Author: Agencies
Publication: www.expressindia.com
Date: January 28, 2004
URL: http://www.expressindia.com/fullstory.php?newsid=27913
Apparently panicked by the killing
of militants and the blocking of arms channels, foreign mercenaries, mostly
Pakistanis, are desperate to cross back over to Pakistan, claimed intelligence
sources after intercepting their communications.
Hum vapus aana chahtay hai. Log
badalnay lagah hai. Ceasefire kay bad mout he mout hay hamaray liyah. Hum
yahan marna nahi chaytah hay, Jaish-e-Mohammad (JeM) ultra codenamed Khan
Bhai tells his higher-ups across in one of the intercepts recorded by security
agencies in Rajouri-Poonch sector recently.
Like Khan Bhai, Lashker sector commander,
Tango-3 is panic struck as he says in an intercept that arms and explosive
channels from Pakistan have been blocked and a ceasefire announced, thereby
halting infiltration of militants from across to this side (India).
"You will to get us killed by security
forces. They are destroying our hideouts and explosive and ammunition.
People are not with us, even local Hizb commanders are getting killed.
We want to return", they said.
Frustration has overpowered foreign
mercenaries belonging to Lashker-e-Toiba (LeT), Jaish-e-Mohammad (JeM),
Harkat-ul-Mujahideen (HuM), Tekreek-e-Jehad- Islami (TeJI) and al-Badr
after the ceasefire announcement as channels of sending terrorists, arms
and explosives have been blocked due to fencing and pressure build up by
security forces, intelligence sources said in Jammu on Tuesday.
In the coming period militants would
be exfiltrating due to panic and change of situation for the better in
Jammu and Kashmir, they said, adding most of these foreign mercenaries
would be killed as they cannot go back due to security and fencing on borders.
The foreign mercenaries are more
panic stricken due to the nuetralisation of several top commanders of locally-dominant
Hizb-ul-Mujahideen (Hizb), LeT and JeM, the sources said.
Not only this, but the security
forces have destroyed nearly 93 hideouts and recovered huge quantity of
arms, ammunition, explosives and rations from their hideouts in J&K,
they said.
The rations recovered from these
hideouts were winter stockings for them, they said adding the ultras faced
shortfall of arms, ammunition and explosives material.
There are nearly 3000 to 3500 foreign
mercenaries, including Pakistanis, operating in the hills of Jammu and
Kashmir, the sources said, adding most of them belonged to the Lashker.
During the past two months, nearly
29 foreign mercenaries were killed and out of them eight were commanders
of different outfits they said.
