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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...ARRESTED. MOULANA FARIDUDDIN MASUD, 60, one of Bangladesh's leading Islamic clerics; in connection with more than 430 simultaneous bomb attacks across Bangladesh on Aug. 17 that killed two people and injured 125; in Dhaka. Masud, who ran several Islamic charities, including a hospital, was taken into custody as he prepared to board a flight to London. Police say he is suspected of having links to Jamaat-ul-Mujahideen, a banned extremist group which claimed responsibility for the attacks and last week warned of further violence if the government does not agree to introduce Islamic law in Bangladesh. Masud denies...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones | 8/29/2005 | See Source »

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