VanDyke's 'holy war': From Libya and Iraq to NIA custody
Washington, March 24 -- Months before his arrest by the National Investigation Agency in Kolkata for allegedly training ethnic militias in Myanmar, Matthew Aaron VanDyke was urging an associate to visit that country. The Kachin and Chin peoples, VanDyke said in a text message, seemed "really serious about Christianity" and fighting the "mostly Buddhist military junta". Pastor Dr William Devlin, an associate who kept in touch with the self-styled American freedom fighter, told HT he knew VanDyke was in Myanmar and "wasn't surprised" by news of his arrest.
"I knew he was there (Myanmar). I wasn't totally sure what he was doing. He just happened to mention he was in Myanmar training people," added Devlin who has known VanDyke for a decade and ...
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