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ISLAMABAD: The Pakistani cleric besieged in a mosque said on Saturday he had received a call from an unidentified man who said he tried to shoot President Pervez Musharraf's plane in revenge for the government crackdown.
"I received a telephone call from a man I did not know, he said Ghazi sahib (sir), congratulations. I asked him what had happened... He said, 'I fired at Musharraf's plane just a while ago'," Abdul Rashid Ghazi said by telephone from Islamabad's Red Mosque.
"He said that Musharraf survived."
Security officials said earlier they were probing possible links between the mosque siege and the failed attempt to shoot Musharraf's plane as it took off from a military airbase near Islamabad on Friday.
- AFP/so
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