by force.
Monday's appearance constituted an initial hearing for the defendants. Authorities did not permit foreign reporters or Western diplomats to attend. Each defendant was allowed to choose one relative to attend the hearing.
Some of those arrested were senior officials in the state Islamic system. They included Saleh Al Ribkhi, the controller of mosques in the office of Sultan Qaboos. Another detainee was Kahlan Al Kharisi, who has led Oman's annual delegation to the Muslim pilgrimage in Saudi Arabia.
Police detain six Chechen militants (Turkey)
The six were reportedly in possession of plans on how to make bombs.
April 19— Istanbul police have taken into custody six men of Chechen origin who were allegedly trying to learn how to make bombs from Islamic extremists. The six were detained in Istanbul Tuesday by police in part of a campaign to combat Islamist militants.
According to the Anatolia news agency police also seized several electronic devices as well as diagrams showing how to make a bomb ignition switch. It is also suspected that the group was trying to gather material to be used in the making of bombs. Police sources said that the men were planning to conduct activities in Chechnya against Russian forces there.
Two Killed In Daghestan Car Blast (Work accident)
19 April 2005 -- Two men were killed today when a car exploded in Makhachkala, the regional capital of Daghestan.
One man was killed at the blast site. The other, suffering severe burns, died shortly afterward in hospital.
Prosecutor Makhmud Isaev said the two appeared to have accidentally detonated a bomb.
Police are investigating the circumstances surrounding the blast, including the possibility that the two were preparing to kill a local prosecutor who lives in the neighborhood where the car exploded.
Daghestan, which borders on Russia's breakaway republic of Chechnya, has been rocked by a series of bombing attacks on law enforcement authorities.
Suspected Weapons Dealer Detained (Iraq)
SAMARRA, Iraq – Iraqi police officers and a Coalition task force conducted a joint raid which captured a suspected weapons distributor April 18, according to a multinational forces report.
The suspect is an Egyptian national and believed to be a lieutenant in the Mullah Shawkat anti-Iraqi forces organization.
In Hillah, an Iraqi SWAT team joined Coalition forces in a cordon and search operation April 18 that resulted in the detainment of 15 suspected insurgents.
Four Militants and One Foreign Mercenary Killed in Clash with Special Forces (Chechnya)
GROZNY (RIA Novosti) -- Four militants and a foreign mercenary have been killed Friday in a special operation, claimed Ilya Shabalkin, spokesman for federal forces in the North Caucasus.
According to him, the operation was conducted at 4 am. near the village of Berdykel, Grozny district. One of the killed fighters appeared to be a citizen of Kazakhstan. He had by himself a passport issued by the Kazakh authorities to Akhmedchin Zhandos.
The preliminary check of two Strela missile systems seized at the site of the battle proved their origin from the neighboring countries said Shabalkin.
Total 30 members of illegal military formations operating on the territory of Chechnya have been liquidated this year, as well as 92 fighters have been detained and 8 are about to surrender. Moreover, five terrorist bands and 45 caches with weaponry and equipment have been seized by special forces, Ruslan Alkhanov, Interior Minister of Chechnya, reported at the meeting with his colleagues
Hizb div commander killed in Lolab (India)
Srinagar, Apr 19: Six militants including a divisional commander of Hizbul Mujahideen (HM) and three Lashkar-e-Toiba men were among seven persons killed in the state since Monday. Troops and police in a joint operation killed three Lashkar-e-Toiba militants during a fierce encounter at Naliyan Shindhara Top Sector Poonch on Monday.
According to a police communiqué, the slain militants have been identified as Abu Abdullah Umar, Abu Kattal and Abu Jabran. Troops also recovered ammunition from militants.
Two Hizbul Mujahideen militants including its divisional commander were killed by troops during a gunfight at Kandi Lolab on Monday. According to reports, the troops of 44 Rashtirya Rifles (RR) cordoned off the area and started a combing operation. During searches, the troops came under gunfire triggering a fierce gun battle. In the ensuing firefight two militants divisional commander Javed Ahmad Pir son of Ghulam Nabi of Kandi Lolab and Waqas Ahmad of Pakistan were killed.
Troops and police during an encounter at Hari Wala Gool Udhampur killed one unidentified militant on Monday. Troops have claimed recovery of ammunition.
Unidentified gunmen shot dead Abdul Ahad Chak son of Abdul Gani Chak of Qazipora Tangmarg at Tangmarg Bus Stand on Tuesday. Panic gripped the area as people fled from the spot. According to the police communiqué, the deceased was released militant of Jammu Kashmir Liberation Front (JKLF) and was presently working as a contractor. Police has started investigation.
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"Pakistani investigators have found a definite and irrevocable link between a Muslim charity and one of the four suspects believed to be involved in the murder of Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl in February 2002."
More fun from those far-out, zany ROP dudes...those lads are everywhere. Sort of like cockroaches.
Damn, we have Al Quaeda, ELF, Greenpeace nd a ton of others, now we have to worry about Dailt Terrorists, too? :)
NEVER forget Danny!
Wishing Mr. Memon a speedy trial and execution.
No, never forget Danny. From all accounts, he was a lovely, generous, charitable, caring man.
I read the book written by his wife, Marianne Pearl, and cried for days..I am sure he is in heaven and looks down on his beautiful son and smiles that wonderful smile. Thanks for the reminder of Daniel Pearl.
This is someone's tribute site to him. I often reference back to his articles there. He was way to close to something that made him a target.
http://www.geocities.com/spyjaguar/
I have heard this same thing coming from units in theater, too.
It's working...
Articles like these must mean that terrorists are spending more time watching their backs than organizing attacks. Works for me. I especially like the one where the terrorists blew themselves up in the car.
Good news bump!
Agreed.
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