Word: ahmad
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Syed Nesar Ahmad, the husband of a Harvard assistant professor, was among the victims of Friday's bloody hijacking attempt in Pakistan, University officials announced yesterday...
...Ahmad, who was returning from a world sociology conference in Bombay, died from bullet wounds inflicted by the terrorist hijackers, said Harvard spokesman Peter Costa. Soon after Ahmad was shot, Pakistani commandoes stormed Pan Am flight 73 and captured the hijackers, ending 17 hours of terror for the 400 passengers on board...
...Ahmad had gone to Bombay to present a paper on Muslim separatism in India at the conference. "Ironically, Muslim separatists were involved in the hijacking," Business School spokesman William Hokinson said yesterday...
...Ahmad, 44 years old, was a graduate of Stanford University and a doctoral student in sociology at the State University of New York at Binghamton. Ahmad was a permanent resident of the United States and held a Pakistani passport...
Hijackers Ibrahim Fatyer Abdelatif, 20, and Ahmad Marrouf al Assadi, 24, were sentenced respectively to 24 years and two months and 15 years and two months. Assadi cooperated with authorities and was not present when the verdict was read...