ILYAS KASHMIRI - PAKISTAN'S FRANKENSTEIN

INVESTIGATIVE PROJECT.org - IPT News ^ | June 22, 2010 | n/a

[Cindy]

http://www.longwarjournal.org/archives/2011/10/al_qaeda_releases_le.php

“Al Qaeda releases lecture by leader thought killed with Kashmiri”
By BILL ROGGIO
October 7, 2011

SNIPPET: “As Sahab has released a propaganda tape created by an al Qaeda in Pakistan leader thought to have been killed along with Ilyas Kashmiri in a US Predator airstrike in South Waziristan in early June.

In the tape, Ustadh Ahmad Farooq, al Qaeda in Pakistan’s top spokesman and propagandist, “urged Muslims imbued with love for the Prophet Muhammad to apply his teachings and traditions and transform that love into jihad in order to implement Shariah-based governance in Pakistan,” according to the SITE Intelligence Group.

“Farooq denounced classical economists, military strategists, political thinkers and scientists such as Adam Smith, Karl Marx, Immanuel Kant, Carl von Calusewitz, and Isaac Newton as ‘enemies of Allah,’ and called upon Muslims to instead refer to the Prophet Muhammad to excel in economics, political science, and other subjects,” SITE stated. Farooq also called on Muslims to murder “anyone who commits blasphemy” and praised the killers of Punjab Governor Salman Taseer and Federal Minister for Minorities Shahbaz Bhatti as lions of Islam.

Farooq is one of several al Qaeda and Harkat-ul-Jihad-al-Islami leaders and operatives thought to have been killed with senior al Qaeda military leader Ilyas Kashmiri in a Predator strike on June 3, 2011 that leveled a compound in the Wana area of South Waziristan. It is unclear if Farooq’s latest propaganda tape was recorded before or after the June 3 strike.

Immediately after the strike, a purported spokesman for Kashmiri’s 313 Brigade, one of several al Qaeda military formations based along the Afghan-Pakistan border, claimed that Farooq was one of nine terrorists killed in the strike [see Threat Matrix report, Was al Qaeda’s leader of Pakistan killed in the South Waziristan Predator strike?].

Al Qaeda never released an official martyrdom statement announcing the deaths of Kashmiri or Farooq. Abu Hanzla Kashir, who identified himself as the spokesman of Harkat-ul-Jihad-al-Islami, did release a signed statement claiming Kashmiri had been killed. But Kashir’s account was immediately called into question when discrepancies in the statement were identified. In addition, a photo that was released with the statement and purported to be that of Kashmiri’s corpse turned out to be instead a photo of the corpse of a member of the November 2008 Mumbai suicide assault team.”

[Cindy]

http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=2012%5C03%5C07%5Cstory_7-3-2012_pg1_4

“Top Qaeda operative Ilyas Kashmiri still alive”
(March 7, 2012)

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http://www.longwarjournal.org/archives/2012/03/al_qaeda_leader_ilya.php

“Al Qaeda leader Ilyas Kashmiri spotted at Taliban meeting”
By BILL ROGGIO
March 7, 2012

PHOTO CAPTION: “Left: a photograph purported to be Ilyas Kashmiri after his death. The picture is actually that of Abu Dera Ismael Khan, a Lashkar-e-Taiba fighter who was a member of the suicide assault team that attacked Mumbai, India, in November 2008. Right: Ilyas Kashmiri. The image on the left is published courtesy of the SITE Intelligence Group.”

SNIPPET: “A senior al Qaeda leader who is one of the terror group’s most dangerous military commanders and strategists, and who was reportedly killed in a drone strike last June, has been spotted at a meeting with the leader of the Movement of the Taliban in Pakistan.

Ilyas Kashmiri, who has served as the chief of al Qaeda’s military operations and a member of its external operations council, as well as the head of the Harkat-ul-Jihad-al-Islami’s Brigade 313, is said to have met with Hakeemullah Mehsud in North Waziristan, according to Daily Times.

Kashmiri “reportedly visited North Waziristan this week and held sittings with Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan [Movement of the Taliban in Pakistan] leader Hakeemullah Mehsud,” Daily Times reported. “Sources said that during the visit, Kashmiri spent a night with Mehsud, as his guest. During Kashmiri’s visit to the TTP comrade in Waziristan, a renowned journalist from Islamabad was also reportedly present there.”

Kashmiri and Hakeemullah conducted a strategy session where they “allegedly reviewed the future strategy in connection with jihad, his [Hakeemullah’s] movement and the present situation in Afghanistan.””

[Cindy]

http://theorangetracker.blogspot.com/2012/03/muhammad-ilyas-kashmiris-death-has-been.html

“Muhammad Ilyas Kashmiri’s death has been confirmed”
(March 11, 2012)

[Cindy]

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2138741/posts
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2367275/posts

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http://www.newkerala.com/news/newsplus/worldnews-30241.html

“Fresh Summons issued against Headley”

SNIPPET: “New Delhi, May 31 : A Delhi court has again asked the National Investigation Agency (NIA) to present on Aug 6 LeT terrorist David Coleman Headley, jailed in the US for his role in the 2008 Mumbai attack.

It also issued fresh non-bailable warrants against Al Qaeda operative Illyas Kashmiri and four others, including two Inter- Service Intelligence (ISI) agents, sources said.

Issuing fresh summons, the court asked the NIA to bring before it Laskar-e-Taiba (LeT) terrorist Headley who is in a US jail, on Aug 6. It had issued similar summons on March 13.”