Prosecutors: Pakistani man has terror ties

Oakland Tribune,  Apr 29, 2006  by Josh Richman, STAFF WRITER

A Pakistani man indicted on a charge that he'd lied to immigration officials has ties to "at least one leader of a recognized international terrorist organization," federal prosecutors in Oakland now say. 

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But told that Hussain is the founder and head of the Muttahida Quami Movement, or MQM, allegedly responsible for violent crimes including murder, kidnapping and at least one bombing, Czar "flatly denied" his associate is a terrorist, the document says.

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Hussain, who has lived in London since 1992, at one time "faced more than 100 charges in Pakistan including murder and kidnapping," Davis' memo says. "He was sentenced in absentia to 27 years in prison for allegedly kidnapping and torturing an army major."

Davis' memo says Hussain started the MQM in 1978 as an Urdu- speaking ethnic student group at the University of Karachi, and that it's responsible for violent crimes in Pakistan against Pakistanis and foreigners alike.

And the Rand Corporation "has identified at least one terrorist bombing incident in 2001 in Karachi for which the MQM claimed responsibility," the memo says.

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