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“The Pakistan Connection to the United Kingdom’s Jihad Network”
By James Brandon


1,205 posted on 02/26/2008 3:36:02 PM PST by Cindy
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“Pakistan says militant linked to Bhutto attack arrested”
AFP on Yahoo ^ | 2/26/08 | Sami Zubeiri
Posted on 02/26/2008 12:32:33 PM PST by NormsRevenge

SNIPPET: “ISLAMABAD (AFP) - Pakistani security forces arrested a top militant with links to Osama bin Laden in connection with an October assassination attempt on Benazir Bhutto, the interior minister said Tuesday.

Qari Saifullah Akhtar — a top extremist leader accused by Bhutto of plotting against her in a book published after her assassination in December — was seized on Monday, interior minister Hamid Nawaz told AFP.

“Most probably he is involved in the attack in Karsaz on Benazir Bhutto’s rally. He is a big character,” Nawaz said, referring to the October attack on Bhutto’s homecoming parade in Karachi’s Karsaz district that killed 139 people.

Two-time premier Bhutto was unharmed in that attack, but was killed two months later in another assassination attempt, in Rawalpindi at an election rally.

Akhtar was seized with his three sons, Nawaz added.

Akhtar was the one-time head of Harkat Jihad-e-Islami, the main Pakistan support group for Afghanistan’s extremist Taliban movement, and he spent most of his time before 2004 living in Afghanistan, and met bin Laden several times.

He was arrested in the United Arab Emirates in August 2004 and later extradited to Pakistan, where he was released under unclear circumstances.

An official in Punjab province said that Akhtar was recently engaged in a brawl with a rival jihadi group over the occupation of a shrine there, and said the arrest was likely linked to the dispute, not the attack on Bhutto.”


1,206 posted on 02/26/2008 3:38:43 PM PST by Cindy
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This is archived, I was googling Usama Bin Londed.

You can scroll down to the post by “Lover of Usama”.

However it appears they have more recent post.

http://punjabi.net/talk/messages/6/806.html


1,210 posted on 02/26/2008 4:46:17 PM PST by drymans wife (They is nothing like the mind of a TM;'er)
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