Leadership: Was Fazlur Rehman Khalil
Based in Muzaffarabad, Pakistan.  HUA was the amalgamation of three like thinking terroist groups including its primary base, HUM- Harka ul-Mjahideen, an Islamic militant group based in Pakistan that operates primarily in Kashmir. Leader Fazlur Rehman Khalil has been linked to Bin Ladin and signed his fatwa in February 1998 calling for attacks on US and Western interests. Operates terrorist training camps in eastern Afghanistan and suffered casualties in the US missile strikes on Bin Ladin-associated training camps in Khowst in August 1998. Fazlur Rehman Khalil subsequently said that HUM would take revenge on the United States.  After 9/11 and pressure from the Pakistani government, the three split leaving HUM and one other smaller group (Harkat ul-Jihad al-Islami). HuA may still exist as a small slinter group of disaffected HuM members.
Activities: Linked to the Kashmiri militant group al-Faran that kidnapped five Western tourists in Kashmir in July 1995; one was killed in August 1995, and the other four reportedly were killed in December of the same year.
External Aid: Collects donations from Saudi Arabia and other Persian Gulf and Islamic states and from Pakistanis and Kashmiris.
Strength:  Several thousand in Azad Kashmir, Pakistan, and India's southern Kashmir and Doda regions.
Links:  Al-Qaeda, and a local group, al-Faran, as well as HUM

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