[Mb-civic] The Quiet Community Once Home to a Wanted Man - Washington Post

[William Swiggard]

The Quiet Community Once Home to a Wanted Man

By Sudarsan Raghavan
Washington Post Staff Writer
Saturday, July 23, 2005; Page A12

BATLEY, England -- In a quiet neighborhood of this scruffy town, the 
Muslim call to prayer echoes from the Jame mosque five times a day -- 
not through loudspeakers, but transmitters inside many houses.

Then, Pakistani and Indian males obediently stream in from all 
directions toward the place of worship, greeting friends with a hearty " 
Assalaam alaikum " -- "May peace be upon you."

Most come in their daily attire: traditional tunics and white mosque 
hats. Their beards are long and bushy like those of Muslim clerics. Some 
of the youths have hip haircuts and beefy physiques.

The women pray at home. When they do go out, many don abayas , the 
loose, black, floor-length robes like those worn by Saudi Arabian women, 
sometimes with a matching head scarf and veil that can hide a face entirely.

<>This is the world in which Haroon Rashid Aswat was raised. He is now 
the focus of a worldwide hunt, for possibly playing a key role in the 
July 7 bombings in London that killed at least 56 people, including the 
four bombers, and wounded 700.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/07/22/AR2005072201734.html?nav=hcmodule 

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