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http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=story_1-6-2005_pg1_2

President Pervez Musharraf on Tuesday condemned the killing of Aslam Mujahid and the terrorist attack on the imambargah and appealed for calm and unity to foil the saboteurs' designs.

Police on Tuesday identified two of the assailants involved in Monday's attack on the imambargah. Dr Najeeb, town investigation officer (TIO) of Gulshan-e-Iqbal, told Daily Times that the surviving assailant was identified as Tehseen, a resident of Orangi Town. The TIO said Tehseen was critically injured in the gunfight outside the imambargah. The dead assailant was identified as Muhammad Asif Khan, the TIO said, adding that Tehsin had told police that he and Asif were from the defunct Lashkar-e-Jhangvi (LJ).

Earlier, Tehsin kept changing his statement, the TIO said, adding that he first told police that his name was Muhammad Jamil and he was a Jaish Muhammad activist. Then he said his name was Bashir.

Comments: Jaish Mohammad probably has connections to former (and present?) officers of ISI and the Army, thus it is "better" if the terrorist is connected to Lashkar-e-Jhangvi.

"Lashkar-e-Jhangvi" is often used by Pakistani authorties as a cover name for a terrorist whom they do not want to identify as belonging to Jaish-e-Mohammed or Lashkar-e-Taiba etc. The latter two are of course ISI's favorite terrorist groups and Pakistani officials will be reluctant to admit that their "boys" have now gone freelance and operate for Al Qaeda instead of doing ISI's wetwork against India in Kashmir.

BTW, did you know that Lashkar-e-Jhangvi's parent group hosted Al-Zarqawi during his days in Pakistan?

Check this out.

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Another key job for the United States, Schroen says, is to figure out a way to find the right incentive for Musharraf to hunt harder for al Qaeda's leaders. One major step, in that regard, is for the Pakistani president to get more answers from inside his own military and intelligence establishment. "A man of that caliber [bin Laden] could not be hidden out for that many years without word getting out in the community. So, I think some people probably know within ISI and the military."