Posted on 02/28/2005 10:13:48 AM PST by Straight Vermonter
Haqyar among 14 Taliban killed in Khost
KABUL, February 28 (Online): Khost Province official claimed death of Haqyar Kohati right hand of Abdullah Mehsud among the 14 militants killed in Thursday's attack on the security troops.
In a statement, Khost Security Commander said that tribal militant leader fighting against Pakistan Army in Waziristan, Haqyar Kohati was also among the deceased in Thursday's clash. Haqyar Kohati was supposed to be the right hand of the militant leader, Abdullah Mehsud in South Waziristan.
He added that the dead body of the deceased was in their custody. However, independent sources have not confirmed death of Haqyar Kohati.
Talking to VOA Khost Security Commander confirmed that RPG shells hit a vehicle of security troops during Thursday's attack, which claimed killing 6 attackers.
Meanwhile, coalition forces spokesman said that 10 militants were killed, however, the Khost Security Commander told that a 15-member group of the attackers has been wiped out. He said that coalition forces' helicopters also took part in the operation.
SV-Mehsud is the former Gtmo detainee who was released and is terrorizing the Pak-Afghan border area.
Lashkar-i-Jhangvi activists held
MULTAN: Kabirwala police arrested two Lashkar-i-Jhangvi activists on Friday. A police patrol signalled a suspicious car to stop but the driver speeded up the car. The police chased the car and arrested Rana Afzal and Muhammad Nawaz. However, a third rider managed to escape. Police confiscated a bag containing a Klashinkov, pistol and three magazines of bullets. “We have arrested two activists of the banned Lashkar-i-Jhangvi who were planning sectarian killings,” District Police Officer Khanewal Dr Jamil Ahmed told Daily Times. staff report
UK al-Qaeda suspect convicted - Badat's suprise guilty plea
Terror suspect Saajid Badat has become the first al-Qaeda suspect to be convicted in Britain. Badat had trained as a suicide bomber in Afghanistan and Pakistan and had conspired with Richard Reid, the British man who became known as the shoe-bomber, to blow up an aircraft.
Badat had been preparing to attack – he had booked a flight to the United States, via Amsterdam. At the Old Bailey today he admitted that he had conspired to put an explosive device on a plane in the months after September 11 2001. The 25-year-old said he had been given the training and the bomb in Afghanistan. The conviction comes the government tries to get its controversial anti-terrorist laws through parliament without compromise.
Badat was arrested at his home in Gloucester in November 2003 - two years after another British man Richard Reid attempted to blow up an American Airlines flight to Miami. Police said that components of shoe bombs were found in Badat's home at the time of his British arrest and that “those components were found to be substantially similar to those in Reid’s shoe bombs". In fact the two devices were identical - even the detonating cord on both had been cut from the same roll. But Badat changed his mind and dismantled his own shoe bomb, which was designed to evade airport security, Richard Horwell, prosecuting, told the Old Bailey.
Intelligence services believe Badat had been conspiring with fellow Briton Reid, who is in jail in America for trying unsuccessfully to ignite a shoe bomb on board a Miami-bound jet. Badat agreed to be a suicide bomber with the intention of destroying a passenger aircraft while in the air from Europe to the United States, said Mr Horwell. Mr Horwell said that Badat had sent an email to his handlers on December 14, 2001, four days after his return, "indicating he might withdraw.”
"He had booked a ticket to fly from Manchester to Amsterdam in preparation for an onward flight to the US on which the explosive device would be initiated. "But he did not take that flight. We accept by then he had withdrawn from the conspiracy which by then he had been party to for an appreciable period of time,” Mr Horwell said.
Pakistan smashes al-Qaeda bomb, CD factories
ISLAMABAD (AFP) - Pakistani forces have destroyed a network of al-Qaeda factories churning out powerful bombs and propaganda compact discs and videos, key US ally President Musharraf said Thursday. Musharraf said militants had been forced to run for the hills after a series of military operations in Pakistan's lawless northwestern areas bordering Afghanistan.
"Everything was in place, even where they were manufacturing explosives - IEDs (improvised explosives devices) were being manufactured," General Musharraf told reporters at the launch of a new presidential website. Pakistan pushed around 50,000 regular troops into the South Waziristan tribal zone to hunt al-Qaeda and Taleban fighters thought to have crossed the Afghan border. "Their command structure was there, major communications structure, their psychological warfare, their computers, their CDs being produced to create psychological effects, their logistics bases," Musharraf said. "All that has been taken over. Now they are on the run in the mountains and we dominate the valleys."
The militants were unable to head for big cities like Lahore and Karachi because their transport infrastructure had also been destroyed, Musharraf added. But he gave no details on when the operations were carried out and what quantities of materials were seized. Musharraf said security forces had captured about 700 al-Qaeda suspects since late 2001 when Pakistan started its crackdown. Most are thought to have been handed over to the United States. "Their back has been broken, they are on the run," Musharraf said.
He did not say where he thought al-Qaeda mastermind Osama bin Laden might be hiding.
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