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Mujaddadi loses prayer lead
Pakistani delegates stopped former Afghan president Sibghatullah Mujaddadi from leading Friday prayers after his "political speech" during the sermon, an elder said on Friday.
Mojadeddi is the rather nice old man the warlords -- the guys who actually fought the Soviets -- settled on as president. Significantly, he's a Sufi.
Those present during the sermon quoted Mujaddadi as saying that "terrorism taking place in Afghanistan originates from Pakistan".
The fact that he's a nice old man doesn't make him stoopid. Or blind.
"We all condemned his political speech ... which one is not supposed to do at a place of worship," Malik Syed Rehman from Khyber Agency said. Former Mujahideen leader Abdur Rab Rasool Sayyaf led the prayer instead.
Also significantly, Rasool Sayyaf is the Soddies' man on the spot, leader of the Wahabbi faction within Afghanistan.

Posted by: Fred 2007-08-11
http://www.rantburg.com/poparticle.php?ID=195836