Yemen has asked Pakistan to extradite a suspected al-Qaeda leader wanted over the September 11 attacks and the bombing of a US warship, a Yemeni foreign ministry official said on Saturday. The official, who spoke on condition of anonymity, said Waleed bin Attash is on Yemen's most wanted list for his role in plotting the Oct 2000 attack on the USS Cole. US officials also suspect Attash coordinated the activities of two plane hijackers who crashed into the Pentagon on September 11, 2001. Attash, a Yemeni, and some other alleged al-Qaeda members were arrested in Karachi on Tuesday. A US law enforcement official, speaking on condition of anonymity, said a plot to crash an explosives-laden small aircraft into the American consulate in Karachi was uncovered with the arrests. The Yemeni official said earlier interrogations of 10 Cole bombing suspects, who escaped from Yemeni detention last month, revealed that Attash had played a central role in coordinating the Cole attack.
| They couldn't hold on to the last batch. I think we should keep this guy. |
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