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ISLAMABAD (AFP) - Deputy head of Lal Masjid Abdul Rasheed Ghazi said a bid to shoot down President Musharraf’s plane was apparently in revenge for the bloody government siege of his mosque, in which he alleged that 70 students had died.
“I received a telephone call yesterday from a man I did not know,” who offered his “congratulations” before news of Friday’s attack on Musharraf’s aircraft became public, Ghazi told AFP by telephone.
“He said, ‘I fired at Musharraf’s plane just a while ago.’ He said that Musharraf survived,” said Ghazi.
Ghazi said the man asked him to tell the media about the incident, and that he replied, “I am inside, it’s better if you tell them yourself.”
“He did not give me his name and hung up. Half an hour later I was told that the news had appeared in the media,” Ghazi added.
Ghazi said that forces had so far killed up to 30 female and 40 male students in the siege of the mosque. “We buried the women because we did not want postmortems to be conducted as they are un-Islamic,” Ghazi said. <!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->