CIA Involved in Indian Muslim Leaders Kidnap?
Ziegfried Ekron
News24
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Cape Town (South Africa):
The mystery surrounding the possible involvement of the United States' central intelligence agency in the alleged kidnapping of an Indian Muslim leader and his Pakistani friend in Estcourt, KwaZulu-Natal, has deepened while the South African government remains silent.
The home affairs department is obliged by a court order to reveal the identity of the armed men who kidnapped moulana Mohammed Ali Jeebhai and Khalid Mehmood Rashid from a granny flat in Estcourt, as well as Rashid's whereabouts.
But the department said on Monday, through its spokesperson Monogeng Mokgojwa, that it does not know Rashid's whereabouts and never held him. The department asked for postponement until January to answer other questions about the kidnapping.
Zehir Omar, the men's legal representative, his family and friends now fear that something much more sinister happened to him.
Ten days after he and Jeebhai were kidnapped, Jeebhai managed to send an SMS to his brother in Johannesburg on a borrowed cellphone. He said he was being held at Lindela, the home affairs detention centre for people about to be deported.
Dec 06, 2005
Ziegfried Ekron
News24
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Cape Town (South Africa):
The mystery surrounding the possible involvement of the United States' central intelligence agency in the alleged kidnapping of an Indian Muslim leader and his Pakistani friend in Estcourt, KwaZulu-Natal, has deepened while the South African government remains silent.
The home affairs department is obliged by a court order to reveal the identity of the armed men who kidnapped moulana Mohammed Ali Jeebhai and Khalid Mehmood Rashid from a granny flat in Estcourt, as well as Rashid's whereabouts.
But the department said on Monday, through its spokesperson Monogeng Mokgojwa, that it does not know Rashid's whereabouts and never held him. The department asked for postponement until January to answer other questions about the kidnapping.
Zehir Omar, the men's legal representative, his family and friends now fear that something much more sinister happened to him.
Ten days after he and Jeebhai were kidnapped, Jeebhai managed to send an SMS to his brother in Johannesburg on a borrowed cellphone. He said he was being held at Lindela, the home affairs detention centre for people about to be deported.
Dec 06, 2005
