Arrested Fidayeen reveal terror route, LeT hand

The arrest of three Pakistani nationals hailing from Multan in connection with Mumbai siege has once again revealed the role of Lashkar-e-Tayiba in terror strikes in India after the Akshardham attack in 2002.

Police and central security personnel have arrested at least three Pakistanis, including Ajmal Amir Kamal, a resident of Faridkot near Multan in Pakistan's Punjab province. All the three belong to the suicide squad of Lashkar-e-Tayiba.

The terrorists told interrogators that 12 of them had left in a merchant vessel from the port city of Karachi, which was on its way to Vietnam, from which they got down and rowed 10 nautical miles into Indian waters up to Gateway of India.

The dozen people split into at least five groups that created havoc in five star hotels -- Taj and Trident (Oberoi). The terrorists were carrying dry fruits, suggesting they were prepared for a long-drawn battle.

The sources said the group was joined by some of the local contacts who provided them logistics like bags and dry fruits, the sources said, adding initial reports suggested that the terror group had come to the metropolis in the intervening night of Sunday and Monday.

However, new leads suggested that they had entered the Indian waters on early Wednesday morning, the sources said.

This major strike from the banned Lashkar comes six years after it had carried out an audacious attack on Akshardham temple [Images] in Ahmedabad [Images] in which 25 were killed on September 25, 2002.

Elite National Security Guards had to be airdropped into the complex to rescue 50 people.

The Lashkar-e-Tayiba had a mixed luck with attack on RSS headquarters in Nagpur and attack on Group Regimental Centre of the Central Reserve Police Force at Rampur (Uttar Pradesh [Images]) in 2007.

After being banned by the US for spreading terror in the world and being linked with Al-Qaeda [Images], Lashkar had mainly used its Indian contacts, which included Indian Mujahideeen, to indulge in terror network.

However, this time in Mumbai, the terror group decided to carry out the attack itself as they wanted to strike in a big way, the sources said.

1987 : (PAKISTAN : THE MARKAZ aka DAWA AL IRSHAD, FOUNDED BY IQBAL & SAEED OF THE UNIVERSITY OF ENGINEERING & TECHNOLOGY OF LAHORE; AZAM OF THE INTERNATIONAL ISLAMIC UNIVERSITY; BIN LADEN ... THE MARKAZ WOULD BECOME POLITICAL WING OF LASHKAR-E-TOIBA aka LeT-- See BIN LADEN) The Markaz [Dawa Al Irshad (the Centre For Preaching) ] was founded in 1987, at the inspiration of Osama bin Laden, by Zafar Iqbal and Hafiz Mohammad Saeed of the University of Engineering and Technology of Lahore and Abdullah Azam of the International Islamic University, which has been funded by bin Laden. (Abdullah Azam was killed in an explosion at Peshawar in 1989 and, after his death, Zafar Iqbal and Hafiz Mohammad Saeed have been leading the Markaz while continuing to teach at the University.) The headquarters of the Markaz [Dawa Al Irshad (the Centre For Preaching) ], occupying over 190 acres of land, are located at Muridke, about 45 kms from Lahore in Pakistani Punjab. Its vast campus contains a huge Jamia mosque for the construction of which bin Laden had reportedly contributed Rs.10 million, a garments factory, an iron foundry, a wood works factory, a swimming pool and three residential colonies for the inmates. A big Islamic University is also coming up. - "Lashkar e Taiba: A Backgrounder," EXTRACTS FROM PAPER DATED 26-8-1998, TITLED " MARKAZ DAWA AL IRSHAD: TALIBANISATION OF NUCLEAR PAKISTAN"

1992 : (ST LOUIS, MO : RANDALL ROYER WALKS INTO A MOSQUE ON THE ST LOUIS UNIVERSITY CAMPUS --- See LeT, VA JIHAD/PAINTBALL CELL)

1993 -2003-... : (PAINTBALL CELL : AL-HAMDI IS IN THE US ON A DIPLOMATIC VISA OWING TO HIS YEMENI FATHER'S DIPLOMATIC STATUS--- See LeT, VA JIHAD/PAINTBALL CELL) Al-Hamdi has been in the United States on a diplomatic visa - thanks to his father's status - since 1993.- "12 Washington-area Muslims investigated for alleged terrorist ties," By Karen Branch-Brioso, St. Louis Post-Dispatch, Thu, Jun. 12, 2003

