The suspected mastermind of last week’s assault on the Sri Lankan cricket team escaped a police raid on his home in northern Punjab today.
Police believe that Mohammed Aqeel, an activist of Lashkar-e-Jhangvi (LeJ), a militant group linked to al-Qaeda, organised the terrorist attack in which eight people were killed and seven people were injured. Up to 14 gunmen ambushed the coaches carrying the Sri Lankan cricket team near Gaddafi stadium in Lahore last Tuesday.
Pakistani security sources said that Mr Aqeel had fled his home in Khauta district before the raid early this morning although they managed to arrest one of his associates, who was identified only as Talat. They fear that most of the gunmen involved in the attack have fled to the lawless tribal regions in Pakistan’s North West Frontier.
Police have released sketches of four of the gunmen and detained more than two dozen suspects in raids across Punjab. Most of the detainees belonged to LeJ, an extremist Sunni sectarian group, and Jaish-e-Mohammed (JeM).
LeJ and JeM, whose membership overlaps, have been involved in most of the terrorist attacks carried out in Pakistan since it joined the US-led War on Terror. They have expanded their influence in Punjab’s south, drawing recruits from among the rural poor. Most of the gunmen involved in last November’s terrorist attacks on Mumbai, in India, also came from the same region.
There have been suggestions from within Pakistan that India may have been involved in attack but the Sri Lankan Foreign Minister today rejected such speculation.
March 9th, 2009 at 1:52 pm
If they really wanted to find them, they wouldn’t be looking amongst the goat herders and opium growers of Northern Pakistan, they would only have to go look at the books of the CIA and MI6. Period.
March 9th, 2009 at 4:04 pm
Have any of you ever wondered why the pyramid symbol has the cap stone missing?
Why is everything speeding us so fast it is like the foot is flat to the floor?
Why does it say this in the bible?
Revelation 10:6 And sware by him that liveth for ever and ever, who created heaven, and the things that therein are, and the earth, and the things that therein are, and the sea, and the things which are therein, that there should be time no longer:
Why did the Mayans choose Dec 21 2012?, if the long count of 26,000 years only refers to the completion of one circuit around the universe, which it does. So why choose that point in the circuit and call it the end???? The Earth does not stop, it continues and does yet around trip around the universe. So why pick a point in the circle and label it the end??? It’s obvious, something happens at that point in the circuit.
Are you all aware that this planet is only warm for about 10,000 years out of ever 100,000 years and we are well over due to go back into an ice age and in fact if you find the real facts you will find it is already happening and has been for some time. The planet was much warmer 6-10 thousand years ago. Do you know that ice ages happen suddenly, not gradually?
What are you all missing? You are missing the fact that all of these secret groups are not different groups but one group working towards an outside agenda. The over lords are returning and they want you chipped or dead.
March 9th, 2009 at 5:15 pm
“Coincidental” Mastermind…
[strikes again]
March 10th, 2009 at 4:17 am
and now for something OT..
Big surprise there, that the “mastermind” simply walks away somehow, slipping thru the grasp of the police to join Al-Qaeda. How coincidental and convenient, that all the proof of the government’s international terrorism theory simply slips away. Guess we will have to give them more power, or they will never catch their guy, and we will never be safe.
Sound familiar? This Modus Operandi is getting tiresom, guys..
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