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Extract from article dated 19-Nov-1999, titled "Badamibagh and After"
by B. Raman |
"The scruff of their (the militants') neck is in our hands; whenever you want, we could regulate it."
- Lt.Gen.Mohammed Aziz, Chief of the General Staff (CGS) of the Pakistan Army, while reporting over phone to Gen. Pervez Musharraf, Chief of the Army Staff (COAS), then at Beijing on May 29 as revealed by the transcript of their conversation released by the Govt. of India.The CGS was referring to the terrorists of the Pakistan-based Lashkar-e-Toiba (LT), the Harkat-ul-Mujahideen (HUM) and the Al Badr, who had been sent in advance by the Pakistan Army to occupy the ridges in the Kargil sector before regular Pakistani troops moved in and replaced them. The LT, which has organised a number of suicidal attacks on the Indian security forces in Kashmir, including the latest one on the 15 Corps Headquarters at Badamibagh on November3/4, the HUM and the Al Badr are members of Osama bin Laden's International Islamic Front For Jihad Against the US and Israel.
rest of the article is at http://www.saag.org/notes/note46.html
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