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Pakistan catches 6 al-Qaeda linked terror suspects
Pakistani security agencies have arrested six suspected Al Qaeda-linked foreigners in a swoop on their hideout near the Afghan border, officials said on Thursday. The men, believed to be Afghans and Central Asians, were seized on Wednesday in an upscale neighbourhood of Peshawar, a major northwestern frontier town, following a tip-off by intelligence sources. The authorities seized two handgrenades, a pistol, computer disks and militant literature, an interior ministry official told AFP. "All the detainees are foreign nationals and they are undergoing interrogation," said the official, without disclosing where they were being held. "The kind of material seized from them suggests links with Al Qaeda." The official said the suspects were "all young people and appear to be of Afghan and central Asian origin". "When their hideout was raided the suspects were caught by surprise and were unable to offer any resistance. They had been living in a rented house in Peshawar's University Town neighbourhood for a few weeks," he added. Police sources said the latest raid was conducted by an elite Pakistani intelligence group which works in coordination with the US Central Intelligence Agency. "The police just provided security cover and the suspects were not handed to our custody," a senior Peshawar police official told AFP. Posted by: Dan Darling 2005-03-31 |
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