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Pakistan earthquake - Osama bin Laden's doctor joins ‘jihadi’ relief work
Associated Press | October 14, 2005 | MUNIR AHMAD
Posted on 10/13/2005 10:59:05 PM PDT by HAL9000
"Bin Laden doctor joins ‘jihadi’ relief work"
ARTICLE SNIPPET: "A Pakistani doctor who once treated Osama bin Laden is among hundreds of volunteers from an Islamic group who are participating in relief work in quake-hit areas of Pakistan and Kashmir.
"We have sent 50 trucks carrying relief goods to Kashmir and those areas of north-western Pakistan where the quake killed thousands of people," said Yahya Mujahid, spokesman for Jamat-e-Dawad group, which describes itself as a charity.
The group is headed by Hafiz Mohammed Saeed, a senior cleric who founded the anti-India Lashkar-e-Tayyaba in 1989.
Lashkar-e-Tayyaba was banned by Pakistani president Pervez Musharraf after New Delhi accused the group of being involved in a December 2001 attack on the Indian parliament in which 14 people were killed, bringing the two nations close to war.
Yesterday, Mujahid said Jamat-e-Dawad had set up a field hospital in Muzaffarabad, the capital of Pakistan's part of Kashmir, where the 7.6-magnitude quake caused massive casualties and damage.
"Our people are also helping those affected by Saturday's earthquake in Indian-held Kashmir," he said.
"It is also jihad (holy war, or struggle) to help calamity-stricken people." He said the group's main field hospital in Muzaffarabad is being run by Amer Aziz, a British-trained orthopaedic surgeon who was detained after the September 11, 2001 attacks in the United States. He was suspected of links to militants, but was later freed."