Does it make sense that Danny Pearl, a jew, would be sent in to meet
with people who hated jews so much they were virtually to be shot on
sight with any American - here is story on this group, the group Danny
Pearl met the night of his disappearance.
Then we have the airplane upon which it was reported Pearl booked
passage. In her first TV interview Pearl's wife was all floosied up
with makeup, lipstick and smiled and laughed - one would think she was
preparing for sainthood or stardom.
So - this is a description of the men with whom Pearl was to meet that
night. After 911 it was said this group was declared terrorist
organization, as if it had not already been so charged.
Note these pictures of Danny - oh so clean white outfit by individual
holding the gun, using the famous police "freeze" hand stance; but so
strange are the chains which bound Danny, for these were without a doubt
chains used by POLICE...so who is playing the big time games. February
5 was magic day.....and what was the coded message - "Dad has
expired"........
So this is from where all the cute stuff comes. And the Wall Street
Journal and Dow had two Jewish spokesmen pleading for Danny's life?
Does this make sense? Muhummed Ali okay - but a jew from Wall Street
these men virtually gave the execution order if the entire thing is not
a fraud from top to bottom?
The men with whom Daniel Pearl met were Harakat ul Mujahedid or (HUM)
agents...a lone jew with a writer's horn to report on Hot Foot Harry
with known it is alleged connections to bin Laden? They all sing out of
same songbook.
The blue of the blanet tacked up hastily behind Danny matched the Blue
Berets in the photos of the one kidnappers police escort as he shielded
his face with a shawl. Those were police chains used on Danny.
OSaba
Harakat ul-Mujahedin (HUM)
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Harakat ul-Ansar
Formerly known as the Harakat ul-Ansar, the HUM is an Islamic militant
group based in Pakistan that operates primarily in Kashmir. Originally
established to fight in Afghanistan against the Soviet occupation, the
HUM has become an international network of fighters for Islamic causes
all over the world. Its headquarters is at Raiwind in Punjab, where it
holds its annual conferences.�
The HUM is a member of Osama bin Ladin's "Islamic World Front for the
struggle against the Jews and the Crusaders" (Al-Jabhah al-Islamiyyah
al-`Alamiyyah li-Qital al-Yahud wal-Salibiyyin). The Front was declared
in an announcement on February 1998 at a press conference in Pakistan.
Fazlur Rehman Khalil, one of the HUM's leaders signed bin Ladin's fatwa
in February 1998 calling for attacks on US and Western interests. The
organization operates terrorist training camps in eastern Afghanistan
and suffered casualties in the US missile strikes on Bin
Ladin-associated training camps in Khost in August 1998. Fazlur Rehman
Khalil subsequently warned that HUM would take revenge on the United
States.
In 1997 the US Government placed the HUM on its list of foreign
terrorist groups. This prompted Pakistani security agencies, which
covertly back Muslim insurgents in Kashmir, to distance themselves from
the organizations. But Pakistan has not cracked down on the group's
militant activities in Kashmir fearing a backlash from Islamic
fundamentalist groups. Indian security forces in Kashmir confront at
least a dozen major insurgent groups of varying size and ideological
orientation. The more prominent groups include the secular
pro-independence Jammu and Kashmir Liberation Front (JKLF) and the
radical Islamic and pro-Pakistani groups Hizb-ul-Mujahideen, Hizbollah,
Harkat-ul-Mujahedin, and Ikhwanul Muslimeen.
According to the leader of the organization, Maulana Saadatullah Khan,
the group's main objective is to continue the armed struggle against
non-believers and "anti-Islamic forces." The organization seeks
Kashmir's accession to Pakistan.
History Ideology &
Strategy Structure Terrorist Activity Articles Documents Links Updates
Attacks
from 1988-2000
History
The Harakat ul-Mujahedin was initially established in central Punjab in
Pakistan in the early 1980s by Islamic religious elements. A few months
after its formation, the HUM began sending volunteers to Afghanistan in
order to assist the Afghan Mujahidin groups. Volunteers were recruited
from Pakistan and Pakistan-Occupied Kashmir (POK). The HUM was estimated
to have recruited about 5,000 volunteers and sent them into Afghanistan.
The recruitment was funded by money from supporters in Pakistan, Egypt
and Saudi Arabia (including Osama bin Ladin).
As the war in Afghanistan dragged on, the HUM recruited volunteers from
the Muslim communities in other countries. About 6,000 volunteers were
recruited from Algeria, Egypt, Tunisia, Jordan, Saudi Arabia, Jammu &
Kashmir of India, Bangladesh, Myanmar and the Philippines.
The initial batch of HUM volunteers was trained in the use of arms and
ammunition and explosives in training camps in the Paktia province of
Afghanistan run by Jalaluddin Haqqani, the leader of the Hezb Islami
(Khalis) Afghan Mujahidin group. Haqqani has since joined the Taliban.
Subsequently, the HUM set up its own training camps in Afghan territory
just across Miran Shah in the NWFP.� Some of the best fighters of the
Afghan war came from the HUM training camps.
After the Afghan Mujahideen captured power in Kabul in April 1992, the
HUM converted itself into an international network of fighters for
defending the rights of the Muslims all over the world.� The name of
the organisation was changed as Harakat ul-Ansar in 1993 and the
Harkat-ul-Jihad-al-Islami, another organisation of Afghan vintage,
merged with it. From 1992, the HUM spread its activities to Jammu &
Kashmir of India, Egypt, Tunisia, Algeria, Bosnia, Chechnya, Tajikistan,
Myanmar and the Philippines.
