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India-Pakistan
Hot damn! Sufi Mohammad jugged for seven big ones!
2002-04-20
  • Pakistan has jailed the leader of a banned pro-Taliban militant group and 29 colleagues for seven years for sending fighters to Afghanistan. Sufi Mohammad, leader of the Tehrik-e-Nifaz-e-Shariat Mohammadi (TNSM) was sentenced last month after a trial held in jail in the North West Frontier Province (NWFP) town of Dera Ismail Khan. A TNSM worker told Reuters that Mohammad and his colleagues planned to appeal. The TNSM, one of several militant organizations banned by the government in January, sent thousands of fighters from the NWFP, mostly ethnic Pashtun like the Taliban.
    Sufi was a struttin', beturbanned clone of Qazi, making the usual bloodcurdling threats against the government and sending thousands of jihadis off to fight the infidels. One fellow said 12,000 of them had been captured at Konduz, Kandahar and Kabul - which is probably Pashtun for "a whole bunch," since that's more than are estimated to have gone. Imagine everyone's surprise when Sufi wasn't one of them. He was caught trying to sneak back into Pakland wearing a false nose and glasses and jugged. That was probably as well for him, since the marks rubes faithful who donated their sons and heirs ended up having to donate ransom to get them sprung, too.
    • Posted by:Fred Pruitt

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