Name:  Harkat ul-Mujahideen
            a.k.a. Harakat ul-Ansar
Active Region: Indian troops and civilian targets in Kashmir

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Group Dossier
Leadership: Fazlur Rehman Khalil
Based in Muzaffarabad, Pakistan.  HUM is 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. 
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, and Jaish e-Mohammed.

Note HUM was combined with several other groups into a new overarching group, Harkat ul-Ansar and Harkat ul-Jihad al-Islami


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Fazlur Rehman Khalil
a.k.a. Maulana Farzul Ahmed Khalil, Maulana Farzul Ahmed Khalil.  Both Hamid and Umer Hayat (Lodi Five) told the F.B.I. that they had received extensive training in a camp run by Khalil and then latere returned to U.S.  Hamid was convicted or Terrorim charges.  Arrested in May 2004









Maulana Masood Azhar
Member who also founded Jaish e-Mohammed  in January 2000.
Maulana Abdul Jabbar  
former Nazim Military Affairs officer of HUM now thought to hold the same position in Jaish e-Mohammed 

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