Al Qaeda -All roads lead to Karachi

[foxbat]

You know what? There was a warning that if OBL is killed, there will be a nuke attack. Guess who's gonna get blamed?

And guess why.....

 

[tallboy123]

You know what? There was a warning that if OBL is killed, there will be a nuke attack. Guess who's gonna get blamed?

i think they dont have any nuke placed in Europe,it's a fake claim..
At the moment the news about this nuke is placed in EU,All European countries police forces would search each and every place...coz it's a Nuke not a small bomb

 

[pak-marine]

Once al Qaeda’s favourite hotel in Karachi

By Faraz Khan
Published: May 3, 2011

Post-9/11, this pitstop was a popular transit point for operatives.

KARACHI: ‘Stay at Dubai Hotel. Buy Pakistani clothes. Head to Quetta.’
Nearly 10 years ago, these were the instructions ‘contacts’ provided to scores of foreigners flying in to Karachi. These ‘contacts’ then arranged placements for them to travel to Afghanistan to get there via Karachi and Quetta.
While Karachi’s Hotel Al Dubai may not be al Qaeda’s favourite any more, it has achieved newfound notoriety by being featured in scores of documents of Guantanamo Bay detainees released by WikiLeaks. US officials have highlighted it as a key stop for transiting jihadis.
Even though the government cracked down on safe houses used by al Qaeda leaders and operatives, Hotel Al Dubai is still open for business. It is located on Sohrab Katrak Road near the Passport Office in Saddar. The four-storey building has 72 rooms, and is near the markets selling electronic items and crockery.
Even though there are tens of hotels in Saddar, the Hotel Al Dubai is considered to be among the top ones in the area, since it features marble floors and well-dressed staff members who are on 24-hour duty. Its popularity can be gauged from the fact that it has a waiting list. The rooms are priced between Rs1,000 and Rs5,000 and they are one-, two- and three-bedroom options. The airconditioned rooms are slightly pricier. Offices are located on the first floor of the building while the rooms for the guests are located on the three remaining floors. In order to get a room you need to present an identity card.
The receptionist, Farooq, was busy dealing with clients on a weekend afternoon. He told The Express Tribune that the hotel’s Peshawar-based owner, Anwar Durrani, rarely visits. Hotel Al Dubai’s operations are dealt with by its manager Khan Mohammad Khan, who also meets with other hotel managers and law-enforcement agencies to discuss the city’s situation. The bulk of the hotel’s clients are from Quetta.
But when the Karachi operations of al Qaeda took a hit in 2003, the hotel’s fortunes also declined. Most of its occupants are now travellers from Quetta. Farooq admitted that it was a hub for foreigners in the years after 9/11. “Around 12 years ago, a lot of foreigners including Arabs, Afghans, Yemenis, Egyptians and Bengalis would stay here. Now, the number of foreign clients is far lower.” Ironically, while the hotel was a hub for foreign fighters, Farooq blamed the decline in clientele on terrorism. “Foreigners only arrive every 10 or 20 days and this is affecting our business.”
Nearby shopkeepers also miss the foreign clientele. “Business was good when foreigners stayed at the hotel,” said Younus, whose electronic goods shop is located at the hotel’s ground floor.
While anti-terrorism investigator SSP Fayyaz Khan said that they had no information on al Qaeda operatives who had stayed at the hotel, raids have been conducted at similar hotels in Saddar and Cantt over the presence of suspected terrorists.
Published in The Express Tribune, May 3rd, 2011.
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[Conqueror]

This busts the myth of target killings + all the unrest in karachi and proves who are really behind the terrorism , in other words what the writer is saying its Al Qaeda (the base ) is actually Karachi ... this is how our establishment is playing double games keeping things far away from their homes they are using karachi as a base to serve their agendas ... God damn these people ...... we karachietes have been through hell all these years i hope these people meet the same fate for the rest of their lives and after life may they burn in hell

NOUP.. the largest trouble maker in Karachi is not "these" terrorists which are arrested, infect these are arrested and eliminated. How many of Karachi's those terrorists are eliminated tho made 92 and kept the waters of Karachi Red decades after decades before all this WAR AGAINST TERRORISM ever trigerred. Karachi has deep problems and by pointing finger at half of the problem, you cannot claim the other half doesn't exist.