The training camps of the Harakat ul-Mujahedin bore the brunt of the
American cruise missile attacks on 20 August following the bombing of
the U.S. embassies in Tanzania and Kenya. Fazlur Rahman Khalil claimed
that nine HUM members died in the US attack on its camps in the Khost
area. On August 23,1998 Azizur Rahman Danish, the head of the Sindh
branch of the HUM, warned, "The US air strikes have drawn a clear
dividing line between the Muslim Ummah and non-believers and this is the
beginning of a crusade. The USA will be paid back in the same coin."
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Ideology
The HUM is a Sunni organisation, ideologically close to the Deoband
school of thought and to Wahabism.� It's ideology is similar to that
of the Markaz Dawa Al Irshad and the Taliban. It holds to a very strict
interpretation of Islamic law and denounces pluralist, parliamentary
democracy and equal rights for women as the corrupting influence of the
West on Islamic societies.
Initially, the HUM's objective was stated to be the organization of
humanitarian relief for the Afghan refugees in the North-West Frontier
Province (NWFP) of Pakistan. However, since the end of the Afghan war it
has set itself up as a supporter of Islamic Jihad against the secular
Muslim governments and against the West.
Structure
While Fazlur Rahman Khalil is often named as the head of the HUM, the US
State Department's Counter-Terrorism Division identifies the leader of
the group as Maulana Sadaatullah Khan. It is believed that while Rahman
Khalil heads the HUM for the whole of Pakistan, Sadaatullah Khan heads
its POK unit.
Based in Muzaffarabad, Pakistan, the group's members conduct insurgent
and terrorist activities primarily in Kashmir. The HUM trains its
militants in Afghanistan and Pakistan. The HUA has several thousand
armed supporters located in Azad Kashmir, Pakistan, and in the southern
Kashmir and the Doda regions of India composed of mostly Pakistanis and
Kashmiris, and Afghans.
Membership is open to all who support� the HUA's objectives and are
willing to take the group's 40-day training course.� It has a core
militant group of about 300, mostly Pakistanis and Kashmiris, but
includes Afghans and Arab veterans� of the Afghan war.
The HUA has several thousand armed supporters located in Azad Kashmir,
Pakistan, and in the southern Kashmir and the Doda regions of India.
Senior Pakistani intelligence officials estimated that Harkat commands
at least 500 well-trained militants. HUA is composed of mostly
Pakistanis and Kashmiris, but including Afghans and Arab veterans of the
Afghan war. The HUA uses light and heavy machineguns, assault rifles,
mortars, explosives, and rockets.
The HUM draws its volunteers from the Tabligi Jamaat (TJ), which
ostensibly carries on missionary and charitable work among Muslims, not
only in Pakistan, but also in other countries.
The HUM's funding comes from donations from sympathizers in Saudi Arabia
and other Gulf and Islamic states and from Pakistanis and Kashmiris. The
source and amount of HUM's military funding are unknown. The
organization may recieve an unknown amount of monetary support from
Pakistan. It is a member of the United Jihad Council [Muttahida Jihad
Council - MJC] set up in 1994 by Pakistan's Inter Services Intelligence
agency. Among the other member organizations: Hizb-ul-Mujahideen,
Jamiat-ul-Mujahideen, Al-Jihad, Al-Barq, Ikhwan-ul-Mussalmin,
Tariq-ul-Mujahideen.
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Terrorist Activity�
HUM has carried out a number of operations against Indian troops and
civilian targets in Kashmir. It has been linked to the Kashmiri militant
group Al-Faran that kidnapped five Western tourists in Kashmir in July
1995; one was killed in August 1995, and the other four reportedly were
killed in December of the same year.
In June 1994 the HUM kidnapped two British citizens in India. The HUM
captured Lt.Col. Bhupinder Singh in January and demanded that Indian
forces turn over an HUM commander in return for Singh's release.� When
the Indian authorities refused, the militants killed Singh.� In
mid-May 1994, HUM militants conducted two attacks in Doda district in
which they stopped buses, forced the passengers off , then singled out
individuals for execution�the last victim was a 14-year-old Muslim
boy.
Harakat ul-Mujahedin members have participated in insurgent and
terrorist operations in Kashmir, Burma, Tajikistan and Bosnia.� The
HUA's Burma branch, located in the Arakans, trains local Muslims in
weapons handling and guerilla warfare.� In Tajikistan, HUA members
have served with and trained Tajik resistance elements.� The first
group of HUA militants entered Bosnia in 1992.� The source and amount
of� HUM's military funding are unknown, but are believed to come from
sympathetic Arab countries and wealthy Pakistanis and Kashmiris.
The HUM has been linked to the Kashmir militant group Al Faran that
which kidnapped four Western hostages in July 1995. One of the hostages
was killed in August 1995, and the other four reportedly were killed in
December of the same year.
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Harakat ul-Mujahedin (HUM) - Articles
Ceasefire in J & K:B. Raman
Pakistan & TerrorismB. Raman
The Portents of KargilB. Raman
Harkat-ul-Mujahideen - An UpdateB. Raman
Harakat ul-Mujahedin (HUM) - Documents
Indian Home Minister Shri L.K. Advani on the Situation in Jammu &
Kashmir Statement by Indian Home Minister Shri L.K. Advani on situation
in Jammu & Kashmir on 9th August, 2000 in Parliament
Links to Relevant Articles & Documents
Kashmir Information Network (KIN) Fortnightly news bulletin
Institute for Defence Studies and Analyses - India US Policy on
Terrorism�Part I - Case of Harkat-ul-Ansar
Institute for Defence Studies and Analyses - India Pakistan�The Chief
Patron-Promoter of Islamic Militancy and Terrorism
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