Ilias Kashmiri Killed

[American Eagle]

Here is the Saturday, June 4, 2011 story from DAWN:

Harkatul Jihad al-Islami confirms Ilyas Kashmiri killedAgencies
(4 hours ago) Today

This file photo taken on July 11, 2001 shows Mohammad Ilyas Kashmiri, commander-in-chief of the Kashmiri militant group Harkatul Jihad al-Islami, addressing a press conference in Islamabad. — Photo by AFP

ISLAMABAD: A US drone attack that killed nine militants in South Waziristan targeted and killed top al Qaeda commander and chief of the Harkatul Jihad al-Islami (HJI) Ilyas Kashmiri, local officials said Saturday.

Moreover, an HJI spokesman confirmed that Kashmiri had been killed, DawnNews reported.

Kashmiri, 47, was considered one of the most feared operational commanders of the network that Osama bin Laden founded and has been blamed for a string of high-profile attacks on western targets, as well as in India and Pakistan.

The United States had put out a $5 million reward — the maximum for any most-wanted target — for any information that might help locate him.

Pakistani officials said nine militants were killed in the US missile strike on Friday at a compound in the Ghwakhwa area of South Waziristan, a stronghold of al-Qaeda-allied Taliban despite a sweeping Pakistani offensive in 2009.

“Nine militants were killed in last night’s drone strike,” a security official in Peshawar told AFP.

“All those killed were Kashmiri’s fighters but informers told us that the dead bodies were badly mutilated and that it was not possible to recognise any of them,” the official added.

Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani, asked during a visit to the city of Multan about reports of Kashmiri’s killing, said he had “no information”.

Regional and anti-terrorism experts say that Kashmiri was one of al Qaeda’s main operational commanders.

He was blamed for multiple attacks in Pakistan, including the recent May 22 siege on a naval air base in Karachi.

Counter-terrorism officials believe he was the main coordinator of a terror plot targeting Britain, France, Germany and the United States, which was apparently in the early stages when detected by intelligence agencies in 2010.

Two intelligence officials in Wana, the main town of South Waziristan, also confirmed that those killed on Friday were all Kashmiri’s fighters.

 

[VelocuR]

Isn't this one of five terrorists given by US deadline in July? Illyas Kashmris is one of them. http://www.defence.pk/forums/pakist...e-kashmiri-mullah-omar-july-us-warns-pak.html

 

[WARRANT]

This news will be a big boost for US led NATO forces.

Now rest of the ones in the list will be a worried lot and may move to other places.

 

[Saifullah Sani]

Yeah.. you are right.. A person declared as a terrorist by UNO and Pakistan govt should not be defamed...

we have independent courts go and fight your case

 

[foxbat]

They have killed 60 Pakistanis and their acts were blamed on Pakistan too, thanks to your Late ATS chief Karkare who had guts to unconver this conspiracy.

Sadly your country does not have anyone like Karkare. Thats why people like Purohit are in jail and thousands of terrorists roam freely in Pakistan

 

[WARRANT]

we have independent courts go and fight your case

Your courts have been ridiculed many times by media persons and other eminent personalities inside Pakistan for not a acting rightly and letting loose criminals. Read some of your own media reports for a change.

 

[aks18]

Another topi drama by Americans and their media and their funded talibans.

 

[Saifullah Sani]

Sadly your country does not have anyone like Karkare. Thats why people like Purohit are in jail and thousands of terrorists roam freely in Pakistan

Witness account of Karkare, Kamte and Salaskar’s death

Mumbai A constable, who was in the hijacked Mumbai police vehicle, survived the Wednesday night mayhem to recount the horror of how ATS chief Hemant Karkare and two other top officers of Mumbai police were gunned down inside the Toyota Qualis by a terrorist duo fleeing from CST.

Injured Constable Arun Jadhav was in the vehicle whose tyre burst when the desperadoes had commandeered it in their attempt to flee from police chase.

Karkare, encounter specialist Vijay Salaskar and Additional Commissioner of Police Ashok Kamte, who were all travelling in the same vehicle, were shot dead along with three constables by the terrorists.

The top officers were on way to Cama Hospital, just a 10-minute drive from CST station, to check on another injured officer Sadanand Date.

"When we were informed that Sadanand Date has been injured at the firing in Cama Hospital Karkare, Kamte, Salaskar and four constables left from CST to the spot.

"Five minutes later, two persons carrying AK-47 rifles emerged from behind a tree and started firing at out vehicle," said Jadhav, who was hit by two bullets in his right arm and is recuperating in the Bombay Hospital.

Sitting on his bed on the 14th floor of the hospital, Jadhav, who has been in the police service for the past 12 years, said the exact number of shots fired at the police car was not known, but the three top officers and as many constables were killed on the spot. Jadhav was the only person in the vehicle who survived.

"I have been working with Salaskar my entire police career but I could not do anything to save his life," he said with tears rolling down his eyes.

While Salaskar was at the wheel, Kamte was in the front seat and Karkare in the second row with the four Constables, including Jadhav, at the back seat.

"The two terrorists then came up to our vehicle and pulled out Karkare, Kamte and Salaskar's bodies out and threw them on the road. Thinking that we (Constables) are also dead, the terrorists then got into the car and started driving towards Metro junction," Jadhav said.

They fired three rounds at journalists and police vans standing at Metro junction and then sped away towards Vidhan Bhawan in south Mumbai, where again they fired some rounds.

"The terrorists then started driving from Vidhan Bhawan when the car's tyre burst. They then got off the car and ran towards another vehicle," he said.

Jadhav then got in touch with the police control and informed them about the death of Karkare, Kamte, Salaskar and the three Constables.

"Additional Commissioner of Police (ATS) Parambir Singh and other police officers then rushed to the spot and took the bodies to St George hospital," Jadhav said.
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Witness account of Karkare, Kamte and Salaskar’s death - Express India

 

[aks18]

Now how about taking out the next most wanted terrorist, Dawood Abraham - an Indian citizen enjoying Pakistani hospitality for the past couple of decades and the most wanted by Interpol?? Here's his address...

WHITE HOUSE
HOUSE NU 37 - 30TH STREET
DEFENCE, HOUSING AUTHORITY
NEAR SAUDI MOSQUE, CLIFTON in KARACHI (Pakistan)

Dawood's villa in upmarket Clifton area

But according to the Pakistani government, he never lived in Pakistan!!!

Dawood bhai would love to see his villa at PDF

 

[foxbat]

Was Ilyas Kashmiri from Kashmir?

He was a rogue Special Services Group (SSG) soldier from Pakistan Army

 

[Roby]

good riddance...

 

[foxbat]

we have independent courts go and fight your case

Dont need to.. USA is doing the job of hunting down terrorists hiding within Pakistan pretty well without the need to go to courts..

 

[T-Faz]

He was a rogue Special Services Group (SSG) soldier from Pakistan Army

No he wasn't, that was a BS rumor started by that Jihadi lunatic Hamir Mir.

 

[foxbat]

Dawood bhai would love to see his villa at PDF

The love for the terrorist --- the bane of Pakistan society.. Keep on with it and next few years will make last few look like a walk in the park ..

 

[Xeric]

Ilyas Kashmiri's 313 Brigade/Harkat-ul Jihad Al-Islami confirms his death in a drone attack last night at 11:15. Vows revenge on the U.S.

--Guud riddance ??