UK investigates if fugitive British doctor in Taliban death squad that massacred 132 children

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Was fugitive British NHS doctor in Taliban death squad that massacred 132 children? Spy chiefs investigate on-the-run surgeon who fled UK to become jihadi

• Dr Mirza Tariq Ali believed to be a senior Pakistani Taliban commander
• Investigators working to investigate his links with Peshawar death squad
• Recently appeared in a chilling Taliban recruitment video in which he made threats against Pakistani military
• Fled UK last year after being accused of violent conduct at London rally
• Former NHS surgeon is a supporter of hate preacher Anjem Choudary

By DAVID WILLIAMS, JOHN HALL AND IMTIAZ HUSSAIN IN PESHAWAR FOR MAILONLINE

PUBLISHED: 20:07 GMT, 18 December 2014 | UPDATED: 00:58 GMT, 19 December 2014


Links between a fugitive NHS surgeon and commanders of the Taliban suicide cell who massacred 132 school children are being investigated by Pakistani intelligence officers.

Mirza Tariq Ali, who fled the UK last year to join jihadi forces, is said to be a senior Taliban commander hiding in the tribal areas of Pakistan with those who controlled the six gunmen responsible for Pakistan’s worst terrorist atrocity.

An associate in the UK of controversial hate preacher Anjem Choudary, the 39 year-old recently appeared in a chilling Taliban recruitment video threatening the Pakistan Army.

Significantly, the Taliban has admitted responsibility for the school atrocity and said it was to avenge the deaths of their women and children in a six-month long army offensive.

Ali, from East London, practised for nine years in London and Cambridge, and slipped out of the UK last year in a bid to travel to Syria to join the Islamic State while awaiting trial at the Old Bailey. However, he was detained by the Croatian authorities, before being deported to Pakistan, his country of origin, where he joined-up with the Taliban.

Investigators in Peshawar said yesterday that they believed several factions of the Pakistan Taliban – co-ordinated from neighbouring Afghanistan – were behind the attack on the Army Public School in the frontier city that killed 150.


In one chilling intercepted telephone call between the death squad and their commanders at the height of the slaughter, a gunman is said to ask : ‘We have killed all the children, now what do we do?’

He is told to wait for the arrival of the commandos trying to rescue the surviving children and detonate their suicide vests killing as many soldiers as possible.

Police and the Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) are said to have dozens of intercepted calls recorded before and during last Tuesday’s attack linked to Taliban commanders and co-ordinators on both sides of the Afghan border.

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Jihadi: Dr Mirza Tariq Ali has now emerged as a senior Pakistan Taliban commander and recently appeared in a chilling recruitment video (pictured) in which he made threats against the Pakistan army

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Hunted: The order for the school raid was given by the overall leader of the Pakistani Taliban Maulana Fazlullah (pictured) whose previous crimes include ordering the failed murder of teenage campaigner Malala

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In disguise: The six heavily armed men Taliban killers were photographed just hours before the massacre

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Taliban militant Hafiz Saeed Khan is understood to have been one of the Peshawar massacre masterminds

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Hafiz Saeed Khan (centre) is understood to be one of six commanders giving instructions to the killers

 

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Ali was also struck off by the Medical Practitioners Tribunal Service (MPTS) after a hearing in Manchester.

Speaking last month on a Taliban video in both Urdu and English, Ali said he did surgical training in London and ‘at the same time I called the non-Muslims to Islam’. He urged those fighting for the army in Pakistan to stop being ‘an ally of Kuffar (non-believers) and resisting against the implementation of Shariah.’

Up to 20 commanders believed to be linked to the Peshawar murders operating with different wings of the Taliban are said to have been involved in helping to orchestrate the outrage masterminded by Maulana Fazlullah, the group’s Pakistani commander.

Known as ‘Radio Mullah’ because of his previous propaganda broadcasts, Fazlullah is believed to be operating in the eastern Afghan provinces of Kunar and Nuristan, where Afghanistan’s military have little influence.

