| This thread has been locked, it will not receive new replies. |
|
Locked on 06/16/2006 2:45:55 PM PDT by Admin Moderator, reason:
New thread: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1650751/posts |
Posted on 04/01/2006 5:00:12 PM PST by DAVEY CROCKETT
April 10, 2006 PM Anti-Terrorism News
Hamas says sees Israeli moves as declaration of war
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20060410/ts_nm/mideast_dc;_ylt=A0SOwkSg2DpE11kBmwtZ.3QA;_ylu=X3oDMTA5aHJvMDdwBHNlYwN5bmNhdA--
Israel suspended formal security ties to the Palestinian government on
Monday in what Hamas said amounted to "a declaration of war."
(Moussaoui Trial) Judge Warns Against Prejudicial Testimony
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060410/ap_on_re_us/moussaoui_3;_ylt=AhJVvscDc1g45AGPaR5pbqwTv5UB;_ylu=X3oDMTBiMW04NW9mBHNlYwMlJVRPUCUl
Two dead as tanker ambushed in Pakistani tribal area
http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20060410/wl_sthasia_afp/pakistanafghanistanattacksqaeda_060410083113
Pro-Taliban militants ambushed tanker carrying water to army post in
Pakistan's tribal belt near Afghanistan, killing driver and contractor
(Afghanistan) U.S. Military: Taliban 'Hard to Combat'
http://interestalert.com/story/siteia.shtml?Story=st/sn/0410000caaa04d6e.ap&Sys=siteia&Fid=WORLDNEW&Type=News&Filter=World%20News
Madrid bomb suspects due to be charged
http://au.news.yahoo.com/060410/19/yjx4.html
Spanish Judge will charge around 40, mainly Moroccan suspects, with
involvement in Spain 3/11/2004 attacks - three men to be charged with
actually carrying out bombings
(Spain) Bombers 'inspired by al-Qaeda'
http://www.news24.com/News24/World/News/0,,2-10-1462_1914206,00.html
Suspected masterminds of the deadly train bombings in 2004 belonged to
a local cell "inspired" by al-Qaeda, acting to force Spain to withdraw
troops from Iraq
(Russia) Islamist Leader Killed In Daghestan Operation
http://www.rferl.org/featuresarticle/2006/4/E68E67BC-7A3B-43B5-9F7E-393107628C84.html
Leader in Shariat militant group, responsible for attacks including
July 2005 bombing attack killing 10 soldiers, killed
(Russia) Improvised bomb found in Ingushetia
http://www.interfax.ru/e/B/politics/28.html?menu=1&id_issue=11494867
AKP and Other Turkish Islamists Attempt to Block Secular General From
Top Military Post
http://memri.org/bin/latestnews.cgi?ID=SD113606
(Australia) Terror accused had PC jihad 'library'
http://www.news.com.au/story/0,10117,18775976-2,00.html
(Palestinian Territories) International Solidarity Movement (ISM)
Supports Terrorists in Print
http://www.palsolidarity.org/main/2006/04/09/a-press-release-from-al-aqsa-martyer-troops/
"A Press Release from Al Aqsa Martyers Troops"
(Israel) IDF: Terrorists Compelling Us to Fire into Populated Areas
http://www.israelnn.com/news.php3?id=101840
(Israel) Passover terror warnings up
http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3238110,00.html
Hamas government comes up short 120 million dollars
http://www.khaleejtimes.com/DisplayArticle.asp?xfile=data/middleeast/2006/April/middleeast_April266.xml§ion=middleeast
Report: Hamas calling end to suicide bombings?
http://observer.guardian.co.uk/world/story/0%2C%2C1750028%2C00.html?gusrc=rss
Group needs outside funding of $150 million each month to pay PA wages
(Philippines) Al-Qaeda-linked Abu Suffia gang men surrender
http://news.balita.ph/html/article.php/20060410160215117
Inside "Islam's political insurgency" in Europe
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/11989895/
In the war of ideas, Hizb ut-Tahrir stakes its ground, courts
controversy
Pakistan Foreign Office: "Pakistan did not influence 9/11 probe"
http://www.dawn.com/2006/04/10/top4.htm
India, Afghanistan pledge to fight terrorism
http://www.khaleejtimes.com/DisplayArticle.asp?xfile=data/subcontinent/2006/April/subcontinent_April381.xml§ion=subcontinent&col=
Zarqawi, al Qaeda Threaten Iraq, Military Spokesman Says
http://www.defenselink.mil/news/Apr2006/20060410_4774.html
DOD: "The terrorists and foreign fighters that he recruits, trains and
equips carry out more than 90 percent of the insidious suicide attacks
against the men, women and children of Iraq."
