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| 9 Suspected al-Qaida Arrested in Pakistan |
| 2002-12-19 |
| Police arrested nine suspected al-Qaeda operatives including two Americans and a Canadian in a joint raid with FBI agents in this eastern Pakistani city Thursday. All nine were of Pakistani origin and belong to the same family. Guess we can put the "American" and "Canadian" in "quotes," huh? Pakistan Television reported an exchange of gunfire during the raid on the family's home, after the family's guards apparently opened fire on police. "You'll never take 'em alive, coppers!" Relatives said FBI officials searched the home for at least two hours and seized four computers and CDs. "We got information about these people, and today the police went there and made these arrests. We can say they are suspected al-Qaeda," Pakistan's information minister, Sheikh Rashid Ahmed, told The Associated Press in a telephone interview. No injuries were reported in the raid in Lahore, the capital of Pakistan's eastern Punjab province. Rashid said some of the nine men arrested are suspected of possibly having smuggled weapons to be used in terrorist attacks. And used some of them on the cops... Those arrested were Dr. Javed Ahmad, his two sons, two brothers, three nephews and one uncle. Two of the men were naturalized Americans and one a naturalized Canadian, but there was no immediate information on their names or hometowns. Sounds like Lahore was home... "Pakistani security agencies accompanied by foreigners (FBI agents) arrested our family members like they were criminals," Marghoob Ahmad Mir, Ahmad's brother-in-law, told a news conference in Lahore. "Ahmad's two "So no harm done, eh? They can let them all go with no hard feelings, right?" |
| Posted by:Fred Pruitt |
| #1 Gotta think shooting at the Pakland coppers might have some consequences... |
| Posted by: Frank G 2002-12-19 12:00:18 |