The cleric, Qari Mohammad Noor, has died in police custody he was arrested in Pakistan for suspected al-Qaeda links three weeks ago. The Police have
confirmed Mr Noor's death but Qari Mohammad Noor's,Islamic MMA party has said he was beaten in detention.
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Police have not confirmed whether the cleric was in their custody or that of another state agency.
City police chief Abid Saeed told Reuters news agency that details of Mr Noor's death would be released later.
Sources at a private hospital in Faisalabad - where a team of three doctors conducted a post mortem - say that Mr Noor's body arrived under a police
escort from Lahore.
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A suspected al-Qaeda dies in police custody please they more than likely kicked and beat this guy to death trying to get a confession out of him and
went to far and killed him. If they keep this up and there will be no al-Qaeda members left to capture.
[edit on 19/8/2004 by SE7EN]