Terror attacks in Saudi Arabia point to Hafiz Saeed's recruitment campaign

[guyhandz]

BRUSSELS (BELGIUM): European Parliament's Vice-President Ryszard Czarneck, in a scathing editorial titled 'Wake up call to Anti-terrorism Ayatollahs', has said that the recent Ramzan terror attacks in Saudi Arabia have signalled the arrival of theLashkar-e-Taiba's "humanitarian" NGO Falah-e-Insaniyat Foundation (FIF) as being the source for terror attack on Medina.

Czarneck mentions in his article that ever since the ISIS's exponential proliferation in the Middle East, the activities of Pakistani-linked Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) and its sister concern Falah-e-Insaniyat (FIF) have also picked up. Earlier, Lashkar and Falah-e-Insaniyat's activities were dismissed as being primarily focused on India. However, the recent terror attacks in Medina have changed that opinion.

"The arrest of 12 Pakistanis for the suicide attacks in Medina, the western city of Jeddah, and the eastern city of Qatif, has made even the Saudis sit up and take note. One of the arrested ring leaders is Abdullah Qalzar Khan (34), a driver by profession and a resident of Jiddah for over a decade. His arrest shows FIF's quiet ways of radicalisation of the Pakistani diaspora, to pump prime the LeT's campaign for a new Islamist world order based on Sharia - religious and temporal practices that date back to the days of Prophet Muhammad," writes Czarneck.

The FIF is a 'charitable' organization started by Hafiz Saeed, the perpetrator of the Mumbai terror attacks in 2008. Czarneck writes that the FIF in its operations doubles up as a recruitment agency for affected, radicalized youth. Whilst distributing blankets in Syria, distributing knick-knacks during prayer time in Gaza or distributing relief material during the Nepal earthquake, organizations like LeT soon follow their FIF comrades into an indoctrination/recruitment campaign.

An example of FIF founder Hafiz Saeed's indoctrination tool can be seen in the recruitment of Ghulam Mustafa Rama, the man behind the 2001 shoe bomber, Richard C Reid. From a butcher shop in Northern Paris, Rama graduated to becoming the French face of the Hafiz Saeed-floated religious organization Markaz Dawa ul-Irshad. He remained in touch with his Pakistani handlers via a call center operated by his countryman and eventually provided logistical support to the 'shoe bomber' Richard Reid in December 2001.


Hafiz Saeed has tapped the Pakistani diaspora abroad to recruit terrorists in the past; in 2003 Faheed Khalid Lodhi was planning a series of bomb blasts to attack the National Electricity Grid in Australia among other Australian Defense installations. Lodhi's arrest led to a direct link with LeT.


The FIF/JuD supremo's recruitment prowess hasn't waned as the years have passed. According to the Sunday Times, three months ago, Hafiz Saeed tapped into one of the accused in the Mumbai 2008 attacks, Muhammad Ghani Usma, a veteran bomb-maker for LeT and sent Usman via the refugee route into Europe. Luckily, Usman was nabbed at a Austrian refugee center before he could carry out the task he was assigned.
"From Paris to Salzburg, from Sydney to Kathmandu, and from Italy to Belgium, it has been a long footprint for the Falah-e-Insaniyat Foundation, and its master Hafeez Saeed and the LeT. Yet, the Western anti-terrorism Ayatollahs have not given its apparatchiks a run for their money - a sad commentary by itself on the way the world looks at the 21st century phenomenon of terrorism, that has no parallels when viewed through the tinted glasses of a bygone era," writes European Parliament Vice-President Ryszard Czarnecki.
LeT and other Pakistani terror organizations that are spawned by ideologues who believe in a militant Sharia world order are working overtime in recruitment and are a threat that needs to be tackled head on, wrote the European Parliament Vice-President.

http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/...recruitment-campaign/articleshow/53153184.cms

 

[salarsikander]

Reported by Toilet of India, No wonder the obsession

 

[Pomegranate]

says times of india haha ....... they are making fools of themselves .

 

[Tripoli]

 

[!eon]

Pathetic indian trolls. They don't even check if same garbage is already posted or not

 

[jermankill]

bullhit$

waste of words if anything say more on this so just bullshittttt

 

[haviZsultan]

This is how India operates, particularly its intelligence which I know has tried to frame my people. Despite killing, maiming, torturing and raping innocents they have succeeded in making the world think like them, especially the west. India's soft power is rising despite the atrocities it has committed and this should be stopped.

 

[DesiGuy1403]

When u breed snakes to kill others, there will no guarantee the snakes won't bite you as well.

 

[proud_indian]

Wake Up Call to Anti-Terrorism Ayatollahs
Posted by Ryszard Czarnecki, Vice President, European Parliament on 10th July 2016

Written by: Ryszard Czarnecki, Vice President, European Parliament on July 10, 2016.


Bloodshed, chaos and death during the holy month of Ramadan in Saudi Arabia, the home to Islam’s holiest sites, signal the arrival of the Falah-e-Insaniyat Foundation (FIF) from the shadows of its parent, the Lashkar-e-Toiba (LeT). Both FIF and LeT have been active in the Middle East from around the time the ISIS made its presence felt, but nobody took them seriously, treating the LeT as Kashmir and India centric and the FIF as a fledgling humanitarian NGO.

The arrest of 12 Pakistanis for the suicide attacks in Medina, the western city of Jeddah, and the eastern city of Qatif, has made even the Saudis sit up and take note. One of the arrested ring leaders is Abdullah Qalzar Khan (34), a driver by profession and a resident of Jiddah for over a decade. His arrest shows FIF’s quiet ways of radicalisation of the Pakistani diaspora, to pump prime the LeT’s campaign for a new Islamist world order based on Sharia – religious and temporal practices that date back to the days of Prophet Muhammad.