The welfare-fraud link (to terrorism)
http://www.defenselink.mil/news/Apr2006/20060410_4774.html
http://www.suntimes.com/output/news/cst-nws-link09.html
"One law enforcement source said at least 25 percent of the Chicago
food-stamp fraud cases he has reviewed showed bank transfers to overseas
accounts."
Drug Smuggling Feeds Terror
http://www.zaman.com/?bl=national&alt=&trh=20060410&hn=31859
Turkish security statistics: 333 drug smuggling cases detected since
1984 directly linked to terrorists such as PKK, al-Qaeda, FARC, Sendero
Luminoso, Hezbollah, Uzbekistan Islamic Movement, and ETA
U.S. Military Secrets for Sale at Afghan Bazaar
http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/world/la-fg-disks10apr10,0,7789909.story?coll=la-home-headlines
Computer drives for sale include "Secret" information and persoanl
information on U.S. service personnel
"International Jihad" Accelerates its Steps in the West Bank and Gaza
http://english.daralhayat.com/Spec/04-2006/Article-20060410-84272b88-c0a8-10ed-0105-0034bc562c62/story.html
Dar Al-Hayat article on penetration of al-Qaida and contacts with Hamas
Military Intelligence: Palestinians May Have 100 Katyusha Rockets in
Gaza
http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1143498829748&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull
(Indonesia) Four killed in Papua clash
http://www.news.com.au/story/0,10117,18779553-23109,00.html
Four people were killed today in an exchange of fire between soldiers
and suspected separatists
Muslims protest against threat to raze mosque in southern Russia
snip
Russia’s 20 million Muslims make up some 14 percent of the nation’s population, but about half the 1.1 million inhabitants of Astrakhan province, which is home to the Volga Tatars, are Muslim. Work on the mosque has been halted since last year, when the newly elected mayor said zoning rules had been violated. A local court has ordered the Muslims to dismantle the structure at their own expense by May 1 or face the bulldozers.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1612701/posts
Stumbled across this thread as a new Freeper, and am fascinated by it. A lot of info to digest. Wondering what it's all about in the end though.
NOTE; AM SEEING SHIPS THIS AM. WHAT IS BATTLESHIP SITE?
AL QAEDA NAVY? granny
April 11, 2006 Anti-Terrorism News
Rocket Kills 6 Children in Afghan School
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/afghan_school_explosion;_ylt=AsapJ2oTEc0p5UOMimp6EHCs0NUE;_ylu=X3oDMTA2Z2szazkxBHNlYwN0bQ--
Students at crowded school in eastern Afghanistan studying outside when
rocket slammed into school yard, killing 6 and wounding 14
(Spain) 29 indicted over Madrid terror bombings
http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/national/1103AP_Spain_Bombings.html
EU to Remove "Islamic Terror" Term
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/12263326/from/RSS/
"Certainly 'Islamic terrorism' is something we will not use ... we talk
about 'terrorists who abusively invoke Islam'," EU counter-terrorism
chief Gijs de Vries told Reuters.
