http://www.thenewspapertoday.com/specials/index.phtml?SPECIALS=USBOMBING/COVER
"We should now target India" On September 16, 1999, the world's most wanted terrorist, Saudi dissident Osama bin Laden, called for an all out jehad against India and the United States. In a statement issued from Farmihadda, once a Soviet-style collective farm in southern Jalalabad (in Afghanistan) and now one of the places where Osama Bin Laden lives, he declared: "India and America are our biggest enemies... all mujahideen groups in Pakistan should come together now to target India." Now, that the jehadis have realised their first dream, attacking the US, it is for India to be prepared for militias’ fresh offensive against the country. TheNewspaperToday presents an exhaustive package on the world’s most wanted terrorist: analysis, Laden’s training and logistic camps, his profile, etc. By Jason Burke in Islamabad and Harinder Baweja
"He also said it was necessary to wage jihad against America, for "occupying" Saudi Arabia. This jihad is the particular obsession of the Saudi exile Osama bin Laden: the struggle to evict American troops from Saudi Arabia, who are there at the invitation of the Saudi king. Samiul Haq says he believes that these troops are polluting holy soil. A jihad, then, is compulsory. And in a jihad, he said, these American troops are targets.."
Gannon, Kathy. "A Call to Arms: Bin Laden Appeals to Muslim Youth to Fight United States."
http://more.abcnews.go.com/sections/world/dailynews/binladen000418.html
"On fences and car windows throughout northwestern Pakistan, small posters are popping up carrying a message to Muslim youth from suspected terrorist Osama bin Laden: Join a holy war to the death against the United States. In another message circulating in Pakistan, the Taliban’s supreme leader, Mullah Mohammed Omar, vowed Afghanistan would never revoke the refuge given bin Laden, one of the 10 most wanted men in the United States."
quote: "Amrika , russia pani ke reley ki tarah beh jayenge.Yeh Kudrati amal hai"
Translation: America and russia will flow away like water.
quote: "Amrika musalmaanon ka dushman hain, Amrika ko is duniya mein rehne ka haq nahin hain"
Translation: America is the enemy of muslims. America has no right
to exist in this world
Part II
http://www.sreevideos.com/indianews/library/weekly/aa123100b.htm
"Twenty "operators" left Bombay for Dubai on different dates in February, 1993. They left Dubai in three groups by PIA flights on February 9, 13 and 20, 1993. From Islamabad Airport they were driven off in a covered vehicle, having been spared the Immigration procedures. It was a two hours drive through a detour to desolate camp from the Islamabad Airport. The dressage was severe, professional, sparing little details, comprised physical exercises, use of Improvised Explosive Devices (IED), handling of grenades and marksmanship with Kalashnikov rifles. The operators were briefed specially to target shopping centers, bridges, car parking areas, crowded localities and temples. The damage was to be quick, final and gruesome. The schooling complete, the departure of the runners from Islamabad to Dubai, on 1st March, 1993 was again arranged sans Immigration formalities. "
Part III
http://www.sreevideos.com/indianews/library/weekly/aa123100c.htm
"Before stepping down as Pakistan President in July 1993, Ahmed reveals,
Ishaq Khan told Sharief that the impetus for these blasts came from ISI
chief Lt General Javed Nasir. Muneer Ahmed faced a sedition case in 1994
for his book on the intelligence agencies' political role in Pakistan.
The present book, too, highlights the army and ISI's role in the country's
political instability. Ishaq Khan said he had proof to show how the Memon
brothers, the key accused in the blasts case, were kept in Karachi as government
guests, how they were brought to Pakistan and then transported to Dubai.
Tiger Memon's first assignment was to select targets for bombing. The targets
were to be such as to cause maximum human damage. Death : Fine; Grievous
Injuries : Not bad; Devastation to property : Welcome. Memon memorized
it all, with a will and wherewithal to implement to the last details, which
he did. He did it well after getting briefings, with the help of his reconnaissance
team that surveyed the spots. Clean. Tiger Memon purchased new vehicles
to be used as vehicle bombs in fictitious names by making payments in cash.
The fleet included an Ambassador car, Maruti vans, Maruti cars, Mahendra
jeeps and Bajaj scooters. RDX mixed with shrapnel, nails, bolts etc., was
filled in the boot cavities specially engineered on the vehicles. As a
last minute foresight, on 10th and 11th of March, 1993, Tiger Memon sent
his family to Dubai in two batches later to proceed for Karachi by flight
PK-214 on March 17,1993, fearing reprisals. After filling in on his team
desperadoes, Tiger Memon himself left for Dubai in the early hours of March
12, 1993. "
Pakistan, Taliban and Musharraf
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