Posted on 06/04/2011 1:32:36 AM PDT by James C. Bennett
PESHAWAR: According to a BBCUrdu report, Ilyas Kashmiri, a Pakistani terrorist leader with ties to al Qaeda, was among those killed in the latest drone strikes in South Waziristan.
The report quoted locals as saying that Kashmiri was killed in the strike that killed at least nine militants.
Kashmiri was the chief of the Harkatul Jihad al-Islami (HJI), an organisation affiliated with al Qaeda.
He is widely believed to have masterminded the attack on the PNS Mehran naval base in Karachi.
A government official in Peshawar told BBCUrdu that although he had been receiving information regarding the death of Kashmiri in the drone strike, he could not confirm the information.
Moreover, an official in South Waziristan told BBCUrdu that a US drone attack targeted a group of armed militants 20 kilometres from Wana bazaar.
The official said the attack killed nine people and injured three others.
Moreover, the official said that those killed in the attack were believed to be militants from Punjab.
Locals and witnesses told BBCUrdu that Kashmiri had also died in the drone attack.
Witnesses said Kashmiri had arrived in South Waziristan from the Khyber tribal region.
And I was ripped to shreds for posting about Pakistanis gathering in huge numbers in Chicagoland the 3 days after OBL was killed.
Too many people have their heads buried in the sand. These people spend every waking moment thinking of new ways to kill and maim. We MUST be vigilant.
If you see something call the FBI they are acting, I know this first hand.
In World War II a cell of German terrorists landed by U-Boat on the East Coast. It was due to common Americans who busted these bums. And they all met the noose.
So I'll reiterate if you suspect terrorist activity call the FBI (call your local office, not the DC office).
I suppose, even though it may cause Obama to be re-elected.
Reference the Harakat ul-Jihad ul-Islami (HUJI, or HUJ): Before 1998, the Harkat ul Mujahideen (HUM) and the HUJI of Pakistan constituted a single organisation called the Harkat ul Ansar (HUA), which was active in Jammu & Kashmir in India. The HUA provided training and arms assistance to the Rohingya Muslims of Arakan in Myanmar, the Abu Sayyaf in the southern Philippines and to the Chechens. In the 1990s, the HUA had set up training camps in Bangladesh for training local recruits as well as recruits from India, Arakan, and southern Philippines.
On January 15, 2002, bowing to US pressure Musharraf prorogued the terrorist Lashkar et-Taiba, but not the HUJI, although Ministry of Interior officials indicated that an order banning the two would follow. It did not occur immediately. Musharraf would not immediately ban the HUJI which was among the most fundamentalist of Pakistan’s movements banning music, dancing, the cinema and television.
Update:
http://www.dawn.com/2011/06/04/ilyas-kashmiri-killed-in-us-drone-strike.html
“Harkatul Jihad al-Islami confirms Ilyas Kashmiri killedAgencies Yesterday”
PHOTO CAPTION: “This file photo taken on July 11, 2001 shows Mohammad Ilyas Kashmiri, commander-in-chief of the Kashmiri militant group Harkatul Jihad al-Islami, addressing a press conference in Islamabad. — Photo by AFP”
SNIPPET: “ISLAMABAD: A US drone attack that killed nine militants in South Waziristan targeted and killed top al Qaeda commander and chief of the Harkatul Jihad al-Islami (HJI) Ilyas Kashmiri, local officials said Saturday.
Moreover, an HJI spokesman confirmed that Kashmiri had been killed, DawnNews reported.”
SNIPPET: “Pakistani officials said nine militants were killed in the US missile strike on Friday at a compound in the Ghwakhwa area of South Waziristan, a stronghold of al-Qaeda-allied Taliban despite a sweeping Pakistani offensive in 2009.”
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http://www.longwarjournal.org/tags/Harkat-ul-Jihad-al-Islami/common/
http://www.longwarjournal.org/archives/2011/06/top_al_qaeda_leader_2.php
“Top al Qaeda leader Ilyas Kashmiri killed in US Predator strike”
By BILL ROGGIO
June 4, 2011
SNIPPET: “A Harkat-ul Jihad Islami spokesman named Abu Hanzla Kashir told Dawn that Kashmiri was killed in the attack. Kashir also threatened to attack the US to avenge Kashmiri’s death.
“We confirm that our Amir (leader) and commander in chief, Mohammad Ilyas Kashmiri, along with other companions, was martyred in an American drone strike on June 3, 2011, at 11:15 pm,” Kashir told the Pakistani news channel, according to The Telegraph.
“The oppressor US is our only target and, God willing, we will take revenge on the U.S. soon with full force,” Kashir said, according to CNN.
US intelligence officials contacted by The Long War Journal said that Kashmiri was indeed a target of the attack, but they could not confirm that he was killed.
“HUJI’s statement is a sure sign we got him, we are pretty confident he is dead but we cannot confirm 100 percent,” one official told The Long War Journal. The area where Kashmiri was killed is under Taliban control.”
I guess you mean that Colonel Travis Muckmood has to draw his scimitar and scratch the line in the sand BEHIND his loyal troops? Then quickly get back in front before he gets “heeled”?
The strike is confirmed. I’m gonna assume it did some good regardless of which camelkissingdirtbag it may or may not have killed. At a minimum these strikes clean out the neighborhood by making the survivors, if any, saddle up and scurry for new digs. That exposes them and makes the next strike more certain. Ain’t night vision neat? It also discourages the locals from shielding the Tallybunny types because they sure get tired of patching up the Casbahs.
I spoke with some folks last night that confirmed such... Just didn’t have a news source link for our forum here so waited.
Thanks young Lady....you stay safe !
Looks like my family reunions..........
Of course instability in Pakistan carries the ultimate risk. I think Mr. Bush wanted to prevent that.
Nah, the virgins are safe, he was a mohammedan.
However the livestock, that’s a different story all together.
Thank YOU Squantos.
Yes, the strike was and is confirmed.
Apples to oranges comparison.
GWB got in office when the official policy of the United States already was regime change in Iraq. The Clinton Administration and Congress all on board before GWB got there. We had not yet invaded, but we were working all other angles to Saddam’s demise. The liberal liars later pretended that GWB used Weapons of Mass Destruction in Iraq as pretext to invade, but it was a pretense, a lie. The whole lot of the Libs also believed Saddam had WMD, including nuclear along with the others he gassed the Kurds with and whatever else, we weren’t sure.
After 9-11 our great fear was that of suffering a terrorist attack that used weapons of mass destruction, not just planes into buildings. We also had Saddam’s regime dead to rights under international protocols of weapons inspections, UN Resolutions, etc. Saddam shot at our pilots doing the no-fly zone to protect the Kurds and the Marsh Arabs from further genocide. Saddam also plotted to assassinate former President GHWB.
Lastly, GWB went to Congress and got support. It was not called a Declaration of War but it authorized such actions as necessary.
Obama never did diddly in regard to such a Congressional Resolution as GWB did. This Libya thing was him acting as with dictatorial powers. Even as Congress now points out to him that under the War Powers Act he must come to them for Libyan war authority, he arrogantly dismisses them by claiming that Libya is not a war.
Obama will find a way to do as he pleases. He don’t need no stinkin’ past example of anybody getting away with anything. Not only in military and foreign policy, but domestically. That’s a fact, look at his record on all issues of his agenda, and face it.
To blame Bush is ludicrous and is so Obama-esque of you, the irony is palpable.
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Amen, brother!
Ilyas, we hardly knew ye!
That is one evil-looking POS.
We don’t even know if it really was Osama killed in the raid, and now we’re expected to believe this just because a pathological liar says it’s true. Nope, not buying it.
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