The Hindu : 3 held for `bid' on Musharraf

Online edition of India's National Newspaper
Tuesday, Jul 09, 2002

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3 held for `bid' on Musharraf

By B. Muralidhar Reddy

ISLAMABAD July 8. Police have arrested three activists of a militant outfit on charges of a series of bomb attacks, including the one on the U.S. Consulate last month in Karachi. The arrested were members of the Harkat-ul Mujahideen al-Almi,a group which backed the Afghan Taliban.

Salahuddin, chief of Pakistan Rangers, told a news conference that the group had tried to assassinate Gen. Musharraf last April when he had gone to Karachi to address his last rally for the Presidential referendum. ``They had positioned a vehicle with remote bomb en-route to the airport the evening Gen. Musharraf was to return from Karachi to Islamabad after addressing the rally. Fortunately the remote did not work.''

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