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India gives US dossier on Afghan mercenaries
Indian investigating agencies handed over detailed maps and information of terrorist training camps
inside Afghanistan to the FBI, news reports said yesterday.
The Indian Express reported that most of the documents were part of voluminous dossiers maintained
on Afghan mercenaries operating in the northern Indian state of Jammu and Kashmir.
They provide details of terrorist training camps in Asababad, Sarkanar, Ghazni, Jalalabad, Khost,
Paktya and Kandahar in Afghanistan.
One document was said to be the opening page of the 2001 diary of Al Dawa, a small radical Islamic
group. It proclaims: "Yesterday we saw Russia being dismembered. We will see US and Israel burning
in the flames of jihad (holy war)".
Another page calls for young recruits, stating: "The pledge calls for jihad, in the name of Allah, at all
costs and in all seasons, against Israel, India, US, Russia, UK and Serbia."
These documents focussed on Afghan
mercenaries and their links with Pakistan-based
groups.
They also contained "irrefutable evidence" of
how Pakistan and bin Laden had been working
in tandem to mobilise and support Muslim
separatist groups in Kashmir, the report said.
DPA
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