The army swoop in South Waziristan in February came after a tip-off that Al Qaida stalwart Aymen Al Zawahiri’s son was in the tribal area but he managed to evade the dragnet, Pakistani intelligence sources said yesterday. "The information was correct but 16-year-old Khalid managed to slip," an intelligence official told Gulf News. The operation netted 25 people with suspected links to Osama bin Laden’s network, 21 Pakistanis and four foreign women, the sources said.
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