All-New Terrorist Evil-Doers Trading Card #11 of 55
- JIE /
KLO / ULFA / NDFB
JEI / KLO / ULFA / NDFB
In August of 2004, some of Asia's longest running conflicts, dating from before India gained it's independence from Great Britain in 1947, suddenly came to a head, in the Northeastern Indian states of Assam, Arunachal, Meghalaya, Manipur, Mizoram, and Nagaland, bringing India back in among the terrorism- drenched headlines of US newspapers again. As of October 4, 2004, at least 63 dead have been reported in the most recent surge of violence.
JEI (Jamaat-E-Islami)
Just who are these guys? Pakistani terrorists? Some kind of civic group? A "banned(?)" hardline religious party? It depends on who you ask. They have their own Web site (link to it at your own risk). Following the arrest of Khalid Sheikh Mohammad (KSM) in March 2003 at the home of a JEI member, Pakistani President General Pervez Musharraf claimed that just because KSM, along with several cadres of Al Queda terrorists, had been found hiding in the homes of various individual JEI members in Pakistan, it didn't mean that the JEI as an organization was linked to Al-Queda. We can trust Musharraf on this, can't we? After all, he's one the United States' staunchest allies in the War on Terrorism, as reiterated in a State Department Report on Patterns of Global Terrorism.
Before 9/11, ISI (Pakistan's government spy agency), the Pakistani government itself, and JEI all openly supported Al Qaeda and the Taliban in Afghanistan, but that's all in the past now, and we're going to let bygones be bygones. After all --- let's be fair --- we supported them, too. (See card 1-Al Qaeda, 3-Islamic Jihad, and 5-Militant Islamic Network). The US intelligence officers who interrogated KSM in 2003, however, were reportedly unconvinced that the JEI members were rogues, or that JEI leaders were unaware of Al-Queda hiding places in Pakistan. JEI has been closest, of all the different Islamic fundamentalist parties of Pakistan, to Hizbe Islami (HI), and HI was a group known to have cooperated with Al-Queda and the Taliban to harass US troops in Afghanistan. JEI and ISI have also been supporting and supplying arms to the following Indian terrorist groups and "fronts" we've been seeing in our newspaper headlines lately ...
KLO (Kamtapur Liberation Organization)
KLO is a separatist group formed Dec. 28, 1995 from the Kamtapur students' union (AKSU) to form a Kamtapur state government, separate and apart from the India government. I can't find Kamtapur on a map, but it's said to be an ancient city in the northern part of "Bengal" which I assume is West Bengal. (I can't find East Bengal or Bengal on a map either). Working through ULFA, the group grew from about 60 cadres to approximately 300 cadres, or, (presumably) around 1200 or more individuals. KLO quickly moved from being an overground political movement to engaging in armed struggle. The KLO is active in West Bengal and Assam, and maintains several camps in Bhutan. KLO, ULFA, and NDFB are considered by some to be an "umbrella group" sharing overlapping goals and support channels. The Pakistani ISI is believed to be supporting KLO and ULFA in North Bengal.
ULFA (United Liberation Front of Asom)
ULFA has been blamed for the August Independence Day bombing that killed 17 school children, including 9 girls, and injured 40 others at Dhemaji College in the Assam state, or province, of India. ULFA was formed on April 7, 1979, to establish a "soviet socialist Assam" through armed struggle. ULFA has been running terrorist training camps in Bangladesh since 1989. A military wing of ULFA, the Sanjukta Mukti Foug (SMF) was formed March 16, 1996 and has 3 full battalions: the 7th, 28th, and 709th, plus several additional forces ranging around the strength of about a company or so. The supply network between ULFA and Pakistan's ISI is well documented on the previously cited South Asia Terrorism Portal (satp.org) reference, and here.
NDFB (National Democratic Front of Bodoland)
The NFDB was formed on October 3, 1986, as the Bodo Security Force, but renamed itself NDFB on November 25, 1994. Their stated objective is to secure a "sovereign Bodoland" north of the Brahmaputra River. It's members are mostly Christians, and one of their goals is to change the official script of the Bodo language to Roman script. It is presently written in Devnagri script. Their strength is estimated to have dwindled in recent years from 3500 to around 2000 members. NFDB is suspected in an October 3, 2004 twin bombing at Dimapur which killed at least 30, and at 9:06AM the following day were blamed for the shooting deaths of 6 others in the Sonitpur district of Assram, injuring 8 others, including 2 women. On October 5, 10 more were gunned down, and 5 wounded, in Guwahati.
