Author: Excelsior Correspondent
Publication: Daily Excelsior
Date: May 1, 2003
URL: http://www.dailyexcelsior.com/web1/03may01/news.htm#8
The Ministry of Defence has a sensational
piece of information: Terrorists in Jammu and Kashmir have begun talking
about the use of poisonous gas.
A press handout, released by the
Udhampur-based Public Relations Unit of the Defence Ministry's Directorate
of Public Relations (DPR) on Wednesday, disclosed that the Army had been,
over the past two to three months, consistently receiving information that
foreign terrorists in J&K "have been observed with suspicious looking
containers".
The two-paragraph handout with the
catchy heading "terrorists have chemical weapons", said that recent intelligence
had suggested that the terrorists had been talking about the use of poisonous
gas.
These reports, the handout maintained,
"are of great significance in light of American concern about WMD (weapons
of mass destruction) falling in the hands of terrorist groups".
The Defence Wing of the Press Information
Bureau said, in another press release, that the two terrorists, killed
during the attack on a BSF establishment in Bandipore on April 25, were
Pakistanis and belonged to Jaish-e-Mohammed (JeM).
According to the handout, they were
Mohammed, resident of Saharanpur of Pakistan's Punjab province, and Mansoor,
resident of Karachi.
