Sri Lanka team attacker arrested

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Lahore police claims arresting accused of SL team attack

LAHORE: CCPO Lahore Pervez Rathor Wednesday claimed arresting one of seven men accused of plotting the deadly attack Sri Lankan cricket team at Liberty Chowk in Lahore in March.

The CCPO said the arrested man, identified as Aqeel alias Dr. Usman, is an ex-sepoy of Army Medical Store and that he is associated with a banned organization.

“The police has succeeded in identifying the group involved in masterminding the Liberty Chow attack,” he claimed. However, he said, no further arrests have so far been made.

He said the arrested disclosed during interrogation that Punjabi Tehreek-e-Taliban was behind the Liberty Chowk attack in Lahore and that it is headed by a man named Farooq.

The other accused are Rana Hanif, Zubair alias Naik Muhammad, Smaiullah alias Aijaz, Adnan alias Sajjad and Umer alias Abdul Wahab.

The CCPO said that the arrested Aqeel alias Dr. Usman was also involved in

Seven people including six police guards and the driver of a Sri Lankan team bus were killed when gunmen ambushed the team as it drove to a cricket stadium for a match.

 

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Pak arrests SL cricket team attacker: Rediff.com news

Pakistan on Wednesday announced the arrest of a terrorist allegedly involved in the attack on the Sri Lankan cricket team in Lahore and said that the Taliban commander Baitullah Mehsud's group was behind the audacious strike.

Identifying the arrested person as Zubair alias Nek Mohammad, Lahore police chief Pervaiz Rathore told a mediapersons in Lahore that the March 3 attack was carried out by "Punjabi Taliban" militants, affiliated to Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan of feared terrorist leader Mehsud.

Rathore said Zubair had carried out the attack with six accomplices. All seven terrorists who took part in the assault belonged to the "Punjabi Taliban", he said.

Zubair had identified Aqeel alias Arslan alias Dr Usman as the mastermind of the attack, the police chief said. Rathore identified the other five terrorists involved in the attack as Samiuallah alias Ijaz, Adnan alias Sajjad, Ajmal alias Ehsan, Farooq Ahmed and Omar alias Abdul Wahab.

Most of them hailed from Dera Ghazi Khan. Samiullah, who belonged to Nankana Sahib, arranged transportation that was used by the terrorists to escape after the attack.

Eight persons were killed and over 20 others, including several Sri Lankan players, injured when the terrorists ambushed the team's motorcade at the busy Liberty traffic roundabout near the Gaddafi stadium in Lahore.

The Sri Lankan cricket team was being taken for the third day of the second test against Pakistan when terrorists armed with guns, rocket launcher and grenades launched the strike.

Rathore said Zubair had revealed that Aqueel alias Arslan was also involved in an attack on former Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf . Aqeel acted on the instructions of Pakistani Taliban chief Baitullah Mehsud, he added.

Zubair was identified from CCTV footage of the terrorists leaving the site of the attack, Rathore said. Zubair told his interrogators that the terrorists wanted to hijack the Lankan team's bus to secure the release of some arrested colleagues and to press the government to accept other demands.

Rathore, however, parried a question from media on whose release the terrorists had wanted to secure.

As a number of banned groups, including the Lashker-e-Tayiba, have joined hands with the Pakistani Taliban, it was earlier believed that the attackers wanted to secure the release of five LeT leaders arrested for alleged involvement in the Mumbai attacks.

The police chief also retracted his earlier statement that India was involved in the attack.

"It is premature to comment on Indian involvement. However, investigations are underway in this regard," he told a questioner.

The police also presented Zubair, his face covered with a cloth, before the media. "We gathered in Mansoora along with Arslan alias Dr Usman who provided us with weapons," he said.

He said his accomplices managed to escape to Waziristan after the attack. The central headquarters of Jamaat-e-Islami is located in Mansoora. JI spokesman Anwar Niazi dismissed the impression that the terrorists resided in Mansoora.
M Zulqernain in Lahore

 

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Hopefully it will put to rest two separate allegations
1) That India somehow was involved
and
2) It was a failure by Pakistani forces -seems like it was a kidnap plan that was foiled and not an attempt to kill the Sri Lankan team.

 

[BaburCM]

Surely, we will now be able to extract valuable information regarding Indian involvement in this attack. Seems like Indian lies will now be exposed. Good catch. Hang this Indian agent after interrogation. Hang him in a square where people will be able to see his ugly body lingering on a lamp post. No mercy for Indian agents.

 

[Stumper]

Surely, we will now be able to extract valuable information regarding Indian involvement in this attack. Seems like Indian lies will now be exposed. Good catch. Hang this Indian agent after interrogation. Hang him in a square where people will be able to see his ugly body lingering on a lamp post. No mercy for Indian agents.

Hey mate, don't flame pls. Peace.

 

[wtf]

Surely, we will now be able to extract valuable information regarding Indian involvement in this attack. Seems like Indian lies will now be exposed. Good catch. Hang this Indian agent after interrogation. Hang him in a square where people will be able to see his ugly body lingering on a lamp post. No mercy for Indian agents.

I can't understand what makes you think he is still an Indian agent. The guy worked for Pak Army Medical troops, admits he worked for Baitullah Mehsud, and Mehsud claimed the operation.

