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Terror Networks
Six more al-Qaeda arrests revealed in Pakland
2002-04-07
  • Nine days after a crackdown was launched by the joint teams of FBI and local agencies in Faisalabad against Al Qaeda men, six more arrests taking place at a hideout in Muslim Town the same day came to light on Saturday. Sources revealed that the men picked up from a house in Muslim Town were believed to be main characters of Al-Qaeda and were shifted to Lahore immediately after their arrest. The raiding team also seized some files, photographs, a computer, two mobile phones, and other belongings of the arrested persons.
    So they kept the arrests secret? That could be because they don't want to tip off other nests of thugs who might be on the list for the next raids.
    The watchman of a house adjacent to the hideout revealed that heavy police contingents accompanied by some foreigners, including two women, had raided the house in early hours of March 28 and none of the area people was allowed to get close to the place during the operation.
    Notice the US military denied involvement. FBI and CIA didn't.
    "The team arrested seven or eight persons, including six foreigners. They were immediately shifted in a police van guarded by commandos of the Elite Police Force. Some commandos were covering the faces of the arrested persons with black masks when they were presented before a team of foreign commandos," the watchman claimed.
    Those would likely have been the CIA guys, and maybe any Brits involved.
    He told that the raiding team had also encircled a Madressah situated only metres away from the hideout to avoid retaliation from its students.
    Very interesting, this confluence of madrassah and terrorist hideout. The questiona again comes up, whose madrassah is it? How many of its students actually study, if any?
    The house is owned by Mohammad Tariq, the owner of the National Plant Designing of Hajiabad, and was rented through property dealers Saleem and Taj Mohammad for Rs15,000 a month a couple of months ago.
    Which means nothing. A house let through a rental agent can go to anyone who looks clean enough to pay the rent every month. But that madrassah next door...
    • Posted by:Fred Pruitt

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