Israel says it has arrested 90 would-be suicide bombers
http://www.haaretzdaily.com/hasen/spages/704743.html
Israeli security forces have arrested 90 Palestinians suspected of
planning to carry out suicide bombings in the first three months of the
year
More wrenching evidence at Moussaoui trial
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/12266270/
Judge urges prosecutors to show restraint; tapes won't be made public
(Iran) Ahmedinajad will reveal major nuclear development
http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1143498841427&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull
Iranian President Ahmedinajad informed his citizens Tuesday that during
the course of the evening he would reveal a dramatic development
regarding the nation's nuclear development project
(Indonesia) Bali bomber faces execution after family fails to seek
clemency: prosecutor
http://www.khaleejtimes.com/DisplayArticle.asp?xfile=data/theworld/2006/April/theworld_April417.xml§ion=theworld
Sailors killed in Sri Lanka blast
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/4898466.stm
At least 10 Sri Lankan sailors and their driver have been killed after
a navy bus hit a mine in north-eastern Sri Lanka
Hackers Leave Muslim Threats On Battleship's Web Site
http://www.wsbtv.com/news/8613057/detail.html
Canadian resolve weak: Taliban official
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20060409.waffy0409/BNStory/Front
Terror risks seen in amnesty bills
http://www.washingtontimes.com/national/20060410-094709-3216r.htm
Iran Hits Milestone in Nuclear Technology By ALI AKBAR DAREINI, Associated Press Writer
27 minutes ago
TEHRAN, Iran - Iran has successfully enriched uranium for the first time, a landmark in its quest to develop nuclear fuel, hard-line President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said Tuesday, although he insisted his country does not aim to develop atomic weapons.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060411/ap_on_re_mi_ea/iran_nuclear_16
[a post for study and research]
http://www.nydailynews.com/front/story/403735p-341813c.html
Anti-terror plan for underwater subways
BY PETE DONOHUE
DAILY NEWS STAFF WRITER
Girding for a terrorist attack, the MTA plans to bolster underwater
subway
tunnels with layers of concrete and dirt to stop any flooding from a
bomb
blast.
Two Metropolitan Transportation Authority committees yesterday approved
a
$17.1 million contract for a Staten Island marine firm to build the
anti-terror bulwarks.
"It provides additional structural hardening protection ... a barrier
between the top of the tunnel and the riverbed," said Ronnie Hakim,
vice
president of the MTA's Capital Construction Co.
Officials wouldn't provide details of the project for security reasons,
but
the MTA has 14 underwater subway tunnels, many dug through solid rock.
They
run under the East River, the Harlem River and the Newtown Creek on the
Queens-Brooklyn border.
The MTA committees also approved $80 million worth of work to add 399
surveillance cameras and 425 motion sensors to the system to thwart
terror
attacks.
That work expands a $212 million contract awarded to Lockheed Martin
last
year to install 1,000 cameras and 3,000 sensors across its network,
plus
computer technology designed to detect threats like unattended baggage
on
subway platforms.
Another program, by the Transit Authority, is outfitting some 100
subway
stations with nearly 2,000 surveillance cameras.
The tunnel-protection contract, expected to be approved by the full MTA
board tomorrow, is with Spearin, Preston and Burrows Inc. of Staten
Island.
The company is a subsidiary of Modern Continental, which worked on the
Big
Dig highway-tunneling project in Boston.
Originally published on March 28, 2006
[a post for study and research]
http://www.dailynews.com/theiropinion/ci_3672694
Fighting terrorism begins with LAPD
By Jack Weiss, Guest Columnist
Fans of the anti-terrorist drama "24" may imagine Keifer Sutherland is
the
typical hero keeping Los Angeles safe every day. While federal agent
Jack
Bauer solves terrorist crimes season after season, in Los Angeles the
more
likely hero wears LAPD blue.
In the real effort to prevent terrorist attacks in Los Angeles,
ordinary
crimes can lead to extraordinary finds. For example, last year two
American-born suspects were arrested in a series of gas station
robberies in
the South Bay area. At first the crimes appeared to be routine armed
robberies, but local Torrance police got Washington's attention when
they
reported the discovery of jihadist materials and targeting information
at a
suspect's home.
These suspects looked like terrorists in the making. With radical
Islamic
contacts forged in prison, they seemed to be planning terrorist attacks
in
Southern California. Fortunately for the potential targets in L.A., the
plot
was discovered before it was too late.
Without a doubt, police play a critical role in homeland security, and
counterterrorism activities go hand in hand with fighting gang and
other
crime.
That's why the City Council needs to approve Mayor Antonio
Villaraigosa's
Homeland Security and Disaster Preparedness Initiative, which will
provide
the resources that Los Angeles Police Department Chief William Bratton
needs
to fight terrorism and violent crime.
The choice before the City Council is not whether to fund homeland
security
instead of other police priorities. The choice is whether to recognize
the
role that counterterrorism plays in local policing and to authorize the
staffing and resources that are necessary to provide local homeland
security
in Los Angeles.
Federal agents work on complex cases that may involve international
networks
and multiple jurisdictions. Focused on the big picture, they cannot be
counted on to notice and respond
to the smaller clues about terror plots that may be hatched in Los
Angeles
and other cities.
