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| Maulana Abdul Aziz Nuristani kidnapped |
| 2002-08-09 |
| He is? Why, that's terrible! (Who the hell is he?) A group of Panjpiri commandos kidnapped prominent mujahideen commander Maulana Abdul Aziz Nuristani when he was traveling in remote tribal area. Tusk-tusk. A simple holy man, traveling with his armed escort. Turns out he's head of an NGO called Jannatul Madaris wal Masajid that hands out money donated by a Saudi "philanthropist" named Suleman Aal-Rajhi.. Maulana Nuristani, a leader of Jamiat Ahle-Hadith was abducted by armed members of Panjpiri group, a Jamiat spokesman said on Thursday. Maulana Abdul Aziz Nuristani was kidnapped on late Wednesday along with another religious leader and his bodyguard as they travelled through a remote tribal area about 100 kilometres west of Peshawar, the spokesman said. The panjpiri are an alternative (wahhabi) school to the Deobandi. Can't understand why they'd be inclined to kidnap a wahhabi "Maulana Abdul Aziz Nuristani and his two companions were kidnapped by an armed group of the Panjpiri faction at Ali Khel Khadezai, near Terrah," said the Jamiat Ahl-Hadith's Maqsood Ahmed Salfi. Officials in the region said they had given an ultimatum to the kidnappers to release the hostages in the next 24 hours. Or what? They gonna turn into pillars of salt? |
| Posted by:Fred Pruitt |