If terrorists are to be rooted out, those must be rooted out from Darhi Mulla Clan and Non-Dardhi Mullah Clan and the first step is to Identify ALL the terrorist sections.

 

[@nline]

Yaar,

Yeh Al-Qaida ko Pakistan hi milna tha

 

[somebozo]

Al Quaida is an american ghost which guides its imperial plans..OBL wasnt hiding due to his true warrior ambitions but out of fear after being the "american jihad joe" of 90s. He has been paid back by his masters eventually..did not even get a respectful muslim burial..shame on him! Should be called Osama Bin Satan!

 

[pak-marine]

NOUP.. the largest trouble maker in Karachi is not "these" terrorists which are arrested, infect these are arrested and eliminated. How many of Karachi's those terrorists are eliminated tho made 92 and kept the waters of Karachi Red decades after decades before all this WAR AGAINST TERRORISM ever trigerred. Karachi has deep problems and by pointing finger at half of the problem, you cannot claim the other half doesn't exist.
If terrorists are to be rooted out, those must be rooted out from Darhi Mulla Clan and Non-Dardhi Mullah Clan and the first step is to Identify ALL the terrorist sections.

about 90's go watch you tube and hear out wht brigadiar imtiaz and ib cheif has to say about it ... and try and understand this when a establishments policy is to manipulate things like (culture -history -religion) in order to serve their interests there are people who will oppose it by hook or by crook!

 

[muse]

With Osama dead, and with those elements in Pakistani security services and (the Army) other organs of the state, digging deep to draw another breath, there is an excellent chance for the Pakistani state to offer leadership to Pakistani society, to reject religious radicalism, embrace education, science and modernity.
Original Post By muse

It was also an "excellent opportunity" for that after the wars of 1965 and 1971 and after Zia's death. The new leadership failed each time. These failures are systemic: the lack of ways to hold the military and intelligence services accountable to the elected leadership, both legislative and executive.

Solomon2

And an excellent opportunity for the Admin of this forum to offer leadership - to break away from the ideas that have historically brought Pakistani institutions to ruin

Muse

He is not yet ready to accept such a change of identity, either for himself or his countrymen.

Solomon2


I hear you Solomon - and it's with a heavy heart that we must all admit, that the individuals we seems to be relying on, are not exactly...friends, quite the opposite, I'm affraid

 

[pak-marine]

CID arrests six TTP activists from Karachi

DAWN.COM (6 hours ago) Today





KARACHI: Crime Investigation Department (CID) Sindh Police on Saturday said that they have arrested six Tehreek-e-Taliban activists from different parts of the city, DawnNews reported.

According to SSP Fayyaz Khan of the CID, six Tehreek-e-Taliban activists in possession of arms and ammunition, as well as six kilograms of narcotics, were arrested from Hub River Road, Manghopeer Road, and Landhi Bismillah Colony last night. The arrested included Ali Shah Mehsood, Mumtaz Mehsood, Saeed Mehmood Mehsood, Khaliq Tori, Gul Zaman Afghani and Saleem Afghani.

Fayyaz Khan added that the arrested were involved in cases of kidnapping for ransom, robberies and armed clashes with police and other law-enforcement agencies across the country.

 

[AAtish]

Al Qaeda central: All roads lead to Karachi

By Saba Imtiaz
Published: May 1, 2011

Al Qaeda chose Karachi as the workshop for its media and financial operations, strategic planning and hideout.

KARACHI:
On September 11, 2001, four al Qaeda operatives in Karachi watched news footage of planes crashing into the World Trade Centre towers in New York. One of them was the man who had planned every detail of the attack.
They celebrated their success and prayed. The men they had financed and trained had pulled off an unprecedented coup.
But despite this major attack, they considered their work far from over. In the months to come, they would plot more attacks, train and finance young operatives, and help their peers in Afghanistan escape the US and coalition forces that were bombarding their hideouts.

Nice story writing.. You should write fictions miss saba..

