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Afghanistan/South Asia
Agencies search for Al Qaeda militants in Bajaur Agency
2005-05-27
The security agencies are searching for Al Qaeda-linked militants in Bajaur Agency after rounding up an Uzbek and some Afghan suspects recently, official sources told Daily Times on Thursday. Search for militants in the Bajaur tribal region had intensified after the arrest of Abu Farraj al-Libbi, Al Qaeda's operational chief in Pakistan, early this month from Mardan district. The officials said that he provided "some clues about others" in the area.

"The security agencies are concentrating on the Mamond area because there were reports about the presence of some suspects," sources said. "We are looking for foreign militants," sources said. They said Abu Farraj gave the interrogators information about his contacts in Bajaur Agency and secret agents were searching the area. They said the government made his arrest public on May 4, days after his capture in Mardan. On the same day, security forces raided houses of two clerics in Bajaur Agency and arrested an Uzbek, two Afghans and eight local tribesmen for suspected links with Al Qaeda and a tribal jirga on May 20 razed clerics Faqir Muhammad and Muhammad Amin's houses for violating the tribal rules.
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