1990s mid [94?]: (BOSNIA : FUTURE PAINTBALL CELL MEMBER RANDALL ROYER -ALLEGEDLY- FIGHTS WITH BOSNIAN ARMY--- See LeT, VA JIHAD/PAINTBALL CELL) [According to] Royer, he met members of the militant Lashkar-I-Taiba group while fighting with the Bosnian Army in the mid-1990s - "12 Washington-area Muslims investigated for alleged terrorist ties," By Karen Branch-Brioso, St. Louis Post-Dispatch, Thu, Jun. 12, 2003

1997 : (NC : BY THIS TIME, JIBREEL AL AMREEKI IS A MUSLIM CONVERT--- See LeT, NCCELL, ATLANTACELL) Fifteen thousand feet high in Kashmir and armed with a Kalashnikov–that was not how friends thought Jibreel al-Amreekee would end up. All of 19, the restless kid from Atlanta had grown up in a wealthy family attending Ebenezer Baptist Church, the home pulpit of Martin Luther King Jr. A soft-spoken youth with long dreadlocks, al-Amreekee had a passion for sky diving and reading books on the world's religions.
One religion that drew his interest was Islam, and while he was at North Carolina Central University, that interest grew into a calling. By 1997, he had converted and was spending his time at the modest Ibad-ar-Rahman mosque in Durham, where African-Americans mixed easily with immigrants from Egypt and Pakistan. He fell in with a group of fundamentalists who preached of how fellow Muslims were being slaughtered overseas and how jihad–holy war–was every Muslim's obligation. For al-Amreekee, it came as a revelation. He dropped out of school, read the Koran daily, fasted, and prepared for combat overseas. "He was into it, man," recalled a friend, Jaleel Abdullah Musawwir. "You know, Islam says when you get into something you go full ahead, and that's the way he did it." --------- "MADE IN THE U.S.A.- Hundreds of Americans have followed the path to jihad. Here's how and why," by David E. Kaplan, U.S. News, 06/10/2002, Posted on 06/01/2002 12:36:47 PM PDT by Pokey78

1997 late : (AMERICAN CONVERT JIBREEL AL AMREEKEE LEAVES THE USA TO FIGHT IN KASHMIR FOR LASHKAR-E-TAIBA aka LeT-- HE WOULD NOT LAST LONG...--See NCCELL, ATLANTACELL) In late 1997, [Jibreel] al-Amreekee took off for Kashmir, where India and Pakistan have clashed for decades. Through friends in Durham [NC], he hooked up with Lashkar-e-Taiba (the Righteous Army), a now banned militia blamed for December's terrorist attack on the Indian parliament. ...After training at a Lashkar base in Pakistan, al-Amreekee got his chance: His unit began ambushing Indian troops in Kashmir. But the American didn't last long. After just 21/2 months as a jihadist, he was dead– killed while attacking an Indian Army post. "He got what he wanted," said Abdullah Ramadawn, a friend and fellow Georgian who used to drive him home after prayers. "He always said he wanted to be a martyr." --------- "MADE IN THE U.S.A.- Hundreds of Americans have followed the path to jihad. Here's how and why," by David E. Kaplan, U.S. News, 06/10/2002, Posted on 06/01/2002 12:36:47 PM PDT by Pokey78

http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/world/la-fg-hicks20-2008nov20,0,5140672.story

“Restrictions in Australia to end for ex-Guantanamo inmate David Hicks”
Associated Press
November 20, 2008

ARTICLE SNIPPET: “Reporting from Canberra, Australia — Australian Federal Police said today that they would stop next month restricting the movements and communications of David Hicks, a former inmate of the U.S. prison camp at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.

The restrictions are due to expire Dec. 21, at which point Hicks will be completely free for the first time since he was captured with Taliban fighters in Afghanistan almost seven years ago.

The Muslim convert spent 5 1/2 years at Guantanamo before reaching a plea deal under which he admitted providing material support to Al Qaeda in exchange for serving a nine-month sentence in Australia.”

You're welcome.