Two years later, they would be in Guantanamo Bay, being interrogated by officials of the same country they had wreaked havoc on.
Guantanamo yielded assessments of over 700 detainees held there. These files were released this month by WikiLeaks and are astonishing in their breadth. The picture they paint sweeps over the mosques of Yemen, training camps in Muzaffarabad and Khost, airports in the Gulf and eventually coalesce to the city that became a nerve centre for al Qaeda: Karachi. This seething and heaving metropolis had always been a reliable base, given that it was a pit stop for those traveling to Afghanistan to join the Taliban and other militant organisations.

Al Qaeda chose Karachi as the workshop for its media and financial operations, strategic planning and it served as a reliable hideout for everyone from the 9/11 plotter Khalid Shaikh Mohammad to Osama bin Laden’s son. The files reveal the confessions by al Qaeda operatives — elicited using harsh interrogation techniques — and how hundreds of impressionable young men were swept away by the call to ‘jihad’.

It was in Karachi that al Qaeda celebrated its success, and it is where it eventually met its downfall. An operative’s driver gave away the locations to their safe houses after being arrested. Raids on houses revealed a trove of documentation about the hundreds of men who had enlisted with al Qaeda. Arrested operatives began talking about the plans they had started working on: targeting consulates, hotels and ports. But while those plots did not come to fruition, the wheels set in motion by al Qaeda are still running in Karachi.

Nice story writing again, mind telling us how you know all about this? Any Valid evidence? any proof to support your storyline? Or is just what “leaks” from Wiki? Any supporting evidence to justify Wiki’s stand in the whole global scenario? Or is just another “Agency” specifically created for this purpose?

Timeline of operatives arriving in Karachi

According to the assessments released by WikiLeaks, detainees at Guantanamo Bay mostly travelled to Karachi in 2000 and 2001. After 9/11, people, including from within Pakistan, were persuaded to join the fighting in Afghanistan after fiery speeches and sermons were delivered at political rallies and mosques. Others were persuaded, especially in Yemen and Saudi Arabia, to travel to Afghanistan via Karachi for charity work. For many, this was not their first time to the region – they had either participated in the fighting against the Soviet Union during the 1980s or had travelled to Afghanistan for charity work. The most common route was to Kandahar via Karachi and Quetta, which the US authorities used as an indicator to assess detainees at Guantanamo Bay.

Ahhhhhh.. again Wikileaks, do you think we are children?

Did you know…

ISI officers visited Guantanamo Bay from Aug 3 to 10, 2002 to interrogate Pakistani detainees
Al Qaeda military commander Sayf al Adl told Khalid Shaikh Mohammad to not murder Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl, but to either hand him over to the groups who kidnapped him or release him
Osama bin Laden’s son Saad bin Laden lived in Karachi with his wife from Jan to June 2002
A Karachi-based al Qaeda member was tasked with procuring supplies and construction material from and sending them to Afghanistan to prepare the cave complex in Tora Bora for occupation by Osama bin Laden and his family
A letter sent by Khalid Shaikh Mohammad to Hamza al Zubayr, instructing him to execute a terrorism plot, was dubbed the ‘Perfume Letter’
Several detainees told US officials that they had visited or stayed at Karachi’s Makki Masjid. However, officials believed this was a ‘cover story’ to hide their actual travels

Again, baseless accusations! No proof was ever provided, no “detainee” interviews were every shown to the public, the detainees then were just scattered all over the world, not to be heard ever again… Coincidence? I highly doubt that!

Profiles of detainees captured in Karachi
Ammar al Balochi
Nationality: Pakistani
Age: 34
Capture: April 2003
Internment at Guantanamo Bay: 4 years
Abd al Aziz Ali aka Ammar al Balochi is Khalid Shaikh Mohammad’s nephew and was married to Aafia Siddiqui. US Attorney General Eric Holder recently announced that al Balochi, along with Mohammad, will face trial by a military commission.
His mother has filed a case in the Sindh High Court over his enforced disappearance. Ammar al Balochi was captured in a raid in April 2003 and was handed over to the US. He studied at the Universal Computer Institute and Petroman Electronics Institute in Karachi from 1996 to 1998.
Ammar al Balochi was responsible for the ‘Karachi Plot’, which would target US consulates and troops in the city. He dealt with media operations and financial transactions, including picking up money from ‘couriers’ and transferring it abroad or within Pakistan. He helped facilitate the travel and funding of the 9/11 hijackers and was part of the planning team for key operations.


