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Publication: The Daily Excelsior
Date: June 24, 2002
URL: http://www.dailyexcelsior.com/02june24/news.htm#10
Pakistan-based militants and remnants
of Al-Qaeda have jointly worked out a plan to launch fresh attacks against
the west and topple the Pakistan Government, media reported today.
"The focus of the fighters is on
hitting the Pakistani Government as hard as possible, because they feel
this (Pervez Musharraf's) Government has betrayed Jihad and driving the
US and UK presence from Muslim lands," the Sunday Times said in a report
quoting an unnamed British Muslim of Pakistani origin.
The militants are getting finances
from the Muslim community in Britain, the daily said in a report from Islamabad.
"The cash arriving from Britain
for militant groups is one of our big concerns," a senior Pakistani intelligence
official told the paper.
"Imagine what we could do if we
controlled the Pakistani Army, an organised 600,000 soldiers and nuclear
weapons. We could implement Islam without compromise," the Non-Resident
Pakistani was quoted by the daily as saying.
He said he had delivered cash converted
into dollars - to a "remote base" two weeks ago, to fund weapons training
for scores of muslims recruited in Britain, Germany, America and Bangladesh.
The daily said he had made several
trips bringing cash collected from wealthy businessmen of Pakistani-origin
in Britain. (PTI)
