Mohammed Shah Jahan Arif- a prominent Afghan doctor living in Virginia who was so determined to wipe out the Taliban that he went back to his hometown of Ghazni, assembled a militia of 200 gunmen, and fought a 13-hour battle against Taliban soldiers, capturing 54 prisoners plus hundreds of weapons and vehicles--was arrested by six FBI agents as he returned home at Dulles International Airport, thrown into a jail cell, and charged with bank fraud from a 1994 case in Philadelphia. Not only had he not been in Philadelphia, he had been in Afghanistan in 1994. It took the government five days to let him go, and that was only after a magistrate ordered his release. Because, after all, how many of those sneaky Afghani freedom fighters have converted to the Taliban while flying those long annoying trans-Atlantic routes?
December 24, 2002 5:18 AM