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Tragic scene: Pakistani journalists film and photograph inside an auditorium of the Army Public School

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Survivor Ehsan Elahi told how gunmen burst into the auditorium and fired at children for a full 10 minutes

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Chairs are upturned and blood stains the floor at the Army Public School auditorium

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Bleak: Pakistani soldiers walk amidst the debris as a journalist takes pictures behind them


He has ordered the murder of school children before. One of the targets of his hitmen was teenage education campaigner Malala Yousafzai, this year’s winner of the Nobel Peace Prize, who survived being shot in the head and now lives in England.

With unprecedented anger at the Taliban’s latest attack spreading across the country, Pakistan’s Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif has promised that terrorism will be defeated.

‘We have resolved to continue the war against terrorism till the last terrorist is eliminated,’ he said.

Mr Sharif has ordered the military to step-up attacks on the group despite the Taliban blaming operations in the tribal areas that have killed women and children as the reasons for the Peshawar ‘revenge’ attack.

The Pakistani Air Force carried out 20 airstrikes in a small Taliban stronghold in the north west of the country yesterday, killing at least 57 militants

 

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All over the world, terrorists have one thing in common lately; they're all influenced by this Anjem chaudhary. Why the !@#$ isn't he behind the bars?

 

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Depraved: The Taliban gunmen who slaughtered 148 innocent people, including 132 children, are pictured just hours before the massacre. The white banner they pose in front of is the flag of the Pakistani Taliban and reads: 'There is no God but Allah, and Muhammad is Allah's Messenger'

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Killers: Photographs of the six men responsible for murdering 132 children were released by the Taliban this morning, along with an emailed statement revealing the terrorists plan more attacks at schools in Pakistan

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Militants: All six gunmen were shot dead by Pakistan security officials - but not until they'd killed 132 children

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Warped: These two-cold blooded killers stare menacingly into the camera before carrying out the massacre

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Armed: Released by the terror group's spokesman Mohammad Khurasani a third group shot shows the same men wearing full military fatigues - an outfit that would outed them as Taliban to security guards

The remote handling of suicide attackers from the safety of neighbouring countries is not unusual in the region. The 2008 attack on the Indian city of Mumbai is said to have been commanded from the Pakistani port city of Karachi.

Afghan officials say that a number of major bombings on the capital Kabul were co-ordinated by handlers in Pakistan.

‘The belongings we got from suicide bombers involved in the Peshawar School attack provided us with clues, and our intelligence agencies shared some other very valuable information related to the planning and execution of this terrorist attack,’ a security officer said, referring to a meeting on Wednesday between Pakistani and Afghan intelligence agents.

In an act of defiance yesterday, several pupils who had been inside the school at the time of the shootings turned up at the gates to show their contempt for the Taliban gunmen, promising they would not be intimidated.

The Taliban has threatened more strikes on schools linked to the military but dressed in his green blazer yesterday Student Aakif Azeem, 18, insisted: ‘We want our revenge. We were all innocent and had absolutely nothing to do with this... You can rip up our school, you can take away our teachers, but you cannot take away our identity.'

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A group of Muslim men pray for the children butchered in Tuesday's Taliban attack on a military-run school

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Men pray for the victims of the school massacre at a service in Peshawar this morning

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Pakistan civil society activists hold placards during a protest against the Taliban militants this morning

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Pakistani members of the Christian minority light candles to pray for the victims of school attack in Peshawar

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A Pakistani Christian woman is seen deep prayer during a memorial for those killed in the school attack

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Grief: Christian Pakistani children take part in prayers for the victims of Tuesday's Taliban attack

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Vigil: Londoners pay tribute tonight to the innocent victims of Tuesday's Taliban attack in Peshawar

Recalling the moment the Taliban struck, he told the BBC said: ‘I was in the dining room when the gunmen started firing and one took a shot at me with a pistol, but the bullet ricocheted. There were children screaming and crying and there were bodies everywhere.’