Walid Mohammad Salih bin Attash
Nationality: Yemeni
Age: 33
Capture: April 2003
Internment at Guantanamo Bay: 4 years
Walid Mohammad Salih bin Attash was captured in Karachi with Ammar al Balochi. He fought ‘jihad’ in Tajikistan and against the Northern Alliance in Afghanistan. He was part of the operational planning team for important plots and was also involved in planning the 2000 attack on the USS Cole.

Ramzi bin al Shibh
Nationality: Yemeni
Age: 38
Capture: September 2002
Internment at Guantanamo Bay: 4 years
Ramzi bin al Shibh was originally enlisted as a member of the 9/11 hijackers team, but since he had difficulties obtaining a US visa, he was made a coordinator for the attacks. Ramzi bin al Shibh is one of the 16 high-value detainees currently held at Guantanamo Bay. Hijacker Mohammad Atta called him in August 2001 to tell him the date of the 9/11 attack through a riddle. Al Shibh informed Khalid Shaikh Mohammad, who told Osama bin Laden of the impending attack. He moved to Iran after 9/11 but had to leave because Iran was set to start arresting ‘mujahideen’ based there. He was working on a plot to attack Heathrow airport before he was arrested in the Sept 2002 raids on al Qaeda safe houses in Karachi.

Majid Khan
Nationality: Pakistani
Age: 31
Capture: March 2003
Internment at Guantanamo Bay: 4 years
Majid Khan is one of the detainees held at Guantanamo Bay. He worked directly with Khalid Shaikh Mohammad, and was directly involved in the assassination plot against then head of state Pervez Musharraf. Khan acted as a courier to deliver funding to al Qaeda operatives in Thailand. Mohammad planned to use Majid Khan to carry out terrorist plots in the US, targeting gas stations. Khan was given what he believed was an explosives-laden waistcoat and was told to detonate it in a mosque which Musharraf was due to visit. This was a ‘test’ to vet Khan as a possible operative.

Okay, four were caught from Karachi, any evidence provided against them? Any reason we should believe they were what the US claims them to be? Or should we just take “word of mouth” for that? I doubt any sane person will believe you just because you are mixing “fact” with “lies”

Karachi’s role

The assessments thus reveal Karachi’s integral role to al Qaeda operations. Mohammad had made the city his base and most key al Qaeda operatives lived in the numerous safe houses set up in the city. The assessments state that according to Israeli intelligence, Osama bin Laden gave Mohammad permission in 1999 to begin preparation for terrorist attacks. 9/11 was one such product.
Media cell The alleged plotter of the 9/11 attacks Khalid Shaikh Mohammad ran al Qaeda’s media cell in Karachi. Videos were delivered to Karachi. Ammar al Balochi used Karachi-based operatives to pass messages onto a group which ran a UK-based website sympathetic to al Qaeda. In early 2002, he used Saifullah Paracha’s company Universal Broadcasting to produce a video highlighting Bakr al Azdi’s experiences in Tora Bora. News was also forwarded on to al Qaeda safe houses in Afghanistan.

Financing Financing for al Qaeda operations flowed through Karachi, whether it was the delivery of money or transferring it abroad. Ammar al Balochi set up safe houses in Karachi and also arranged for financial transactions, such as sending thousands of dollars abroad or receiving money from ‘messengers’ who hand-delivered hundreds of thousands in rupees in cash. Money was also invested in a real estate project owned by Saifullah Paracha.

Accounting Al Qaeda had accounting offices in Peshawar and Karachi. Financial transactions were made through Karachi, including handing over money to ‘couriers’ who would then travel abroad with the money or deliver it within the country.

