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Doc treated Qaeda bigs' wives...
Mohammad Imran for Daily Times (Pakistan) The top Pakistani doctor Ahmed Khawaja and his companions currently being interrogated by FBI and Pakistani intelligence officials have confessed that they provided medical treatment to close relatives of Osama Bin Laden and Abu Zubaida, intelligence sources told Daily Times. âDr Khawaja and his accomplices provided medical treatment to a wife of Osama Bin Laden and also to the wife of another key Al Qaida leader, Abu Zubaida, in Lahore in 2002â, said the intelligence source. The source also said that Dr Khawaja has pleaded that he provided medical treatment to the wives of these two prominent Qaeda leaders because of his âprofessional responsibility and dutyâ and that there was no other link with his patientsâ relatives. He might have a point there, which is what the fundos are pushing. On the other hand, if he's the Qaeda house physician, that's a different story... âAbu Zubaida was arrested in March last year from Faisalabad only after a call was traced to Dr Khawajaâs number,â the source said, âit was later disclosed that the call was made by Zubaida to thank the doctor for providing treatment to his pregnant wife.â "You're welcome. Duck." The source said that initially the intelligence agencies confused the voice of Abu Zubaida with the voice of Osama, but after the raid on the place of the origin of the call in Faisalabad, Zubaida was arrested. Since Binny's likely toes-up, it wasn't much of a mistake... The arrest of Abu Hamza from Karachi has also been based on the information provided by Dr Khawaja during his interrogation, it is learnt. Sounds like he's the Qaeda house physician, rather than just taking a few walk-ins. Be interesting to see where he mails his bills... Sources said that the raids are conducted âas and whenâ fresh information is available from every interrogation session. âEvery fresh raid provides new clues for another raid to a place where an alleged member of Al Qaeda has stayed previously and the chain of arrests and raids continues to move like thisâ. That's basic intel work. You build your network on a chart. If you get two joins, you've got a possible. If you get more than two you've got a probable. This guy's got three, at least. If he's treated Zubaydah's little woman for pregnancy, he's probably treating Khalid Sheikh's hemorrhoids, and prescribing Viagra for Ayman Zawahiri, too... Posted by: Fred Pruitt 2003-01-28 |
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