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AUGUST 8, 2006 : (ADEL TEBOURSKI IS DEPORTED FROM FRANCE TO TUNISIA -- see SEPT 9, 2001 ASSASSINATION OF AFGHAN N ALLIANCE LEADER MASSOUD) France has deported a Tunisian man to his homeland despite protests that he could face torture there. Adel Tebourski, 42, was put on an Air France flight back to Tunisia on Monday, officials said. Tebourski had served a jail sentence in France after being convicted of helping the killers of Afghan resistance leader Ahmed Shah Masood in 2001. The French authorities described Tebourski as a serious threat to national security.
French campaigners have said he could be tortured in Tunisia, and the UN torture committee last month called on Paris to suspend his deportation, the French news agency AFP reports. A court in Paris handed Tebourski a six-year jail term in 2005 for offering logistical support to the killers of Masood.
During the trial, Tebourski admitted he was a member of an Islamist cell linked to one of the Tunisian killers. Three other men were sentenced to between two and seven years by the Paris court.
Masood, a leading general in Afghanistan's anti-Taleban Northern Alliance, was blown up in 2001 by two Tunisian men posing as journalists. The death of the man revered as the "Lion of the Panjshir Valley" stunned the country's then rebel forces, who were soon called to fight alongside US troops in a campaign against the Taleban in late 2001.-------France deports convicted (islamist) Tunisian BBC News ^ | 08/08/2006

AUGUST 2006 : (REPORT : LONDON AIRLINE PLOT WAS BEING FINANCED BY A CHARITY THAT IS THE SUCCESSOR TO THE OUTLAWED LASHKAR E TOIBA [LeT] -- See OCT 2005 EARTHQUAKE) A Pakistani charity that received 10 million dollars from Britain for earthquake relief last year helped finance the alleged bomb plot to blow up US-bound passenger jets, The Washington Post said. "The innocent Pakistani souls in Britain who contributed so generously for the victims of the earthquake didn't know that their money would actually be used for one of the biggest terrorist operations," a Pakistani intelligence official told the daily.
The charity was not mentioned by name, but the official said the funds traced to it helped investigators uncover the alleged plot British authorities thwarted last week and which US officials have tentantively linked to Al-Qaeda.
Another senior Pakistani intelligence official said the charity had received some five million pounds (10 million dollars) from Britain, but that less than half was used for relief operations in the October earthquake that killed 73,000 people. "British intelligence smelled foul play the moment the transfer was made in December last year," said the senior official, who like his colleague asked not to be identified due to the ongoing nature of the investigation.
The New York Times on Monday said the British authorities were investigating whether the Jamaat-ud-Dawa Charity, active in the mosques of Britain's largest cities, had provided money to some of the 23 suspects under arrest for the foiled bomb plot.
The charity, according to Pakistani and US officials cited by the Times, is believed to be the successor of Lashkar-e-Taiba, an Islamic militant group which the Pakistani government banned in 2002.
A British terrorism expert consulted by The Washington Post said the chaos that followed the devastating earthquake in northern Pakistan last year allowed Pakistani intelligence agents to learn more about the militant groups operating in the area. A spokesman for Jamaat-Ud-Dawa reached by the Post denied any funding by his group of the bomb plot in Britain, insisting that the group condemned terrorism and that it was not under investigation by the Pakistani government.--- Pakistani charity funded airline bomb plot: report (update)," AFP via Yahoo ^ | 8/15/2006 Posted on 08/15/2006 3:11:39 AM PDT by markomalley

NOVEMBER 15, 2006 : (BOSTON, MA : ARREST OF THREE IMAMS FOR VISA VIOLATIONS: Hafiz Muhammad Hannan {imam at the Islamic Society of Greater Lowell, MA}, Hafiz Muhammad Masood {imam at the Islamic Centre of New England in Sharon, MA} and Hafiz Mohammad Hamid {an imam at the Islamic Society of Greater Worcester, MA}------ ALL CLOSELY RELATED TO OR INLAWS OF LASHKAR-E-TOIBA FOUNDER HAFIZ MOHAMMAD SAEED)..-----Imams arrested in America are relatives of LeT founder Saeed ( pro-Osama ) DILIGENT MEDIA CORPORATION ^ | December 08, 2006 | Amir Mir Posted on 12/10/2006 7:54:35 AM PST by george76

NOVEMBER 15, 2006 : (BOSTON, MA : IMAMS OF THREE MOSQUES ARE ARRESTED - THEY ARE CLOSE RELATIVES OF LeT FOUNDER & JAMAAT UL DAAWA HEAD HAFIZ MOHAMMAD SAEED) The Pakistani authorities have confirmed the American findings that the imams of three mosques arrested on November 15 in Boston happen to be the close relatives of the founder of the deadly Lashkar-e-Toiba, Hafiz Mohammad Saeed, who now heads the Jamaatul Daawa.
Pakistani interior ministry sources said that the three Boston-based imams — Hafiz Muhammad Hannan, Hafiz Muhammad Masood and Hafiz Mohammad Hamid — are close relatives of Hafiz Muhammad Saeed. The sources said they have informed the American authorities that while Hafiz Muhammad Masood and Hafiz Hamid happen to be the real brother of Saeed, Hafiz Muhammad Hannan is his brother-in-law.
Hafiz Masood is an imam at the Islamic Centre of New England, Sharon, Massachusetts, Hannan is an imam at the Islamic Society of Greater Lowell, Massachusetts while Hamid is an imam at the Islamic Society of Greater Worcester, Massachusetts.
...The sources said the arrest of 30 people in November was part of a wide swoop carried out by ...[ICE] in eight states and the district of Columbia in connection with an ongoing investigation into a visa fraud scheme. The scheme was designed to help a large number of illegal aliens, primarily from Pakistan, fraudulently obtain religious worker visas to enter or remain in the United States.
Both Lashkar-e-Toiba and Jamaatul Daawa are generally considered to be pro-Osama and an anti-US groups which have been banned by the US State Department in 2002 and 2006 respectively. (Excerpt) Read more at dnaindia.com ...-----Imams arrested in America are relatives of LeT founder Saeed ( pro-Osama ) DILIGENT MEDIA CORPORATION ^ | December 08, 2006 | Amir Mir Posted on 12/10/2006 7:54:35 AM PST by george76