January 31, 2009

Pakistan Dismantle a Terrorist Network to AL-Qaeda

The Pakistani police arrested nine members of an Islamist group close to al Qaeda. They are suspected of organizing suicide attacks, including those against the Danish Embassy in Islamabad.

Nine Islamic militants close to Al-Qaeda were arrested in Pakistan on suspicion of having organized several deadly suicide attacks, police announced Thursday.

“We have arrested a gang of nine terrorist leader implicated in several recent attacks,” said Rao Iqbal, police chief of Rawalpindi, a city on the outskirts of Islamabad, where the suspects were captured during raids in the week. ”

It was love at netting the largest made in terrorist circles in Pakistan, became the new hideout of al-Qaeda, has become qu’Islamabad since late 2001, the key ally of the United States in its “war against terrorism, “said a senior police, under cover of anonymity.

Involved in five attacks

These nine men are linked to Al Qaeda and the Taliban Pakistani and Afghan forces have reconstituted in the tribal areas of northwestern Pakistan, said the official.

“They are involved in five spectacular suicide attacks” in Pakistan, he continued, in particular suspected of having organized the suicide bombing that killed six people including a Danish on 2 June 2008 to the Danish Embassy in Islamabad and to have exploded a bomb on 15 March of that year in a restaurant in the Pakistani capital, killing one Turkish citizen and injuring another ten people, including U.S. and British diplomats.

They are also suspected of being the masterminds of a suicide attack on 6 July 2008 in Islamabad, which killed 19 people, mostly policemen, according to the same sources.

“They were providing logistical and provided their bombs to suicide bombers,” said senior police officer.

Guantanamo

Their leader is a certain Mohammed Illyas, also known as the War of Qari Jamil, a former inmate of the U.S. prison at Guantanamo, whose new president Barack Obama has decreed the closure by one year.

According to another official of the police, the nine men arrested this week is linked to Osama al-Kini, a part of Al-Qaeda killed earlier this year in a U.S. missile that regularly hit the tribal areas North-west border with Afghanistan.

The police chief of Rawalpindi said that 100 kg of potassium chlorate, often used in the manufacture vests packed with explosives for suicide bombers, and 50 detonators were discovered in one of the houses where the suspects were hiding .

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