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US upgrades terror list, includes five new aliases of Lashkar-e- Toiba Published on : 4/20/2005 5:54:00 AM Taking its global war on terror forward, the U.S.State Department has in a public notice amended its Executive Order of September 23, 2001 on the list of terrorists and terrorist groups worldwide to include five more transliterations by the which the militant group Lashkar-e-Toiba is reportedly known by. In the new Executive order dated April 13 and announced publicly on Tuesday (April 19), the State Department said that it had received intelligence that suggested that the Lashkar-e-Toiba was using five new aliases in addition to the seven that were already listed by it. The order was issued on the eve of General Musharraf's visit to Delhi asp art of his cricket diplomacy initiative. It was indicative of Washington's determination to crackdown on terrorist organisations across the board, and particularly in the Indian subcontinent. The order said that the five new aliases viz. Paasban-e-Kashmir, Paasban-i-Ahle-Hadith, Pasban-e-Kashmir, Pasban-e-Ahle-Hadith and Paasban-e-Ahle-Hadis would be added to the present list to ensure effective security measures against their representatives as and when they showed up. The Lashkar-e-Toiba is already known by the following names -- Lashkar-e-Tayyiba (Let), Lashkar-i-Taiba, Al Mansoorian, Al Mansooreen, Army of the Pure, Army of Righteous and Army of the Pure and Righteous. In its statement released and signed by U.S.Secretary of State Condoleeza Rice, the State Department said that the amendments to the Executive Order of 2001 had been undertaken after consultations with the Secretary of the Treasury, the Attorney General and the Secretary of Homeland Security. It said that now with the inclusion of these five new aliases in the U.S.Treasury Department's Office of Foreign Asset Control's (OFAC) list, persons affiliated or representing these units and having a Constitutional presence in the United States would not be able transfer funds instantaneously. The Lashkar-Toiba is among the most active and ruthless terrorist organisations operating in Jammu and Kashmir and elsewhere. It is the military wing of the Markaz-ud-Dawa-wal-Irshad (MDI), an Islamic fundamentalist organisation of the Ahle-Hadith sect in Pakistan with its headquarters based in Muridke (Pakistan). The LeT was formed in 1990 from mujahideens and Islamic fundamentalists. It is among the few terrorist organisations to have resorted to strikes on Indian territory outside Jammu and Kashmir during the last decade. The LeT was first involved in the mujahideen resistance during the Soviet occupation of Afghanistan in the late 1980s and early 1990s, and it is alleged that Pakistan's Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) later assigned it various operations in Kashmir. The LeT is led by its Amir, Professor Hafiz Muhammad Saeed. The operational chief is said to be "Commander" Saifullah, Pakistani mercenary. Almost all LeT cadres are said to be foreigners, mostly Pakistanis educated at madrasas (Muslim seminaries) and Afgahn veterans. (ANI) [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> Take a look at donorschoose.org, an excellent charitable web site for anyone who cares about public education! http://us.click.yahoo.com/_OLuKD/8WnJAA/cUmLAA/TySplB/TM --------------------------------------------------------------------~-> -------------------------- Want to discuss this topic? Head on over to our discussion list, [EMAIL PROTECTED] -------------------------- Brooks Isoldi, editor [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.intellnet.org Post message: osint@yahoogroups.com Subscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] *** FAIR USE NOTICE. This message contains copyrighted material whose use has not been specifically authorized by the copyright owner. OSINT, as a part of The Intelligence Network, is making it available without profit to OSINT YahooGroups members who have expressed a prior interest in receiving the included information in their efforts to advance the understanding of intelligence and law enforcement organizations, their activities, methods, techniques, human rights, civil liberties, social justice and other intelligence related issues, for non-profit research and educational purposes only. We believe that this constitutes a 'fair use' of the copyrighted material as provided for in section 107 of the U.S. Copyright Law. If you wish to use this copyrighted material for purposes of your own that go beyond 'fair use,' you must obtain permission from the copyright owner. For more information go to: http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/107.shtml Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/osint/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
