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| Pakistan arrests two suspected al-Qaida men |
| 2003-06-18 |
| EFL Two suspected al-Qaida members — including one believed to be a longtime aide to Osama bin Laden — were arrested Wednesday in northwestern Pakistan, the information minister said. Pakistani authorities arrested Adil Al-Jazeeri of Algeria at a public swimming pool in the affluent Hayatabad neighborhood of Peshawar, the capital of Pakistan's North West Frontier Province. Intelligence sources said Al-Jazeeri was a longtime aide to bin Laden and was involved in the terror network's training. ''He is an important al-Qaida catch,'' Information Minister Sheikh Rashid Ahmed told The Associated Press in a telephone interview in the federal capital of Islamabad. Ahmed said Al-Jazeeri was being questioned about his alleged links to al-Qaida. The second suspect, identified as Abu Naseem of Tunisia was arrested a short time later outside the Katcha Ghauri Afghan refugee camp on the western edge of Peshawar, according to an intelligence source. He said Naseem was ''highly expert in forgery and arranging fake documents for al-Qaida men.'' A busy man Pakistani security officials conducted the raids, but it wasn't immediately clear if the two men were in Pakistani custody or handed over to U.S. officials. Sources said the two men were picked up after three Afghans were arrested a day earlier outside a Peshawar bank. The three men led them to Al-Jazeeri. Neither Al-Jazeeri nor Abu Naseem appear on the American FBI's Most Wanted Terrorists list. We'll take them anyway, thank you. |
| Posted by:Steve |