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September 30, 2006
India: Islamic Terrorists Threaten India Over Possible Execution
First, we attack your political institutions, then we threaten to murder your citizens if you dare do something about: Islamic rebels warn India over execution
Islamic rebels warned Friday of "dire consequences" if India executes a Kashmiri Muslim convicted over a 2001 attack on parliament, as a protest strike paralysed the state's main city.The threat came on the third day of protests in insurgency-racked Indian Kashmir against a New Delhi judge's order for Mohammed Afzal, one of the masterminds of the attack, to be hanged October 20.
"We warn of dire consequences if the death sentence is carried out," said Sadaqat Hussain, spokesman for the United Jihad Council, Indian Kashmir's main militant alliance which fights New Delhi's rule here.
And by "Jihad", Mr. Hussain means "inner spiritual struggle", I'm sure.
Hussain did not make any specific threats in the statement published in local Indian Kashmiri newspapers but said Afzal was innocent.Shops, businesses and schools were closed in Srinagar to protest the planned execution of Afzal who was convicted of conspiracy in the assault on parliament in December 2001 which left 14 people dead, including the attackers, and brought India and Pakistan to the brink of war.[...]
The people participating in the strike, are only part of "a tiny minority of extremists", who "in no way represent the views of the peaceful Islamic majority."
Posted by Ruy Diaz at September 30, 2006 11:05 AM
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