Omar Khalid al Khurasani [center], from a Taliban propaganda video. Image from the SITE Intelligence Group.
By - November 19, 2012 - LWJ
The former leader of the Jamaat-e-Islami, a political party that supports the Taliban, was the target of a female suicide bomber in Pakistan's violence-ridden northwest.
Qazi Hussain Ahmed, the former emir of the Jamaat-e-Islami, was unhurt in the suicide attack, which took place in Mian Mandi Ganghad, the main bazaar in Mohmand, according to Dawn. One of Qazi's bodyguards and three other people were wounded in the bombing.
Pakistani officials said a female suicide bomber wearing a burka and a suicide vest targeted Qazi's convoy as it passed the bazaar. "[P]ieces of female clothes and hair found from the site make us believe that the attacker was a woman," one Pakistani official told Dawn.
Qazi is a known jihadist supporter. In August 2012, Qazi spoke at the funeral of Engineer Ahsan Aziz, a Kashmiri jihadist commander who was killed in a US drone strike in the Shawal Valley in Pakistan's Taliban-controlled tribal agency of North Waziristan. Aziz was a commander in Hizbul Mujahideen, an al Qaeda-linked terror group, that operates in Kashmir, Pakistan's northwest, and in Afghanistan.
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