Pakistani authorities have arrested 10 suspected al Qaeda members, including a nephew of detained terror mastermind Khalid Shaikh Mohammed and eight Central Asians believed responsible for a recent assassination attempt against a senior military official, the interior minister said Sunday. The men were arrested over the weekend in separate raids in the southern port city of Karachi, Interior Minister Faisal Saleh Hayat said at a news conference. Among them was Masrab Arochi, a nephew of former al Qaeda No. 3 Mohammed, who was detained in March 2003 in a city near the Pakistani capital. Arochi had a $1 million bounty on his head, Hayat said, and is believed to have been behind several attacks in Pakistan.
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