after his arrest for bank robbery in Pakistan. Note also the unnamed "muslim relief agency" that arranged the travel of the Boyd brothers to Afghanistan for jihad against the Soviets. See,
http://www.fresnobee.com/641/story/1565891-p2.html; also, here is the 1991 Washington Post article that puts a very different spin on the alleged "bank robbery" -
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/07/28/AR2009072801534_pf.htmlAccording to the mother, Boyd moved to Peshawar, Pakistan, in October 1989, sponsored by a Muslim relief group. His brother Charles joined him later.
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AP Photo - The Jamaat Ibad Ar-Rahman Mosque is seen in Durham, N.C., Tuesday, July 28, 2009. Daniel Patrick Boyd , one of six men indicted in the Eastern District of North Carolina's federal court on terrorism charges Monday attended this mosque occasionally. Boyd is accused of military-style training at home and plotting "violent jihad" through a series of terror attacks abroad.
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"I wept and wailed, and I probably kicked a few walls," Patricia Saddler told People. "But they told me they could practice their charity and their Islam over there. And I was happy for them."
She said at the time that Daniel Boyd was working as a mechanic helping refugees from the Soviet occupation of Afghanistan. Charles Boyd worked as an engineer.
Not long after, the pair made international headlines.
In June 1991, the manager of the United Bank in Hayatabad, an outlying section of Peshawar, reported to police that two men, one with "a golden beard" and the other with "a beak-like nose," robbed his establishment of $3,200, opening fire with pistols as they fled, according to a police report. The Boyd brothers were arrested.
The men allegedly were carrying cards identifying them as members of the Afghan militant group Hezb-e-Islami.
According to court records, the case against the brothers hinged heavily on witness accounts, money, a pistol and bullets discovered during searches, and a disputed confession by Daniel Boyd. But Boyd claimed that he was being set up by a bank employee who had made inappropriate advances toward his wife and had tried to pilfer money from the family.
While in custody, the men prayed five times daily and received frequent visits from their wives, who dressed in all-encompassing veils in line with strict interpretations of the religion, a retired jail official recalled. The pair worked in the jail factory making carpets and chairs.
In September 1991, they were convicted and sentenced to have their right hands and left feet amputated, the first foreigners to be convicted and sentenced by special Islamic courts established to handle so-called "heinous" crimes, news reports said.
As the sentence was imposed, Daniel Boyd shouted, "This isn't an Islamic court. It's a court of infidels!"
Despite the verdicts, Sabrina Boyd declared her continued faith in Islam. She called the United States a land of "kafirs" - Arabic for infidels.
"We became Muslims because it is the purest religion," she said at the time. "We would forever remain Muslims despite our present difficulties."
The sentences were never carried out.
A former CIA official stationed in Pakistan at the time said the agency intervened and quickly persuaded the Pakistani intelligence service to help free the Boyd brothers. The former official spoke on the condition of anonymity because he wasn't authorized to speak publicly about the incident.
Boyd has since told people that he and his brother had trained at military camps and had joined the mujahedeen in the fight against the Soviets. But the CIA official said he had no such information at the time of the arrests.
Wiki: Hizb-e Islami (also Hezbi Islami, Hezb-i-Islami, Hezbi-Islami, Hezb-e-Islami), meaning Islamic Party is an Islamic organization commonly known for fighting the Soviet occupation of Afghanistan. Led by and founded by Gulbuddin Hekmatyar, it was established in Pakistan in 1975 and grew out of the Muslim Youth organization, an Islamist organization founded in Kabul by students and teachers at Kabul University in 1969 to combat communism in Afghanistan. Its membership was drawn from ethnic Pashtuns, and its ideology from Muslim Brotherhood and Abul Ala Maududi's Jamaat-e-Islami <1>
http://www.atimes.com/c-asia/DF04Ag06.html :Hekmatyar is marginally more acceptable to many Afghan warlords than the Taliban, which is why Hekmatyar believes that he can revive the Hezb-e-Islami. Remnants of the Hezb are believed to have large caches of weapons hidden across the country, leftovers from the mujahideen days, including more than 100 Stinger anti-aircraft rockets.
And unlike the Taliban, the Hezb-e-Islami has a semblance of organization abroad, with supporters in Pakistan, Iran, Europe and even the US. Many of its die-hard leaders live in Peshawar in Pakistan on the Afghan border, in the tribal belt of Waziristan Agency. Sources say that once the Hezb-e-Islami succeeds in establishing its party structure at the level of pre-Taliban days, it will easily be able to reinforce its ranks with followers presently lying low abroad.
Sources say that the present stand-off along the India-Pakistan border will give relief to anti-US forces along Afghanistan's western border. They will be able to easily slip through the porous border into Pakistan, or come from Pakistan to target enemies in Afghanistan, before disappearing into the mountains, where the snow has already begun to melt.
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