Aug 20, 2005
MULTAN: Muhammad Islam Siddiqui, a member of the Pakistan Army, will be hanged today (Saturday) in New Central Jail Multan. Siddiqui, who belongs to a poor Hari family from Jacobabad, was tried in court martial and was sentenced to death for plotting to kill Chief of Army Staff (COAS) General Pervez Musharraf.
He made a mercy petition to the president and the vice chief of army staff, but the petition was turned down. He was moved to Multan prison from Sialkot last month.
His parents, who met him in prison on Friday, requested the jail superintendent to provide them with an ambulance to take his body to Jacobabad for burial. Jail authorities declined to give information about when the attack was planned and who Siddiqui’s accomplices were. staff report
That's a great post. Do you do that often?
Straight Vermonter, you should link to this post as part of your Daily Terrorist Roundup post. If Gucho does this often, you guys should coordinate.
Great job, to both of you.
8/20/2005
Iranian Commander of the committee in charge of searching for those missing in action (MiAs) Brigadier General Mir Feisal Baqerzadeh today called for coordination with occupation troops of allied countries in Iraq to proceed with serach operations in Iraqi territory for remains of Iranian soldiers left behind from eight-year Iraqi-imposed war, IRNA reported.
"Unfortunately, the Iranian nation does not have good memory about ICRC (Red Cross) during Iraqi-imposed war. ICRC refrained from issuing any statement to deplore violation of conventions in dealing with war affairs by Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein and its army."
In a meeting with the ICRC representative in Iran, Baqerzadeh the castigated ICRC "for not condemning crimes perpetrated by US and its allies against civilians in Iraq."
"We do not have problems with Iraqi officials. The main concern is coordination of occupation forces in Iraq. We want to set up a camp in Basra to follow up search operation for remains of Iranians MiAs.
He called on ICRC to provide Iranian search teams with mine-sweeping choppers and other means the teams need for search operations.