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India-Pakistan
Al-Qaeda leader may be among those bagged in Karachi
2004-01-19
Pakistani agents are struggling to determine whether an Al-Qaeda leader is among seven suspected members of the terror group arrested in a weekend raid, and they’ve called in the FBI to help interrogate them. Officials said the suspects were two Egyptian and three Afghan men, and two Arab women. They wouldn’t identify them further, and there’s been no word on whether they were believed to be engaged in an active plot. They were arrested in a raid on an apartment complex on Sunday, a day after President Gen. Pervez Musharraf renewed Pakistan’s vow to fight terrorism. Five grenades, four handguns, ammunition and maps of Pakistan and Afghanistan were seized. "Photographs of the arrested people have been taken and they are being matched with other pictures of Al-Qaeda suspects," an intelligence official said on condition of anonymity. "We are trying to establish whether any senior Al-Qaeda leader is among these people." Agents from the US Federal Bureau of Investigation were set to join Pakistani intelligence officers on Monday or Tuesday in interrogating the suspects, the official said. The Pakistanis had hoped to arrest a leader of a local Islamic militant organization in the raid on Sunday, but he was not there, the official said.
Posted by:Dan Darling

#1  Pakistani agents are struggling to determine whether an Al-Qaeda leader is among seven suspected members of the terror group arrested in a weekend raid

Waiting for the ISI to confirm they're AQ so they can 'escape', more likely.
Posted by: 4thInfVet   2004-1-19 2:38:38 PM  

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