ISLAMABAD: The arrested bomber of the Sakhi Sarwar shrine in Dera Ghazi Khan, apologised to the Pakistani nation on Friday and said that he had been told to bomb the areas of non-Muslims.
During investigations, Omar told officials that there were 350 people receiving suicide bombing training in the militant hideouts of Waziristan. He said that these included Uzbeks, Tajiks, Arabs and Punjabis.
Omar said that he used to be blindfolded and taken for training](http://www.dawn.com/2011/04/06/sketch-released-of-alleged-mastermind-of-sakhi-sarwar-shrine-blasts.html). He said that the in-charge of the camp was Sangeen Khan who used to constantly be away on travel.
He also disclosed that the second bombing was supposed to take place between the rescue and media teams.
he is spilling the beans. No food for the conspiracy theorists looking for CIA/RAW/Mossad and Black Water agents though. No Jews or Hindus conspiring to ignite a fight between Deobandis and Barelvis. Only the good Taliban of North Waziristan and Bajaur are named.
The suicide bomber, who was caught alive from inside the Sakhi Sarwar Shrine in Dera Ghazi Khan a few days ago, has claimed that up to 350 suicide bombers are being trained in Mir Ali, North Waziristan.
In an exclusive interview to Express 24/7, the bomber, Umar Fidai, said Arabs, Uzbeks and Tajiks are amongst militants in the area.
Fidai said his mission was to attack the shrine half an hour after the first wave of attacks so that people gathered at the site could be targeted. He claimed a man known as Sangeen Khan travels from Waziristan to Afghanistan and picks out targets for the bombers. He also claimed that a man known as Naeem indoctrinates the bombers.
Fidai went on to apologise to the nation for attempting a suicide attack and called on other suicide bombers to not undertake such activities.
****PESHAWAR: Express 24-7 has obtained the school certificate of the injured suicide bomber of Sakhi Sarwar Shrine in Dera Ghazi Khan. Initial investigations reveal that 10 suicide bombers including the captured bomber had been sent to different parts of the country.
The suicide bomber, Omar Fidai had been arrested at the spot on the day of the blast.
According to his school card, Fidai is the son of Akbar Khan and a student of class seven in Noor public school Husso Khel, Waziristan.
Fidai belongs to the Khati village of Mir Ali and sources say that four people including him were sent to DG Khan for suicide attacks. They were shown the shrine two days prior to the eventual suicide attack on April 3.
Sources add that Fidai also said four suicide bombers came to DG Khan with him — Abdullah Dawar, Mutaqi and Aziz.
Eleven suspects have been arrested in connection with the twin suicide blasts at the shrine of sufi saint Sakhi Sarwar in DG Khan so far.
****LAHORE: Eleven suspects have been arrested in connection with the twin suicide blasts at the shrine of sufi saint Sakhi Sarwar in Dera Ghazi Khan.
Dera Ghazi Khan regional police officer Ahmed Mubarak has said the suspects have been arrested on a tip off by an alleged suicide bomber who was arrested from the site of the twin blasts. He said he is expecting a breakthrough within 2 days based on the information revealed by the arrested suspects.
Mubarak also claimed the police are getting closer to arresting those who led the suicide bombers to the blast site. He said the police are looking for the suicide bombers’ 2 aides – Zahra Ali and Naeem.
He also said security has been beefed up at all entry and exit points of DG Khan. Investigation background
According to investigators, the planning for the attack on the shrine was done in the Bajaur tribal district. At least five people, including the suicide bombers, are suspected of having been involved.
The two attackers, 16-year-old Ismail and 18-year-old Umar, were both from North Waziristan. They received their explosive vests from handlers based in Dera Ismail Khan. They arrived in Dera Ghazi Khan on March 29, staying at the Madina Hotel. Their hotel room was booked under the name of Zara Ali, son of Shah Wali.
Our law enforcement agencies are out of this world. Why on earth is this guy being allowed to give interviews to anyone? Shouldnt all this information be kept confidential, untill some benefit has been derived from it? This is outrageous.
We can't fight these brainwash zombies with weapons, Intelligence Agencies must try harder to gain access into their core and break them from inside.
The captured bomber should be put in some kind a psycho rehabilitation and must be fully study to better understand the dynamics of suicide bombers mind. Look for their weakness or any other means of exploiting their mind to stop them before they are blown up.
Our law enforcement agencies are out of this world. Why on earth is this guy being allowed to give interviews to anyone? Shouldnt all this information be kept confidential, untill some benefit has been derived from it? This is outrageous.
Law enforcement agencies did the right thing, the public should know that these goons are doing something. We need to better understand the enemy, the public must know the mindset of people we are fighting.
We can't fight these brainwash zombies with weapons, Intelligence Agencies must try harder to gain access into their core and break them from inside.
The captured bomber should be put in some kind a psycho rehabilitation and must be fully study to better understand the dynamics of suicide bombers mind. Look for their weakness or any other means of exploiting their mind to stop them before they are blown up.
I wish you can revisit some of your statements from a while ago, where you said the only solution was to bomb these 'goats'...
That's the problem, bomb them, kill some bystanders with them, and you produce 1000 more of these 'goat lovers' as you call them, ready to wreak havoc. I agree, the strategy needs to change.
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What if they themselves are infiltrated? You can't be so cozy with this islamist neocon ideology and not expect to be affected.
