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To: IQBAL LATIF who wrote (42596)	5/17/2002 6:57:47 PM
From: NickSE	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 50167

Pak arrests founder of LeT timesofindia.indiatimes.com ISLAMABAD: The founder leader of Lashkar-e-Toiba (LeT) outfit Hafiz Mohammad Saeed has been arrested by Pakistani authorities, just a day after the deadly terrorist attack in Jammu that claimed 31 lives, allegedly carried out by a LeT group. Saeed was arrested on Wednesday on charges of planning to create unrest in Pakistan. He was arrested while on his way to Islamabad from Lahore, a LeT spokesman said. He was taken into custody in January as part of Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf's crackdown against religous extremism. Lahore High Court had recently released him due to lack of evidence. Saeed, who figures on the list of 20 terrorists and criminals India has demanded to be handed over by Pakistan, was due to address a rally in Lahore on May 19. Earlier, LeT had declared closing its offices in Pakistan but carrying out its operations in Kashmir. LeT is also suspected to have attacked Parliament on December 13 last.

To: IQBAL LATIF who wrote (42596)	5/18/2002 1:28:18 PM
From: sandeep	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 50167

I suspect that US intelligence "turns out to be faulty" after the pakistan govt's delaying tactics allows the real terrorists to escape. Pakistan has lived by the terrorists for far too long. It still has not given up on terrorists as long as they perceive that the terrorists do their bidding.

To: IQBAL LATIF who wrote (42596)	5/19/2002 5:01:34 AM
From: IQBAL LATIF	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 50167

From Sharqalawsat newspaper picked by The news..Prince and the President...Abdullah and Bush parleys.. "I found him to be a totally different man to the one I imagined, really someone I was not expecting at all," the de facto ruler of Saudi Arabia admitted in a candid interview with Okaz newspaper this week. Abdullah, who met Bush for the first time at the end of April on his Texas ranch after snubbing the president last summer because of perceived US biais in favour of Israel, offered his impressions freely. "He is full of human feeling. He listens, discusses and speaks politely ... I found him to be a man of authentic moral qualities. He is honest, courageous and has the gift of a feeling of deep compassion," said the prince, architect of a peace plan offering Israel normal relations with the Arab world in return for withdrawal from all occupied land. George Bush has plenty of compassion, but understands little of the plight of the Palestinians, according to Saudi Crown Prince Abdullah, who offered the US President a five-hour lesson on Middle East realities. "It's a good sign. It shows he is ready to answer the demand for justice in the Palestinian cause," he told Okaz's Wednesday edition. "President Bush reacted to the questions I put with humanitarian feeling," Abdullah added in an interview printed May 11 by Asharq al-Awsat, a Saudi-owned newspaper based in London. "He was moved by the injustice inflicted upon the Palestinans." However the Muslim prince said it took "more than five hours" to explain the Palestinian situation to Bush, with the aid of photographs and videotape to help state the case. The US president "was not at all informed of the reality of the situation in the region, particularly the condition of the Palestinian people. "President Bush is one of those people who goes to bed at 9:30 pm on the dot after watching the local news. In the morning he runs through a few lines of reports about the Middle East and the whole world, given his enormous responsibilities." "That is not enough for him to understand exactly what is happening," Abdullah stressed. "That's why I realised it was my duty to devote the maximum amount of time possible to inform him of the reality ... I spent more than five hours explaining to him and informing him, with the the aid of photos and video films, about the misfortune in the Palestinian territories." Abdullah told the daily he saw in Bush's eyes "astonishment and a deep sadness." "I told him, 'You are president of the greatest world power. You have principles and political values based on human rights, justice and equality ... Act according to these principles."