‘The corridors were dripping with blood. Even the teachers were terrified... All I could think about was where my little brother was. Later I found out that out of a class of 25 who died, he was the only one who escaped unharmed,’

It was confirmed last night that a five-year-old girl named Khola Altaf was the youngest victim of the massacre - despite alleged instructions from Taliban commanders not to kill ‘small children’.

Khola is understood to have been on her first day the school’s kindergarten when gunmen burst into the room and reportedly shot her at point blank range.

PAKISTAN LIFTS MORATORIUM ON DEATH PENALTY FOR TERROR CONVICTS
Following the horrific terror attack on a school in Peshawar, Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif ordered the lifting of the moratorium on the death penalty for terror related cases in Pakistan.

The death penalty had been unofficially suspended since 2008, under the orders of President Asif Ali Zardari.

Following Zardari’s decision to retire in September 2013, renewed calls emerged for the death penalty to be re-stated for terror related crimes.

Nawaz Sharif was re-elected for a third term as Prime Minister in June 2013, promising to bring back the death penalty.

However, international pressure from human rights groups and threats of further violence from the Pakistani Taliban, forced Sharif to shelve his plans to re-instate the death penalty in late 2013.

Despite the ban, judges in Pakistan are still allowed to sentence convicted criminals to death row. Last year, 226 people were sentenced to death by Pakistani courts. Activists claim that Pakistan’s overcrowded jails contain the largest number of death row prisoners in the world.

Over 8,000 criminals are currently being held on death row. 800 of the prisoners have been sentenced for terror related crimes.

There has only been one execution in the last five years. Muhammed Hussein, a former soldier in the Pakistani army, was sentenced to death by a military court for murdering his senior officer in 2008. Hussein was hanged in Punjab province in 2012.




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[Khalidr]

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Sir i have a question here... the terrorists in the pic doesn't look like the one shot dead in Peshawar school, they are saying that picture is taken hours before terrorists activity but i don't see any one with long hairs except one while the pics of dead terrorist shows that almost every one was having long hair, i think the pics released by TTP is just propoganda and nothing more,

Plus there is no one with big beard while the dead bodies shows opposite, even the eye-witnessed children said so about their big beards and hairs..

 

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Sir i have a question here... the terrorists in the pic doesn't look like the one shot dead in Peshawar school, they are saying that picture is taken hours before terrorists activity but i don't see any one with long hairs except one while the pics of dead terrorist shows that almost every one was having long hair, i think the pics released by TTP is just propoganda and nothing more,

Plus there is no one with big beard while the dead bodies shows opposite, even the eye-witnessed children said so about their big beards and hairs..

Same here .... I even remembered that same case was with Karachi Airport attackers.

 

[Khalidr]

@Horus sir we need ur comments here, just a confusion is here

 

[Kompromat]

Those pics are from another op.

 

[thepakistani]

TTP is paid heavily for claiming the attack.
Pictures don't match at all. Enemy Secret agencies do attack and ttp claims. master mind hide behind ttp banner.

 

[Steve781]

All over the world, terrorists have one thing in common lately; they're all influenced by this Anjem chaudhary. Why the !@#$ isn't he behind the bars?

Because we have nothing on him. He says inflammatory things to whip up violence but makes sure to pick his words carefully so he can't be accused of directly inciting it.

 

[marbella]

TTP is paid heavily for claiming the attack.
Pictures don't match at all. Enemy Secret agencies do attack and ttp claims. master mind hide behind ttp banner.

exactly, Thats why no one should do anything to those poor ttp guys. Should find those secret enemy agencies and kill them!! ttp just get paid by claiming atacks they are pious ppl harm no one.

 

[Irfan Baloch]

Those pics are from another op.

the dead terrorists are mostly fair colored uzkebs

 

[marbella]

Have army or isi identified them?