Man blames Islamic extremists for son's death; Training camps: Boy died while attacking Christians leaving church in Taxila

From: Telegraph - Herald (Dubuque) | Date: August 24, 2002| Author: ASSOCIATED PRESS | Copyright information

RAWALPINDI, Pakistan (AP) - Four times in the last four years, Bashir Butt tracked down his son at training camps for Islamic extremists in Pakistani-controlled Kashmir and begged him to come home.

On Aug. 9, police arrived at the Butts' modest home here and told them their son Kamran, 21, was dead. He died while attacking Christians leaving a church in Taxila about 30 miles west of Islamabad. Four Christian nurses died in the attacks.

Bashir Butt, however, remembers his son as a...