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

To: Patrick Slevin who wrote (8695)	10/26/2001 8:26:53 PM
From: Lola	Respond to of 27666

Indian Hand in Hit on Harkat Safe House FROM K.P. NAYAR Washington, Oct. 25: For the second time since the September 11 hijackings in New York and Washington, intelligence inputs provided by India have helped Americans to deal decisively with Pakistan’s terror machine. India and the Northern Alliance working together gave the Americans crucial details of Harkat-ul Mujahideen networks within Afghanistan. That information helped the US Air Force to target a Harkat safe house in Kabul on Tuesday, according to informed sources. Harkat is now claiming that 35 of its fighters — not 22 as reported earlier — were killed in that targeted attack on the safe house, according to Muzamal Shah, a leader of the group. “We have the names of 20 people who died in the attack,” he said in Karachi. Most belonged to Karachi or Pakistan’s provinces bordering Afghanistan, he said. Harkat is listed by the US state department as a terrorist outfit based in Pakistan and operating in Kashmir. Its assets were frozen under a White House order last month. Tuesday’s attack yielded the single biggest harvest of terrorists so far since the US military operation against Afghanistan started on October 7. Earlier, Indian intelligence information linking former Pakistani spy chief General Mehmood Ahmed and September 11 hijacker Mohamed Atta enabled Americans to prod Islamabad into removing Ahmed. Indian intelligence details passed on to Washington showed that the $100,000 wired to Atta by Pakistani terrorist Umer Shaikh had originally come from Ahmed, when he was head of the Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI), the espionage outfit run by Pakistan’s army. The deaths of Pakistanis in Tuesday’s bombing raids have embarrassed General Pervez Musharraf. Yesterday, Pakistani guards at the Torkham border-crossing in Khyber Pass refused to allow the bodies of the men killed in the attack to be brought in for burial. Noor Mohammed Hanifi, the Taliban’s security chief, was quoted by the militia’s news agency as saying that the guards told Harkat supporters: “You wanted to fight with the Taliban, then you can bury your dead in Afghanistan.” The bodies were then smuggled into Pakistan at unguarded points along the border. The ease with which the bodies were smuggled in is, however, worrying the Americans because a porous border can destabilise US efforts to decimate the Taliban. In Karachi, mourners shouted slogans against the US and Musharraf at the funeral of the leader of the Harkat group which went in to Afghanistan, adds AFP. About 2,000 people attended the burial of commander Farooq, whose body was one of eight that were smuggled in. The mourners vowed revenge for the deaths of Farooq and the other militants. India today said the burial in Karachi confirmed the nexus between Pakistani terrorist organisations and their mentors in Afghanistan.