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the face of the young kid bomber...so sad that adults use kids for their dirty work:
And agreed with the posters above, bombing them only gives the Taliban more cannon fodder. Seriously, the suicide attacks in Pakistan are one of a kind. Normally when you have suicide bombers in places like Palestine, they are people who do it knowing full well what and why they're doing it. Here it's like you get these poor kids brainwashed into mindless zombies, don't even know what they're thinking. Something's got to give, suicide attacks at this rate just aren't sustainable, and this war on terror/drone strategy is proving to be a big failure.
SLAMABAD — A teenager arrested as an accomplice to Pakistan’s deadliest suicide bombing of the year has said that up to 400 suicide bombers are being groomed to wage carnage in the nuclear-armed nation.
Umar Fidayee, 14, said the would-be bombers were being trained in North Waziristan, the premier Al-Qaeda and Taliban fortress in Pakistan’s tribal belt where US officials want Pakistan to flush out militant strongholds.
He made the remarks in an interview aired Friday from his hospital bedside, where he is being treated after detonating a hand grenade in the April 3 attack that killed 50 people at a 13th-century Sufi shrine.
It was Pakistan’s deadliest bomb attack since November.
Police arrested Fidayee as an alleged accomplice and said they removed his own suicide vest, which he failed to detonate in a crowd of hundreds in Dera Ghazi Khan just minutes after two other bombers blew themselves up.
Shown covered in tubes and bandages, the teen appeared to express remorse and lifted the lid on harrowing details of his training at the camp in the Mir Ali district of North Waziristan, which lies on the border with Afghanistan.
“Three hundred and fifty to 400 would-be suicide bombers are getting training in Mir Ali in North Waziristan,” he said in the interview broadcast by Pakistani television channels Samaa, Express, ARY and Geo.
“I was trained for two months and saw many boys being trained there,” he said, going on to appeal on Pakistanis to “please forgive me”.
“God has given me a new life but I am sad that we killed innocent people, innocent children,” he said.
Fidayee said he was initially recruited on the understanding that he would be smuggled into Afghanistan to kill non-Muslims.
“But they brought me here to Dera Ghazi Khan. I told them ‘there is no kafir (non-believer) here’,” he said.
“They told me these people are worse than kafirs,” Fidayee said.
Exposing an apparently disturbing recruitment at the gates of an ordinary school in North Waziristan, the teenager claimed a man he identified as Qari Zafar convinced him to begin a life of militancy.
“He told me that all this education is useless and said ‘become a fighter and you will go to heaven’,” Umar told the reporters.
He said the bombers arrived in Dera Ghazi Khan five days before the bombing, checked into a local hotel and conducted two reconnaissance missions to the shrine 480 kilometres (300 miles) southwest of the capital Islamabad.
“A man called Ayyaz gave us the suicide jackets on April 3 (the day of the attack). At 4 or 5 pm we visited the Sakhi Sarwar shrine and he told us each where to carry out our attacks,” Umar said.
They used a rickshaw and public mini-bus to travel to the site and the teen said it was his job to attack 30 minutes after the other two, to cause maximum carnage among those helping with the rescue efforts.
In a message to other potential suicide bombers, he said: “Please refuse to carry suicide attacks. Such attacks are forbidden in Islam.”
Islamist militants have increasingly targeted Sufi worshippers, who follow a mystical strain of Islam, in Muslim-majority Pakistan.
Dera Ghazi Khan is close to Pakistan’s tribal belt which is described by Washington as the most dangerous place on Earth and an Al-Qaeda headquarters.
More than 4,200 people have been killed across Pakistan in attacks blamed on homegrown Taliban and other Islamist extremist networks since government troops stormed a radical mosque in Islamabad in July 2007.
The conspiracy theorists will probably say this suicide bomber was planted by Blackwater/RAW/CIA/Mossad/India to divert suspicion from the real enemy and push the population against our fellow Muslims (the Taliban)
Rather than have digs at the conspiracy theorists dont forget the fact that this is a teenage bomber who has been brainwashed and not some sort of higher up who masterminds these things. I am not saying that there is any outside involvement but who he is going to meet will not be the CIA/Mossad/RAW or even ISI.
This canard of drone attacks makes for 1000 more terrorists is so wonderfully accepted at face value. There have been many suicide bombings in Pakistan now, often their stories come out, as in this case. Can anyone here tell me of a suicide bomber who fits that story (radicalized after drone attacked family etc etc). Predominantly every suicide bomber/terrorist who's story I know of, tells a tale of religious indoctrination and promises of heaven. Who do you know that fits your claim, that you make with such confidence.
Also, I am sure you lot would be aware that there are taliban whom we keep because they conduct their attacks in Afghanistan. Lets call them the 'good' taliban. There are then those who have killed thousands of people in Pakistan, and who continue to do so despite being encouraged to become 'good' taliban by the establishment i.e. start causing their muck in Afghanistan. Since they reject such encouragement, what should the country's strategy be towards the 'bad' taliban?
That's the problem, bomb them, kill some bystanders with them, and you produce 1000 more of these 'goat lovers' as you call them, ready to wreak havoc.
Bombs or drone do not create terrorists. Extremist hateful religious inculcation create terrorists.
Killing them is necessary but it will not eliminate them. Need is to eliminate their extremist hateful religious inculcation.