The Pakistan/ISI/JIE arms supply efforts:
IGP spokesman claims ISI Supplying Arms to ULFA
Army spokesman claims it was JEI, and not ULFA, who helped ISI to bomb Jalipaiguri
ISI brags about role in Punjab, Bosnia
AGP spokesman claims All India Congress Committee has links to ULFA, ISI
ISI Eastwards: Brewing Border Boil-Ups (The Talibanization of Bangladesh)
The Biggest Militia We Know Nothing About
"The AQ Khan network has been brought to justice," said US President George W. Bush in his first televised debate with challenging Sentator John Kerry. Dr. Condoleeza Rice, National Security Advisor, told CNN Sunday that Pakistani nuclear scientist Abdul Qadeer Khan had been publicly humiliated. Khan had confessed in February to leaking nuclear secrets to Iran, Libya, and North Korea, but Pakistani officials have denied IAEA (International Atomic Energy Agency) agents access to Khan, so they can't even interview him about the international black market he ran. President General Pervez Musharraf recently gave Khan a conditional presidential pardon, insisting that the proliferation was carried out by a group of rogue scientists, and disregarding Khan's confessions.
http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=story_5-10-2004_pg1_2
"They have a very limited view on how to deal with states that sponsor terrorism," said US Vice President Richard Cheney in his first televised debate with challenging Senator John Edwards.
Okay, I know that the text of these trading cards was a lot better when freely adapted and brazenly plagiarized by the Curmudgeonly Old Fussbudget from credited original sources. I'm getting more ambitious in my use of links and quotation marks, that's all. They tell me it's a mark of my advancing senility.
JEI / KLO / ULFA / NDFB
In August of 2004, some of Asia's longest running conflicts, dating from before India gained it's independence from Great Britain in 1947, suddenly came to a head, in the Northeastern Indian states of Assam, Arunachal, Meghalaya, Manipur, Mizoram, and Nagaland, bringing India back in among the terrorism- drenched headlines of US newspapers again. As of October 4, 2004, at least 63 dead have been reported in the most recent surge of violence.
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| Soldiers and
civilians stand by the site of a bomb blast at the railway station in
Dimapur October 3, 2004 --- In Northeast India, Bodo militants kill 13 and injure 23 in Assam. The ULFA set off two bombs in Dimapur, Nagaland, killing more than 35 and injuring scores others. Manipur is already under flames and some separatists are ready to make bigger problems there. India Daily article |
Jihadists?
They seem to
be swarming all over Asia nowadays. The Hizbul Mujahideen, originally
called Al Badr, are linked to Al Queda, ULFA, NDFB, JEI, KLO, and
even
the US allied Pakistani ISI. There are more different Islamic
militant groups thoughout the world than you can shake a stick at
these days. |
JEI (Jamaat-E-Islami)
Just who are these guys? Pakistani terrorists? Some kind of civic group? A "banned(?)" hardline religious party? It depends on who you ask. They have their own Web site (link to it at your own risk). Following the arrest of Khalid Sheikh Mohammad (KSM) in March 2003 at the home of a JEI member, Pakistani President General Pervez Musharraf claimed that just because KSM, along with several cadres of Al Queda terrorists, had been found hiding in the homes of various individual JEI members in Pakistan, it didn't mean that the JEI as an organization was linked to Al-Queda. We can trust Musharraf on this, can't we? After all, he's one the United States' staunchest allies in the War on Terrorism, as reiterated in a State Department Report on Patterns of Global Terrorism.
Before 9/11, ISI (Pakistan's government spy agency), the Pakistani government itself, and JEI all openly supported Al Qaeda and the Taliban in Afghanistan, but that's all in the past now, and we're going to let bygones be bygones. After all --- let's be fair --- we supported them, too. (See card 1-Al Qaeda, 3-Islamic Jihad, and 5-Militant Islamic Network). The US intelligence officers who interrogated KSM in 2003, however, were reportedly unconvinced that the JEI members were rogues, or that JEI leaders were unaware of Al-Queda hiding places in Pakistan. JEI has been closest, of all the different Islamic fundamentalist parties of Pakistan, to Hizbe Islami (HI), and HI was a group known to have cooperated with Al-Queda and the Taliban to harass US troops in Afghanistan. JEI and ISI have also been supporting and supplying arms to the following Indian terrorist groups and "fronts" we've been seeing in our newspaper headlines lately ...
