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Pakistan arrests 2 Al-Qaeda suspects off Qatar flight
Pakistani and Western agents arrested two more al-Qaeda suspects in a joint operation at Lahore international airport in the country's east, a security official and witnesses said Wednesday. The men, identified as Pakistani residents Altaf and Abrar, were offloaded from a Qatar airlines flight bound for Doha on Tuesday, a senior airport security official told Agence France-Presse, requesting anonymity. Offloaded? Ooh, sounds painful! The official said the Westerners were US Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) agents and that the men were believed to have links to Osama bin Laden's terror network. Altaf was a resident of Hyderabad in southern Sindh province while Abrar was from Swat in North West Frontier Province (NWFP) bordering Afghanistan, according to their passports. Which will, of course, be false Witnesses said Pakistani police and intelligence agents surrounded the airport as the two men were offloaded from the plane. Around 440 al-Qaeda suspects have been captured in Pakistan's remote northwest border regions and crowded cities since the US-led military operation to wipe out the Taliban and al-Qaeda in neighboring Afghanistan began in October 2001. Two more in the bag, wonder who they really are? Posted by: Steve 2003-02-05 |
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