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'Peshawar suicide attack Taliban's revenge' Staff Report PESHAWAR: The May 15 suicide attack on the Afghan-owned Marhaba Hotel was the Taliban's revenge for the arrest of their senior military operational commander a month ago and the killing of Mullah Dadullah in Afghanistan. "The attack on the hotel was planned from inside Afghanistan targeting the owner and his son," highly-placed sources told Daily Times on Saturday. Around 25 people, including the hotel owner and his son and relatives, were killed when the suicide bomber blew himself up as customers packed the hotel restaurant at lunchtime on Tuesday. The sources said senior Taliban commander Mullah Saeedullah and Qari Rehmat Din, Afghan prayer leader in Mardan district, were "picked up" from areas close to the hotel and handed over to the United States in April. "Both men are with the US at the Bagram airbase (in Afghanistan)," they said. "It all happened in the first week of last month and the arrest of Mullah Saeedullah was a big setback for the Taliban." The Taliban believed that Ainuddin, son of hotel owner Sadruddin, who is an ethnic Uzbek, had "tipped off Pakistani intelligence about Mullah Saeedullah," said the sources. The suicide bomber had taped a message on his legs warning that "US spies will meet the same fate". The Afghan hotel owner, said the sources, had had "close contacts" with Rashid Dostum and Uzbek Afghan soldiers were involved with US forces in the killing of Taliban military commander Mullah Dadullah in Sangeen Valley of Helmand province on May 12. "We believe that the Taliban targeted Sadruddin for two reasons - for Mullah Saeedullah's arrest and the killing of Mullah Dadullah. Uzbek soldiers from the Afghan National Army were involved in the attack on him," the sources added. But they believed the attacker blew up the hotel up without approval from the senior Taliban leadership. "We think the attacker took it on himself to blow up the hotel to avenge the two losses the Taliban suffered. If this was not the case then the Taliban would have killed the hotel owner or his family members in a different fashion." [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] -------------------------- Want to discuss this topic? Head on over to our discussion list, [EMAIL PROTECTED] -------------------------- Brooks Isoldi, editor [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.intellnet.org Post message: osint@yahoogroups.com Subscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] *** FAIR USE NOTICE. This message contains copyrighted material whose use has not been specifically authorized by the copyright owner. OSINT, as a part of The Intelligence Network, is making it available without profit to OSINT YahooGroups members who have expressed a prior interest in receiving the included information in their efforts to advance the understanding of intelligence and law enforcement organizations, their activities, methods, techniques, human rights, civil liberties, social justice and other intelligence related issues, for non-profit research and educational purposes only. We believe that this constitutes a 'fair use' of the copyrighted material as provided for in section 107 of the U.S. Copyright Law. If you wish to use this copyrighted material for purposes of your own that go beyond 'fair use,' you must obtain permission from the copyright owner. For more information go to: http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/107.shtml Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/osint/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/osint/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
