On
this date, 19 December 2014, a Terrorist, Mohammed Aqeel AKA Dr. Usman was
executed by hanging in Pakistan. I will post information about him from
Wikipedia.
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| Dr. Usman |
Mohammed Aqeel
(alias Dr. Usman) (d. December 19, 2014, by hanging) was a Pakistani
militant and member of the banned terrorist
organization Lashkar-e-Jhangvi and former soldier in Pakistan Army Medical Corps where he
worked until 2006. Originally from Kahuta
Tehsil in Punjab.
Aqeel
was suspected of involvement in the February 2008 assassination of Lieutenant
General Mushtaq Ahmed Baig, the Surgeon General of the
Army Medical Corps. Dr. Usman was also arrested in connection with the Islamabad Marriott Hotel bombing
in September 2008.
Aqeel
is the suspected mastermind of March 3, 2009 attack on the
Sri Lanka national cricket team. On March 9, 2009 he escaped when police
raided his hideout early in the morning. He has also been suspected of an
attack on retired General Pervez
Musharraf. He was said to have fled to the Federally Administered Tribal Areas
several days prior to the raid.
Months
later Aqeel took part in the attack on the Pakistan
Army General Headquarters in Rawalpindi.
He was captured in October 2009 while holding hostages and trying to blow
himself up; Aqeel was injured in the process.
In
2011, Aqeel was sentenced to death by a military court. During the government
of Asif Ali Zardari, he filled a mercy plea but it
was rejected.
After
2014 Peshawar school attack, moratorium
on the capital punishment was lifted in terror-related cases by Nawaz
Sharif after which Aqeel along with Arshad Mehmood, the convicted for an
assassination attempt on General Pervez
Musharraf was accused to be executed. In the evening of December 19, Aqeel
and Arshad were hanged till death.
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