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267 surprised. Then he asked me if I knew the lady and the gentleman sitting there. I replied in the negative. He said to them: ‘This man is missionary of the Ahmadiyya Jama’at; I have known him for ten years. It seems you have some misundersatnding‘. He told me that one of their young relative, who lived near my house had disappeared several days earlier and search for him was going on. I had some acquaintance with the young man as we lived in the same neighbourhood and he used to visit me at times. It was a Christian family from some neighbouring country and young man’s father was a bank employee. They had thought that I was from Palestine and I probably had camps in the jungles and that beguiled youth to those camps for military training and send them to Arab countries for so-called jihad. The inspector told them that I was not a Palestinian but was a Pakistani and was known to him over a long period and they were certainly mistaken. Both of them apologised to me. The inspector also expressed his regrets for being summoned like that and apologised. Thus Allah provided support for me. Any other inspector might have locked me up without proper investigation creating problems from jama’at perspective. Omer Jobe (Police Inspector) - as an Angel In 1997 some leading figures in the Gambia started severe opposition to the jama’at on intimation by anti-Ahmadiyya powers. The circumstances deteriorated to grievous proportions. Hadrat Khalifatul Masih IV directed all the markazi (central) workers to leave the Gambia and they all complied accordingly.