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Hundreds in Pakistan Pay Tribute to Bin Laden
[An Nahar] Hundreds of Islamists rallied in Pakistain's southwestern city of Quetta Thursday to pay tribute to al-Qaeda chief the late Osama bin Laden... who is now neither a strong horse nor a weak horse, but a dead horse... on the second anniversary of his death. Organized by a pro-Taliban faction of Jamaat Ulema-e-Islam ...Assembly of Islamic Clergy, or JUI, is a Pak Deobandi (Hanafi) political party. There are two main branches, one led by Maulana Fazlur Rahman, and one led by Maulana Samiul Haq. Fazl is active in Pak politix and Sami spends more time running his madrassah. Both branches sponsor branches of the Taliban, though with plausible deniability... (JUI), headed by Maulvi Ismatullah, some 450 participants at the rally chanted: "Long live Islamic jehad and long live Mulla Omar!" an Agence La Belle France Presse news hound at the scene said. Many of them were also carrying portraits of bin Laden. The JUI's central secretary for information, Maulana Abdul Sattar Chisti, paid tributes to bin Laden. "We are observing death anniversary of an Islamic hero, who was killed by American and Pak agents," he said. "Bin Laden's martyrdom gave a new impetus to jehad against forces inimical to Islam," he added. Posted by: Fred 2013-05-03 |
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