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Pakistan Taliban Threaten to Target Indians to Avenge Kasab's Hanging

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<st1:city w:st="on"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Trebuchet MS";">ISLAMABAD</span></st1:city><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">  (NNN-PTI) -- The Pakistani Taliban on Thursday
threatened to target Indians "anywhere" in retaliation for the execution
of Ajmal Kasab and demanded that <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">India</st1:place></st1:country-region> should return the body of the
LeT militant involved in the 2008 Mumbai attacks to his family.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Trebuchet MS";">In calls made to journalists in northwest <st1:country-region w:st="on">Pakistan</st1:country-region>, Tehrik-e-Taliban <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Pakistan</st1:place></st1:country-region>
spokesman Ihsanullah Ihsan said his group would target Indians and Indian
interests "anywhere" to avenge the hanging of Kasab.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Trebuchet MS";">Ihsan further said Indian authorities should hand over Kasab's
body to his family or to the Taliban.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Trebuchet MS";">He warned the Taliban would "capture Indians" and
"not return their bodies" if Kasab's body was not handed over.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Trebuchet MS";">25-year-old Kasab, who belonged to <st1:country-region w:st="on">Pakistan</st1:country-region>'s
most populous <st1:placetype w:st="on">province</st1:placetype> of <st1:placename w:st="on">Punjab</st1:placename>, was executed in a Pune jail in the western
Indian state of <st1:place w:st="on">Maharashtra</st1:place> on Wednesday.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Trebuchet MS";">His body was buried within the prison.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Trebuchet MS";">The <st1:country-region w:st="on">Pakistan</st1:country-region>
government reacted cautiously to the hanging, with the Foreign Office spokesman
saying <st1:city w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Islamabad</st1:place></st1:city>
was against all forms of terrorism and would cooperate with countries in the
region to tackle the menace.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Trebuchet MS";">Kasab was the only surviving member of a 10-member team of
Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) terrorists who killed 166 people during a three-day
rampage in Mumbai nearly four years ago.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Trebuchet MS";">Diplomatic sources said security measures at the Indian High
Commission, which are already very extensive, had been further tightened after
the Taliban threat. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Trebuchet MS";">Indian diplomats in <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Pakistan</st1:place></st1:country-region> have faced threats in the
past too.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Trebuchet MS";">In 2010, two deserters from a paramilitary force arrested for
terror links had revealed that militants aligned with the Pakistani Taliban had
plans to abduct Indian diplomats and target foreign missions.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Trebuchet MS";">The men had revealed that militant groups had plans to kidnap
Indian diplomats, including the High Commissioner, to exchange them for militant
commanders being held by Pakistani authorities.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Trebuchet MS";">At that time too, security had been tightened for Indian
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Trebuchet MS";">On Wednesday, an unnamed LeT commander was quoted by media as
saying that the group regarded Kasab as a hero who would inspire more terror
attacks.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Trebuchet MS";">Ihsan was quoted by the Pakistani media on Wednesday as saying
that the Taliban were shocked by Kasab's hanging. -- NNN-PTI<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Pakistan Taliban Threaten to Target Indians to Avenge Kasab's Hanging

ISLAMABAD (NNN-PTI) -- The Pakistani Taliban on Thursday threatened to target Indians "anywhere" in retaliation for the execu...

16 Taliban Militants Killed

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<st1:city w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS";">Kabul</span></st1:place></st1:city><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS";"> (BNA): The Afghan security forces carried
out 9 combined operations in the provinces of the country. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS";">Interior
ministry spokesman said to BNA, these operations conducted in the vicinities of
Kabul, Kandahar, Zabul, Maidan-Wardak, Logar, Ghazni, Pakktia, Farah and
Helmand provinces in which 16 members of Taliban rebels were killed and 26
others of them were detained. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS";">In
these operations, quantity of light and heavy arms consists of a PK machine
gun, 6 different types of arms, 4 warheads, 35 mines, 1300 kg of explosive
devices and 3 motorbikes of enemies were seized by national police forces. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS";">It
should be said the national police personnel discovered and neutralized 7
warheads which were placed by Taliban for terrorist and destructive actions in
the outskirts of Qosh Tepa district of Badakhshan province.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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16 Taliban Militants Killed

Kabul (BNA): The Afghan security forces carried out 9 combined operations in the provinces of the country. Interior ministry spokesm...

Four Men Charged in US Terror Plot

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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS';">CALIFORNIA
(RIA Novosti) - Four men from the western US state of California, including one
who served in the Air Force, have been charged in a terror plot the Federal
Bureau of Investigation (FBI) says was designed to bomb US government
facilities overseas and kill Americans.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS";">A
federal complaint unsealed late Monday charges that the four men planned to
join al-Qaida and the Taliban in <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Afghanistan</st1:place></st1:country-region>, and then engage in
“violent jihad,” according to FBI spokeswoman Laura Eimiller.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS";">The
complaint says the plot began with 34-year-old Sohiel Omar Kabir, a naturalized
<st1:country-region w:st="on">US</st1:country-region> citizen who was born in <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Afghanistan</st1:place></st1:country-region> and
served in the Air Force in 2000 and 2001, according to The Associated Press.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS";">Authorities
claim he introduced two of the suspects, 23-year-old Ralph Deleon and
21-year-old Miguel Alejandro Santana Vidriales, to radical Islamist doctrine
after they converted to Islam in 2010, and they later recruited a fourth
suspect, 21-year-old Arifeen David Gojali.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS";">The
three recruits allegedly discussed their plans for jihad in online discussions
and Skype calls with Kabir in <st1:country-region w:st="on">Afghanistan</st1:country-region>,
and on at least two occasions went to shooting ranges in <st1:state w:st="on">California</st1:state>
where one of the men reportedly told a confidential source he wanted to use C-4
explosives in a truck to blow up a <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">US</st1:place></st1:country-region> military base.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS";">The
FBI says the three men and the confidential source bought tickets and planned
to depart on the first leg of their journey on Sunday.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS";">They
remain in custody in <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:state w:st="on">California</st1:state></st1:place>.
Kabir is being held in <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Afghanistan</st1:place></st1:country-region>.
They each face up to 15 years in federal prison.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) © flickr.com/ popculturegeek.com CALIFORNIA (RIA Novosti) - Four men from the western US ...