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I've seen that map before. Here's what I found out in March: The website's put out by the Muttahida Jihad Council (MJC) which is an umbrella body of 17 Pakistani based terrorist groups. It was fostered by the ISI, according to some sources, including Yosef Bodansky. http://www.kashmir-information.com/Bodansky/Bodansky1.html According to Jane's , http://www.janes.com/security/international_security/news/jwit/jwit010920_1_n.shtmlthe group is Sunni/Wahhabi. They have alliances with the the Taliban, al-Qaida, Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan (IMU) and other international Islamist organisations. There are also some links with Sikh organisations, which Pakistan's Inter-Services Intelligence agency has brokered in the past.

India accuses Pakistan of heavily subsidising UJC groups, and also of providing the groups with training and equipment. However, the dependency of each group on Islambad varies. HuM and HM receive much of their income from religious charities, for instance, while JeM is almost wholly dependent upon Pakistan. Other funds for militants arrive from al-Qaida, sympathetic individual Pakistanis, Kashmiris who live overseas, drug trafficking, and religious foundations based in countries around the world

Another source http://www.ict.org.il/inter_ter/orgdet.cfm?orgid=14 says at least one of the 17 terrorist groups under the MJC umbrella also receives donations from sympathizers in Saudi Arabia and other Gulf and Islamic states and from Pakistanis and Kashmiris.

The source and amount of HUM's military funding are unknown. The organization may recieve an unknown amount of monetary support from Pakistan. It is a member of the United Jihad Council [Muttahida Jihad Council - MJC] set up in 1994 by Pakistan's Inter Services Intelligence agency. Among the other member organizations: Hizb-ul-Mujahideen, Jamiat-ul-Mujahideen, Al-Jihad, Al-Barq, Ikhwan-ul-Mussalmin, Tariq-ul-Mujahideen.

The MJC chairman Syed Salahuddin went to Saudi late last winter http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=2006\01\04\story_4-1-2006_pg7_53 and to meet with Syed Ali Shah Geelani, chairman of All Parties Hurriyat Conference (APHC) faction, who's now apparently living in Saudi. Supposedly, they discussed "track-II diplomacy", the composite dialogue process and APHC’s reunification. (Track-ll diplomacy involves Track II diplomacy involves actors representing non-governmental organizations engaged in activity at the grassroots level and back channel measures. Track II diplomacy is important in maintaining support at the local level for negotiated agreements and terms to a peace settlement. APHC's an alliance of secessionist parties and leaders, as a political front to further the cause of Kashmiri separatism) I'm not sure which "track" involved strapping a bomb on your chest to blow up schoolkids. I wrote about it in http://cuppapolitics.blogspot.com/2006/03/wed-like-to-teach-world-to-sing-jihad.html -- many apologies for the link. It's just a little better formatted over there, and the links are easier to click to. Thanks for your time, will go back to "lurking."

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"I wrote about it in http://cuppapolitics.blogspot.com/2006/03/wed-like-to-teach-world-to-sing-jihad.html -- many apologies for the link. It's just a little better formatted over there, and the links are easier to click to. Thanks for your time, will go back to 'lurking.'"

Bookmark... Thank you for taking the time to post that, Tilly. Please come out of lurking more often. We value your contributions.

P.S. Where can I get some of those shower fizzies?! They sound enthralling.

I'll made your link clickable, Tilly.

http://cuppapolitics.blogspot.com/2006/03/wed-like-to-teach-world-to-sing-jihad.html

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