Posted on 08/16/2006 3:48:56 AM PDT by IrishMike
KARACHI, Pakistan -- Pakistani police arrested on Tuesday a suspected Islamic militant accused of training religious students to become suicide bombers, a police official said.
In a separate incident, a security official said 29 suspected Taliban fighters from Afghanistan had been arrested in a raid on a hospital in southwestern Pakistan, where they were getting treatment after being brought from Afghanistan.
The suspected suicide-bomb trainer, Mohammad Ashraf Qureshi, was arrested with two other men in a pre-dawn raid in the city of Karachi, senior police official Chaudhry Aamir Hameed told Reuters.
"He's been targeting young boys in madrasas, brain-washing them and turning them into suicide bombers," Hameed said, referring to Islamic schools, some of which have earned reputations for being militant breeding grounds.
Qureshi was involved in preparing suicide bombers for the killing of prominent Shi'ite Muslim cleric Allama Hassan Turabi in Karachi last month, Hameed said.
Qureshi was also known to have visited neighbouring Afghanistan, which has been hit by a wave of suicide bombings in recent months, though it was not known if he had organised attacks there, Hameed said.
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Those who can, do. Those who can't, teach.
Sir, please demonstrate for the class.
Sir, please demonstrate for the class.
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OK boys, who would like to go first ???
Now wait a minute! A suicide trainer? Where did they round him up (no pun intended)?
"Now watch closely, I can show you only once."
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