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Al-Qaeda's spy killers spread terror in Pakistan
By Nadeem Sarwar and Safiullah Gul Mehsud Nov 3, 2011, 2:34 GMT
Peshawar, Pakistan - Ayub Khan was on his way home when masked men, dressed in black and carrying AK-47 assault rifles, pulled him out of a minibus on a summer evening in Pakistan's north-western tribal district of North Waziristan.

For the next 15 days he was tortured, and threatened with execution if he did not admit that he was a US spy providing information that led CIA-operated unmanned aircraft to their targets.

Khan, a pseudonym, managed to convince his captors that he was not a spy and was released with broken bones and holes in his feet, made by an electric drill.

Many others picked up since February 2009 were not so lucky. That was when al-Qaeda launched its new group, Ittehad-e-Mujahideen Khorasan, to spot and kill spies as the US intensified drone attacks in Pakistan's seven tribal districts, where Taliban and al-Qaeda have bases. The terrorist group has executed up to 250 people on charges of espionage.

Missiles fired from unmanned aircraft have hit al-Qaeda hard, killing several dozen of their high-ranking leaders and operatives.

US officials have described as a success the killing of al-Qaeda's suspected chief of operations, Atiyah Abd al-Rahman, in August, and that of his replacement Hafs al-Shahri, a Saudi national, three weeks later.

Drones are armed with sophisticated technology and night-vision instruments but picking the right target is not possible without an intelligence network on the ground.

Agents among the local population identify and locate the target and guide the missiles fired from the drones with equipment that is supplied to them.

Sometimes agents give the location of the target through satellite phones to CIA stations in Afghanistan and the information is relayed to the drone operators, Taliban sources and Pakistani intelligence officials said.

The militants want to break this network by eliminating the suspected agents in a way that creates fear among the local population. The suspects are abducted, tortured to get information, and then killed. Their bodies are dumped along the road with a warning that 'every US spy will face the same fate.'

With its headquarters in the Machikhel area of Mirali sub-district in North Waziristan, the anti-spy militia is primarily an offshoot of the Jihad Islamic Union (JIU), which itself is a faction of the larger Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan movement.

Due to and old and trustworthy alliance, al-Qaeda has brought JIU to the forefront for day-to-day operations in Pakistan's tribal region as its own main leadership goes further into hiding from the drone attacks. The JIU is also mainly responsible for recruitment from European countries for al-Qaeda.

The current head of Ittehad-e-Mujahideen Khorasan is a 35-year-old Saudi, known locally by the alias Mufti Abdul Jabbar. He came to North Waziristan in 2002, and has learned the local customs and language.

Khorasan members are believed to number around 2,000 with some 60 per cent from Central Asia, 20 per cent Arabs and the rest made up of locals and Islamist militants from Pakistan's largest province of Punjab, according to Pakistani intelligence sources.

The Khorasan group has a 15-member council that decides the fate of a person accused of espionage. Suspects are held at one of the at least 10 private jails in the Miramshah, Mir Ali and Datakhel areas of North Waziristan before being either released or condemned to death. There is no middle way, at least for the Khorasan group.

This policy has created differences with their hosts, the Pakistani Taliban, especially the local militant commander Hafiz Gul Bahadur.

Bahadur has maintained a balance over the years by allying himself with the local tribesmen and by making deals with the Pakistani government. He focuses mainly on supporting the Taliban's cross-border attacks on NATO forces in Afghanistan, and avoids any activity against Pakistan, unlike some other local Taliban groups.

But the al-Qaeda Khorasan group is disturbing the balance by making Bahadur's tribesmen angry with their acts of cruelty.

'I don't know where these animals have come from. They have no regard for Islam, life, respect or the property of a man,' said a tribal elder from Mir Ali who spoke on condition of anonymity.

'We have tried to correct them but all repeated attempts to reform them have failed,' Bahadur told tribesmen in a leaflet circulated last month in North Waziristan.

In a defiant gesture, the Khorasan group also distributed a pamphlet, vowing that they would bring every 'enemy of Islam to justice' and warned that the group could adopt any means, even those that deviated from its 'customary approach,' to acheive its objectives.

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Sigh, where is Imran Khan when you need him the most ? I would like to see a Khorasan dharna more than a drone dharna.
 
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Your last line really puzzled me, we would also like Anna Hazare to have some rallies on other things as well, like the naxal problem, and much more.

But then it would constitute as trolling on my part!
 
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Well isn't IK interested in the issue of "violation of sovereignty" by the drones ? In that respect, aren't the Khorasan group(who are mainly outsiders) too violating the sovereignty by massacring innocent civvies ? Anna Hazare has always been for the "institutionalized prevention through legislation" of corruption, and since Naxals are not part of the institution nor are they involved with corruption, why would he rally against the naxal movement ?
 
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Well isn't IK interested in the issue of "violation of sovereignty" by the drones ? In that respect, aren't the Khorasan group(who are mainly outsiders) too violating the sovereignty by massacring innocent civvies ? Anna Hazare has always been for the "institutionalized prevention through legislation" of corruption, and since Naxals are not part of the institution nor are they involved with corruption, why would he rally against the naxal movement ?

