How about a real motive for this killing? How about a worthless piece of shit that should have been taken care of 7 years ago?
Anti-Semitic British Moslem Student 'Masterminded' Delhi Kidnap ...
Sunday Telegraph
November 6, 1994, Sunday
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HEADLINE: LSE student 'masterminded' India kidnap
BYLINE: by Amit Roy
BODY:
A LONDON student has been accused of "masterminding" the kidnapping of three
British tourists in India rescued last week by police. Ahmed Omar Saeed
Sheikh, 20, who is studying at the London School of Economics, was captured last
week in a village near Ghaziabad in Uttar Pradesh after police rescued an
American, Bela Joseph Nuss, who had also been taken hostage. Mr Sheikh was
wounded during the rescue operation. A. K. Jain, Ghaziabad's senior
superintendent of police, alleged that Mr Sheikh had entered India using the
false Hindu name, Rohit Sharma, and had also planned and executed the
kidnapping of the Britons - Myles Croston, 28, Paul Ridout, 26 and Rhys
Partridge, 27. The Britons were freed after an armed battle with Indian police.
Mr Jain described Mr Sheikh as "a trained militant, a terrorist". Yesterday a
fellow student said Mr Sheikh had tried to recruit Muslims at the LSE for
training in combat with the Afghan Mujaheddin. Mr Sheikh, who told friends he
had fought "for Islam" in Bosnia and in Kashmir, said he wanted British Muslims
to be ready for the religious conflict he was sure would also occur one day in
Britain.
Mr Sheikh's family in London expressed pride in his actions. His
brother Awais, 16, said: "We were shocked when we heard the news about the
kidnapping. It came as a big shock. It is the first time he has been involved
in anything militant. We regret his action. It was drastic and we wish it had
never happened. "I am disappointed because he was a brilliant student. He gave
that up to better the situation in Kashmir but I am proud of the sacrifice."The
LSE, situated opposite the Indian High Commission and where Mr Sheikh registered
to study statistics and mathematics in October, 1992, has launched an inquiry.
According to LSE records, Mr Sheikh's fees were being paid by the London Borough
of Redbridge. He registered for his course in October 1993, but failed to turn
up at the start of the current academic year. Many British universities are
currently the target of recruiting campaigns by Islamic fundamentalist groups,
among them the Hizb-ut-Tahrir. But Mr Sheikh operated alone. Mr Sheikh, whose
grandfather lived in Lahore, later became part of a group which believed, like
the Hezbollah in Beirut, that taking British, French and American hostages
would focus Western attention on Kashmir. Whitehall said last night that British
intelligence will now monitor the activities of Kashmiri militant groups in
Britain more closely. According to the LSE student, Mr Sheikh was an "idealist"
who dropped out of his course last year. When Mr Sheikh returned from a period
of absence "he was dressed like a Mujaheddin with an Afghan hat and had a dark
beard." The Foreign Office has informed Mr Sheikh's father of his son's arrest |
