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"Rehman, Rauf, suspected London Airline Plotters Captured, and the Pakistani Connection"
By Bill Roggio

Wanted photo of Matiur Rehman. Click photo to view.

ARTICLE SNIPPET: "Two of the suspected ring leaders of the al-Qaeda London Airline Plot to destroy aircraft en route to the United States have been captured by Pakistani intelligence. Matiur Rehman, who is believed to be a high-ranking leader in al-Qaeda's Pakistan operations, was captured in the Pakistani city of Bahawalpur. Rashid Rauf, who is described as "the planner of the attacks who recruited people to take part in the plot," was also captured in the city of Bahawalpur. His arrest just prior to the announcement of the airline plot is said to have sparked the arrests of al-Qaeda operatives in Britain and Pakistan.

The involvement of Rauf and Rehman highlights the interconnective web of the radical Pakistani terrorist groups. Rehman was a member of Harakat-ul-Jihad-ul-Islami (HUJI) and Lashkar-e-Jhangvi (LeJ). As the "keeper of the Jihadi Rolodex," the list of the tens of thousands of jihadis who passed through al-Qaeda's training camps, Rehman is by default affiliated with the hodge-podge of Pakistani terror groups (see my post on Rehman and Pakistani links for more details.)"

ARTICLE SNIPPET: "TIME reports Rauf is the relative of Maulana Masood Azhar, the leader the Pakistani based Jaish-e-Muhammad (JeM) which conducts terror attacks in Indian Kashmir."

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ad (JeM)
Mothertongue Name:
Jaish-e-Mohammad

Aliases: Army of Mohammed, Army of the Prophet, Mohammed , Jaish-e-Mohammad (Muhammed), Jaish-e-Mohammad Mujahideen E-Tanzeem, Jaish-i-Mohammed (Mohammad, Muhammad, Muhammed), Jeish-e-Mahammed, Mohammed's Army, National Movement for the Restoration of Pakistani Sovereignty and Army of the Prophet, Tehrik Ul-Furqaan

Base of Operation: Kashmir; Pakistan

Founding Philosophy: Established in 2000 by the former General Secretary of the Harkat-ul-Ansar (HuA), Maulana Masood Azhar, Jaish-e-Mohammed (JeM) is an Islamic fundamentalist terror group that operates out of Pakistan.

While a member of HuA, Maulana Masood Azhar was captured during a 1994 mission in Jammu and Kashmir. He remained in prison for several years, but his release was secured in exchange for 155 hostages on an Indian Airlines plane hijacked in December 1999. During his imprisonment, the HuA had been included in the US list of Foreign Terrorist Organizations, leading the outfit to rename itself as the Harkat-ul-Mujahideen (HuM). However, when Masood Azhar was freed, he decided to float a new outfit, JeM, rather than rejoin HuA (now HuM).

Mazood Azhar was reported to have received assistance in setting up the JeM from Pakistan's Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI), the Taliban regime in Afghanistan, Osama bin Laden, and several Sunni sectarian outfits based in Pakistan. The formation of the outfit was endorsed by three religious school chiefs, Mufti Nizamuddin Shamzai of the Majlis-e-Tawan-e-Islami (MT), Maulana Mufti Rashid Ahmed of the Dar-ul Ifta-e-wal-Irshad, and Maulana Sher Ali of the Sheikh-ul-Hadith Dar-ul Haqqania, and is known to have ties to the Pakistani political party Jamiat-i Ulema-i Islam Fazlur Rehman (JUI-F).

Azhar was reportedly joined in his new JEM venture by three- quarters of his former group's (Harakat ul-Mujahidin (HUM)) members. Soon after his release from jail, Azhar traveled to Afghanistan where he met with bin Laden. Azhar organized recruitment rallies across Pakistan that called for jihadis to fight in Kashmir, and these rallies were screened on the country's state-owned television station. The JeM leader was placed under house arrest in Pakistan in December 2002 after the country's President, Pervez Musharraf, banned the group and froze its assets in January 2002.

Current Goals: The group's aim is to overthrow Indian rule in Kashmir and integrate the province with Pakistan. As a first step, JeM would seeks to force a withdrawal of Indian security forces from Jammu and Kashmir. JeM claims that each of its offices in Pakistan would serve as schools of jihad. Delivering speeches at various cities and towns in Pakistan after his release, Masood Azhar threatened that the outfit would eliminate Indian Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee, whom he termed 'Abu Jahl' (Father of Ignorance). In its fight against India, he added that the outfit would not only "liberate" Kashmir, but also take control of the Babri Masjid in Ayodhya, Amritsar and Delhi.