Posted on 12/23/2001 11:23:31 AM PST by B.Bumbleberry
After the threat of arms dealers and smugglers being on the run, the Special Security Bureau had been pressed along the Indo - Nepal border. Now in a startling disclosure, the Chairman of the Central Board of Excise and Custom in Patna K L Verma has confirmed that two Afghans earlier picked up by them on the border are Al Qaida activist.
"Now it has been revealed that the suspects belong to Al Qaida. We are taking a lot of extra precaution and have alerted the border check post. All the foreign nationals found to be involved in dubious activities are being rounded up," informed Verma.
Even after the imposition of emergency in Nepal and the crackdown on the ultras, officials say that there are still reports of arms being smuggled and terrorists sneaking in along the 1800 km long and porous border with Nepal. The activities of all Madarsas are also being probed in this connection.
"Our Indo - Nepal border is totally open so it's more vulnerable and there are other items which are a cause of concern for us," added Verma.
For the custom officials the termination of bus and train service between India and Pakistan comes as a relief as they feel it would check smuggling of fake currency.
Maybe this is a clue. One of you who are good with maps could possibly tell us where this is.
Possibly related: Among the many rumors, there was a report a day or two ago that bin Laden had escaped to Kashmir (also in northern India, but closer to Pakistan).
All I did was search in Google for:
india bihar map
and the very first link it gave me had this map. I copied the link location, pasted it into a posting inside an img tag, and that's the whole story. Google is a wonderful search engine.
Remember Sabash Gurung? He's the man who was arrested at O'Hare Airport a while back with a large stash of weapons (stun guns, knives, etc.). (Gurung was staying with his brother in the same Chicago apartment house listed as one of Ayub Ali Khan's addresses. Khan was in the air on 9/11 when all flights were grounded. He and a partner were then detained in Texas when they were found with box cutters, $5000 in cash, and hair dye; he was also said to have shaved his body, as the 9/11 terrorists may have done. He's now being held on credit card fraud.)
Anyway, Sabash Gurung is Nepalese.
http://www.tehelka.com/channels/commentary/2001/may/15/com051501peace8.htm
The Muslim pockets of the Terai [the southern border of Nepal bordering India], especially Bardiya, Banke, Rupendehi and the Parsa-Morang belt have seen increasing 'Tablighi' activities, and the construction of mosques and madrassas with financial flows from Pakistan - often directly from the Embassy at Kathmandu - from Saudi Arabia and from a range of pan-Islamic organizations. Over the past two decades, more than 275 mosques and madrassas have been built in just the four districts of Rupandehi, Banke, Kapilvastu and Bardiya. There are some 15 major tablighi/fundamentalist organizations in Nepal, and at least five of these are well within the ambit of Pakistan's influence and control. These include the Jamaat-e-Millat-e-Islamia; the Nepal Islamic Yuba Sangh; the Nepal Muslim League; the Nepal Muslim Ekta Sangh; and the Democratic Muslim Welfare Association. Nepal is, consequently, emerging as an important 'staging post' for Pakistan's strategy of erosion and encirclement against India, and is increasingly the preferred route for the movement of high profile terrorists to various areas of low- intensity conflict in J&K and the Northeast.
In Sri Lanka, the Muslim community and emerging fundamentalist forces have generally aligned themselves with the interests of the government. The Island nation's Muslim population is mainly Tamil, but has been driven out of the ethnically cleansed northern areas controlled by the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE), and is now concentrated along the eastern coast, the north-west coast, Kandy and suburban Colombo. Islamic fundamentalist mobilization in Sri Lanka began after a succession of attacks on the Muslims by the LTTE in the early 1990s, after which the government decided to arm the Muslim youth for self-defense. The conflict between Hindu and Muslim Tamils resulted in the polarization of mindsets on the issue of religious identity. There are, today, nearly a dozen Muslim fundamentalist organizations in Sri Lanka who are funded by foreign countries, primarily Saudi Arabia, with at least two political parties drawing significant support from Iran.
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