2000 early : ( PAKISTAN : AUSTRALIAN DAVID HICKS JOINS LASHKAR-E-TAYYIBA ) While back in Australia, Hicks converted from Christianity to Islam and on, or about, November 1999, he travelled to Pakistan where, in early 2000, he joined the "terrorist organisation" known as Lashkar e Tayyiba (LET), also known as Army of the Righteous.
LET is accused of establishing camps, guest houses and schools in Pakistan and Afghanistan "for the purpose of training and supporting violent attacks against property" and Indian military personnel and civilians and other countries.
Hicks allegedly trained for two months at LET's Mosqua Aqsa camp in Pakistan. His training allegedly included "weapons familiarisation and firing, map reading and land navigation, and troop movements".
Then Hicks and LET associates travelled to a border region between Pakistan-controlled Kashmir and Indian-controlled Kashmir.There he "engaged in hostile action against Indian forces". His performance led to a trip to Afghanistan and al-Qaeda training camps, the US alleged. -------From Adelaide to al-Qaeda," Sydney Morning Herald ^ | June 11, 2004 | AAP

2000 : (AUSTRALIAN KLA TERRORIST DAVID HICKS JOINS LeT, PART OF BIN LADEN'S FRONT AGAINST JEWS & CRUSADERS [AL QAEDA]) Later that year he allegedly went to Pakistan, where the next year [2000] he joined Lashkar-e-Tayyaba, known for its attacks on India, Jews and Americans. It was via LET that he allegedly went to an al-Qa'ida training camp, where he met Osama bin Laden and helped translate training manuals from Arabic to English. ------Trial and record of the accused Hicks (Australian held at Guantanamo Bay) The Australian ^ | 6th August 2005 | David Nason and others

2000 early : (PAINTBALL CELL TRAINS IN MD, MO, DC--- see LeT, ROYER, ALI AL TIMIMI) In preparation for its jihad, the group trained from early 2000 through last May in the Maryland and Virginia suburbs of Washington and in St. Louis, Mo., the indictment said. It also trained in small-unit military tactics near Fredericksburg, Va., using AK-47 assault rifles and other firearms, Fox News reported. In the group's combat simulations in northern Virginia, it also used toys to fire paintballs, according to the Washington Post. - "GLOBAL JIHAD : Americans charged in 'holy-war' plot : Accused of conspiring to train on U.S. soil for battle overseas," WorldNetDaily.com , June 27, 2003

2000 : (PAINTBALL CELL MEMBER RANDALL ROYER TRAVELS TO PAKISTAN, WORKS ON BEHALF OF LASHKAR-E-TAIBA-- see VA JIHAD) Royer went to Pakistan and helped write press releases and set up a worldwide e-mail list for Lashakar-I-Taiba in 2000. He [later] said he gave al-Hamdi and Kwon a contact number for Lashkar-I-Taiba leaders when they traveled to Pakistan.- "12 Washington-area Muslims investigated for alleged terrorist ties," By Karen Branch-Brioso, St. Louis Post-Dispatch, Thu, Jun. 12, 2003

DECEMBER 22, 2000 : (INDIA : RED FORT ATTACK BY THE GROUP LASHKAR E TAIBA, A MEMBER OF AL QAEDA'S "INTERNATIONAL ISLAMIC FRONT FOR JIHAD AGAINST THE US AND ISRAEL") The Red Fort, as the seat of the Muslim rulers of the past, is an important symbol in its eyes. ... While reporting the Red Fort attack on December 22, 2000, sections of the foreign media described the Lashkar as a Kashmiri militant organisation. It is not. It is a Pakistani organisation based in Pakistan and operating from there. It is a member of Osama bin Laden's International Islamic Front For Jihad Against the US and Israel. The wrong perceptions abroad about this organisation need to be corrected vigorously. The activities of Osama bin Laden and his announcement of an International Islamic Front For Jihad against the US and Israel assume ominous significance in the context of his past and continuing links with the Markaz Dawa Al Irshad (the Centre For Preaching) of Pakistan and the Lashkar-e-Toiba (the Army of the Pure), its militant wing. The Markaz and the Lashkar have been involved in acts of terrorism, not only in J & K, but also in other parts of India. - "Lashkar e Taiba: A Backgrounder," EXTRACTS FROM PAPER DATED 26-8-1998, TITLED " MARKAZ DAWA AL IRSHAD: TALIBANISATION OF NUCLEAR PAKISTAN"

