police seals seven offices of Al-Rashid Trust in Karachi

Police Tuesday sealed seven offices of Karachi-based Al-Rashid Trust (ART), one of the 27 groups and organizations listed by the US State Department on September 22, 2001, for involvement in financing and supporting network of international Islamist terrorist groups, said an official.As a part of President Pervez Musharraf's countrywide campaign against extremist organizations and militants, a team of police raided seven offices of ART in the Karachi port city and sealed them, a police source told KUNA.After the US banned ART, founded in 1996 in Karachi, the State Bank of Pakistan froze the accounts of the Trust. It had been secretly carrying out its activities.The organization was described as a "welfare organization," but it reportedly had become one of Osama Bin Laden's many sources of income. It is closely linked with the Taliban as also with Jaish-e-Mohammed (JeM) and other terrorist outfits active in Indian-Held Kashmir.

They haven't shot anybody, at least not that I've seen, and the coppers
certainly knew where to go to find the offices. Tony or G.W. really must have hollered "frog," though. It's been awhile since we saw so much determined effort coming out of Perv.