Bomb making Al Qaeda ran two workshops in the city which produced remote controlled firing devices (RCFDS) and timers for use in improvised explosive devices. The workshop began production in early 2002, and al Qaeda’s detained bomb maker told Guantanamo authorities that he Al-Qasim estimates the workshops had “produced between 400 to 500 RCFDS, 600 to 700 Casio timers and 600 to 700 integrated circuit timers.” Detonators were delivered to a man at a Quetta bus stop (the files are unclear if the bus stop is for Quetta-bound buses or not) and to Sabzi Mandi.

Money laundering To provide a cover for al Qaeda operations, dummy import-export businesses were to be set up with Saifullah Paracha’s assistance. An analyst noted that al Qaeda’s investment in real estate could be an attempt at money laundering.

Training The 9/11 operatives had worked with Mohammad in Karachi on the plot. Mohammad had also trained a team in English classes and American culture. Operatives were taught how to use the internet since e-mail was a safer mode of communication than phone calls. There were also plans to use a flying school in Karachi for future training. Walid Salih bin Attash and Ammar al Balochi, who were working on the Karachi Plot, had asked for 50 men to be ready to carry out operations.
Karachi also served as a useful ‘example’ for attacks. Planning for an attack on oil tankers in the Strait of Hormuz was done by studying Karachi’s port. Osama bin Laden, who financed the plot, instructed Abd el Rahim Hussein Mohammad al Nashiri to buy a fishing boat, learn Karachi’s boat registration process and study the port’s entry and exit procedures by using fishing expeditions as a cover.

Biological weapons plot Al Qaeda had also started planning for a biological weapons attack, including the use of anthrax. Crates of anthrax had earlier been moved from Karachi to Kandahar, signalling that al Qaeda was able to procure and store the material in the city. However, since al Qaeda’s leadership had to leave Afghanistan, they planned to shift operations to Karachi. MIT graduate Aafia Siddiqui, who was consulted on the project, reportedly said that she would participate in the plot if al Qaeda tasked her to.

Safe passage Al Qaeda arranged for its members to leave Afghanistan and travel to Karachi. Several were advised to leave to Iran but had to come back to Karachi when Iran began cracking down on operatives. Al Qaeda arranged for the housing and transport of families within the country as well.

Plots
Al Qaeda planned to assassinate then-head of state Pervez Musharraf.
Balochi and Attash planned to attack two hotels in Karachi that housed US troops on a regular basis, as well as the consulate. They were arrested the same day that they were due to receive explosives for the attack.

Housing
Gulshan-e-Iqbal: Al Qaeda managed several guesthouses and safe houses in Karachi. The first house, which was operational for the longest period, was in Gulshan-e-Iqbal
Gulistan-e-Jauhar: A safe house was located in the Rabia City complex
Tariq Road: The house was used as a planning cell
Defence: Safe houses were located in Defence Phase II and Defence View
Shahrae Faisal: A safe house is located near the Karachi airport. It was used to print news from online sources, which was forwarded to al Qaeda safehouses in Afghanistan

Again, nice story line and “assumed” details and inventory.. Mind sharing the information source? Or is just a miracle of your slaved brain?

Saifullah Paracha, who had provided al Qaeda financial and material support, reportedly assisted Khalid Shaikh Mohammad in selecting houses in Karachi to be used as al Qaeda safe houses. According to his assessment document, “Paracha owned part of a 330-unit apartment complex called Cliftonia in Karachi. Ammar al Balochi invested EUR 240,000 in Paracha’s Cliftonia Apartment Complex.” Paracha noted that al Qaeda “was only interested in the ground floor units of the complex, as these were the only units that could be entered while avoiding the complex’s security personnel.”

Reportedly? Who reported it? To whom it was reported? Where is the report?

The Al Qaeda life
Osama bin Laden’s son Saad bin Laden lived in Karachi with his wife and son from January to June 2002. Khalid Shaikh Mohammad provided Saad a ‘haven’. He would occasionally come with Mohammad to one of the safe houses located at D-255, Block 13-D/1, Gulshan-e-Iqbal. The house was also used by other al Qaeda operatives, including Walid Mohammad Salih bin Attash.
Many of the 9/11 hijackers stayed in the Rabia City complex. Muhammad Atta, Marwan al-Shehhi, and Hani Hanjour stayed at the Defence View safe house.
The guesthouses also housed senior al Qaeda members, including Osama bin Laden’s security chief Hamza al Ghamdi, al Qaeda military operations supreme commander Muhammad Salah al-Din Abd al-Halim Zaydan aka Sayf al-Adil, USS COLE bombing mastermind Abd al-Rahim Hussayn Muhammad al-Nashiri and senior al-Qaeda operatives Walid Muhammad Salih Bin Attash, Ammar al Balochi and Khalid Shaikh Mohammad.

