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Afghanistan/South Asia
Cleric held for praising bomber
2005-08-01
LAHORE: A cleric who led a mass prayer ceremony for one of the London suicide bombers at his ancestral village in the Punjab has been arrested as part of President Pervez Musharraf's anti-terrorism clampdown, The Washington Times reported on Sunday.

"Maulvi Abdul Rehman, 30, was held after he organised a ritual service in honour of Shehzad Tanweer, the 22-year-old Briton whose parents emigrated from Pakistan. Tanweer killed himself and six passengers in the July 7 mass transit bombing in London," it reported. "The ceremony, held at the Samoondran mosque in the Tanweer family's home village of Kottan in southern Punjab, saw members of the crowd of 100 hailing Tanweer as a 'hero of Islam'," The Washington Times added. "Information gleaned from Maulvi Rehman led to the detention of Maulana Abdul Aziz Faridi, the leader of a local seminary called Jamia Masjid Ahle-Sunnah Wal-Jammat.
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