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| Two al-Qaeda controllers held in Karachi | |
| 2004-01-23 | |
Members of the intelligence agencies raided a flat in a residential project in Gulistan-e-Jauhar and arrested Walid bin Azmi, a member of Osama bin Laden’s Al Qaeda network late on Wednesday night. Sources said members of an intelligence agency raided a flat in one of the Dolmen housing projects in Block 15 of Gulistan-e-Jauhar and arrested bin Azmi, who is believed to be one of the four suspects involved in the bombing of US navy ship USS Cole on October 12, 2000. The sources said a mobile phone and Pakistani currency were recovered from bin Azmi. Meanwhile, intelligence agencies arrested another important Al Qaeda operative, Ibad Al Yaquti Al Sheikh Al Sufiyan, at Rabia City apartments in Gulistan-e-Jauhar late Thursday night. He was arrested following a lead given by Waleed Bin Azmi. Two satellite phones, one mobile phone, one laptop computer and two passports were recovered from Al Yaquti’s possession. No details were available about the passports. Al Yaquti is a resident of Dammam, Saudi Arabia.
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| Posted by:Dan Darling |
| #4 Dan, yup... try to kill me once and it's funny, try to kill me again and I'm gunin for ya ;) Btw, isn't this exactly what GW said he was gonna do... get our enemies to turn on eachother... Perv... Sauds... hmmm so far so good. They're stuck between a rock and a hard place... on one side they need to do PR to make it look like they're cracking down so that we don't come down on them... on the other they try to make nice and support the terrorist. The problem comes in when the PR they're doing starts cracking their unholy alliance, next thing you know they're shootin at eachother. |
| Posted by: Damn_Proud_American 2004-1-23 2:09:59 AM |
| #3 Chicken or egg, though? Did Perv come down on AQ, and then AQ reacts by trying to kill him, or did AQ try to whack him and then Perv gets Well and Truly Annoyed. My guess is this - when Perv started to investigate and jug the nuke scientists, AQ started gunning for him. After a quick change of underwear and bodyguards, Perv cranks up the 'ol Peshawar Paddywagon™. |
| Posted by: Pete Stanley 2004-1-23 1:04:16 AM |
| #2 For all we know, Musharraf may have actually decided to take the gloves off with regard to the jihadis (his survival demands nothing less) and start cleaning clocks. All these arrests have to have racked up quite a considerable number of interesting characters by now. |
| Posted by: Dan Darling 2004-1-23 12:51:19 AM |
| #1 There has been a hell of a lot of activity in Pakistan lately. |
| Posted by: Pete Stanley 2004-1-23 12:48:53 AM |