Afroz,Mohammad

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Mohammad Afroz is, what indian papers called, Indias "Moussaoui" (->). Afroz was arrested by the Mumbai police from a hotel in August 2001. The Mumbai police declared Afroz a terrorist in a formal case registered in December 2001. He was described as being part of a suicide squad of the Al-Qaeda (->). "While the others of Al-Qaeda targeted the World Trade Center", police say that Afroz had been trained to destroy the British Parliament, the Rialto Towers in Sydney and Indian Parliament. Police claimed that Afroz had trained to be a pilot at the Tylor International School of Aviation in Texas. Afroz, it said, was the son of a Trombay tailor and could not afford the flight-training fees of Rs 36 lakh. Police said that Afroz had been financed by an uncle in London who was part of the Al-Qaeda terrorist network. His story was ignored by US- and british papers, but picked up again in April 2002 by http://Indiareacts.com, when his trial started.

Indias Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) refused to pursue the case after the Mumbai police failed to prosecute Afroz. CBI officials reported that the entire case had been "cooked up". Indiareacts came to the conclusion, that "either Afroz is a terrorist who Mumbai police was fool enough not to be able to convict. Or he is an innocent framed by Chhagan Bhujbal & Co. Somebody must pay for this blunder...." Source: http://www.indiareacts.com/fulldebate2.asp?recno=363

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