Source?? Authenticity?? Or is it just result of your gastric problem?

Hotels
Hotels identified by the US included the Dubai, Embassy, Emirates, Faran, Gulf, Mashriq and Mehran which were commonly used by al Qaeda members.

Mosques
Other indicators for assessing Guantanamo detainees included association or affiliation with the Makki Mosque (run by the Tablighi Jamaat) and the Abu Bakr International University. One detainee said he went to fight in Afghanistan after hearing Mufti Atique speak at the Siddiq-e-Akbar Mosque.

Offices
One detainee said he had visited the Taliban office in the old Expo Centre near the Mohammad Ali shrine

Hospital
Abdul Rahim Ghulam Rabbani stated that he was instructed to go to a hospital on Tariq Road to care for wounded al Qaeda member

Source??

Raids timeline
Feb 7, 2002: The ISI, working with US officials, raid a safe house run by Abdu Ali Sharqawi. Sixteen people, including Sharqawi, are captured.
Impact: Two life vests containing traces of explosives are discovered.

Source??

March 2002: According to harpers.org, Pakistani authorities raid a residence believed to have been used as a safe house by Abu Zubaydah and take its residents into custody, including Salah Ahmed al Salami, who died in Guantanamo Bay.
June 2002: Sketches of US embassies in Kazakhstan are seized during a raid on a safe house in Karachi occupied by Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan-linked Uighurs. The sketches were reportedly to be used by senior al Qaeda member Mustafa.
Sept 9, 2002: Pakistani authorities raid several suspected al Qaeda residences in Karachi.

Very nice facts.. let me see.. harpers.org, believed to, reportedly, suspected.. makes sense??

Sept 10, 2002: Ahmad Ghulam Rabbani and his driver Mohammad Madni are captured during an ISI raid on Rabbani’s house. Madni provides information on the location of other safe houses in Karachi. Three electronic detonators are found.
Sept 11, 2002: Three houses are raided. Ramzi bin al Shibh, Ahmed Rahim Ghulam Rabbani and Hassan Mohammad bin Ali Attash are arrested from a Tariq Road safe house.

Source? Authenticity??

Impact: Twenty individually wrapped passports, most of which are valid passports belonging to the wives and children of Osama bin Laden, are found stored next to remotely activated electronic detonators. The devices were built inside black Sega videogame cartridges and are designed for remote activation through the use of a cell phone.
Sept 11, 2002: Raids are conducted on two apartments in Karachi’s Defence Phase II commercial area, where eight heavily armed Arabs are living, including al Qaeda plotter Hamza Zubayr. A fire fight follows in which the residents throw four hand grenades and fire hundreds of rounds at the Pakistani forces. The residents hold knives to their throats and threaten to kill themselves rather than be taken into custody. Two men, including Zubayr, are killed. Captured are six men, who are given the pseudonym of ‘the Karachi Six’. Several Pakistani officials are injured. The standoff lasts about four hours before Pakistani officers are able to overpower them and take them into custody. Zubayr was reportedly running a cell at the house in preparation for terrorist attacks. Two handguns and three grenades are seized. A Kalashnikov rifle and a submachine gun used by the men are seized by police.

Source?? Authenticity??

Planning: Plans for further al Qaeda operations stopped until Oct 2002
Data: Two lists containing hundreds of names, aliases and nationalities of al Qaeda operatives are found, which US authorities use to check the names of detainees against.
Trust accounts are also found, defined as “simple storage compartments such as envelopes or folders that were used to secure the individual’s personal valuables until completion of training or another activity. This document would have been transported from Afghanistan to Karachi for safe keeping following the beginning of Operation Enduring Freedom.”