Local cops have unique knowledge about the communities they serve. They
are
better positioned to notice suspicious activities, and leads followed
on a
hunch can develop into major investigations. Local cops can gather
intelligence through relationships with communities and they may
uncover
terrorists engaged in low-level precursor crimes.
In Los Angeles, Bratton has coped with a lack of federal funds for
police
overtime and anti-terror positions by shuffling his existing resources.
He
has redeployed borrowed officers from other divisions to ensure that
adequate staffing is provided to local homeland security while
repeatedly
seeking the necessary support for the Counter Terrorism & Criminal
Intelligence Bureau.
With few exceptions, Bratton's pleas have fallen on deaf ears until
Villaraigosa recently proposed making borrowed positions permanent and
improving intelligence capabilities. The plan also provides needed
disaster
response resources for the Los Angeles Fire Department. If intelligence
and
policing aren't enough to prevent an attack, first responders must be
prepared to cope with the aftermath.
It is time to acknowledge that the threat of terrorism is a daily fact
of
life in Los Angeles just like New York and Washington, D.C., and that
Jack
Bauer isn't going to help Los Angeles, so the city must help itself.
Jack Weiss represents the 15th District on the Los Angeles City
Council.
[a post for study and research]
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/articleshow/1482316.cms
Ammonium nitrate: Adding fuel to fire
http://images.photogallery.indiatimes.com/images/spacer.gif
javascript:clippopup(1482316)
Add to Clippings
Pervez Iqbal Siddiqui
[ Saturday, April 08, 2006 01:39:40 am
http://images.photogallery.indiatimes.com/images/spacer.gif
TIMES
NEWS
NETWORK ]
http://images.photogallery.indiatimes.com/images/spacer.gif
LUCKNOW: Be it Oklahoma, Bali, Nairobi, Istanbul, Delhi, Mumbai or
Varanasi
- the recent terror attacks at all these places had one thing in
common:
Terror outfits right from Osama's Al Qaida to ISI's LeT, JeM and HuJi
used
ammonium nitrate (NH4NO3) as the basic explosive.
And this revelation is giving sleepless nights to the security agencies
in
India. The cause of concern stems from the fact that ammonium nitrate
is
widely used in fertilisers which are available over the counter,
thereby
making it easy for the terror outfits to execute their nefarious
designs.
With no restrictions on open sale of this chemical compound, security
agencies fear that averting such attacks would remain a herculean task.
Many
a senior officials are now mooting the idea of putting in place some
regulations to check the mis(use) of this chemical.
"A check on open sale of ammonium nitrate is a must," says former Delhi
police commissioner Ajay Raj Sharma. Talking to TOI on phone, Sharma, a
UP
cadre officer, who laid the foundation of the Special Task Force (STF),
emphasises that any such check must not hamper the role of ammonium
nitrate
in agriculture sector.
"Any such imbalance too would prove to be detrimental for the economy,"
he
adds. Senior police officials in Kolkata too cite the recent arrest of
two
Laskhar-e-Taiba militants in February last.
One of the arrested ultra, Tariq Abdullah, told the investigators that
he
bought ammonium nitrate in bulk from Burabazar market. One of their
aides,
Ainul Haq was arrested after he delivered a part of the consignment to
one
Salim in Varanasi. Possibilities of the same stock having been used in
March
7 blasts has not been ruled out.
NOTE; AM SEEING SHIPS THIS AM. WHAT IS BATTLESHIP SITE?
AL QAEDA NAVY? granny
I love the South...
Christians sue against gay policies
Big News Network
Monday 10th April, 2006 (UPI)
A lawsuit by a Georgia Institute of Technology student in Atlanta is the latest in an effort by religious groups to legally fight policies protecting gays.
The campaign seeks to force public schools, state colleges and private workplaces to eliminate such policies, reports The Los Angeles Times.
In the Georgia Tech case, the senior claimed her Christian faith compels her to speak out against homosexuality. She sees the school's ban on any speech putting down others because of their sexual orientation as an infringement on her right to religious expression, says the report.
The national campaign is helped by the Christian Legal Society, an association of judges and lawyers, which wants to challenge tolerance policies in federal court.
The campaign's argument is that policies intended to protect gays and lesbians from discrimination amounts to discriminating against conservative Christians.
