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Al-Qaeda leader may be among those bagged in Karachi
Pakistani agents are struggling to determine whether an Al-Qaeda leader is among seven suspected members of the terror group arrested in a weekend raid, and theyâve called in the FBI to help interrogate them. Officials said the suspects were two Egyptian and three Afghan men, and two Arab women. They wouldnât identify them further, and thereâs been no word on whether they were believed to be engaged in an active plot. They were arrested in a raid on an apartment complex on Sunday, a day after President Gen. Pervez Musharraf renewed Pakistanâs vow to fight terrorism. Five grenades, four handguns, ammunition and maps of Pakistan and Afghanistan were seized. "Photographs of the arrested people have been taken and they are being matched with other pictures of Al-Qaeda suspects," an intelligence official said on condition of anonymity. "We are trying to establish whether any senior Al-Qaeda leader is among these people." Agents from the US Federal Bureau of Investigation were set to join Pakistani intelligence officers on Monday or Tuesday in interrogating the suspects, the official said. The Pakistanis had hoped to arrest a leader of a local Islamic militant organization in the raid on Sunday, but he was not there, the official said.Posted by: Dan Darling 2004-01-19 |
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