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| Pakistani doctors indicted for treating al-Qaeda suspects |
| 2004-09-11 |
| Two doctors have been indicted for treating al-Qaeda suspects and members of a Pakistani extremist group accused of launching an assassination attempt against a top general in June that left 10 people dead, a government lawyer said today. Police initially arrested the doctors - brothers Akmal Waheed and Arshad Waheed - on July 2 in connection with the failed attempt to kill Lt. Gen. Ahsan Saleem Hayat, the city's top army general. Those charges were later dropped, but prosecutors say they now have information that the doctors had treated "terrorists." On Thursday, a judge in Karachi indicted the physicians, saying they had treated al-Qaeda suspects Hassam Al-Saim and Abu Musab at a hospital last year. Musab escaped a police raid on a house in Karachi on Jan. 9, 2003, despite being wounded in a shootout. It was not clear who Al-Saim was, although prosecution lawyer Maula Bakhsh Bhatti said both men were al-Qaeda members. He said the Waheeds also treated members of extremist group Allah's Brigade, whose chief was recently arrested with eight other members for their alleged role in the June attack. |
| Posted by:Dan Darling |