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Lashkar-e-Taiba, the primary suspect in the bomb blasts in New Delhi, has close links with the global terrorist outfit al-Qaeda, as well as the Palestinian terrorist outfit Hamas, according to highly-placed sources in India's Intelligence Bureau (IB). LeT set up its base in Jammu and Kashmir in the early 1990s and has succeeded in establishing its modules in all Indian states which have a substantial population of Muslims. These modules comprise well-educated and computer literate Sunni Muslim men, as per IB sources. Only Sunnis are recruited because the group propagates Sunni Wahabism, the pan-Islamic doctrine.

NEW DELHI, Oct. 30 (Xinhuanet) -- At least 55 people have been confirmed dead and more than 100 others injured as three blasts rocked crowded shopping centers in the Indian capital New Delhi on Saturday, and Prime Minister Manmohan Singh described the bombings as an act of terrorism. The attacks came just days ahead of the biggest Hindu and Muslim festivals in the Asian country, where more than 80 percent of the people are Hindus and over 13 percent Muslims. The first blast was reported at around 5:40 p.m. local time from the crowded Paharganj area, one of the most...

SRINAGAR: Four terrorist groups have opposed the return of displaced Hindus to their abandoned homes in the Kashmir Valley, saying they had deserted the Muslim community during a "time of crisis." "We impose a total ban on the return of Kashmiri Pandit migrants to the (Muslim-dominated) Kashmir Valley," said a joint statement by al Nasireen, al Arifeen, Save Kashmir Movement and Farzandan-e-Milat. The statement faxed to local media offices in Srinagar said Hindus would not be allowed to return to their homes until "they apologise to the Kashmiri Muslims for having deserted them at the time of crisis." Hindus fled...

Terrorism links find Pakistan again in eye of stormBy Imtiaz Gul Jul 17, 2005, 15:03 GMT Islamabad - Despite ebullient U.S praise for its anti-terror efforts since becoming a key member of the international coalition against terrorism, Pakistan still finds itself in the eye of the storm for its past links with radical militant groups in the region. This time, the south Asian nation is under renewed focus after British officials investigating the July 7 London bombings revealed one of the suicide bombers, Shehzad Tanweer, had stayed at a religious seminary in Lahore this year. The seminary, known as Markaz-e-Tayyaba,...

Pakistani police say they found a letter warning of more attacks in the pocket of a militant killed in a mosque attack in Karachi earlier this week. The letter, signed by Asif Chotu, the current head of Sunni militant group Lashkar-e-Jhangvi, claimed responsibility for the mosque attack in which five people died including two attackers, and several others were wounded, the BBC reported. The group was banned in Pakistan in 2001. Chief investigator Manzoor Moghul said it was Asif Chotu's style to leave his signature. He is believed to be an expert in making bombs and is said to have...

Three Lashkar ultras shot dead in Delhi New Delhi, March 6. (PTI): Foiling an attempt by Lashkar-e- Toiba militants to attack Indian Military Academy in Dehra Dun, police shot dead three members of the outfit, including two Pakistani nationals, in an encounter here tonight. Shahnawaz and Bilawal, both Pakistani nationals, and Shams alias Prevez hailing from Patna, were killed in a 50-minute-long encounter in Suraj Vihar in Uttam Nagar of south-west Delhi, Deputy Commissioner of Police (Special Cell) Ashok Chand told PTI. Three AK-56 rifles and a huge amount of explosives and ammunition had been recovered from them, he said....

Brigitte spills beans on Aussie terror plan Ben English 18oct04 WILLIE Brigitte has told French investigators of his extraordinary journey from failed butcher to linchpin in an al-Qaida plan to launch a terror attack on Australia. He has detailed the high-altitude paramilitary training he undertook in a vast camp overlooking the Himalaya in which he and thousands of other jihad warriors were schooled in terrorism. And he has told of how Osama bin Laden's allies have penetrated the Pakistani Army to thwart US efforts to crack terrorist training operations in the remote Pakistani mountain regions that border Afghanistan. A year...

LASHKAR GAH, Afghanistan (Reuters) - Eleven Afghans including a former district police chief were killed on Wednesday in an attack in Afghanistan's southern province of Helmand, the provincial governor said. It was not immediately clear who was responsible, he said. More than 800 people have been killed in Afghanistan over the past year in a wave of violence, most of it in the south and east of the country and most of it the result of Taliban rebel attacks.

ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, June 12 — Several men believed to be American citizens have been taken into custody here during the past few weeks on suspicion of being linked to Al Qaeda, senior Pakistani officials said today. The Pakistani officials said most of the men had been picked up along with other suspected Al Qaeda and Taliban members in joint American-Pakistani raids in the country's remote tribal areas near the border with Afghanistan. They said they believe that the men form a disjointed network of disaffected Westerners who converted to Islam and have been drawn to militant causes, fighting alongside Al...

Former CAIR Member PleadsGuilty to Terrorism Charges By Andrew L. Jaffee, January 19, 2004 Home   Search   Forum   Terms The Council on American Islamic Relations' (CAIR) ties to terrorism just keep getting more and more obvious. We're not talking accusations and indictments anymore. Now a former CAIR member has pled guilty to terrorism charges. According to FOXNews.com last Friday, CAIR's former Communications Specialist and Civil Rights Coordinator, Randall Todd "Ismail" Royer, pled guilty to involvement with the Kashmiri terrorist group Lashkar-e-Taiba, ties to Afghanistan's Taliban, connections to Chechnya's terrorists, and last but not least, involvement with Osama bin Laden's al-Qaeda network. Specific indictments...

Pakistani police announced on Wednesday the capture of a leader of the outlawed Lashkar-i-Jhangvi Islamic militant group, which is linked to the killings of Westerners, Christians and Shiite Muslims. "Shabir Ahmed was arrested from his hideout in Multan," in central Pakistan, police superintendent Murid Hussain, said. It was not clear when he was captured. Ahmed, wanted in four separate cases of killings of followers of the minority Shiite community, had a Rs 1 million ($17,240) bounty on his head. He was a local leader of Lashkar-i-Jhangvi (LJ), meaning the 'warriors of Jhangvi', which was declared a terrorist organisation by the...

As pressure mounts on Pakistan to stop supporting infiltration into Jammu and Kashmir, the Lashkar-e-Taiba has said its ultras would continue to cross across the LoC and threatened major attacks on vehicle convoys of Indian Army in the coming days. In an interview to a Urdu daily published on Thursday, Abdul Rehman Makki, a senior leader of the Pak-based terrorist outfit, said Lashkar would not stop attacks in Jammu and Kashmir despite directions by Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf to halt incursions. He said it was only an illusion that the terrorist were under Musharraf's control and would stop fighting if...

LAHORE: A Pakistani court turned down a government bid on Saturday to extend the three-month detention of a Kashmiri militant leader wanted by India over the December attack on Parliament, court officials said. The detention of Hafiz Mohammad Saeed, founder of the Lashkar-e-Taiba, under a law that allows people to be held without trial for three months expires on Sunday. The court ruling means Saeed will have to be freed, unless the military government of President Pervez Musharraf brings fresh charges against him. Musharraf banned the Lashkar-e-Taiba and the Jaish-e-Mohammed in January amid mounting international pressure. "The rejection of government's...