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Indian court finds gangster guilty of 2002 attack on US cultural center
CALCUTTA - A court convicted Tuesday an Indian gangster, with links to Islamic extremists, of masterminding a 2002 attack on a US cultural center in the eastern city of Calcutta, which left five policemen dead.
Is 'gangster' the new AFP word for 'terrorist'?
Calcutta city court judge Basudev Mazumdar found Aftab Ansari and six other men guilty of "waging war" against India and murder in the January 22, 2002, attack when the five policemen died and 20 other people were wounded. No Americans or other foreigners were hurt in the assault in which two motorcyclists of doom sprayed gunfire outside the American Center.

Ansari, who faces a sentence of life imprisonment or death, was set to be sentenced Wednesday in the closed door trial. "Ansari was absolutely quiet when the judge convicted him and his associates," defence lawyer Syed Sahid Imam told reporters. He said Ansari would appeal the verdict. Indian police have said Ansari was also wanted over "a series of anti-national, terrorist and heinous crimes" believed to include the smuggling of arms and explosives into India from Pakistan and the kidnapping of businessmen. Indian officials have also linked Ansari with Ahmed Omar Saeed Sheikh, the London School of Economics-educated British national sentenced to death for the 2002 killing of Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl.
Funnny how it all ties together, eh?

Posted by: Steve White 2005-04-26
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