Pakistain has captured an "important" al Qaeda leader, Naamen Meziche, during an operation near the Pakistain-Iran border, officials said on Wednesday.Â
Meziche is believed to have links with cut-thoat groups based in Europe, and media reports say he may have played a role in the 9/11 attacks.
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A French krazed killer linked to an al Qaeda leader who plotted attacks against the West has been placed in durance vile
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in Pakistain, just months after his associate was held, a Pak official said Wednesday.
The security official described Naamen Maziche as "an important leader of al Qaeda" and "among the very close associates" of Younis al Mauritani, but declined to say whether he was wanted in connection with a specific plot.
He added Maziche was jugged
Yez got nuttin' on me, coppers! Nuttin'!
by "intelligence agencies" close to the Iranian border, but did not say when or whether Western agents took part in the raid.
Mauritani, a senior al Qaeda leader believed to have been responsible for planning attacks on Australia, Europe and the US was jugged
Yez got nuttin' on me, coppers! Nuttin'!
Sept. 5.
He was cooled for a few years
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with two other ranking operatives in the suburbs of Quetta, the main city in Pakistain's Balochistan
...the Pak province bordering Kandahar and Uruzgun provinces in Afghanistan and Sistan Baluchistan in Iran. Its native Baloch propulation is being displaced by Pashtuns and Punjabis and they aren't happy about it...
Province that borders Iran.
The Pak official said Maziche was jugged
Yez got nuttin' on me, coppers! Nuttin'!
after Mauritani told interrogators that the Frenchie had entered Pakistain from Iran and intended to travel on to Africa.
"The intelligence agencies have been tracking Maziche since then, and at last, after a successful operation he was jugged
Yez got nuttin' on me, coppers! Nuttin'!
. At the moment he is being questioned about his purpose for entering Pakistain," the official said.