KLO (Kamtapur Liberation Organization)
KLO is a separatist group formed Dec. 28, 1995 from the Kamtapur students' union (AKSU) to form a Kamtapur state government, separate and apart from the India government. I can't find Kamtapur on a map, but it's said to be an ancient city in the northern part of "Bengal" which I assume is West Bengal. (I can't find East Bengal or Bengal on a map either). Working through ULFA, the group grew from about 60 cadres to approximately 300 cadres, or, (presumably) around 1200 or more individuals. KLO quickly moved from being an overground political movement to engaging in armed struggle. The KLO is active in West Bengal and Assam, and maintains several camps in Bhutan. KLO, ULFA, and NDFB are considered by some to be an "umbrella group" sharing overlapping goals and support channels. The Pakistani ISI is believed to be supporting KLO and ULFA in North Bengal.
ULFA (United Liberation Front of Asom)
ULFA has been blamed for the August Independence Day bombing that killed 17 school children, including 9 girls, and injured 40 others at Dhemaji College in the Assam state, or province, of India. ULFA was formed on April 7, 1979, to establish a "soviet socialist Assam" through armed struggle. ULFA has been running terrorist training camps in Bangladesh since 1989. A military wing of ULFA, the Sanjukta Mukti Foug (SMF) was formed March 16, 1996 and has 3 full battalions: the 7th, 28th, and 709th, plus several additional forces ranging around the strength of about a company or so. The supply network between ULFA and Pakistan's ISI is well documented on the previously cited South Asia Terrorism Portal (satp.org) reference, and here.
NDFB (National Democratic Front of Bodoland)
The NFDB was formed on October 3, 1986, as the Bodo Security Force, but renamed itself NDFB on November 25, 1994. Their stated objective is to secure a "sovereign Bodoland" north of the Brahmaputra River. It's members are mostly Christians, and one of their goals is to change the official script of the Bodo language to Roman script. It is presently written in Devnagri script. Their strength is estimated to have dwindled in recent years from 3500 to around 2000 members. NFDB is suspected in an October 3, 2004 twin bombing at Dimapur which killed at least 30, and at 9:06AM the following day were blamed for the shooting deaths of 6 others in the Sonitpur district of Assram, injuring 8 others, including 2 women. On October 5, 10 more were gunned down, and 5 wounded, in Guwahati.
The Pakistan/ISI/JIE arms supply efforts:
IGP spokesman claims ISI Supplying Arms to ULFA
Army spokesman claims it was JEI, and not ULFA, who helped ISI to bomb Jalipaiguri
ISI brags about role in Punjab, Bosnia
AGP spokesman claims All India Congress Committee has links to ULFA, ISI
ISI Eastwards: Brewing Border Boil-Ups (The Talibanization of Bangladesh)
The Biggest Militia We Know Nothing About
"The AQ Khan network has been brought to justice," said US President George W. Bush in his first televised debate with challenging Sentator John Kerry. Dr. Condoleeza Rice, National Security Advisor, told CNN Sunday that Pakistani nuclear scientist Abdul Qadeer Khan had been publicly humiliated. Khan had confessed in February to leaking nuclear secrets to Iran, Libya, and North Korea, but Pakistani officials have denied IAEA (International Atomic Energy Agency) agents access to Khan, so they can't even interview him about the international black market he ran. President General Pervez Musharraf recently gave Khan a conditional presidential pardon, insisting that the proliferation was carried out by a group of rogue scientists, and disregarding Khan's confessions.
| “[Khan is] a national
hero, a figure of Pakistani lore, and Musharraf has
dealt with what is a very difficult situation” by “making certain that
he’s out of business,” said Rice. Khan has lost privileges “to travel and the like,” said Rice, and “a number of countries are pursuing prosecutions” of network members, she added, mentioning South Africa and at least one unnamed European country. “AQ Khan, in a sense, has been brought to justice because he is out of the business that he loved most,” said Rice. “And if you don’t think that his national humiliation is justice for what he did, I think it is.” |
"They have a very limited view on how to deal with states that sponsor terrorism," said US Vice President Richard Cheney in his first televised debate with challenging Senator John Edwards.
Okay, I know that the text of these trading cards was a lot better when freely adapted and brazenly plagiarized by the Curmudgeonly Old Fussbudget from credited original sources. I'm getting more ambitious in my use of links and quotation marks, that's all. They tell me it's a mark of my advancing senility.
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