MIAMI (AP) — A former Pakistani politician and landowner described beheadings, bombings and attacks on police stations by Taliban militants Monday at the trial of two Muslim clerics accused of financially supporting the terrorist group.
Saifullah Khan, 43, said his name was on a Taliban hit list of officials targeted during the Islamic fundamentalist group’s attempt to take control of Pakistan’s Swat Valley in 2007. The father of six, who now lives in Philadelphia, was formerly an elected official who helped oversee such things as road and water projects for about 15 villages in the Swat Valley.
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