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UK Muslims fund Al Qaida, Pak militants: report

UK Muslims fund Al Qaida, Pak militants: report

Author: Rashmee Z Ahmed
Publication: The Times of India
Date: June 25, 2002

British Muslims are the main-funding force behind an opportunistic anti-Western alliance between Al Qaida commanders and Pakistani militants, according to Pakistani intelligence sources quoted by a British newspaper.

The alleged alliance is planning to topple Pakistan President General Musharraf's administration, the paper said. The Sunday Times report, datelined Islamabad, coincides with a televised message purporting to have come from Al Qaida second-rung leader Sulaiman abu Ghaith and FBI warnings of further attacks on Western targets.

The report, which is filed by the newspaper's award-winning, war correspondent Marie Colvin, says the exact sums dispatched from the UK are unclear but that "Pakistani militants and Indian intelligence alike estimate British donations to groups fighting the Indian army's presence in Kashmir at more than two million pounds a year."

Sunday's report quotes an unnamed senior Pakistani intelligence official to say that the cash arriving from Britain for militant groups was "one of our big concerns".

The report says that the militants want to "hit the Pakistani government as hard as possible" and the ultimate dream is the control of the Pakistani army, "an organised 600,000 soldiers and nuclear weapons".

It says that the control of the Pakistani Army would allow the radicals to "implement Islam without compromise".

The report said that last week, a British Muslim in Pakistan claimed to have smuggled tens of thousands of pounds into Pakistan to fund, "the emerging alliance of local radicals and remnants of Al Qaida".

The British Muslim is described as a bearded man, in his thirties, with a northern English accent and clad in the Pakistani national dress of salwar. The paper said he refused to reveal his identity.

It said that the man claimed to have delivered cash, converted into dollars, to a remote Pakistani border camp two weeks ago.

The cash was to be used to fund weapons training for scores of Muslims recruited to Al Qaida cause in Britain, Germany, America and Bangladesh, the newspaper said.

Ms Colvin's report is supplemented by chilling news that British Muslims now account for the single largest group of Western foreign nationals incarcerated as Al Qaida allies at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.
 


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