This Article is From Sep 03, 2011

Lashkar-e-Toiba is conducting commando training inside Pakistan: FBI

Lashkar-e-Toiba is conducting commando training inside Pakistan: FBI
Washington: The Lashkar-e-Toiba (LeT) is engaged in imparting commando training to its recruits. According to an FBI complaint,  these recruits, which include teenagers, provide religious indoctrination and commando training at its terror camps inside Pakistan.

In the complaint submitted before a federal US court in Virginia yesterday, the FBI said this is reflected in the communication of Jubair Ahmad, 24, a Pakistani national who has legal permanent residency in the US. Jubair has been arrested on charges of providing material support to the LeT

The FBI said a review of immigration records indicated that Jubair was born in Sialkot and resided in Pakistan until the age of 19.

According to admissions he made during a number of communications analysed by the FBI, he received indoctrination and training from LeT, while he lived in Pakistan.

"These communications demonstrate that, as a teenager, in or about 2004, Jubair attended an LeT training course known as 'Dora Suffa' where he received instruction in religious dogma and proselytising," the complaint said.

''Thereafter, Jubair attended LeT's basic training camp known as 'Dora A'ama', where he received additional religious indoctrination, physical conditioning and weapons instruction. For example, when describing his training at Dora A'ama, Jubair stated in one of the communications that recruits 'listen to lectures, offer your prayers, exercise, study guns, fire them' and added that 'where I got training from they do the commando training there now,'" the FBI said.

Subsequent to attending Dora A'ama, Jubair reported for the next stage of LeT training -- the commando course known as Dora Khasa.

"He spent only a week at that course, however, because an instructor at the training camp told Jubair that he was too young, that he needed to continue his studies, and then he could return to complete Dora Khasa," said the complaint signed by FBI Special Agent, Daudshah S Andish.

The FBI said Jubair was given a visa by the State Department on October 16, 2006 based on the fact that his father was related to a US citizen. He along with his father, mother and two younger brothers entered the US on February 19, 2007.

According to the compliant, the FBI started an investigation after it received information that Jubair might
be connected with the LeT.

Investigations by the FBI have revealed that Jubair provided material support to LeT by producing and posting a LeT propaganda video glorifying violence.

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