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2 Al-Qaeda suspects arrested from US are Saeedur Rehman's relatives
NEW YORK, June 10 (Online): The two alleged Al Qaeda activists, who were arrested in California are close relatives of a former MPA Punjab and JUI leader Qari Saeed ur Rehman of Attock.
Sources in LODI (loadai)a Pakistani majority area of farming said both arrests were part of religious vendetta.
Online learnt that two opponent groups were struggling to gain the control of a mosque in Lodi and newly Islamic center in Sacramento.
The alleged terrorist suspect Hamid Hyatt who went to Pakistan on April 21, 2003, is the grand son of Qari Saeed ur rehman who is a close aide of Moalana Fazal ur Rehman the opposition leader and former advisor to Punjab is also head of a Madrasa in Rawalpindi where Hamid Hayat attended school for two years and returned to United States in May 2005.
Umer Hayat who is also arrested with his son is the son in law of Qari saeed ur Rehman and belongs to a town Behboodi near Hazro Attock a US citizen living for decades in Lodi where thousands of other Pakistani origin mostly from Attock Hazara and Peshawar areas has many Islamic centers for whom many are trying to gain control, a community activist told Online that a new Islamic center was being built near by Sacramento while the old one was claimed by the other group this episode was going on for years and both groups made false reports to the FBI and local Police.
FBI told and assured community that they were not against any community or particular faith but were trying to ensure the security of the land.
A leader of local community from mansehra Taj khan while talking to Online has said: "Community is in panic and everyone who attends the prayer is being interrogated and we are in state of fear. No one in the community is either terrorist or against the US we are loyal and law abiding citizens".
Imam adil khan and his assistant also taken into the custody for immigration violation are part of the conspiracy to get access to Imamat Shabbir a native of Azad kashmir wants to become imam while one Adil who immigrated to US on Masjid visa is not willing to step down.
Local Mayor and city officials had held meetings with the community the media has a full fledged team of hundreds in Lodi and are focusing on the issue that Muslims and Pakistani are terrorists. Also, the media named Moalana Fazal ur Rehman in the report that Hamid Hayat got training in his Madarssa.
President Bush in interview with Fox news endorsed and praised the FBI It is not known whether Foreign minister Kasuri with meeting with Bush had any discussion about the arrests and alleged involvement of opposition leader in the National assembly. A bail hearing is scheduled for Hamid on late Friday.
http://www.thepakistaninewspaper.com/news_detail.php?id=2317
By Leila Hatoum
Daily Star staff
Saturday, June 11, 2005
BEIRUT: President George W. Bush stepped up his attacks on Syria last night, after a U.S. official said Damascus had compiled an "assassination hit list" targeting Lebanese political leaders. The accusation comes a week after the assassination of anti-Syrian Lebanese journalist Samir Kassir which has fueled speculation that Syrian intelligence units are still operating in Lebanon.
Bush said: "Our message to Syria - and it's not just the message of the United States, the United Nations has said the same thing - is that in order for Lebanon to be free, Syria needs to not only remove its military, but to remove intelligence officers as well."
Commenting on the assassination list, Bush said: "Obviously we're going to follow up on these troubling reports, and we expect the Syrian government to follow up on these troubling reports."
The anonymous U.S. official said the information came from "a variety of credible Lebanese sources."
In the latest escalation of tensions between Damascus and Washington, the White House accused Syria of creating a climate of fear during Lebanon's parliamentary elections in what will be seen as a scarcely veiled allusion to the murder of Kassir.
White House spokesman Scott McClellan said: "We are deeply concerned about Syria's interference and intimidation inside Lebanon."
He added: "We are concerned intelligence operatives are interfering in Lebanon's internal affairs. We have all called on the UN to send the verification teams back to Lebanon."
Washington's attack follows earlier comments from UN chief Kofi Annan who said on Thursday night that he was considering sending a second verification team to Lebanon because of reports that Syrian intelligence is still operating in the country.
Damascus has strenuously denied any involvement in the Kassir murder, and insists it has fully complied with UN Resolution 1559 which ordered Syria to withdraw its troops and intelligence agencies from its smaller neighbor.
A UN verification mission, dispatched to Lebanon last month, reported that Syria had "fully" withdrawn its troops from Lebanon, but failed to issue the same assertion regarding the presence of Syrian intelligence in Lebanon.
Speaking yesterday, Syria's ambassador to the UN, Fayssal Moqdad said: "I am sure there are no Syrians there. Let them investigate themselves."
He added: "If there were any intelligence personnel in Lebanon then they would be from France, the U.S. or Israel."
Late Thursday night leading Lebanese opposition MP Walid Jumblatt said: "I believe the entire opposition is being targeted."
He added: "The assassinations will continue with or without the knowledge of Syrian President Bashar Assad."
The new accusations against Syria came as Lebanon prepares to hold its third phase of four-stage parliamentary elections on Sunday, in Mount Lebanon, and the Bekaa districts.
Jumblatt accused the former Syrian military intelligence chief in Lebanon, General Rustom Ghazaleh, of meddling in the election through his agents.
Jumblatt said: "Rustom Ghazaleh, whom the Syrian leadership should have thrown in jail, has blocked an electoral alliance between MP Elie Skaff and the Hariri group."
Skaff, a Christian independent MP, is seen as a neutral politician within the Lebanese political system.
He is running for a parliamentary seat in this Sunday's round of voting as an independent on his own electoral list.
Speaking yesterday, Skaff insisted he had not met Ghazaleh since Syria's troop withdrawal from Lebanon at the end of April.
Meanwhile, Lebanon's government has pledged to assist the ongoing UN investigation into the assassination of former Prime Minster Rafik Hariri and agreed to allow state officials and public servants to be interrogated by the team led by German prosecutor Detlev Mehlis.
The UN team is to coordinate with Lebanese State Prosecutor Said Mirza, and investigating Magistrate Elias Eid.
http://www.dailystar.com.lb/article.asp?edition_id=1&categ_id=2&article_id=15842
More on the Lodi arrests: http://www.insidebayarea.com/sanmateocountytimes/localnews/ci_2792344
"...Hayat was first interviewed by the FBI on May 29 in Japan, when he was trying to return from Pakistan. His name was flagged on a federal "no-fly list," and Korean Airlines Flight 23 from Seoul to San Francisco International Airport was diverted to Tokyo, after about five hours over the Pacific Ocean."
Why was he in South Korea? Doesn't it cost twice as much to fly from Pakistan (east to west) compared to going thru London?
"...There are 49 California hospitals and no large food stores on a 2003 state list of terrorist targets obtained by the Oakland Tribune, The Times' sister paper.
"We do not have information that these or any other sectors in the United States have been primarily targeted or are specifically vulnerable to an attack," FBI Special Agent in Charge Keith Slotter said."
"...Hamid Hayat, a worker at fruit-packing plant"
What kind of fruit? Does "Fruit-Packing Plant" = "Large Food Store" in Urdu?