I just gave an example, that I , or many Pakistanis for that matter, do not post about what the Indian should or should not do, we kep to our own country, what do you know about what does Imran Khan do, I am not supporting him to the extreme, I have some problems with him on a couple of issues, but I fond him a sincere person.

I suggest you keep these kind of examples to yourself.
 
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^^^ If you are to judge a person as a leader, one thing that he should be, is to be someone with integrity, without hypocrisy, uncompromising on his principled stand (whatever he takes), and above all a person for the people. This single article violates all the mentioned principles of being a good leader. Change is good, change is welcomed, but change should be for the overall good in the longest-possible interests of the people. I just wish you rethink about his message of change as a long lasting one.
 
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^^^ If you are to judge a person as a leader, one thing that he should be, is to be someone with integrity, without hypocrisy, uncompromising on his principled stand (whatever he takes), and above all a person for the people. This single article violates all the mentioned principles of being a good leader. Change is good, change is welcomed, but change should be for the overall good in the longest-possible interests of the people. I just wish you rethink about his message of change as a long lasting one.

So, what are you saying, he should be holding rallies against this Taliban and extremist problem?

If yes, then everybody, with or without holding rallies, that this is a problem, and IK need not hold rallies to highlight this issue. And he and everybody else knows that the Government and military is tackling this issue. The drones are held by another state, TTP are not a state.
 
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So, what are you saying, he should be holding rallies against this Taliban and extremist problem?

If yes, then everybody, with or without holding rallies, that this is a problem, and IK need not hold rallies to highlight this issue. And he and everybody else knows that the Government and military is tackling this issue. The drones are held by another state, TTP are not a state.
So you mean to say that the Khorasan unit, comprised of 80% foreigners from CAR and Sauds, are fine since they do not represent the state (meaning they are non-state actors), but US, which bombs and drones Pakistan is condemnable since they are by the state ? What kind of logic is this ? Lives are lives whether taken by state sponsors or non-state sponsors.
 
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Al-Qaeda's spy killers spread terror in Pakistan
By Nadeem Sarwar and Safiullah Gul Mehsud Nov 3, 2011, 2:34 GMT
Peshawar, Pakistan - Ayub Khan was on his way home when masked men, dressed in black and carrying AK-47 assault rifles, pulled him out of a minibus on a summer evening in Pakistan's north-western tribal district of North Waziristan.

For the next 15 days he was tortured, and threatened with execution if he did not admit that he was a US spy providing information that led CIA-operated unmanned aircraft to their targets.

Khan, a pseudonym, managed to convince his captors that he was not a spy and was released with broken bones and holes in his feet, made by an electric drill.

Many others picked up since February 2009 were not so lucky. That was when al-Qaeda launched its new group, Ittehad-e-Mujahideen Khorasan, to spot and kill spies as the US intensified drone attacks in Pakistan's seven tribal districts, where Taliban and al-Qaeda have bases. The terrorist group has executed up to 250 people on charges of espionage.

Missiles fired from unmanned aircraft have hit al-Qaeda hard, killing several dozen of their high-ranking leaders and operatives.

US officials have described as a success the killing of al-Qaeda's suspected chief of operations, Atiyah Abd al-Rahman, in August, and that of his replacement Hafs al-Shahri, a Saudi national, three weeks later.

Drones are armed with sophisticated technology and night-vision instruments but picking the right target is not possible without an intelligence network on the ground.

Agents among the local population identify and locate the target and guide the missiles fired from the drones with equipment that is supplied to them.

Sometimes agents give the location of the target through satellite phones to CIA stations in Afghanistan and the information is relayed to the drone operators, Taliban sources and Pakistani intelligence officials said.

The militants want to break this network by eliminating the suspected agents in a way that creates fear among the local population. The suspects are abducted, tortured to get information, and then killed. Their bodies are dumped along the road with a warning that 'every US spy will face the same fate.'

With its headquarters in the Machikhel area of Mirali sub-district in North Waziristan, the anti-spy militia is primarily an offshoot of the Jihad Islamic Union (JIU), which itself is a faction of the larger Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan movement.

Due to and old and trustworthy alliance, al-Qaeda has brought JIU to the forefront for day-to-day operations in Pakistan's tribal region as its own main leadership goes further into hiding from the drone attacks. The JIU is also mainly responsible for recruitment from European countries for al-Qaeda.

The current head of Ittehad-e-Mujahideen Khorasan is a 35-year-old Saudi, known locally by the alias Mufti Abdul Jabbar. He came to North Waziristan in 2002, and has learned the local customs and language.

Khorasan members are believed to number around 2,000 with some 60 per cent from Central Asia, 20 per cent Arabs and the rest made up of locals and Islamist militants from Pakistan's largest province of Punjab, according to Pakistani intelligence sources.

The Khorasan group has a 15-member council that decides the fate of a person accused of espionage. Suspects are held at one of the at least 10 private jails in the Miramshah, Mir Ali and Datakhel areas of North Waziristan before being either released or condemned to death. There is no middle way, at least for the Khorasan group.

