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Pakistan: Hambali’s Brother Was Watched | ||
2003-09-23 | ||
Security agents had been watching the younger brother of Hambali, al-Qaida’s alleged top agent in South Asia, for weeks before arresting him and 16 others over the weekend. Good idea, keep notes on who he met with, bet his phone was tapped as well. The man, Rusman Gunawan, was being interrogated at an undisclosed location in Pakistan, Interior Minister Faisal Saleh Hayyat told The Associated Press. Gunawan was arrested in the southern port city of Karachi on Saturday along with 16 Islamic students from Malaysia, Indonesia and Myanmar. "Hambali’s brother was under surveillance for weeks," Hayyat said. "Perhaps he was not aware that he was being watched."
He said with a sneer while twirling his moustache. Hayyat said the interrogation was already yielding some results, and that Pakistani authorities had picked up several more foreign Islamic students based on Gunawan’s
Pakistani intelligence officials believe Gunawan, 27, was running Jemaah Islamiyah’s branch in this Islamic nation. Many Jemaah Islamiyah leaders, including Hambali, were allegedly trained at al-Qaida camps in Afghanistan. Who didn’t? Authorities in Indonesia are believed to have uncovered an elaborate network of links between the two groups following the arrests of top militants. Indonesian authorities said Monday they had no charges pending against Gunawan and would not seek his extradition. "We don’t want him, let the CIA have what’s left after the Paks are done with him." Indonesian Vice President Hamzah Haz, who has appeared Theory - Pakistan is taking the hard line with foreign islamic students to stay in good favor with the U.S. in the WOT. The JI groups from the far east don’t have the pull in Pakistan that the Arab groups do, so they make good scapegoats. The local mullahs are mostly interested in Afghanistan and India, so they don’t put up much of a fuss. Discuss. | ||
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