A leading evangelist told the newspaper, Christians are going to have to take a stand for the right to be Christian.
Critics say the campaign is a right-wing fundraising ploy which tries to create a persecution complex. Some fear it could be used to justify all manner of harassment, says the report.
http://story.atlantaleader.com/p.x/ct/9/id/7816a2cda6cdfc9e/cid/9716d7590cce49d4/
Thank you, AZ Granny>
Two new groups must google....LOL
Communist Terrorists in India
April 11, 2006: Communist rebels and terrorists are still active, 15 years after the collapse of the Soviet Union, the end of the Cold War and seeming defeat of the communist movement. But there is still an energetic communist terrorist operation going on in Indian state of Chhattisgarh. These terrorists belong to the Maoist movement, an organization trying to establish communist dictatorships similar to radical communist movement of the 1960s, when Chinese rule Mao Zse Dong sought to "purify" the country. The Cambodian Khmer Rouge were the first copy-cat Maoists, and they killed over a million of their countrymen in the 1970s.
Nepalese Maoists are often in the news, as they use terror to build an army of rural youngsters, much like the Khmer Rouge did. The Indian Maoists, which are active in 13 of India's 35 states, have been active, or one degree or another, since Mao died in the 1970s. In twelve of those states, the police believe they have the Maoists under control. But in Chhattisgarh, the Maoist violence is on the increase. In the first three months of this year, there were 162 incidents of Maoist violence in Chhattisgarh, an increase of 67 percent over the same period last year. Moreover, 41 percent of all the Maoist violence in India was in Chhattisgarh. Worse, two-thirds of the 157 casualties were in Chhattisgarh. About thirty percent of the casualties are security personnel (police and army), with the rest mostly Maoists. But why have counter-terror tactics that are succeeding in the other twelve states, failing in Chhattisgarh.
Chhattisgarh is different. With a population of 22 million, it has the highest proportion (about a third) of tribal peoples of all the states of India. Now most people don't think of tribes in India, but this is a complicated country. With over a billion people, and 19 major languages, India is more complicated, culturally, than Europe (which has half as many people and fewer different cultures, and no tribes left active). While India eliminated most feudalistic practices half a century ago, after the British left, there were still a lot of old customs left that rankled. The tribal peoples survived by staying out of the mainstream. As happens to tribes everywhere, they got screwed, and the Maoists found this fertile ground for their radical ideas about how to make everything better. Actually, the Maoists do not have a large following among the citizens of Chhattisgarh. But it's enough to enable the Maoists to raise several thousand dedicated followers, many of them armed. The Maoists are communists, and their rhetoric is familiar. It's all class warfare to them, and anyone who disagrees is an "enemy of the people." The Maoists pay their way via the usual extortion racket ("revolutionary taxes.") The Maoists also play Robin Hood, battling the local landlords and power brokers. If some big shot screws the little guy, he can expect a visit from armed and angry Maoists. But the local swells know who they are up against, and most maintain large security forces.
In some of the more rural areas, the Maoists have declared themselves in charge. That may only be a night, or when they can plant a mine in a road. The Maoists have to be careful with this tactic, as if a busload of civilians comes along, instead of the truckload of soldiers, or an SUV belonging to a capitalist, the Maoists lose a lot of fans.
In the other provinces, the government has addressed the social issues more effectively, and offered amnesty to most of the Maoists. Many are just uneducated kids, lured into the life of Maoist terrorism by fairy tales of triumphant communism. And that's what Maoist terrorism is all about, getting guns, fantasy, bad government and real grievances mixed up all together. This is a deadly mixture, and should be avoided.
http://www.strategypage.com/htmw/htterr/articles/20060411.aspx
Thanks.
Turkey news links, arrests of 9 for terrorism, including one woman.
http://news.google.com/news?ie=utf8&oe=utf8&persist=1&hl=en&client=google&ncl=http://www.theage.com.au/news/World/Gunmen-seize-hostages-in-Istanbul/2006/04/09/1144521192502.html
Granny look at this ...The study reveals that there has been a “dramatic explosion” in the number of websites operated by terrorist organisations, jumping from just 12 in 1998 to more than 4800 today.
```````````we are looking in the wrong places, we got to get out of the box...hhmmmmm
Internet proving a boon for terrorists too: Study
Washington: A new study has revealed how the Internet is proving a boon for the world of global terrorism in terms of communication, networking mobilisation and execution of terror plans.
