Lashkar-e-Omar

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Lashkar-e-Omar (also known as Omar's Army , LeO and al-Qanoon ) is a fundamentalist terrorist organization . The organization was formed in January 2002. It is a mix of several terrorist organizations, including Harkat-ul-Jihad-al-Islami , Lashkar-e-Jhangvi , Lashkar-e-Toiba and Jaish-e Mohammed, and has members of the Taliban and al-Qaeda in its ranks. Your stated mission is to attack the US in Pakistan. Its former leader is Qari Abdul Hai (also known as Qari Asadullah or Talha ) who was arrested on May 29, 2003 in Muzaffargarh . The current leader is not known.

Attacks

Some events are associated with Lashkar-e-Omar. It was reported that Lashkar-e-Omar was behind the bombing of the Islamabad Church on March 17, 2002, in which five people were killed and 41 injured. Two of the dead were a US diplomat and her daughter, who was a high school student. A few months later on May 8, a suicide detonated a bomb outside the Sheraton Hotel in Karachi . On June 14, ten people were killed in an attack on the US consulate in Karachi. Finally, on October 28, 2002, six armed terrorists shot and killed 17 Christians and one police officer in a church in Bahawalpur , Punjab . Some members of the Lashkar-e-Omar were involved in the murder of US journalist Daniel Pearl .

Web link

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Terrorist Group of Pakistan Lashkar-e-Omar (The Army of Omar) . South Asia Terrorism Portal. Retrieved January 18, 2018. (English)
  2. ↑ Jamal Afridi: Kashmir Militant Extremists . Council on Foreign Nations, July 9, 2009, accessed January 18, 2018. (English)
  3. ↑ Lashkar-e-Omar (LeO) (also see al Qanoon) . Tracking Terrorism. Retrieved January 18, 2018. (English)
  4. ↑ Lashkar E Omar, Founded 2001 in Pakistan  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . Inside Gov. Retrieved January 22, 2018. (English)@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / terrorist-groups.insidegov.com  
  5. ^ Qari Abdul Hai had an anti-Western agenda . The News International, March 18, 2013, accessed January 18, 2018. (English)
  6. ↑ Rohan Gunaratna, Khuram Iqbal: Pakistan: Terrorism Ground Zero , 2011, p. 164. (English)
  7. ^ Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada . The United States Department of Justice, October 12, 2006, accessed January 18, 2018. (English)
  8. ^ Raymond Bonner: A NATION CHALLENGED: ISLAMABAD; 2 Americans Killed in Attack on Pakistan Church . The New York Times. March 18, 2002, accessed January 21, 2018. (English)
  9. ↑ Ali K Chishti: “The Karachi affair” & French Naval bombing ( Memento of the original from March 12, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . TheFridayTimes. March 3, 2011, accessed January 24, 2018. (English) @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.thefridaytimes.com
  10. ↑ Zaffar Abbas: Analysis: Pakistan searches for blast leads . BBC News (UK), June 14, 2002, accessed January 27, 2018. (English)