'Al-Zawahiri visited Islamabad after Lal Masjid operation'

 

By Roohan Ahmed

 

KARACHI: Dr Ayman Al-Zawahiri along with a Punjabi Al-Qaeda activist visited the site of Islamabad’s Laal Masjid (Red Mosque) on the orders of Osama Bin Laden after the military operation in 2007, claimed senior journalist Azaz Syed in his newly published book “The Secrets of Pakistan’s War on Al-Qaeda”.

The writer also revealed Osama Bin Laden’s secret plan to engage Pakistan and India in a war after he (Bin Laden) came to know about Lashkar-e-Taiba’s intension to carryout deadly attacks in Indian city of Mumbai through his old friend Ilyas Kashmiri.

Osama Bin Laden was Lashkar-e-Taiba’s financier in the early days and gave $200,000 to the group for setting up its headquarters in Muridke, wrote Azaz Syed in his book.

The writer also described in detail the Central Intelligence Agency’s (CIA) raid on Abbottabad compound where world’s most wanted terrorist took shelter.

The book claims, ‘The chief of Harkat-ul-Mujahideen (a banned outfit), Fazl ur Rehman Khalil was the one who met Osama in Abbottabad as recently as 2010’.

The book “The Secrets of Pakistan’s War on Al-Qaeda” deals with the topic of Osama Bin Laden in considerable detail. It discusses his contacts with other Jihadi outfits and the circumstance in which he was hunt down by CIA.