As I said before.. nice story writing.. but where is the source?? How Authentic is it??

April 27 / April 30, 2003: The Intelligence Bureau and Rangers capture Ammar al Baluchi, Walid bin Attash and four suspected al Qaeda members.
Impact: 150kg of high explosives and detonators are seized during the raid.



Published in The Express Tribune, May 1st, 2011.

Funny I see a lot of “suspected”, “reportedly”, “possible”, “allegedly”, “apparently”, “seemingly” kind of words in these “reported” stories, but never succeed to find “facts”.. wonder why?

As I have said before miss Saba Imtiaz.. You should start writing Fiction.. You’ll earn a lot! Or are you already earning a lot from proving lies to be facts??

 

[AAtish]

Once al Qaeda’s favourite hotel in Karachi

By Faraz Khan
Published: May 3, 2011

Post-9/11, this pitstop was a popular transit point for operatives.

KARACHI: ‘Stay at Dubai Hotel. Buy Pakistani clothes. Head to Quetta.’
Nearly 10 years ago, these were the instructions ‘contacts’ provided to scores of foreigners flying in to Karachi. These ‘contacts’ then arranged placements for them to travel to Afghanistan to get there via Karachi and Quetta.
While Karachi’s Hotel Al Dubai may not be al Qaeda’s favourite any more, it has achieved newfound notoriety by being featured in scores of documents of Guantanamo Bay detainees released by WikiLeaks. US officials have highlighted it as a key stop for transiting jihadis.

Hmmmm.. Story writing skills, Wikileaks source? Amazing!! Such a trusted source isn’t it?

Even though the government cracked down on safe houses used by al Qaeda leaders and operatives, Hotel Al Dubai is still open for business. It is located on Sohrab Katrak Road near the Passport Office in Saddar. The four-storey building has 72 rooms, and is near the markets selling electronic items and crockery.

The point of giving the address?? Story writing??

Even though there are tens of hotels in Saddar, the Hotel Al Dubai is considered to be among the top ones in the area, since it features marble floors and well-dressed staff members who are on 24-hour duty. Its popularity can be gauged from the fact that it has a waiting list. The rooms are priced between Rs1,000 and Rs5,000 and they are one-, two- and three-bedroom options. The airconditioned rooms are slightly pricier. Offices are located on the first floor of the building while the rooms for the guests are located on the three remaining floors. In order to get a room you need to present an identity card.

Relevance?? Mixing facts with lies again??

The receptionist, Farooq, was busy dealing with clients on a weekend afternoon. He told The Express Tribune that the hotel’s Peshawar-based owner, Anwar Durrani, rarely visits. Hotel Al Dubai’s operations are dealt with by its manager Khan Mohammad Khan, who also meets with other hotel managers and law-enforcement agencies to discuss the city’s situation. The bulk of the hotel’s clients are from Quetta.
But when the Karachi operations of al Qaeda took a hit in 2003, the hotel’s fortunes also declined. Most of its occupants are now travellers from Quetta. Farooq admitted that it was a hub for foreigners in the years after 9/11. “Around 12 years ago, a lot of foreigners including Arabs, Afghans, Yemenis, Egyptians and Bengalis would stay here. Now, the number of foreign clients is far lower.” Ironically, while the hotel was a hub for foreign fighters, Farooq blamed the decline in clientele on terrorism. “Foreigners only arrive every 10 or 20 days and this is affecting our business.”

And this proves what??.. With the rise in terrorism and “world warnings”, there are ought to be less foreigners visiting.. So? Oh sorry.. story writing.. yeah yeah.. have to make a base for further lies.. Carry on..

Nearby shopkeepers also miss the foreign clientele. “Business was good when foreigners stayed at the hotel,” said Younus, whose electronic goods shop is located at the hotel’s ground floor.

Relevance?? I know.. story writing..

While anti-terrorism investigator SSP Fayyaz Khan said that they had no information on al Qaeda operatives who had stayed at the hotel, raids have been conducted at similar hotels in Saddar and Cantt over the presence of suspected terrorists.

Wait… Did I read “suspected” again??

