[2] The New York Post asserted that Aziz became radicalized when he traveled to Kosovo to treat wounded Muslims during its war of independence from Yugoslavia.
[4] Aziz had been paying visits to Afghanistan to treat mujahideen fighters since the Soviet Union invaded the country in 1979.
[1] Aziz was seized by American security officials on 21 October 2002, held, and interrogated by officers of both the FBI and the CIA.
In 2005, the Los Angeles Times reported that Aziz had traveled to perform emergency medical work when remote, Pakistani-controlled Kashmir was hit by an earthquake that killed 86,000 people.
[2] They reported on tensions between him and US forces, who were also providing emergency services, due to his known past association with Islamists.