The study - ‘Terror on the Internet: the new arena, the new challenges’ – published by the United States Institute of Peace was conducted by Gabriel Weimann, who based his study on eight years of work that recounts how terrorists use the Internet to carry out their plans on a daily basis. He also addresses the threats posed to civil liberties by government efforts to constrain ‘cyber-terror’.
Weimann predicts that terrorism on the Internet “is sure to become more sophisticated and dangerous”, as future terrorists would be even more computer-savvy. The study reveals that there has been a “dramatic explosion” in the number of websites operated by terrorist organisations, jumping from just 12 in 1998 to more than 4800 today.
According to the study, the Internet is helping in the growth and expansion of terrorism across the world, whereby terrorists make its ‘optimum’ use by having a full control over their communications through the use of the developed world’s cyberspace infrastructure. The study reveals how terrorists use the Internet on a daily basis for data mining, networking, recruitment and mobilisation, instructions and online manuals, planning and coordination, fund-raising, and attacking rival terrorist groups.
It says that efforts to prevent al Qaeda from using the Internet “have proved useless”, as terror websites appear one day, quickly change formats, and then disappear or re-emerge with altered online addresses. If one Web site is hacked or removed from the Net, many others surface with new service providers and new URLs, the study says adding that the websites of the Pakistan-based “Lashkar-e-Taiba” target not only current and potential supporters but also the media and public in the societies they terrorise.
“Post-modern terrorism is less centralised, less structured, less organised, and far more dangerous than the terrorism of the late twentieth century. The modern, technology-savvy terrorist has emerged,” the Daily Times quoted Weimann as saying.
According to him, the Internet has expanded the terrorists’ theatre of operation, allowing them full control over their communications through the use of the developed world’s cyberspace infrastructure. In his newly published book (based on the study), he says that the terrorist presence on the web is dynamic.
Weimann asserts that while much attention has paid to the threat of cyber-terrorism, “far too little attention has been paid to the dangers posed by the terrorists’ daily use of the Internet to organise and coordinate their dispersed activities”.
He states that terrorism functions by delivering threats intended to create fear and helplessness among its target audiences. “Whether it is the public arenas of France’s Reign of Terror or the global coverage of the 9/11 attacks, terrorists have been dependent on whatever means were available to let their actions and threats be known. With the advent of the Internet, means of communication become internalised and are controlled by the terrorists themselves,” says Weimann.
Weimann suggests that the US must be careful not to sacrifice its own civil liberties in the name of preventing terrorism at all costs. Instead, it must find a “golden path,” or middle ground.
http://www.newkerala.com/news2.php?action=fullnews&id=40734
Wondering what it's all about in the end
though.<<<
The goal is the over throwing of America.
Each group thinks they will win, so for now they work as a team.
Did you read the communist manifesto in #3 of this thread, it is all there.
Welcome to the Freeper world and to our little WT world, jump in and join the learning process.
I won't be typing a lot today, so it is your turn...LOL
Haven't heard about these guys on the local news...
Lashkar-e-Taiba
Lashkar-e-Tayyiba
(Army of the Righteous)
Description
The LT is the armed wing of the Pakistan-based religious organization, Markaz-ud- Dawa-wal-Irshad (MDI)—a Sunni anti-US missionary organization formed in 1989.
snip
Activities
The LT has conducted a number of operations against Indian troops and civilian targets in Jammu and Kashmir since 1993. The LT claimed responsibility for numerous attacks in 2001, including an attack in January on Srinagar airport that killed five Indians along with six militants; an attack on a police station in Srinagar that killed at least eight officers and wounded several others; and an attack in April against Indian border-security forces that left at least four dead. The Indian Government publicly implicated the LT—along with JEM—for the attack on 13 December 2001 on the Indian Parliament building, although concrete evidence is lacking. The LT is also suspected of involvement in the attack on 14 May 2002 on an Indian Army base in Kaluchak that left 36 dead. Senior al-Qaida lieutenant Abu Zubaydah was captured at an LT safehouse in Faisalabad in March 2002, suggesting some members are facilitating the movement of al-Qaida members in Pakistan.
http://www.fas.org/irp/world/para/lashkar.htm
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.
