South Asia Studies Project

August 12, 2010 Special Dispatch No.3164 Indian Website Examines the Growth of Ilyas Kashmiri's Harkat ul-Jihad al-Islami (HuJI) Following the designation of Pakistan-based militant commander Ilyas Kashmiri by the U.S. and the United Nations as a global terrorist, an Indian website examined the history and international network built by his Harkat ul-Jihad al-Islami (HuJI). Ilyas Kashmiri, a former soldier of the Pakistan Army who initially headed the Pakistani Kashmir chapter of HuJI, also heads Brigade 313, a unit of Al-Qaeda. Along with the Haqqani Network, he was behind the December 31, 2009, attack on the CIA base in Afghanistan's Khost province. The full text of this report is available to MEMRI's Jihad and Terrorism Threat Monitor Subscribers. Subscription information is available at this link. JTTM subscribers can visit this page to view the report.