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	People Against Gangsterism and Drugs - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		People Against Gangsterism and Drugs (PAGAD) was formed in 1996 as a community anticrime group fighting drugs and violence in the Cape Flats section of Cape Town, South Africa, but by early 1998 had also become antigovernment and anti-Western.
		PAGAD is believed to have masterminded the bombing on 25 August 1998 of the Cape Town Planet Hollywood.
		PAGAD is suspected of having partnerships with Islamic fundamentalist groups in the Middle East.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/PAGAD (254 words)

	Religious Studies : UCT : Institutes (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Pagad continued to labour under the accusation that it was essentially a Muslim front motivated by Islamic sentiment rather than general community interests, despite its inclusion of a high-profile Catholic priest, among others.
		Pagad denied involvement in attacks on the houses of drug dealers, although it admitted participating in marches on such houses.
		Pagad is one among a number of groups in civil society attempting to address a significant and highly emotional issue which is of great concern to respectable people, Muslims and non-Muslims alike.
	web.uct.ac.za /depts/religion/IE/institutes/institutes_ARISA_Pagad.html (1585 words)

	The Militant - 1/25/99 -- S. Africa Cops Kill Protester Against Iraq Bombing
		Complaints laid against the cops from January 1997 to May 1998 included 7,263 charges of assault, 797 of attempted murder, 332 of murder, 61 of attempted rape, 149 of rape, 1,550 of theft, and many others.
		PAGAD and Muslims Against Illegitimate Leaders have harassed Rasool and his family, and denounced Justice Minister Dullah Omar and Water Affairs Minister Kader Asmal - both ANC leaders who are Muslim - as being "illegitimate." They say they will prevent such "illegitimate" leaders from public speaking.
		PAGAD is the vigilante outfit that drew international attention in August 1996 when its members shot and burned Rashaad Staggie, who the group said was a drug dealer.
	www.themilitant.com /1999/633/633_10.html (857 words)

	South Africa 2000 \| Facing Reality
		PAGAD and its alleged escapades have captured the headlines in South Africa many times in the four years since its inception.
		Whether or not PAGAD is responsible for all the bombings in which the group is suspected, it is clear the group has turned to violence rather than spirituality.
		PAGAD is not alone in its distrust of the police.
	journalism.berkeley.edu /projects/safrica/facing/pagad.html (2777 words)

	Vigilantes in South Africa Murder Suspected Drug Dealer
		PAGAD, a group linked to the Gatesville mosque, is made up mostly of conservative, working-class Muslim men and women from the Cape Flats area just east of Cape Town.
		PAGAD contends that the new government is incapable of dealing with the high crime.
		PAGAD's actions represent "a very serious backlash against the government," said Ebrahim Moosa, director of the Center for Contemporary Islam at the University of Cape Town.
	www.ndsn.org /SEPT96/PAGAD.html (842 words)

	Gangs, Pagad & the State: Vigilantism and Revenge Violence in the Western Cape - Dixon & Johns
		Pagad, for instance, were prepared to arrange for us to talk to an official spokesperson, but it soon became obvious that we would not be able to canvass a range of views about the organisation from the inside.
		Pagad is of the view that the police can and must go into the drug dealers' houses and go and seize their possessions and do what they need to do in order to stop drug dealing.
		For Pagad then the irony is that a government whose members fought alongside Qibla in the liberation struggle have used its reputation for militancy - carefully crafted by their former foes in the apartheid regime - to discredit Pagad and proclaim them guilty by association of the cardinal sin of Muslim fundamentalism.
	www.csvr.org.za /papers/papvtp2.htm (19981 words)

	Campaign against PAGAD in South Africa (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		That the organisers of PAGAD were and are sincere is not in doubt.
		Many of the excesses attributed to PAGAD have in fact been perpetrated by these agents whose purpose is to tarnish the image of the group.
		PAGAD has been at pains to try to clarify the situation but in a climate of hysteria fanned by vested interests, it is very difficult.
	www.muslimedia.com /ARCHIVES/world98/pagad.htm (722 words)

	Taxis, Cops and Vigilantes: Police attitudes towards street justice - Bruce & Komane
		PAGAD represents a relatively organised type of vigilantism as does "Mapogo a Mathamaga" which has emerged in the Northern Province and Mpumalanga.
		When a suspect is caught robbing people at a gunpoint or using any dangerous weapon, for example, he felt it to be justifiable to beat such a person and that this should be explained as self-defence on the part of the victims.
		Situations of this kind, where complaints of robbery or extortion are lodged against private security guards, present enormous difficulties to the police in relation to meeting standards of credible and effective law enforcement, intended to be carried out in "partnership" with other policing agencies.
	www.csvr.org.za /papers/papdbjk.htm (3240 words)

	MIPT Terrorism Knowledge Base
		PAGAD enjoyed a certain degree of impunity from the South African government, which appreciated the group’s fight against crime.
		PAGAD soon embarked on an aggressive terrorist campaign, detonating hundreds of bombs throughout Cape Town between 1996 and 2000.
		PAGAD and its allies adopted an anti-Western philosophy that is reflected in its bombing targets.
	www.tkb.org /Group.jsp?groupID=4194 (528 words)

