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January 14, 2006
India: Mosque Leader Arrested For Terror Links
The Hindustan Times reports that the imam of a mosque in Mumbai, West Bangal, was arrested earlier today by the Anti-Terrorist Squad (ATS) of the Mumbai police.
Maulana Ghulam Yahya Allah Baksh was taken from the Haj House Masjid in South Mumbai, where he has been an imam since 1996. His arrest follows the arrests in Mumbai of three individuals connected with the terror group Lashkar-e-Taiba earlier in the week. Their confessions led ATS to the imam.
Ghulam Yahya Alla Baksh was arrested under sections of India's Unlawful Activities Prevention Act of 2004. The 44-year old Maulana (someone who knows the Koran by heart) was sent before a magistrate who remanded him in police custody until January 24.
The ATS states that Baksh provided shelter for the three Lashkar-e-Taiba suspects, who came from Jammu & Kashmir state, and also assisted them to conceal weapons and material for use in bomb-making.
The Calcutta Telegraph states that the three Lashkar-e-Taiba individuals were arrested on January 7, were Arshad Badru from Sopore, Khurshid Ahmed Lone and Haji Ahmed Ramzan.
Badru is a municipal councillor at Bandipore from a family of cloth-makers, and is brother-in-law to the late commander of Hizb-ul Mujahideen, Abdul Majid Dar. Lone was already wanted for a bank raid and bomb attack in Srinigar in Jammu & Kashmir, and is said to have transported militants. Ramzan, aged 52, was a contractor and is thought to be a financier for the group.
When arrested, the three were found in possession of bomb-making material, including 20 detonators, five electrical circuits and five timer switches. ATS also retrieved a .32 bore foreign pistol.
The Haj House is apparently a well known institution, situated a few yards from a police commission office, and assists pilgrims on trips to Mecca and Medina.
Lashkar-e-Taiba, which has been financially supported by a leader of CAIR in the US, was responsible for the bombings at Delhi on October 29, and also for an armed attack upon the historic Red Fort at Delhi.
Lashkar-e-Taiba is one of the largest of many Islamist groups who are attempting to have Kashmir rid of Indian control in the east (Jammu and Kashmir) and either wish for Kashmir to be an independent Muslim nation, or be a part of Pakistan.
In Pakistan, this Sunni group has been involved with sectarian conflict, enacting violence against Shias, who only comprise 20% of Pakistan's Muslim population.
Keywords: Lashkar-e-Toiba, Lashkar-e-Taiba, Lashkar-e-Toyba
Posted by Giraldus Cambrensis at January 14, 2006 12:42 PM
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Central Asia
Once the lands of this map,
were a great civilization,
were wealthy kingdoms,
with craftsmen artists
working in silver and gold
precious gems and stone,
with philosophers and scholars
and the monks of Nalanda
whose library contained ancient teachings,
with merchants trading east and west,
all this and more . . .
religions flourished,
in this birthplace of the Tantra,
Buddhists, Hindus, Animists,
Xians, Zoroastrians,
there were even some Jews
and who knows what else.
The gardens of the past
fast became deserts,
the beauty of nature,
the beauty made by man,
disappeared
under the sword of islam,
under the rule of allah.
How fast humanity descends
and is reduced to rubble in the end.
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at January 14, 2006 9:10 PM
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