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| Pakistani court jails nine militants for life |
| 2004-08-25 |
| A Pakistani anti-terrorism court sentenced nine militants to life imprisonment on Wednesday for killing three people in an attack and bombing at the Macedonian Consulate in 2002, court officials said. They were found guilty of slaughtering three people inside the Macedonian Consulate in Karachi and then blowing up its building with explosives on Dec. 5, 2002, they said. The nine men belonged to the Harkat-ul Mujahideen al-alami group that has been blamed for other high profile attacks, including the June 2002 suicide bombing at the US Consulate in Karachi, following President Pervez Musharraf's decision to join the US-led war on terrorism. Anti-terrorism court judge Haq Nawaz Baloch also confiscated their property and fined them 150,000 rupees ($2,555) each. Al-alami is an offshoot of Harkat-ul Mujahideen, an Islamic guerrilla group which is also fighting Indian rule in the disputed Kashmir region. It has ties with the Afghan Taleban. A defence lawyer, M.R. Saeed, said he would appeal. Police said some of the militants received military training in Afghanistan. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #1 I wonder how long "life" is in PakiLand... Ever since "life" stopped meaning life here, thanks to the social engineers and ethicists who needed to define a nice safe niche for themselves - with no deliverables, the meaning had been rather muddled, no? |
| Posted by: .com 2004-08-25 11:40:35 PM |