	PRESS STATEMENT BY THE COMMISSION FOR RELIGIOUS AFFAIRS OF THE (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Drugs have destroyed the lives of many South Africans, especially young people are at an alarming rate becoming the victims of drugs and gangs that make huge profits out of drug trafficking.
		The Commission wishes to register its very strong objection to the fact that armed gangsters were allowed to march and present demands to the police to be allowed to deal in drugs.
		The formation of the United Front Against Crime in the Cape Town metropolitan area is welcomed and we urge all the faiths to support this effort.
	www.anc.org.za /ancdocs/pr/1996/pr0816a.html (611 words)

	SAF - TERRORISM
		The group, People Against Gangsterism and Drugs -- known as PAGAD -- says it may sue Safety and Security Minister Steve Tshwete (pron: SHWET-ay) for defamation after he accused the group of sponsoring a series of recent terrorist attacks.
		The slain magistrate had recently sentenced one PAGAD member to prison, and he was presiding over the trial of two others accused of a 1998 bombing.
		PAGAD national secretary Abidah Roberts told South African state radio the group's legal team is gathering information about the minister's comments, and may file a defamation lawsuit against Mr.
	globalsecurity.org /military/library/news/2000/09/war-000911-saf.htm (829 words)

	Special Operations.Com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		PAGAD began in 1996 as a community anticrime group fighting drug lords in Cape Town's Cape Flats section.
		PAGAD is suspected of conducting 170 bombings and 18 other violent actions in 1998 alone.
		Qibla and PAGAD may have masterminded the bombing on 15 August of the Cape Town Planet Hollywood.
	www.specialoperations.com /Terrorism/Terrorist_Groups/PAGAD.htm (231 words)

	S. Africans Fight Urban Terrorism
		Many of those held are members of the Muslim fundamentalist group People Against Gangsterism and Drugs, or PAGAD as it is widely known, and have spent months in custody.
		On Wednesday, Ebrahim Jeneker, 29, an alleged PAGAD hit man, went to court along with Abdullah Maansdorf, 22, and his brother Ismail, 19, to face a litany of charges including nine counts of murder.
		While police hold PAGAD members responsible for most terror attacks in Cape Town, including bombings at Planet Hollywood and several police stations, the violence cannot be simply explained.
	www.washingtonpost.com /wp-srv/aponline/19991007/aponline144139_000.htm (405 words)

	Qibla and People Against Gangsterism and Drugs (PAGAD) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Qibla and PAGAD routinely protest US policies toward the Muslim world and use radio station 786 to promote their message and mobilize Muslims.
		PAGAD is suspected in the car-bombing on 1 January of the Victoria and Alfred Waterfront in Cape Town and the firebombing of a US-affiliated restaurant on 8 January.
		PAGAD is also believed to have masterminded the bombing on 25 August of the Cape Town Planet Hollywood.
	www.milnet.com /tgp/data/quibla.htm (229 words)

	PAGAD: A Case Study of Radical Islam in South Africa
		Aside from the possibility of an al-Qaeda strike against U.S. and other Western interests in the country, there are a number of indigenous Islamic networks that have the potential to either engage in serious acts of terrorism on their own or in conjunction with international terrorists.
		The patterns of militancy evident in PAGAD activities indicated the prevalence of both paramilitary-style attacks on alleged drug dealers perpetrated primarily by G-Force members, and mass marches by PAGAD supporters intended to portray the organization as a grass-roots movement.
		PAGAD’s covert activities came to a standstill with the arrest and prosecution of its prominent leaders.
	jamestown.org /terrorism/news/article.php?articleid=2369781 (1697 words)

	People Against Gangsterism and Drugs (PAGAD) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		PAGAD and its Islamic ally Qibla view the South African Government as a threat to Islamic values.
		Since 2001, PAGAD’s activities have been severely curtailed by law-enforcement and prosecutorial efforts against leading members of the organization.
		PAGAD’s previous bombing targets have included South African authorities, moderate Muslims, synagogues, gay nightclubs, tourist attractions, and Western-associated restaurants.
	fas.org /irp/world/para/pagad.htm (178 words)

	Appendix C -- Background Information on Other Terrorist Groups
		The United People’s Front—a coalition of leftwing parties— participated in the elections of 1991, but the Maoist wing failed to win the minimum three percent of the vote leading to their exclusion from voter lists in the elections of 1994.
		Although Yemeni officials previously have claimed that the group is operationally defunct, their recent attribution of the attack in 2003 against the medical convoy and reports that al-Yazidi was released from prison in mid-October 2003 suggest that the IAA, or at least elements of the group, have resumed activity.
		JRA’s leader, Fusako Shigenobu, claimed that the forefront of the battle against international imperialism was in Palestine, so in the early 1970s, she led her small group to the Middle East to support the Palestinian struggle against Israel and the West.
	www.state.gov /s/ct/rls/pgtrpt/2003/31759.htm (7982 words)

