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Article: training camp Pakistan turns blind eye to terror group's new base Thousands of militants trained in the Punjab sent to fight in Afghanistan
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- The Sunday Telegraph London
- Article date:
- September 13, 2009
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A BANNED terrorist group that counts British-born al-Qaeda
militant Rashid Rauf as a member is setting up a large base in
Pakistan's most heavily populated province.
Jaish-e-Mohammad ("army of Mohammad"), which is linked to a
series of atrocities including an attack on the Indian parliament
and the beheading of the US journalist Daniel Pearl, has walled off
a compound just outside the town of Bahawalpur.
Pakistani authorities have turned a blind eye to the new base, in
the far south of Punjab province, even though it is believed to
serve as a radical madrassah - Islamic school - or some kind of
training camp.
British security sources believe that Rauf helped to organise the
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