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| Failed Musharraf assassins get death |
| 2006-05-23 |
| Four people were sentenced to death and three brothers to life in prison in a 2004 suicide attack in Pakistan that killed six but whose target, Prime Minister Shaukat Aziz, escaped, official media reported Tuesday. Anti-Terrorist Court Judge Safdar Malik announced the sentences late Monday in the garrison town of Rawalpindi, awarding the death sentences to Malik Noor Badshah, Qari Muhammad Siddique, Sulman alias Zaheer and Qari Ahmed. All the convicts were also tried under the Explosives Act and sentenced to another 10 years in prison and fined 8,333 dollars, the official Associated Press of Pakistan said. Eight people were acquitted in the case. Several people were also wounded in the July 30, 2004, attack when a suicide bomber blew himself near the car of then-finance minister Aziz after a public meeting in the Fateh Jhang area of the Attock district, south of Islamabad. President Pervez Musharraf has also escaped at least three attempts on his life since his country joined the US-led war against terrorism in the aftermath of September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks in the United States. |
| Posted by:Dan Darling |