The odds of him being an Indian agent are now astronomically low.Also, If he still is an Indian agent, then Pakistan truly is doomed. India would have infiltrated the Army, Taliban and the cricket establishment all together if that had to be true.

Could I trouble you to ask on what basis do you make that allegation?

 

[BaburCM]

^^ India is always plotting and sponsoring terror in this whole region. India is the main sponsor of terror. We're going to expose Indian terror activities. Enough said.

Hey mate, don't flame pls. Peace.

Dude, I'm not flaming, but simply laying out facts. You can of course disagree if you wish. Just don't deprive me from making my opinion heard.

 

[wtf]

^^ India is always plotting and sponsoring terror in this whole region. India is the main sponsor of terror. We're going to expose Indian terror activities. Enough said.



Dude, I'm not flaming, but simply laying out facts. You can of course disagree if you wish. Just don't deprive me from making my opinion heard.

Sir, what you are posting is opinion and allegations, not facts. I am just asking what are the facts underlying the allegations, especially when the available evidence is contrary to the allegations as stated.

 

[paritosh]

^^ India is always plotting and sponsoring terror in this whole region. India is the main sponsor of terror. We're going to expose Indian terror activities. Enough said.



Dude, I'm not flaming, but simply laying out facts. You can of course disagree if you wish. Just don't deprive me from making my opinion heard.

your opinion does not amount to a fact until proven.give us some links of the terroist being an indian...and we'd all agree and curse him and india...but till the time he is not proven to be an indian...abstain from abusing india.

 

[BaburCM]

^^ Well, read properly before making assumptions. I've said that the capture will reveal a whole lot more about Indian involvement. I for one am certain that India was involved in the attack without a doubt. That's my judgement and my right to belief so. Those are my facts and there's nothing you can do to change my mind. Now, if you excuse me...

 

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http://www.nytimes.com/2009/06/18/world/asia/18pstan.html?ref=world

ISLAMABAD, Pakistan — The Pakistani police announced the arrest of a suspect on Wednesday in the commando-style ambush of the Sri Lankan cricket team in Lahore in March that left seven people dead.
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At a news conference on Wednesday, the police disclosed the most details to date about the attack, naming two planners and saying six men had carried it out. The police described the attackers’ training in Waziristan, a Taliban haven in the western tribal region, and said one of them was also suspected of a role in an assassination attempt on former President Pervez Musharraf.

The police also produced the arrested suspect, identified as Muhammad Zubair, with a black cloth thrown over his head, turning the event into a free-for-all for journalists, who poked microphones at his covered face and shouted questions. He was later taken from the room.

The attack shook this nation of cricket fans and particularly shocked Punjab, the province in which Lahore is the capital. The center of Pakistani culture and arts, Lahore was not used to attacks by militants, who for years focused on Kashmir in the northeast and the tribal areas in the western mountains.

But recently, the Pakistani Taliban, led by Baitullah Mehsud, have forged ties with Punjabi militants. Many of those fighters began with training and financing from the Pakistani state in the 1990s as part of its effort to fight a proxy war with India. Some have now turned against the state, carrying out attacks in major cities.

On Wednesday the police formally said they had evidence that one of those groups, Lashkar-e-Jhangvi, a Sunni militant group, was behind many of the recent attacks, including the one on the cricket team. The group is believed to have killed hundreds of Shiites in Pakistan in the 1990s.

At the news conference, the Lahore police chief, Pervez Rathore, said that the arrested suspect was from Dera Ghazi Khan in southern Punjab, and that all but one of the other suspects were also from southern Punjab.

The other was from the city of Dera Ismail Khan in the troubled area of western Pakistan.

The police said Mr. Zubair was a waiter in a hotel cafe in Rawalpindi, next to Islamabad, when a militant recruited him. That individual, identified as Saifullah, arranged for his travel to Waziristan for training.

The police said that the others had also been trained in Waziristan, and that the team of attackers met in the Punjabi city of Faisalabad before buying two rickshaws and three cars to move to Lahore for the attack.

The main planners, the police said, were Qari Ajmal, from the Punjabi city of Bahawalpur, and Faruq Amir, identified as the leader of the Punjabi militants in Waziristan and their main connection to the Taliban there. Mr. Amir is also associated with Lashkar-e-Jhangvi.

The men in the attack all had fake identification cards and went by aliases, the police said. The one suspected in an attempt to kill Mr. Musharraf was identified as a Rawalpindi resident named Aqeel, who went by the nickname Dr. Usman.

 

[Gabbar]

^^ Well, read properly before making assumptions. I've said that the capture will reveal a whole lot more about Indian involvement. I for one am certain that India was involved in the attack without a doubt. That's my judgement and my right to belief so. Those are my facts and there's nothing you can do to change my mind. Now, if you excuse me...

Sir, facts are backed by evidences not by imagined allegations. If you have the evidence, please share. Unitll then they are NOT facts, merely your opinion.

 

[Infanteer]

Good for Pakistan

Pakistan = 1
Terrorist Scums = 0

 

[Rajkumar]

i dont believe indian involvement now but as people say
"Waham ki koi dawa nahin hoti"

 

[HAIDER]

And award goes to Jamat-i-islami. Prime suspect stayed in Mansora..