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To: IQBAL LATIF who wrote (41190)	10/24/2001 7:27:47 PM
From: stockman_scott	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 50167

Ike: Do you anticipate that Pakistan's leadership will move to arrest (or kill) the key members of the radical terrorist group discussed below...? I heard on Fox News that the Harakatul Mujahideen group was protesting in Pakistan today -- I'm sure they are upset that some of their people have been killed near Kabul BUT they are terrorists and linked to Bin Laden. My hunch is that they also pose a threat to Musharaf...Any thoughts on this? Thanks. ___________________________________________ Tuesday October 23 4:15 PM ET US Strike Kills 19 From Pro-Kashmir Group-Sources By Tahir Ikram ISLAMABAD (Reuters) - A U.S. strike on the Afghan capital on Tuesday killed at least 19 members of a Pakistani group listed by Washington as a terrorist organization, sources close to the group said. They said the 19 were members of the Harakatul Mujahideen group from the Pakistani city of Lahore and included a senior leader known as Ustad Farooq. Harakatul Mujahideen group fights against Indian rule of the disputed Himalayan region of Kashmir (news - web sites) and has long been believed to send its guerrillas into Afghanistan (news - web sites) for training at the many camps there. The group had been staying in a house in a military compound in Kabul that was bombed by U.S. forces early on Tuesday. The sources said that by early evening eight bodies had been dug out of the rubble of the building, flattened by the early morning bombing raid. The group was formerly known as Harkatul Ansar, which was declared a terrorist group by the United States for its alleged involvement in the kidnapping of four Westerners in Indian-controlled Kashmir. After being listed as a terrorist outfit, the group renamed itself Harkatul Mujahideen. It was named as one of the entities whose assets were frozen by Washington due to its alleged connections with the al Qaeda network of Osama bin Laden (news - web sites) following the deadly September 11 attacks on New York and Washington. Sources in the group have said the group's main leader, Maulana Fazlur Rehman Khalil, has not been seen or been in contact since Washington put the group's name on the list of 27 entities whose assets were frozen. Among the 19 killed in the Kabul bombing was a man known as Chacha Lahori, a middle-aged man who left a middle-class life in Lahore to participate in jihad, or holy war. In an interview with Reuters last year, Lahori, who asked not to be identified, said he wanted to fight the forces of evil and had left his children and family for an opportunity to give his life for the cause of Islam. ``He has met his dream,'' said a source close to the group. Harakatul Mujahideen was accused of being involved in the hijacking of an Indian airliner in December 1999. It denied the charge, but the hijacking ended when India released Harakatul Mujahideen member Maulana Masood Azhar in exchange for the passengers. Azhar later broke away and formed Jaish-e-Mohammad, a militant organization that supports Afghanistan's ruling Taliban and has also been placed on Washington's list of individuals and groups suspected of having links with al Qaeda. Jaish-e-Mohammad initially took responsibility and later denied involvement in the October 1 bombing of the state legislature of Srinagar, summer capital of Indian-controlled Kashmir, in which 38 people were killed.

To: IQBAL LATIF who wrote (41190)	10/24/2001 9:43:45 PM
From: Skywatcher	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 50167

Excellent news source without the usual bias debka.com Chris

To: IQBAL LATIF who wrote (41190)	10/25/2001 2:49:07 AM
From: IQBAL LATIF	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 50167

Prince Saud will deliver messages to President Pervez Musharraf from Saudi Arabia's King Fahd and Crown Prince Abdullah bin Abdul Aziz, he said. Saud's talks in Islamabad will focus on the situation in Afghanistan and the political future of the country in light of the proposals presented by the Europeans to Saudi Arabia on Tuesday. Mr Powell and Mr Straw emphasised need for a broad-based government in Afghanistan. Mr Straw said a great deal of thinking was going on about a future administration for Afghanistan, and although it could not be said exactly what form of government would eventually emerge, "we can see the building blocks". Turkey, as a leading Islamic country of the world and a member of the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (NATO), and Bangladesh, which contributes in a big way to international peacekeeping, are expected to be major contributors to a potential peacekeeping force for Afghanistan. Bush administration is looking at a variety of options to shape the future of Afghanistan with the United Nations, the idea of a multinational peacekeeping force led by Islamic countries has emerged as an important component of the political process that must follow the Taliban's ouster. The involvement of Bangladesh in Afghanistan with Begum Khalida Zia in saddle in Dhaka would almost certainly revive a long pending move to include Afghanistan as the eight-member of SAARC, a group conceived by her husband. Naturally, such an idea would only succeed if both India and Pakistan give their endorsement, something that will depend on how the new government in Kabul is perceived by both.