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US designates Indian Mujaheddin a terrorist entity with 'significant links' to Pakistan

WASHINGTON: The United States on Thursday designated " Indian Mujahedeen," which has claimed responsibility for many terrorist attacks inside India including the most recent bombings in Mumbai and New Delhi, as a global terrorist organization with links to Pakistan. :tup::tup::tup:

In a surprising move, the US State Department also clearly and bluntly identified and cited the terrorist group's "significant links to Pakistan" despite the efforts of some analysts in Washington and leaders in India to attribute an entirely indigenous hue to the group and its attacks.

"IM maintains close ties to other US-designated terrorist entities including Pakistan-based Lashkar e-Tayyiba (LeT), Jaish-e-Mohammed (JEM) and Harakat ul-Jihad-i-Islami (HUJI). IM's stated goal is to carry out terrorist actions against non-Muslims in furtherance of its ultimate objective -- an Islamic Caliphate across South Asia," a State Department notification in this regard said.

It also confirmed that IM "played a facilitative role in the 2008 Mumbai attack carried out by LeT that killed 163 people, including six Americans."

In actions that underscores the fact that Washington is no more indifferent to terrorist attacks on India, a media note from the State Department that accompanied the formal designation acknowledged that "these designations highlight the threat posed by IM not only to Western interests, but to India, a close U.S. partner."

"The Indian populace has borne the brunt of IM's wanton violence and today's actions illustrate our solidarity with the Indian Government," said Ambassador Daniel Benjamin, the Department of State's Coordinator for Counterterrorism, adding that "these designations play a critical role in our fight against terrorism and are an effective means of curtailing support for terrorist activities and pressuring groups to abandon terrorism."

The State Department said Secretary of State Hillary Clinton designated the Indian Mujahideen (IM) as a Foreign Terrorist Organization (FTO) under Section 219 of the Immigration and Nationality Act and as a Specially Designated Global Terrorist under section 1(b) of Executive Order 13224. The consequences of these designations include a prohibition against knowingly providing material support or resources to, or engaging in other transactions with, the Indian Mujahideen, and the freezing of all property and interests in property of the organization that are in the United States, or come within the United States, or the control of U.S. persons.

The Department of State took these actions in consultation with the Department of Justice and the Department of Treasury, the media note said.

According to the State Department, IM's primary method of attack is multiple coordinated bombings in crowded areas against economic and civilian targets to maximize terror and casualties. In terrorist attacks attributed to the IM, it said in 2010, IM carried out the bombing of a popular German bakery in Pune, India frequented by tourists, killing 17 and injuring over 60 people. In 2008, an IM attack in Delhi killed 30 people. Also in 2008, IM was responsible for 16 synchronized bomb blasts in crowded urban centers and a local hospital that killed 38 and injured more than 100 in Ahmedabad.

The US designation came at a time when ties between Washington and Islamabad continued to spiral downwards on the issue of terrorism. Earlier this week, U.S officials, including Defense Secretary Leon Panetta, accused the Pakistan-backed Haqqani terrorist group of being behind the latest terror attacks on U.S forces in Kabul, a change endorsed by vice-president Joe Biden.

"Time and again we've urged the Pakistanis to exercise their influence over these kinds of attacks from the Haqqanis. And we have made very little progress in that area," Panetta told reporters on Wednesday, bluntly warning, "I think the message they need to know is: we're going to do everything we can to defend our forces."

Islamabad responded to the threat on Thursday, saying the US warning on militants would hurt ties with Washington because Pakistan is doing its best.

"If the militants are doing something inside Afghanistan, then it is the responsibility of the Afghan and Western forces to hold them on the borders," one Pakistani official was quoted as saying reflecting a continued policy of denial and not taking responsibility for fostering terrorist groups at home. "They let everyone go scot-free on their side (of the border) and then they say Pakistan is not doing enough."

The Pakistan-backed Haqqani group, under commission from the ISI, is also suspected of executing the attack on the Indian Embassy in Kabul in 2008 that killed a young Indian diplomat and a military attache. The Haqqani group has been described as Pakistan's "strategic asset" by its Army chief Pervez Ashfaq Kayani.

The latest designation of IM as a global terrorist entity with Pakistani links and increasing coordination on counter-terrorism suggests New Delhi and Washington are now finally on the same page on the issue of Pakistan and terrorism.
 
Indian Mujahideen is an indigenious Indian home grown terror outfit why impose it on Pakistan. Case of Indo-US combined witch hunt of Pakistan. Something anti-pakistan is cooking between India and USA..in the beginging it was only suspiction of alleged ties between taliban and Pak army. Now it a case of imposing a totally alien terrorist group on Pakistan. International trolling doesnt get any better..blame all failures on Pakistan.

