Thursday, December 18, 2014

'We have killed all the children, now what do we do?': Taliban death squad's frantic request for instructions after slaughtering 132 innocents... as military airstrikes kill 57 in hunt for 'Radio Mullah' who ordered massacre

'We have killed all the children, now what do we do?': Taliban death squad's frantic request for instructions after slaughtering 132 innocents... as military airstrikes kill 57 in hunt for 'Radio Mullah' who ordered massacre 

 http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2878723/We-killed-children-Taliban-death-squad-s-frantic-request-instructions-slaughtering-132-innocents-hunt-begins-Radio-Mullah-mastermind-ordered-massacre.html

  • Militants contacted commanders to ask when to detonate suicide vests
  • Given constant instructions from sixteen commanders during massacre
  • Now hunt is on to bring commanders to justice and face the death penalty
  • Pakistani Taliban leader Maulana Fazlullah ordered slaughter of 132 pupils
  • Previously demanded the death of teenage education campaigner Malala
  • He is known as 'Radio Mullah' for firebrand sermons on Pakistani FM radio
The depraved Taliban gunmen who slaughtered 132 students at a school in Pakistan contacted their commanders to ask: 'We have killed all the children, now what do we do?', it has been revealed.

Having stormed the Army Public School in Peshawar using machine guns and rocket launchers to massacre those inside, the six men were instructed to await the arrival of soldiers before detonating their suicide vests, according to a security official citing unspecified intelligence gathered on site.

The details come as it emerged sixteen prominent commanders from different wings of the Pakistani Taliban were involved in organising the attack, with another senior militant named Umar Adizai - also known as Umar Naray and Umar Khalifa - acting as the six killers' overall 'handler'.

The hunt is now on for the 17 men, all of whom have been named, with Pakistani Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif moving to end the moratorium on executing those convicted of terrorism - effectively signing the death warrant for the savage Peshawar commanders should they be caught.

Parents of the 132 victims of the Peshawar massacre now face the horrific ordeal of having to identify the remains of their children, many of whom have had their heads separated from their bodies either by bomb blasts or as a result of the militants' indiscriminate gunfire.

The news came amid reports that a five-year-old girl named Khola Altaf was the youngest victim of the massacre - despite alleged instructions from Taliban commanders not to kill 'small children'. 

Khola is understood to have been on her first day the school's kindergarten when gunmen burst into the room and shot her at point blank range.

Following Tuesday's massacre, the Pakistani military carried out 20 airstrikes in a remote Taliban stronghold in the north west of the country, killing at least 57 militants.

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Hunted: The order for the raid was given by the overall leader of the Pakistani Taliban Maulana Fazlullah, (pictured) whose previous crimes include ordered the failed murder of teenage education campaigner Malala
Hunted: The order for the raid was given by the overall leader of the Pakistani Taliban Maulana Fazlullah, (pictured) whose previous crimes include ordered the failed murder of teenage education campaigner Malala
Terror leader: Maulana Fazlullah - the firebrand militant, whose thick black beard reaches halfway down his chest - took control of the Pakistani Taliban 13 months ago
Terror leader: Maulana Fazlullah - the firebrand militant, whose thick black beard reaches halfway down his chest - took control of the Pakistani Taliban 13 months ago
Headlines: A Pakistani newspaper featured mugshots of Pakistani Taliban leader Maulana Fazlullah (top right) alongside other senior militants in 2009
Headlines: A Pakistani newspaper featured mugshots of Pakistani Taliban leader Maulana Fazlullah (top right) alongside other senior militants in 2009
Taliban leader Maulana Fazlullah (right) is seen alongside Swat Taliban spokesman Muslim Khan
Taliban leader Maulana Fazlullah (right) is seen alongside Swat Taliban spokesman Muslim Khan
Legion of death: This full lineup of senior Taliban officials, including current leader Maulana Fazlluah (top right), were pictured in a Pakistani newspaper in 2009
Legion of death: This full lineup of senior Taliban officials, including current leader Maulana Fazlluah (top right), were pictured in a Pakistani newspaper in 2009
Hafiz Saeed Khan (centre) is understood to be one of six commanders giving instructions to the killers 
Taliban militant Hafiz Saeed Khan is understood to have been one of the Peshawar massacre masterminds
Hafiz Saeed Khan (centre) is understood to be one of six commanders giving instructions to the killers 
Hafiz Saeed Khan (centre) is understood to be one of six commanders giving instructions to the killers 

The order for the raid was given by the overall leader of the Pakistani Taliban Maulana Fazlullah, whose previous crimes include ordering the failed murder of teenage education campaigner Malala Yousafzai, this year's winner of the Nobel Peace Prize.

His capture will now be the highest priority for security officials, although, like many Pakistani Taliban leaders, he is believed to be hiding over the border in Afghanistan's Nuristan province - the same frontier region where the sickening Peshawar attack is thought to have been planned.
Conversations between the six attackers and their commanders during the seven-hour siege form part of a huge dossier of evidence that has already been compiled about Tuesday's massacre - which officials will now pour over to work out how the men were able to commit such an atrocity.

The information will also be crucial to the hunt for the killers' off-site commanders, who are believed to have given blow by blow instructions on how the massacre should be carried out.

The sixteen commanders are believed to belong to separate branches of the Pakistani Taliban, including groups such as the Geedar [Jackal] Taliban, Lashkar e Islam, the Mohmand Agency Taliban, and the North Waziristan Taliban.
Killer: The slaughter of 132 children at a school in Pakistan was ordered by Maulana Fazlullah
Killer: The slaughter of 132 children at a school in Pakistan was ordered by Maulana Fazlullah

Security officials believe that the attack was planned on the Afghan side of the Pakistan border, where a number of Pakistani Taliban officials - including Fazlullah - are thought to be based.

'The belongings we got from suicide bombers involved in the Peshawar School attack provided us with clues, and our intelligence agencies shared some other very valuable information related to the planning and execution of this terrorist attack,' a security officer said.

He named the suicide attackers themselves as men going by the names Abu Zar, Omar, Yousaf, Imran, Aziz and Qari Aur Chimnay.

This morning chilling new accounts emerged from those who survived the attack.
Student Aakif Azeem, 18, still wearing his green blazer, told BBC Radio 4: 'I was in the dining room when the gunmen started firing and one took a shot at me with a pistol, but the bullet ricocheted. There were children screaming and crying and there were bodies everywhere.'

'The corridors were dripping with blood. Even the teachers were terrified... All I could think about was where my little brother was. Later I found out that out of a class of 25 who died, he was the only one who escaped unharmed.'

'We want our revenge. We were all innocent and had absolutely nothing to do with this... You can rip up our school, you can take away our teachers, but you cannot take away our identity,' he went on to say.

Student Siam Salam, 11, added: 'I was in the classroom when we heard firing and I was very afraid. I didn't see the gunman come in, but then I could heard the firing and bombs even louder.

'I hid under my desk and waited until the army and ambulance arrived. Then I made a run for it out of the school. I didn't look back, I just ran until I got to the gate and escaped from the school.' 

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