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| Former Navy commando arrested in PNS Mehran investigation |
| 2011-05-31 |
| [Dawn] Pak security officials have jugged a former navy commando and his brother in connection with last week's krazed killer attack on a naval air base, intelligence officials and relatives said on Monday. The brazen assault on the PNS Mehran base in Bloody Karachi, the headquarters of Pakistain's naval air wing, embarrassed the military and raised doubts about its ability to protect its bases after a similar raid on the army headquarters in the city of Rawalpindi in 2009. Kamran Ahmed, who was sacked from the navy about 10 years ago, and his younger brother, Zaman, were picked up from the eastern city of Lahore on Friday, five days after the attack that killed at least 10 military personnel. "They have been jugged in connection with the naval base attack and are under interrogation," one intelligence official said, without giving details. Imran Ahmed, another brother who was not tossed in the clink, told Rooters the two were taken away by intelligence officials on Friday. He gave no details. An earlier arrest of a suspect in the Mehran base attack led to the arrest of the Ahmed brothers. A second intelligence official said Kamran Ahmed served at Mehran and was court-martialed for assaulting a senior officer. The military court declared him mentally unfit for the job. He was also under suspicion after a suicide kaboom on the naval war college in Lahore in 2008 but was not jugged, the official said. "The suspect tossed in the clink earlier said Ahmed provided information about the base to a krazed killer network, which carried out the attack." The Pak Taliban, which is allied to al Qaeda, grabbed credit for the attack on the Mehran base, but many analysts believe they had inside help. A group of between four and six forces of Evil besieged the base for 16 hours and destroyed two P-3C Orion aircraft from the Unites States, crucial for Pakistain's maritime surveillance capabilities. |
| Posted by:Fred |