The Indians need not to get too happy over their anti-Pakistan nostalagia, the actual article is

US designates Indian Mujahideen as a terrorist organisation
Washington, Sept 15 (PTI)

The US today slapped sanctions on India-based terrorist group Indian Mujahideen (IM) by designating it as a Foreign Terrorist Organisation and said it has significant links with Pakistan-based groups like the LeT.

Only toilet media is reporting is as significant links with Pakistan, the other do understand the difference between "links with Pakistan" that is the state and "links with Pakistan based" that is the non-state actors. Go brush up on your English skills!
 
Indian Mujahideen is an indigenious Indian home grown terror outfit why impose it on Pakistan. Case of Indo-US combined witch hunt of Pakistan. Something anti-pakistan is cooking between India and USA..in the beginging it was only suspiction of alleged ties between taliban and Pak army. Now it a case of imposing a totally alien terrorist group on Pakistan. International trolling doesnt get any better..blame all failures on Pakistan.

The Indians need not to get too happy over their anti-Pakistan nostalagia, the actual article is



Only toilet media is reporting is as significant links with Pakistan, the other do understand the difference between "links with Pakistan" that is the state and "links with Pakistan based" that is the non-state actors. Go brush up on your English skills!


A slap of facts.

Official press release of Govt. of USA


Terrorist Designations of the Indian Mujahideen

Media Note
Office of the Spokesperson
Washington, DC
September 15, 2011

Today, the Secretary of State designated the Indian Mujahideen (IM) as a Foreign Terrorist Organization (FTO) under Section 219 of the Immigration and Nationality Act and as a Specially Designated Global Terrorist under section 1(b) of Executive Order 13224. An India-based terrorist group with significant links to Pakistan, IM is responsible for dozens of bomb attacks throughout India since 2005, and has caused the deaths of hundreds of innocent civilians. IM maintains close ties to other U.S.- designated terrorist entities including Pakistan-based Lashkar e-Tayyiba (LeT), Jaish-e-Mohammed (JEM) and Harakat ul-Jihad-i-Islami (HUJI). IM’s stated goal is to carry out terrorist actions against non-Muslims in furtherance of its ultimate objective – an Islamic Caliphate across South Asia.

IM’s primary method of attack is multiple coordinated bombings in crowded areas against economic and civilian targets to maximize terror and casualties. In 2010, IM carried out the bombing of a popular German bakery in Pune, India frequented by tourists, killing 17 and injuring over 60 people. In 2008, an IM attack in Delhi killed 30 people. Also in 2008, IM was responsible for 16 synchronized bomb blasts in crowded urban centers and a local hospital that killed 38 and injured more than 100 in Ahmedabad. IM also played a facilitative role in the 2008 Mumbai attack carried out by LeT that killed 163 people, including six Americans.

“These designations highlight the threat posed by IM not only to Western interests, but to India, a close U.S. partner.
The Indian populace has borne the brunt of IM’s wanton violence and today’s actions illustrate our solidarity with the Indian Government,” stated Ambassador Daniel Benjamin, the Department of State’s Coordinator for Counterterrorism. These designations play a critical role in our fight against terrorism and are an effective means of curtailing support for terrorist activities and pressuring groups to abandon terrorism.

The consequences of these designations include a prohibition against knowingly providing material support or resources to, or engaging in other transactions with, the Indian Mujahideen, and the freezing of all property and interests in property of the organization that are in the United States, or come within the United States, or the control of U.S. persons. The Department of State took these actions in consultation with the Department of Justice and the Department of Treasury.



PRN: 2011/1499

Terrorist Designations of the Indian Mujahideen


As Hafiz saeed chief of LeT openly walks in Lahore and spit venom pakistan can't wash its hands by calling non state actors. :blah:
 
IM has direct links with Hindustan, in fact they live and operate there and were created there.
 
IM has direct links with Hindustan, in fact they live and operate there and were created there.
as the name suggests...Indian Mujaheddin....We have some of those so called mujaheddin scums here as well,who think the World will turn upside down if the conduct some bombings once in a while.
 
well what do the indian government have to say about this?

to me this seems like a response to the LACK of response from the indians in blaming pakistan for the recent delhi and mumbai blasts.

you had singh and PC talking about indigenous problems - NOT pakistan.

interesting development.
 
Published fake article about ISI & journalist murder in Pakistan.
Blast in DIR.
US Defense Minister's statement against Pakistan.
Connecting IM with Pakistan.


Pretty clear from where all planned out.
 

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