18 Dec 2003

Attempt on Musharraf's Life
Institute For Topical Studies, Chennai, India
Supplied note: "The latest paper of the Institute For Topical Studies, A-2/3, Bharathi Dasan Colony, K.K.Nagar, Chennai---600078, India, on the above subject is now available at the web site of the South Asia Analysis Group (SAAG), New Delhi, at [the URL below] - br."
[Extract: "On December 14, 2003, a powerful explosion [...] damaged a bridge in a densely populated locality of the Rawalpindi Cantonment hardly a minute after a car carrying President Pervez Musharraf from the Chaklala airport to his residence (the Army House) and the other vehicles in his convoy had passed over it. [...]. There were no human casualties. [...] The two previous conspiracies directed against Musharraf were attributed by the Pakistani authorities to the Harkat-ul-Mujahideen Al-Alami (meaning HUM-International), a wing of the HUM, which is a founding member of the IIF since February,1998. Since the beginning of this year, there have been one anti-Pakistan message attributed to bin Laden and two anti-Musharraf messages attributed to Ayman al-Zawahiri, his No.2." - b.raman]
[The author of the paper, Mr B. Raman, is Additional Secretary (retd), Cabinet Secretariat, Govt. of India - ed.]
URL http://www.saag.org/papers9/paper864.html
Internet Archive (www.archive.org) [the paper was not archived at the time of this abstract. However, in a few weeks time it will be available at web.archive.org/web/*/www.saag.org]
Link reported by: B. Raman (corde[use"@"]vsnl.com)
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