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Med Student Says Patients Considered Him a Frog, So He Became a Terrorist
When Izhar Ul-Haque enrolled in a terrorist training camp in Pakistan last year, he was fed up with Westerners and their "animal type of lifestyle", a court heard yesterday. In a letter to his parents, Mr Ul-Haque says he wanted to undergo weapons and combat training and eventually expected to die a martyr for a Pakistani terrorist group. When he returned to Sydney after the camp, Customs officials found 30 books in his luggage including handwritten notes about rocket launchers, landmines, tanks and multi-purpose machineguns. Mr Ul-Haque, 21, was charged earlier this month by the Federal-NSW Police Joint Counter-Terrorism Task Force with training with the group Lashkar-e-Taiba. The taskforce is investigating French terror suspect Willie Brigitte, who also attended LET training camps before his six-month stay in Sydney. Police have not alleged Mr Ul-Haque knew Brigitte. Mr Ul-Haque told investigators before his arrest that the three-week camp was "the first step in the ladder" and simply gave members of the Pakistani community a taste of jihad as part of their religion. "Itâs like kindergarten," Mr Ul-Haque allegedly told investigators, the court heard. .... The court heard Mr Ul-Haque had been frustrated at failing his second year of medicine at the University of NSW, as well as unhappy experiences with patients during his training in Sydney hospitals. "The Western patients in hospitals look at me as though Iâm a
Posted by: Mike Sylwester 2004-04-30 |
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