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Politics : America Under Siege: The End of Innocence -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Captain Jack who wrote (8502)	10/24/2001 8:23:12 PM
From: Lola	Respond to of 27666

Harkat blood stamp on Pakistan terror trail Thursday October 25, 3:03 AM By Bureau and Reuters Oct. 24: India’s allegation of a terror route running through Afghanistan and Pakistan to Kashmir found strength today in the report that 20 members of the Harkat-ul Mujahideen were killed in a US strike on Kabul. Harkat is one of the most active militant outfits in Kashmir and was accused of hijacking an Indian Airlines plane to Kandahar in 1999. “We have unconfirmed reports that 35 fighters have been martyred,” a Harkat spokesman told Reuters in Muzaffarabad, the capital of Pakistan-occupied Kashmir. Bodies of eight militants killed in the US raid were smuggled home today after border guards barred their return. A source close to the Harkat-ul-Mujahideen group said the bodies were brought in through Mohmand Agency, a tribal area on the border. Two bodies were quickly brought to Rawalpindi, next to the Pakistani capital Islamabad where prayers were held. But the bodies were not buried in Rawalpindi but were to be taken to their hometowns, sources said. Mourners, who prevented cameramen from taking photographs, shouted slogans including, “The war will continue until America’s destruction.” “We have the names of 20 people who died in the attack,” the Harkat spokesman said. It was the highest death toll in a single attack in the group’s history. Among the commanders killed was one known as Ustad Farooq from Lahore, a fact which, if proven right, would be embarrassing for Islamabad and offer fresh fuel for Delhi’s charge of Pakistan’s ties to terrorist outfits. After the recent Kashmir Assembly suicide bombing, Jaish-e-Mohammed – that claimed responsibility – had said the bomber was a Pakistani. The list of dead included six commanders of Harkat that has long been on a US list of terrorist organisations. Pakistan foreign ministry spokesman Riaz Mohammad Khan told a news conference that the government had no information to confirm or deny the Kabul incident or whether any Pakistanis had been killed there. “For quite some time the Pakistan government had impressed upon the Afghanistan government that they should not allow any Pakistani to be part of any of their forces... to go inside Afghanistan for any so-called training purposes. “We had been very firm on this matter. We had also been requesting the Afghanistan government to apprehend and hand over a large number of people who have been indicted by courts here,” Khan said. Harkat has long been believed to send its guerrillas into Afghanistan for training at the many camps there. India says these militants are then pushed into Kashmir by Pakistan to carry out terrorist attacks. “If there are any Pakistanis who may have gone into Afghanistan, we are not aware of their numbers,” Khan said. This is the second time Harkat has lost men in US attacks on Afghanistan. Nine fighters were killed and several wounded in cruise missile attacks by the US on a training camp in August 1998. in.news.yahoo.com