Ilyas Kashmiri

• Pakistani-American cabbie gets seven and half years for bid to fund terrorist

  A federal judge sentenced a Pakistani-born Chicago taxi driver on Friday to 7 1/2 years in prison for attempting to send money to a terrorist with alleged links to al-Qaeda, telling the 58-year-old he had violated a citizenship oath made to God promising never to do harm to the United States.

• Al Qaeda commander Ilyas Kashmiri is alive: Report

  Mohammad Ilyas Kashmiri, the Al Qaeda commander who was believed to have been killed last month in a US drone attack in Pakistan, is alive, a media report said on Saturday.Kashmiri is still active in the border areas of Pakistan and Afghanistan, Dawn said on its website quoting unnamed sources.Media reports had earlier said that Kashmiri was killed...

• CIA chief on visit to repair ties with Pakistan

  CIA Director Leon Panetta met over dinner Friday with Pakistan's spy chief and army head for talks on how to repair ties between the two countries that were fractured by the American raid that killed Osama bin Laden, a Pakistani and a US official said.Panetta's visit was his first to Pakistan since the unilateral American operation on May 2 killed ...

• No confirmation that Ilyas Kashmiri is dead: Pentagon

  The United States has no confirmation that Ilyas Kashmiri, the Al Qaeda leader and a key planner behind the gruesome 2008 Mumbai terrorist attack, has been killed in a US drone attack, a top Pentagon official said today."No confirmation," Pentagon spokesman Colonel Dave Lapan told reporters during his off-camera daily briefing when asked about news...

• Ilyas Kashmiri wanted to create 'Laskhar-e-Osama'

  Al Qaeda-linked terrorist Ilyas Kashmiri was in the process of forming a new terror group called the "Laskhar-e-Osama" for carrying out reprisal attacks to avenge the killing of bin Laden.The new group was plotting a wave of suicide bombings across Pakistan and to target embassies and diplomats, the Express Tribune newspaper reported on Monday.Kash...

• Unsafe in Pakistan, Dawood plans to shift base

  The ongoing US offensive against terrorists in Pakistan that saw bigwigs like Al Qaeda chief Osama bin Laden and HuJI head Ilyas Kashmiri falling, has left India's most wanted criminal Dawood Ibrahim jittery, prompting the elusive don to contemplate shifting his base to a safer place.According to underworld sources, this is the first time in the pa...

• Is this Ilyas Kashmiri?

  Harakat-ul-Jihad-Islami (HUJI) has released a photograph that is purported to be of Ilyas Kashmiri after his death. The photograph of the top Al Qaeda military leader and HUJI's statement has been republished with the permission of the SITE Intelligence Group.Kashmiri was the commander of "Brigade 313" of HUJI, which formed a close relationship wit...

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• Ilyas Kashmiri killed in US drone strike in Pakistan: Reports

  One of Pakistan's most wanted militant commanders, Ilyas Kashmiri, has been killed in an American drone strike in the tribal territory of South Waziristan, residents and a militant member in the area said on Saturday. Officials said they were also aware of the reports but could not confirm his death.Mr. Kashmiri was considered one of the most dange...

• Capture Ilyas Kashmiri and Mullah Omar by July: US to Pakistan

  The United States has given Pakistan time till July to capture Al Qaeda leader Ilyas Kashmiri and Afghan Taliban chief Mullah Omar. It has also warned of a military offensive in North Waziristan if they are not captured. The July deadline coincides with NATO and allied forces withdrawing from Afghanistan. Last week, the US had handed over to Pakist...

• Ilyas Kashmiri had planned to kill Lockheed Martin CEO: Headley

  An admitted American terrorist who is the government's star witness in the trial of a Chicago businessman accused in the deadly 2008 Mumbai attacks said on Tuesday that another militant with ties to Al Qaida had once plotted to attack U.S. defense contractor Lockheed Martin.David Coleman Headley, who has pleaded guilty to laying the groundwork in t...

• US hands over list of five terrorists to Pak: Report

  The US has handed over to Pakistan a list of five terrorists, seeking immediate intelligence information on them. It reportedly also expects Pakistan to possibly target these terrorists in joint operations.The list was discussed during two meetings between Pakistani and US officials in the past two weeks, and also during Secretary of State Hillary ...

• Headley says Ilyas Kashmiri wanted him to leave Lashkar and join Qaeda

  The latest revelations by David Coleman Headley in a Chicago court disclose his ties with Ilyas Kashmiri, one of the most-dreaded Al Qaeda leaders.Testifying before the court on the fourth-day of the trial of 26/11 co-accused Tahawwur Rana, Headley, 50, said when he met Kashmiri, the latter told him he had heard a lot about him and that he wanted h...

• Ilyas Kashmiri could be successor to Osama: US officials

  Former Pakistani commando Ilyas Kashmiri, cited as one of the masterminds of a plot for a series of "Mumbai-style" attacks in European cities last summer, could replace Osama bin Laden as the new terrorist head of Al Qaeda, according to US officials.The bearded Kashmiri, who is also named in the terrorism case against Pakistani Canadian accused Tah...

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