Các
nguồn tin tình báo Pakistan hôm nay nói rằng Ilyas Kashmiri, thủ lãnh
cao cấp của al-Qaida, đã bị giết chết trong một cuộc tấn công vào một
địa điểm ở khu vực Nam Waziristan, cùng với 8 phần tử chủ chiến khác.
Nhóm
đấu tranh chủ chiến của thủ lãnh khủng bố Kashmiri có tên là
Harakat-ul-Jihad al-Islami, gọi tắt là HUJI, cũng xác nhận cái chết của
ông này trong một điện văn gửi đến các tổ chức truyền thông. Nhóm HUJI
hôm thứ Sáu nói rằng thủ lãnh của họ đã trở thành một “thánh tử đạo.”
Hoa
Kỳ chính thức coi nhân vật này là “một kẻ khủng bố toàn cầu,” và đã ra
giải thưởng 5 triệu đôla cho bất cứ ai cung cấp thông tin dẫn đến việc
bắt giữ ông này.
Hoa Kỳ quy trách
nhiệm cho nhóm HUJI đã thực hiện vụ đánh bom nhắm vào lãnh sự quán Hoa
Kỳ tại Karachi hồi tháng Ba năm 2006, giết chết 4 người và gây thương
tích cho 48 người khác.
Một đại bồi
thẩm đoán Hoa Kỳ chính thức kết tội ông Kashmiri hồi năm 2010, liên quan
tới một âm mưu nhằm tấn công một tờ báo Đan Mạch.
Nhóm
HUJI thề sẽ báo thù cái chết của thủ lãnh Kashmiri, bị giết chết đúng
một tháng sau khi các lực lượng đặc biệt Mỹ lẻn vào Pakistan để giết
chết Osama bin Laden, tai nơi thủ lãnh của tổ chức al-Qaida ẩn náu gần
Islamabad.
Ilyas Kashmiri killed in drone attack
A
US missile attack on a Pakistani village near the Afghan border killed
Ilyas Kashmiri, a top al- Qaeda commander, both his organization and a
Pakistani security official said.
“Our
commander Mohammed Ilyas Kashmiri was martyred in an American drone
attack,” Kashmiri’s Islamic militant guerrilla faction, Harkat-ul Jihad
Islami, said in an e-mailed statement yesterday. The death was also
confirmed by a Pakistani security official in South Waziristan, who
could not be identified by name in accord with government policy.
The
drone strike occurred at about 11 p.m. on June 3 in the village of
Ghawa Khawa, about 20 kilometres south of the South Waziristan district
center. The missiles struck outside a home where a group of Islamic
militant fighters, including Taliban, were meeting, said a Ghawa Khawa
resident. “I saw Taliban fighters come to get the bodies of those
killed,” said the resident, speaking on condition he not be named,
citing concerns with his personal safety.
Kashmiri’s
death deprives al-Qaeda of a key operational commander just one month
after US. Navy commandos killed the group’s overall leader, Osama bin
Laden, also in Pakistan. In recent years, Kashmiri has “risen to the top
tier of al-Qaeda’s leadership cadre as an experienced and dangerous
military commander who directs attacks in South Asia while also aiding
terror attacks against the West,” according to Bill Roggio, who directs
the Long War Journal, a U.S.-based Website that monitors US
counter-terrorism campaigns.
Kashmiri,
born in 1964 according to the US government, rose to command a
Pakistan-based affiliate of al-Qaeda called Harkat-ul Jihad Islami, or
the Islamic Jihad Movement, that has focused its attacks on India,
citing India’s control over part of the disputed territory of Kashmir.
He later broadened his focus to include US and other Western targets.
A
2009 grand jury in Chicago indicted Kashmiri for allegedly conspiring
to bomb a Danish newspaper that had published cartoons of the prophet
Muhammad, the founder of Islam.
The
US State Department says Kashmiri and his movement were responsible for a
March 2006 car bomb attack on the US Consulate in Karachi, Pakistan’s
largest city, that killed diplomat David Foy and three others. The US
last year designated Kashmiri a terrorist and offered a US$5 million
reward for information that might lead to his capture.
The
village attacked with the missiles is under the control of a local
Taliban commander named Mullah Nazir. Nazir signed a 2009 truce with
Pakistan’s army under which the military has abstained from attacking
his forces while he agreed to avoid hosting al-Qaeda leaders.
Still,
according to Roggio, “more senior al-Qaeda leaders have been killed in
Nazir’s tribal areas during the US air campaign than in those of any
other Taliban leader in Pakistan.”
Pakistani
news media reported in 2009 that Kashmiri had been killed in a US
missile strike in North Waziristan, news that Kashmiri denied in an
interview with Pakistani journalist Saleem Shahzad. Shahzad, a
specialist on Islamic militant movements was killed this past week after
what he had told colleagues were warnings from Pakistan’s
Inter-Services Intelligence Directorate.
Kashmiri’s
killing comes a month after US commandos killed al-Qaeda leader bin
Laden at his home in the Pakistani town of Abbottabad, 50 kilometres
north of the capital, Islamabad.
Bloomberg
http://www.vietthuc.org/2011/06/09/may-bay-khong-ng%C6%B0%E1%BB%9Di-lai-gi%E1%BA%BFt-ch%E1%BA%BFt-th%E1%BB%A7-lanh-kh%E1%BB%A7ng-b%E1%BB%91-t%E1%BA%A1i-pakistan/
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