User:Geo Swan/not ready yet/Mohammad Rafiq (Taliban leader)

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Mullah Mohammad Rafiq is an individual who has been identified as a Taliban leader. Rafiq is accused of planning suicide attacks against Pakistani Naval bases. Pakistan's  Dawn reports that he was captured, following a foot chase, after trying to deliver a book with a bomb inside to a senior security official in the Islamabad office of Pakistan's Crime Investigation Agency in November 2010.

In December 2004 Newsweek magazine quoted Rafiq's description of a meeting between the Taliban's leader Mullah Omar and Mullah Shahzada Akhund, a senior Taliban leader who had been held in Guantanamo.

After he was captured Rafiq is reported to have identified the Orakzai Agency as the home of terrorist training camps, where suicide bombers are trained to employ vehicle borne-bombs. He is reported to have identified Mulla Jamshed, Abdul Hanan and Hafiz Saeed as fellow commanders of the suicide bomb campaign.

Rafiq is reported to have played a planning role in a suicide bombing carried about by his 15-year-old son, on December 2, 2009. His son Mohammad Hanif killed two naval officers when he blew himself up at a Pakistani naval base.

Dawn reports Rafiq is a university graduate with a Bachelors of Science. Dawn reports that he has been reported to have been affiliated with the Jamiat Ulema-i-Islam and Jamaatud Dawa groups in the past.

The Pak Tribune reports he confessed to playing a lead role in the kidnapping of several businessmen.

According to the Press Trust of India Rafiq was cooperating with investigators, and had identified several politicians who had been blackmailed into helping his group.