CYPRIOT authorities wrongly deported 10 Pakistani students from Cyprus on suspicion of belonging to the Al-Qaeda terror network, their lawyer claimed. He said he would take their case to the European Court of Human Rights.
| "They're pure as the driven snow, yer honor!" |
But local newspaper reports said the "group leader" was a former pilot in the Pakistani air force, with expert knowledge of surface-to-air-missiles and an unlikely student on the hotel management course he was pursuing in Cyprus.
| I'll bet he can clear a room. |
The local Politis newspaper said the 39-year-old pilot and civil engineer, who was not named, had thousands of hours of flying time under his belt, having trained on Mirages and F-16s, and experience of maintaining and constructing SAMs. Aircraft diagrams were found in his flat, said Politis, which claimed the man was also the group`s spiritual leader.
| He does seem an unlikely hotel management candidate. |
| Fairly typical Pak "spiritual leader," though... |
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