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Pakistan Nabs Five More Terror Suspects
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Pakistan authorities arrested five more suspected members of Osama bin Laden's al-Qaida network in the past 48 hours, including "valuable targets," a senior government official said Thursday. He said the arrests were made during raids in different parts of the country and that the detainees were being questioned in efforts to capture other al-Qaida members. "Our forces raided some places in the past two days and captured five terrorists, including foreigners, who are valuable targets," said the official, who spoke on condition of anonymity. The official would not name the suspects or give their nationalities, and it wasn't clear if any were on the FBI list of most-wanted terrorists. Pakistan's Information Minister Sheikh Rashid Ahmed confirmed the arrests, but refused to share any further details.
An intelligence official said that the five latest arrests were made on the basis of information gleaned from terror suspects who were captured in recent weeks.
| Continuing the chain. It's interesting that Pak military intel can do this but ISI didn't seem to be able to... |
He said the five were "definitely al-Qaida men," but declined to say how senior they were. The latest five arrests came days after Pakistani security officials raided a home in the eastern city of Lahore, capturing two Turkish nationals and an African. The authorities so far have not revealed the names of the three suspects, although authorities believe that one of the Turks might have been behind a terrorist attack in Turkey. Another senior government official said he had no details about the attack and whether the Turk was suspected in the suicide bombings blamed on al-Qaida that killed more than 60 people in Istanbul in November. "So far we only know one of them might have played a role in a terrorist attack in Turkey, but our security agencies are still questioning them," the official said Thursday on condition of anonymity.
Posted by: Steve 2004-08-12 |
