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Motiur Rahman Arrested In Air Terror Plot
 Bahawalpur, Pakistan, 17 August (AKI/DAWN) - Law enforcement agencies in Bahawalpur, in Pakistan's Punjab, have arrested Motiur Rahman, who carried a 10 million rupee (165,000 dollar) ransom. Source said Motiur Rahman had been named in the London terror plot foiled last week along with main accused Rashid Rauf, a British Pakistani passport holder, already in custody in Pakistan. Motiur Rahman was also wanted for an assassination attempt on President Gen Pervez Musharraf last year and involvement in several sectarian terrorism cases in the country.Rahman was an activist of the banned al-Qaeda linked Lashkar-i-Jhangvi, and was also known as Husain Tariq and Abdul Samad. Four close relatives of Maulana Masood Azhar of the banned Jaish-i-Muhammad, who has been in hiding for the last two years, have also been arrested by different agencies here. Those arrested are; Maulana Masoods brother Maulana Rauf Azhar, father-in-law Manzoor Shah and brothers-in-law Muhammad Yousaf and Hafiz Abid Husain.
Posted by: Steve 2006-08-17 |
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