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...call for azadi - "freedom" - once again, recalling scenes from a decades-long insurgency that has claimed many thousands of lives. In the first weeks of June, the streets of Srinagar and elsewhere have been filled with hundreds of men and women demanding independence from Indian rule. Syed Ali Shah Geelani, 79, a longtime separatist known for his hard standpoint on the issue of Kashmir, was quick to seize on the incident to mobilize protesters for his cause. He was arrested along with other key voices in the movement, most of whom have since been detained under a tough law called...
...incurring Allah's wrath. In Chehla Bandi village, members of Lashkar-e-Taiba, an outlawed group sympathetic to al-Qaeda, cooked food, helped bury the dead and shoveled through the debris to find the living. "They saved us when nobody came from the government," says a survivor, Ali Geelani, 28. "Musharraf has given us the earthquake; they have given us life. And if they ask me, I will go for jihad with them." Others weren't given a choice. A teenager known only as Bobby was pulled from the ruins by Lashkar-e-Taiba volunteers. When they discovered that...
...five died in a shootout, and when police searched the terrorists' bodies, they found a phone number, which led them to two fellow plotters, Shaukat Hussain Guru and Mohammed Afzal. Checking their captives' cell phones, the police dug up one more number, which belonged to Syed Abdul Rahman Geelani, a professor of Arabic. Two days after the attack Geelani was arrested outside his house...
...They got the wrong guy. Geelani admitted to knowing Guru-the two used to say prayers together in their native Kashmir-but denied any role in the attack on parliament. Nonetheless, in December 2002, a special court trying terrorism cases sentenced him to death, along with Guru and Afzal. But last week Geelani, 41, was set free by a New Delhi appeals court, which said the evidence did "not even remotely" point toward his guilt. Human-rights activists were unsurprised, saying the government has used draconian anti-terrorism laws to harass Muslims and other minorities for years...
SENTENCED. MOHAMMED AFZAL, 31, SYED ABDUL RAHMAN GEELANI, 40, and SHAUKAT HUSSAIN GURU, 35, three Kashmiri Muslims; to death under India's tough new Prevention of Terrorism Act, for helping to plot the December 2001 suicide attack on the Indian Parliament; in New Delhi. India accused Pakistan of being behind the attack, in which a five-man suicide squad killed nine people before being gunned down, nearly pushing the two countries to war. Indian human-rights activists have criticized the conviction, saying that the evidence, mainly phone transcripts, was not strong enough...
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