LeT/FIF are not alone in their dream of reviving the Caliphate of the Middle Ages. The ISIS, variously known as Islamic State (IS) and Daesh, too is committed to the Caliphate.

The FIF’s low key charity services have helped the ISIS cause in Syria and in the Jordan-Turkey border region where hundreds of Syrian refugees are living in tents. This is notwithstanding a public spat between IS and LeT last year, triggered by the IS charge that LeT is a lackey of the Pakistani state.

The charges provided a perfect smoke screen to hide, from the western eyes, their close nexus on the ground. Meanwhile the FIF, the so-called charity front of the LeT, has been softly targeting the Pakistanis, who have made the region their home. There are around one and a half million Pakistanis in Saudi Arabia alone.

The US State Department’s tryst with the FIF illustrates the flipside of the fight against Islamist terrorism. Though the FIF was added to the list of proscribed organisations in November 2010, it has not only survived, but in fact spread its network, tapping into the Pakistani diaspora.

In strife-torn Syria, the FIF has won hearts by distributing blankets in the winter in the worst-hit Northern province. And in the Gaza Strip it has been doling out gifts to young and old alike at prayer time. Shelter homes in North Aceh for Myanmar’s Rohingya Muslims have given it a talking point. So is the relief material distributed in quake hit Nepal last year, and war ravaged Afghanistan.The relief operations have provided a perfect cover to the LeT to broaden and deepen its Islamist campaign.

Take the case of Ghulam Mustafa Rama, the man behind the 2001 shoe bomber, Richard C. Reid. Mustafa had made Barbes-Rochechouart district of northern Paris his home for over 20 years. Like Abdullah Qalzar Khan, his was a nondescript life. He ran a butcher shop for a living, and became the French face of Markaz Dawa al-Irshad (MDI), the religious organisation floated by LeT Chief Hafiz Mohammad Saeed in 1986, as a front of the mother organization, much like the FIF.

According to The New York Times, Rama remained in touch with his ‘superiors’ back home in Pakistan through an international telephone call centre owned by another Pakistani national. He had provided logistic and other support to Reid,tasked to blow up American Airlines Flight 63 from Paris to Miami in Dec 2001, with explosives hidden in the soles of his black high-top hiking shoes.

In down under, Hafeez Saeed turned to Pakistani migrants and picked up Faheem Khalid Lodhi (34) in October 2003. According to the Australian police, Lodhi worked on a “a plot to bomb the national electricity grid or Sydney defence sites like the Victoria Barracks, HMAS Penguin naval base, and Holsworthy Barracks in the cause of violent jihad”.

Lodhi’s accomplices were French convert to Islam, Mohammed Abderrahman aka Willie Brigitte, and Izhar Ul-Haque, a 21-year-old medical student. Both had received training with LeT, the Sydney Morning Herald reported, quoting the prosecution.

Hafeez had also master-minded the terror attack in the Indian city of Mumbai in November 2008, in which 164 people were killed. He tapped Brescia (Italy)-based Madina Trading Corporation, run by Pakistani national Mohammad Yaqub Janijua and his son, to transfer money to the US and India through havala (illegal non-banking channels) for Lashkar commanders, who had guided the attackers in Mumbai.

LeT operative Syed Ziauddin Ansari sent money to India from Saudi Arabia at least twice after the Mumbai attack. LeT commander Sajid Mir is said to regularly organise such money transfers, routed through, or targeting, Europe and Australia.


In May, 2003, for instance, UK-based Lashkar financier Shahzad Ashraf routed funds from Mir for Brigitte’s finally-unsuccessful operation.Brigitte collected the money from two Paris-based Pakistani nationals Maradi Din Sheikh and Hussain Fazal. Both men were linked to Ghulam Mustafa Rama.

Just three months ago, in April this year, LeT supremo Hafeez Seed used the refugee route to send Muhammad Ghani Usman, a bomb expert, to Europe. According to The Sunday Times, the mission failed as the Austrian Police nabbed Usman in Salzburg. He had entered Europe posing as a Syrian refugee, and was not alone. His luck was short-lived though.

From Paris to Salzburg, from Sydney to Kathmandu, and from Italy to Belgium it has been a long footprint for the Falah-e-Insaniyat Foundation, and its master Hafeez Saeed and the LeT. Yet, the Western anti-terrorism Ayatollahs have not given its apparatchiks a run for their money — a sad commentary by itself on the way the world looks at the 21st century phenomenon of terrorism, that has no parallels when viewed through the tinted glasses of a bygone era.

LeT and its clones in the terrorism business are not plotting to overthrow established governments from a remote cave in a highland, but are working through diaspora and refugees, and through human trafficking routes by radicalising them with instruments like the FIF, to tap simmering discontent and to create mayhem as their holy endeavour.

The FIFs of the world should be frontally attacked and made immobile instead of waiting for the day when they expose their feet and hands in blood. There are no short cuts to terror-nirvana.

PS: Author is the Vice-President of the European Parliament and former minister in Polish cabinet.

http://eptoday.com/wake-up-call-to-anti-terrorism-ayatollahs/​

 

[The Eagle]

What on earth..... they can think that a Muslim will attack his very sacred and holy place in the most holy month of Ramzan but wait, anti-Pak is best selling topic/book in our neighborhoods (Afghan & India) nowadays. The terrorism has no religion indeed.