“Abdul Rehman Makki, the Mumbai 26/11 attack plotter, dies: Read how the LeT terrorist who wanted “rivers of blood” to flow in India died”, Opindia, December 27, 2024:
“Hafiz Abdul Rahman Makki (70), the deputy chief of the outlawed Jamaat-ud-Dawa (JuD) and the brother-in-law of the mastermind of the 2008 Mumbai attacks, Hafiz Muhammad Saeed passed away from a heart attack in Lahore on 27th December. According to the JuD, he had been at a private hospital in Lahore for a few days, receiving treatment for high diabetes. The Pakistan Mutahida Muslim League (PMML) declared that Makki supported Pakistani ideology, in a statement.
He participated in fundraising efforts for the operations of Lashkar-e-Taiba/Tayyiba (LeT), a US-designated Foreign Terrorist Organization (FTO), and held several leadership roles within the terror outfit. Makki was a major conspirator in the 2008 Mumbai terror attacks of 26/11, which left 175 people dead including the nine terrorists and over 300 injured. He was subjected to an arms embargo, a travel ban and an asset freeze and the United Nations named him a global terrorist in 2023. He was also wanted by the Indian government.
Makki was Hafiz Saeed’s virtual shadow before his 36-year prison sentence in 2019. He then continued to front for Saeed, as he had done for over ten years with the LeT/Jamat-ud-Dawa commander who was in and out of house arrest and classified by the United Nations Security Council as a terrorist following the 2008 Mumbai attacks. Makki would attend the court proceedings of Saeed’s petitions challenging his arrest under the Maintenance of Public Order at the time…….”
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