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| Suspect in Minnesota Beheadings Arrested in Bangladesh |
| 2004-07-08 |
| Police in Bangladesh have arrested a man accused of beheading his wife and her nephew in Rochester, Minnesota in 1999. It’s not immediately clear yet if 37-year-old Iqbal Ahmed can be brought back to the U.S. to face trial. It was also not clear why Ahmed was arrested Friday, but a police investigator says he faces two murder charges in the U.S. and is involved with an outlawed Maoist rebel group and holds illegal arms. Ahmed was charged in Minnesota in 2001 in the slayings of Mary Zaman and her three-and-a-half-year-old nephew Mohammed Tahseen Taef. Their decapitated bodies were found in a ditch near Rochester in 1999. But Ahmed fled to Bangladesh soon after the bodies were found, and authorities there had declined to arrest him. Zaman’s sister has been missing since the same time the bodies were found. |
| Posted by:TS(vice girl) |
| #5 "Ahmed.....faces two murder charges in the U.S. and is involved with an outlawed Maoist rebel group...." Okay. The Ahmed part I get. But Maoist??? |
| Posted by: Wuzzalib 2004-07-08 8:25:19 PM |
| #4 Ahmed? Noooo that's definitely..um...Esquimeaux |
| Posted by: Frank G 2004-07-08 7:06:38 PM |
| #3 Bad pun alert: "but a police investigator says he faces two murder charges in the U.S. and is involved with an outlawed Maoist rebel group and holds illegal arms." (He got their arms too?) didn't say, but does anyone want to bet he's a member of the ROP? |
| Posted by: BA 2004-07-08 6:46:29 PM |
| #2 I don't know anything about Islam...is there something in there that states that someone who has no head goes to hell or something? About the only way I can see them doing it on a consistent basis. Then again, "heads up on pikes" has been used throughout history, so it may just be a throwback to "simpler" times. |
| Posted by: Trub 2004-07-08 4:44:31 PM |
| #1 WTF is it with these people and their beheadings? |
| Posted by: Tibor 2004-07-08 4:40:29 PM |