June 8, 2007
Al-Qaeda CD Raises Doubts
Over Authenticity
Srinagar
A caller claiming to be the chief spokesperson of the
Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) Friday told a local daily that the outfit was
probing the authenticity of a video CD purportedly issued by the
Al-Qaeda terror group declaring holy war on India.
The caller, who identified himself as Abdullah Ghaznavi, chief
spokesman of LeT, told the vernacular daily Alsafa News on phone:
"We are investigating the genuineness of the CD. At present we have
no means to deny its authenticity."
Gopal Sharma, state director general of police, told IANS: "We have
taken cognisance of the CD. It is premature to comment on the
veracity of the CD."
The VCD, sent to the local Current News Service, showed a lone
masked man who called himself Abu Abdul Rehman Al Ansari and claimed
to be the chief of Al-Qaeda in India.
"Al-Qaeda today declares 'jihad' against India and Jammu and Kashmir
shall be the gateway for this jihad," the speaker said.
Syed Ali Geelani, chairman of the breakaway separatist Hurriyat,
told IANS: "It is the handiwork of some intelligence agency that
wants to defame our just struggle. I have no information about the
Al-Qaeda presence in Kashmir. There is no scope for violence in our
struggle which is peaceful and just."
The CD had threatened Geelani besides Mirwaiz Umer Farooq, chairman
of the moderate Hurriyat group, Yasin Malik, chairman of the Jammu
and Kashmir Liberation Front (JKLF), Chief Minister Ghulam Nabi
Azad, former chief ministers Dr. Farooq Abdullah and Mufti Muhammad
Sayeed.
The masked speaker had not even spared Syed Sallahuddin, supreme
commander of the Hizbul Mujahideen and chief of the Muzaffarabad-based
United Jihad Council (UJC), and Hafiz Muhammad Syed, chief of the
Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT), including both in the list of "traitors
against Islam".
Yasin Malik in his reaction said, "I have said one year earlier that
we would oppose any Al-Qaeda presence in Kashmir as that would earn
us more enemies than sympathizers across the world. Though I have no
means to confirm or deny the veracity of the CD."
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