DECEMBER 23, 2000 : (A TV CAMERA IS STOLEN IN GRENOBLE FRANCE ON CHRISTMAS EVE-- IT WAS LATER USED TO SMUGGLE A BOMB INTO THE CAMP OF AFGHANISTAN'S NORTHERN ALLIANCE LEADER AHMAD MASSOUD IN SEPTEMBER 2001WHERE IT WAS USED IN HIS ASSASSINATION JUST DAYS BEFORE THE AL QAEDA ATTACKS ON THE USA -- See LeT, WILLIE BRIGITTE, SYDNEY CELL, VA JIHAD) ... A TV camera believed to have contained the bomb is known to have been stolen from a French camera operator in Grenoble [France] on Christmas Eve 2000. Massoud's murder was a severe setback to moves to oust the fundamentalist Islamic regime that harboured al-Qaeda training camps in Afghanistan. ------ "Deportee tie to assassination," By Peter Fray, Paris & Mark Forbes, Canberra, The Age [Australia] , October 29, 2003 ; This story was found at: http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2003/10/28/1067233172665.html

JANUARY 2001 [circa] : (AUSTRALIAN DAVID HICKS aka MUHAMMED DAWOOD, AFTER RECEIVING FUNDS AND A LETTER OF INTRODUCTION FROM LeT , HEADS TO AFGHANISTAN TO ATTEND AL QAEDA TRAINING CAMPS-- See AL LIBI, ATEF aka AL MASRI, TARNAK FARMS) On, or about, January 2001, Hicks, "with funding and a letter of introduction provided by LET, travelled to Afghanistan to attend al-Qaeda terrorist training camps".
"Upon arriving in Afghanistan, Hicks went to an al-Qaeda guest house where he met Ibn Sheikh al Libi, a top-ranking al-Qaeda member, and others," the US alleged.
"Hicks turned in his passport and indicated that he would use the kunya, or alias, Muhammed Dawood."
Hicks is then said to have travelled to and trained at al-Qaeda's al Farouq camp, located outside Kandahar, Afghanistan. "In al-Qaeda's eight-week basic training course, Hicks trained in weapons familiarisation and firing, land mines, tactics, topography, field movements and basic explosives," the US alleged.
He also trained in al-Qaeda's guerrilla warfare and mountain tactics training course.
"This seven-week course included: marksmanship; small teams tactics; ambush; camouflage; rendezvous techniques; and techniques to pass intelligence to al-Qaeda operatives," according to the US. It was while training at al Farouq that Hicks allegedly spoke with bin Laden.
During one visit, Hicks is said to have questioned bin Laden regarding the lack of English in al-Qaeda training materials. "Accepting bin Laden's advice, Hicks began to translate the training camp materials from Arabic to English," the US said.
On another occasion, then al-Qaeda military commander Muhammad Atef, also known as Abu Hafs al Masri, allegedly "summoned and interviewed Hicks about the travel habits of Australians". After the meeting, Atef recommended Hicks attend al-Qaeda's urban tactics training course at Tarnak Farm. Tarnak Farm included a mock city, where trainees were taught to fight in an urban environment.
Training included "marksmanship; use of assault and sniper rifles; rappelling; kidnapping techniques; and assassination methods".
-------From Adelaide to al-Qaeda," Sydney Morning Herald ^ | June 11, 2004 | AAP

AUGUST 2001 [circa] : (KABUL, AFGHANISTAN : AUSTRALIAN TERRORIST HICKS TAKES CLASS ON INFO COLLECTION & SURVEILLANCE -- see EMBASSY PLOTS, ABU HAFS AL MASRI) On or about August 2001, Hicks participated in an information collection and surveillance course in an apartment in Kabul, Afghanistan. "The course included 'practical application' where Hicks and others conducted surveillance of various targets in Kabul, including the US and British embassies," the US stated. Following the course [Abu Hafs al Masri aka Muhammad Atef] Atef interviewed Hicks again and "asked if he would be willing to undertake a 'martyr mission', meaning an attack wherein Hicks would kill himself as well as the targets of the attack". -------From Adelaide to al-Qaeda," Sydney Morning Herald ^ | June 11, 2004 | AAP