	MIPT Terrorism Knowledge Base
		People Against Gansterism And Drugs (PAGAD) • Suspected Alias/Ally
		People claiming to be members of the group also threatened to carry out terrorist acts during British Prime Minister Tony Blair's visit to South Africa in 1999, but no attacks took place.
		However, the fact that the group supposedly bombed a crowded restaurant in response to cruise missile attacks against Afghanistan in 1998, but did nothing during the full-scale US invasion in 2001, suggests that it is not an active threat.
	www.tkb.org /Group.jsp?groupID=3641 (492 words)

	Former South African policeman reveals plot against PAGAD (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		People Against Gangsterism and Drugs (PAGAD), a Muslim organization based in Cape Town in South Africa, where crime and drugs are a growing threat to everyone, has had a particularly bad press in South Africa.
		Waleed, a member of PAGAD, was accused of being involved in the bombing of Planet Hollywood restaurant in Cape Town on August 26, 1998.
		One possible way forward being considered is a class-action suit against the media for tarnishing the image of Muslims, despite their being one of the most law-abiding communities in the country.
	www.muslimedia.com /archives/world99/pagad.htm (496 words)

	Parliamentary Bulletin No2
		PAGAD - People Against Gangsterism and Drugs - catapulted the issue of violence in the Western Cape into the international headlines, with their public execution of Rashaad Staggie, leader of the Hard Living Gang.
		While the ANC sympathises with the concerns of PAGAD, we condemn the actions of individuals or small groups within PAGAD who are taking the law into their own hands.
		It is tough on gangsters and drug-traffickers, but will also be tough on those who take the law into their own hands.
	www.anc.org.za /ancdocs/pubs/whip/whip02.html (849 words)

	CNN - South African restaurant bombing renews terrorism fears - November 28, 1999
		Thirty people, including at least seven children, were taken to a hospital, said Brad Geyser, of the Sea Rescue Institute at Bakoven, South Africa.
		The killer was a prominent member of a Muslim group called People Against Gangsterism and Drugs (PAGAD).
		PAGAD has denied involvement in the attacks and says its arrested members' rights were being violated because they have been denied bail for months.
	cnn.com /WORLD/africa/9911/28/safrica.bomb.03 (477 words)

	The Namibian \| Africa News \| 'SA bombers planning major blast' (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Tshwete, the national minister in charge of the police, blamed Muslim vigilante group People Against Gangsterism and Drugs (Pagad) for all of the bombs in the past two years as well as the murder last week of a magistrate who had been trying urban terror cases.
		Pagad has denied the accusations, but Tshwete noted that several of its members had been convicted for murder, explosives and firearms offences and many more were either in court, in custody or out on bail.
		That trial and another of Pagad leader Abdus-Salaam Ebrahim - accused of murder and crimes against the state - are set to start in November just as the city's tourist season gets under way.
	www.namibian.com.na /2000/September/africa/00A23B7D9F.html (550 words)

	The Namibian \| Africa News \| CT bomb, killing linked
		The government a0lso suspects that Pagad is behind more than 100 blasts, which have included a synagogue, police stations, gay bars and restaurants, in Cape Town in the past four years that have injured 124 people and killed three.
		Pagad, established in 1996 in Muslim suburbs terrorised by drug-dealing gangs, has firmly denied any involvement.
		Pagad spokeswoman Abiedah Roberts told AFP, "Pagad is not involved in any bombing campaign.
	www.namibian.com.na /2000/September/africa/00A197C494.html (348 words)

	CNN - Vigilantes fight violence with violence in South Africa - Aug. 5, 1996
		The movement started in a Cape Town mosque, where the angry leader of a conservative Muslim group called People Against Gangsterism and Drugs, or Pagad, told his audience that law and order had broken down.
		Parker told the crowd that action must be taken against Cape Town's gangsters and drug barons.
		The brothers were alleged to have sold drugs to children.
	www.cnn.com /WORLD/9608/06/safrica.vigilante (447 words)

	Bomb Explodes Near Cape Town Mosque, Few Injured [Free Republic]
		The Gatesville mosque is the powerbase for People Against Gangsterism and Drugs (PAGAD), the Muslim vigilante group blamed by the government for the string of attacks with bombs and guns.
		He accused members of PAGAD's ``G-Force'' enforcement arm of carrying out attacks that have killed four people and injured more than 100 in the past two years.
		PAGAD, which shot to notoriety in 1996 when a local gang leader was lynched during one of its marches, rejects the charges.
	www.freerepublic.com /forum/a39be8cf24ca5.htm (430 words)

	Assignment 4
		She argued that she was not deportable because she had remained in status, had not provided material support or actively recruited members for PAGAD, and lacked the prominence to persuade others to support PAGAD.
		She argued that she was entitled to asylum or cancellation of removal because as a public opponent of the South African government’s AIDS policies and its new anti-terrorist legislation, she feared persecution, including extensive interrogation, imprisonment, and loss of professional opportunities if forced to return to
		PAGAD [People Against Gangsterism and Drugs] began in 1996 as a community anticrime group fighting drug lords in
	law.indiana.edu /instruction/scanlan/3328/assignments/Assign_4_3328.htm (1183 words)

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