Published in The Express Tribune, May 3rd, 2011.
For more on this

Proving to be a vastly lying Express

 

[AAtish]

CID arrests six TTP activists from Karachi

DAWN.COM (6 hours ago) Today





KARACHI: Crime Investigation Department (CID) Sindh Police on Saturday said that they have arrested six Tehreek-e-Taliban activists from different parts of the city, DawnNews reported.

According to SSP Fayyaz Khan of the CID, six Tehreek-e-Taliban activists in possession of arms and ammunition, as well as six kilograms of narcotics, were arrested from Hub River Road, Manghopeer Road, and Landhi Bismillah Colony last night. The arrested included Ali Shah Mehsood, Mumtaz Mehsood, Saeed Mehmood Mehsood, Khaliq Tori, Gul Zaman Afghani and Saleem Afghani.

Fayyaz Khan added that the arrested were involved in cases of kidnapping for ransom, robberies and armed clashes with police and other law-enforcement agencies across the country.

Now this is a fact based news.. there is no "suspected", "reportedly", or any such rubbish.. claim, and claimant are right there..

 

[llvllrPaki]

All Qaeda, all Roads leads to all over Pakistan..

So Called AQ n ttp all Roads leads to all over Pakistan and those roads made by India , so have a safe road trip

 

[OrionHunter]

So Called AQ n ttp all Roads leads to all over Pakistan and those roads made by India , so have a safe road trip

Made by India? Ah! There we go again. India - the favorite whipping boy!! If you have constipation, blame India! Must be those darn RAW agents! Jeeez!

 

[pak-marine]

‘Operation Karachi’: Swoop against militant, sectarian outfits soon


By Zia Khan
Published: September 19, 2011

Intelligence agencies say as many as 19 groups are active in the city.
ISLAMABAD: Intelligence agencies are learnt to have identified as many as two dozen extremist militant and sectarian outfits operating in Karachi who may face a crackdown once the hunt for politically-backed target killers is over.
An official said on Sunday extremist organisations will be targeted in the next phase.
“This proposal is under consideration,” briefly remarked a senior official of the Interior Minister without specifying whether it would be conducted by Rangers or regular troops.
According to a report compiled by intelligence agencies, as many as 19 groups — five of them run by Shias — were active in the city and their associates were involved in bomb explosions and murders.
In some cases, the report added, there was a nexus between criminal elements and extremist outfits, which made things even more complicated.
Among the groups active in Karachi, the biggest is Lashkar-e-Jhangvi (LeJ), an anti-Shia sectarian outfit involved in mass murder and improvised attacks on minority groups, including Ahmadis. It has a strong known al Qaeda link.
Sipah-e-Sahaba Pakistan (SSP), of which the LeJ is an offshoot, Harkat-e-Jihad-e-Islami, Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan/al Qaeda, Harkat-ul-Mujahideen al Alami, Harkat-ul-Mujahideen, Jaish-e-Muhammad (JeM), Jund Allah, Tehreek Islami Lashkar-e-Muhammadi, Sunni Tehreek and Lashkar-e-Islami are the other Sunni groups active in Karachi.
Among Shia militant outfits are: Sipah-e-Muhammad Pakistan (SMP), Imamia Student Organisation (ISO), Tehreek-e-Jaffaria Pakistan, Mehdi Militia and Hezbollah.
Intelligence operatives are unsure about the exact number of individuals actively associated with these organisations but said they might be in thousands.
Officials, both in Islamabad and Karachi, said the presence of these groups in the city and their ‘working relationship’ with the criminals warranted swift and timely action by law enforcement agencies.
Last month, the government ordered a crackdown against target killers allegedly nurtured by three main political parties – the Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP), Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) and Awami National Party (ANP).
The decision came after top military commanders expressed concern about the law and order situation in the country’s most populous city.
Officials said ‘those at the helm of affairs’ wanted to take the ongoing operations in Karachi to its logical end and that was possible only when everyone involved in all kinds of violence were targeted.
An official of the Sindh metropolis’ Crime Investigation Department (CID) verified that the agency had been asked to prepare new lists detailing sectarian and militant organisations.
This might be an indication of a crackdown against them, the official added.
Published in The Express Tribune, September 19th, 2011.