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To: JEB who wrote (43138)	8/24/2002 4:44:19 PM
From: IQBAL LATIF	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 50167

RAWALPINDI, Pakistan (AP) - Four times in the last four years, Bashir Butt tracked down his son at training camps for Islamic extremists in Pakistani-controlled Kashmir and begged him to come home. On Aug. 9, police arrived at the Butts' modest home here and told them their son Kamran, 21, was dead. He died while attacking Christians leaving a church in Taxila about 30 miles west of Islamabad. Three Christian nurses were killed and a fourth was mortally wounded. Bashir Butt, however, remembers his son as a shy boy who never caused trouble in the neighborhood and who "had a great respect for his fellow human beings." "We never thought that one day he would become a terrorist," Bashir Butt said. "We never even imagined. ... These cruel jihadis made him a terrorist." . . . To Kamran's family, however, his death seems pointless. It has left his family deeply bitter over the extremist groups and what they had done to him. "I hate these jihadi organizations," said Bashir Butt, a 48-year-old widower with two other sons and a daughter. "I hate these so-called jihadi leaders. "They are the killers of my son."