This policy has created differences with their hosts, the Pakistani Taliban, especially the local militant commander Hafiz Gul Bahadur.

Bahadur has maintained a balance over the years by allying himself with the local tribesmen and by making deals with the Pakistani government. He focuses mainly on supporting the Taliban's cross-border attacks on NATO forces in Afghanistan, and avoids any activity against Pakistan, unlike some other local Taliban groups.

But the al-Qaeda Khorasan group is disturbing the balance by making Bahadur's tribesmen angry with their acts of cruelty.

'I don't know where these animals have come from. They have no regard for Islam, life, respect or the property of a man,' said a tribal elder from Mir Ali who spoke on condition of anonymity.

'We have tried to correct them but all repeated attempts to reform them have failed,' Bahadur told tribesmen in a leaflet circulated last month in North Waziristan.

In a defiant gesture, the Khorasan group also distributed a pamphlet, vowing that they would bring every 'enemy of Islam to justice' and warned that the group could adopt any means, even those that deviated from its 'customary approach,' to acheive its objectives.

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Sigh, where is Imran Khan when you need him the most ? I would like to see a Khorasan dharna more than a drone dharna.
Sir! these Alqaeda! pplz are all from the CIA/Mosaad/MI6 thats why they don't like the local Talibans. They are real evils and animals...Insha-Allah their time is very little ...they will be bulldozed to death....and we will get rid of these Devilz very soon alongwith their sponsors/masterz.....Insha-Allah.....:smokin:
 
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TTP & Qaida must be eliminated from Pakistani soil, Pakistan Army must crush them as their ideology & thinkings are REAL THREAT upon Pakistanis & Pakistani culture. Even if they ask for any deal, Pak Army should demand them of leaving Pakistan first, these animals cannot be trusted.

It will be very stupid & dumb move if any peace deal is done with these animal groups.
 
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So you mean to say that the Khorasan unit, comprised of 80% foreigners from CAR and Sauds, are fine since they do not represent the state (meaning they are non-state actors), but US, which bombs and drones Pakistan is condemnable since they are by the state ? What kind of logic is this ? Lives are lives whether taken by state sponsors or non-state sponsors.

You got my meaning wrong.

Yes, lives are being lost, and each and every life is valuable, killed by anyone.

My point is, that the terrorist insurgency is being taken care of by military action and by other means, so IK may not protest against it, since they are being dealt with.

On, the other hand, drone attacks are happening with the knowledge of the Pakistani establishment, but still, they do nothing to protect Pakistani citizens, so that is why IK protests against drones.
 
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You got my meaning wrong.

Yes, lives are being lost, and each and every life is valuable, killed by anyone.

My point is, that the terrorist insurgency is being taken care of by military action and by other means, so IK may not protest against it, since they are being dealt with.

On, the other hand, drone attacks are happening with the knowledge of the Pakistani establishment, but still, they do nothing to protect Pakistani citizens, so that is why IK protests against drones.

but he is lip tight about the terrorists in NW which is violating your Sovereignty of Pakistan and attacking us in afghanistan.
 
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but he is lip tight about the terrorists in NW which is violating your Sovereignty of Pakistan and attacking us in afghanistan.

Because he knows that operation is being taken against them, he knows that the army is already stretched a bit in SW, and the operation will be taken in NW in due course of time.

He knows that the government acknowledges the terrorist problem sincerely, but they are not sincere in tackling the drone issue.

Both of them are violating our sovereignty , but the difference is, steps are taken against terrorists, but not drones.


BTW, good thing to highlight only that part, you could have read the post before that you know.
 
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Because he knows that operation is being taken against them, he knows that the army is already stretched a bit in SW, and the operation will be taken in NW in due course of time.

He knows that the government acknowledges the terrorist problem sincerely, but they are not sincere in tackling the drone issue.

Both of them are violating our sovereignty , but the difference is, steps are taken against terrorists, but not drones.


BTW, good thing to highlight only that part, you could have read the post before that you know.

not steps has been taken against the terrorists in NW, and i suspect that the right time will never come either to tackle them, after all, haqani is pakistani.
 
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Is it not sad that Taliban terrorists kidnap their own people on one pretext or another and then kill them ruthlessly? This is not for justice but just to show their brutal power. The conspiracy theorists always look to move the narrative into a different direction. Look at them in their own released video: latest unseen & Monstrous video of HAQANI netwrk frm North Waziristan Miranshah Killing Pashtuns - YouTube
If Taliban are not our enemy, then why have we been asking Pakistan to act against their safe havens within Northern Pakistan?

Taliban and Al Qaeda are no one’s friend; they are the enemy of peace loving people all over the world. Their only agenda is to kill and with brute force rule over poor people while depriving them of all their natural rights. We have seen them in Afghanistan and more recently in Swat and we all know what they did there. For a better future and peace in the region, there is no way out but to eliminate the menace called Taliban.

Maj David Nevers
DET-United States Central Command
U.S. Central Command
 
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