Al Qaeda Attacks Pakistan Mountain Tourists

Al Qaeda Attacks Pakistan Mountain Tourists

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Summary: June 24, 2013 Over a dozen gunman attacked the base camp of Nanga Parbat, a popular high mountain in Pakistan. 10 foreigners were killed included two Chinese, one Chinese-American and one Nepalese, with another report including five Ukrainians and one Russian. One Chinese tourist was wounded in the attack and was rescued. The Jundul Hafsa group of the Taliban announced the attack was retaliation for the death their leader Waliur Rehman, in a U.S. drone attack on May 29. "By killing foreigners, we wanted to give a message to the world to play their role in bringing an end to the drone attacks. But other extremists in the area say it was actually planned by Alam Sher Afridi, a commander of the Lashkar-i-Jhangvi the same al-Qaida-associated group that attacked a a bus with Shia college women in Quetta and the hospital that treated the survivors.

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Suddenly, Khan heard shouts of "Surrender! We are Al-Qaida! Taliban!" then, in Urdu "Where are the Americans?"

Awake now and very frightened, Khan looked out of his tent. Men in camouflage fatigues and carrying AK47s were moving though the camp, pitched at around 3,500m below the famous Diamer Face of what is known among mountaineers as "the Killer Mountain".

Good weather meant most of the 40 mountaineers who had been camping on the lush meadow amid pine trees were high up on the 8,125m peak. But the sick and the tired were not. Nor were the support staff. They were dragged out, tied, lined up and shot. Khan, from a village a few hours drive away, was spared. A Shia cook died. A Chinese climber managed to flee.

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01. FOX News: TALIBAN VIOLENCE: 9 Foreign Tourists Including Chinese American Gunned Down in Pakistan  June 24, 2013 Over a dozen taliban gunman attacked the base camp of base camp of Nanga Parbat, the ninth highest mountain in the world after abducting two guides who led them to their victims.10 foreigners were killed included two Chinese, one Chinese-American and one Nepalese. Another report wsa that nine foreigners and one Pakistani were killed. He said the dead included five Ukrainians, three Chinese and one Russian. One Chinese tourist was wounded in the attack and was rescued," The Jundul Hafsa group  of the Taliban announced the attack was retaliation for the death their leader Waliur Rehman, in a U.S. drone attack on May 29. "By killing foreigners, we wanted to give a message to the world to play their role in bringing an end to the drone attacks

02.  Wali-ur-Rehman  Wali-ur-Rehman (Wali Ur-Rehman Mehsud) (c. 1970, (Bannu) ^[1] - 29 May 2013) was a senior Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) commander based in South Waziristan.^[2][3]  killed in a drone strike
17. June 24, 2013 - Page updated at 10:00 p.m.

10 climbers killed in Himalayas attack  Responsibility for the attack was claimed by the self-described Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan in retribution for a suspected U.S. drone strike last month that killed Wali ur-Rehman, the second in command of the terrorist group. ...extremists based in the area said the attack was planned by Alam Sher Afridi, a commander of the Lashkar-i-Jhangvi, an al-Qaida-associated group that was responsible for a June 15 suicide attack on a busload of female students in the western city of Quetta...included members of two groups, Harakat-ul-Mujahideen and Jaish-i-Mohammed, Pakistani rebels linked both with al-Qaida and the Pakistani military’s security agencies, which uses them as interlocutors with insurgent extremists. The two groups have secret training camps in Mansehra, which is connected by a high-altitude road from the south to the Nanga Parbat area, from where they send fighters to Afghanistan, the rebels said.

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