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...practical level, Pakistani extremist groups such as Jaish-e-Mohammad shared terrorist camps near the Afghan towns of Khost and Kandahar with al-Qaeda, according to Western diplomats and intelligence officials in Islamabad. In turn, bin Laden's agents relied on these comrades to provide a network of safe houses for al-Qaeda agents as they crossed Pakistan on their way to and from their Afghan headquarters. The ISI also vetted new recruits and laundered terrorist funds through the hawala global network of informal money changers. Says Ahmed Rashid, author of Taliban: Militant Islam, Oil and Fundamentalism in Central Asia...
...indirect links with the spy agency through the Kashmiri conflict, according to Western diplomats. Now they are on the run, and as one investigator remarks acidly, "It seems inconceivable that there isn't someone in the ISI who knows where they're hiding." Maulana Masood Azhar, leader of the Jaish-e-Mohammad militant group to which the kidnapping suspects belonged, is under "country club" arrest at his home in Bahawalpur, a diplomat reports. Despite Musharraf's Jan. 12 ban on five extremist groups, most of their firebrand leaders were recently set free, a move that perplexed Islamabad diplomats. "We didn...
...warriors shifted their training camps to Afghanistan. There the extremists, recruited from radical mosques and seminaries around Pakistan, fell in with al-Qaeda. For them bin Laden's messianic vision of Islam defeating the infidel world was compelling. Moreover, he had lots of cash. Pakistani extremist groups such as Jaish-e-Muhammad shared terrorist camps near the Afghan towns of Khost and Kandahar with al-Qaeda, according to Western diplomats and foreign intelligence officials in Islamabad. The Pakistanis provided al-Qaeda agents a network of safe houses in Pakistan to facilitate their transit in and out of Afghanistan. They also...
...with the spy agency through the Kashmir conflict, according to Western diplomats. Now they're on the run. A Pakistani police investigator in the case remarked acidly, "It seems inconceivable that there isn't someone in ISI who knows where they're hiding." Maulana Masood Azhar, leader of the Jaish-e-Mohammad militant group to which most of the kidnap suspects belong, is under what a diplomat dubbed "country club" arrest at his home in Bahawalpur. Despite Musharraf's Jan. 12 ban on five extremist groups, most of their firebrand leaders were recently set free, a move that perplexed diplomats...
Soon after, investigators arrested two Pakistani brothers, Abdul Hannan and Abdul Mannan, in Rawalpindi. One of them allegedly contacted Saeed more than two dozen times on his mobile phone after Pearl was kidnapped. Both are activists with the banned terrorist group Jaish-e-Muhammad. Saeed has long maintained close ties with Jaish and its precursors: his 1994 kidnappings were aimed at freeing Masood Azhar, who was then imprisoned in India and went on to found the group two years...