2001 [before Sept 11, 2001] : (OUTSIDE PARIS, FRANCE : WILLIE BRIGITTE ORGANIZES SURVIVAL LESSONS IN FONTAINBLEU GARDENS -- -- See LeT, AHMED MASSOOD ASSASSINATION, SYDNEY CELL, VA JIHAD) [Willie Brigitte]... was known as the "camper's chief" because he organised survival training lessons in Fontainebleau Gardens outside Paris before the September 11 attacks, the official said. ...Brigitte is originally from the French Caribbean island of Guadeloupe and had taken the Muslim name Abdelrahman.----Terror suspect linked to Afghan assassination,AP via The Age ^ | October 28, 2003 | NA

SEPTEMBER? 2001 (before Sept 11 attacks) : (VA JIHAD/PAINTBALL CELL : AL HAMDI TRAVELS TO PAKISTAN) Al-Hamdi traveled there [to Pakistan] before the attacks on Sept. 11, Royer said - "12 Washington-area Muslims investigated for alleged terrorist ties," By Karen Branch-Brioso, St. Louis Post-Dispatch, Thu, Jun. 12, 2003

SEPTEMBER 9, 2001 : (AFGHANISTAN : ASSASSINATION OF NORTHERN ALLIANCE LEADER AHMAD SHAH MASSOUD [FORMER DEFENSE MINISTER OF AFGHANISTAN 1992-to-96, KNOWN AS THE "LION OF PANJSHIR" FOR MILITARY ACTION AGAINST THE SOVIETS IN THE RUSSO-AFGHAN WAR]-- WITH HELP FROM FRENCH TERRORIST WILLIE BRIGITTE -- See LeT, SYDNEY CELL, VA JIHAD, CONSPIRATOR TUNISIAN ADEL TABOURSKI, AHMED ELLATTAH, MOHAMED SLITI, WILLIE BRIGITTE, KARIM TOUZANI, KACEM BAKKALI, Yassir el-Sirri..) ... Afghanistan's Northern Alliance, Ahmad Shah Massoud, who was killed by two men posing as documentary filmmakers two days before the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks on New York and Washington.... [French terrorist Willie] Brigitte [was later linked] to the supply of two stolen Belgian passports that assassins Karim Touzani and Kacem Bakkali used to gain access to the northern Afghanistan stronghold of Massoud's northern Afghanistan stronghold... A TV camera believed to have contained the bomb is known to have been stolen from a French camera operator in Grenoble [France] on Christmas Eve 2000. Massoud's murder was a severe setback to moves to oust the fundamentalist Islamic regime that harboured al-Qaeda training camps in Afghanistan. ------ "Deportee tie to assassination," By Peter Fray, Paris & Mark Forbes, Canberra, The Age [Australia] , October 29, 2003 ; This story was found at: http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2003/10/28/1067233172665.html

SEPTEMBER 9, 2001 : (BRIGITTE, PARIS CELL & THE ASSASSINATION OF AFGHAN NORTHERN ALLIANCE LEADER MASSOOD) A Frenchman under investigation in [2003 in ] Australia and France for possible terrorist activities was also suspected of links to the assassination of an Afghan leader, authorities said. Willie Virgile Brigitte, 35, is in custody in a Paris area jail where he is being held on suspicion of association with a terror group, French police and justice officials said. Investigations are under way in France and Australia into Brigitte's alleged links to the al-Qaeda terror network, French officials said today. A judicial official said that Brigitte was also suspected of running false passports to the assassins of former anti-Taliban rebel leader in Afghanistan, Ahmed Shah Massood. ----Terror suspect linked to Afghan assassination,AP via The Age ^ | October 28, 2003 | NA

1998 : (AFGHANISTAN : MASSOOD BAFFLED WITH THE CLINTON ADMINISTRATION'S POLICY OF SUPPORTING HIS ENEMY GULBUDDIN HEKMATYAR--- See HIA) In the year 1377 (1998) Olivier Roy and Christoph De Ponfilly wrote in an essay: “Massoud never understood why CIA and Pentagon decided to support his enemy Gulbuddin Hekmatyar in the fight against him. Massoud always dreamed of a united and equal people in Afghanistan and also of free elections in this country.” and Bush has hade mistakes in IRAQ, compared to Toon's in Afghanistan? 40 posted on 09/12/2006 4:04:12 AM PDT by gusopol3

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