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| "Tartan Talib" sprung from Pak prison |
| 2009-05-28 |
| Posted by:Seafarious |
| #2 It works for me, but: A Scottish charity worker dubbed the Tartan Taleban has been released from a Pakistani prison where he has apparently been held without charge for three months. James McLintock, who is known by his Muslim name Yakub Mohammed, was freed on Friday and has since returned to his wife and family in Pakistan. No reason has been given for his arrest, although it has been reported that he was believed to have all-Qaeda links. Dundee-born Mr McLintock, 44, was arrested in Peshawar at the end of February. A former pupil of Lawside Academy in Dundee, he converted to Islam after dropping out of university. In the late 1980s he attended a training camp in Pakistan and later claimed in media interviews to have fought as a jihadist. It is the second time in a decade that Mr McLintock has been imprisoned in such circumstances. He was arrested on the Pakistan-Afghanistan border on Christmas Eve 2001 but released less than a month later, again without charge. That incident led to his Tartan Taleban moniker. He has reportedly fought with the Mujahidin in Afghanistan and with the Serbian forces in the Bosnian war. In the 1990s, he moved to Bradford, where he met and married his wife, and worked for an Islamic charity. Plus his ma still thinks he's a innocent lamb; a victim of circumstance. |
| Posted by: Seafarious 2009-05-28 16:09 |
| #1 Sea, the link doesn't work, and I can't find the article on the London Times website. It's supposed to be there, but... |
| Posted by: Old Patriot 2009-05-28 16:06 |